Another day of “incoming data” and still more evidence that this isn’t your father’s business cycle. This time it comes from the Eccles Building itself, but don’t expect the Keynesian money printers domiciled there to recognize that the industrial production report they issued today constitutes yet another rebuke to their entire macro model. The March index slipped badly (0.6%)[...]
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Rickards, Paradoxes, and Getting Ahead
By Chris Campbell We have three big announcements for you today… First: You are no ordinary person. These are no ordinary times. And this is no ordinary episode. The second: I was just inside the White House yesterday. For reasons I’ll tell you later. And our third announcement, which I’ll get to in a moment, is even bigger than the first two. I’ll announce it in just a moment. But[...]
PROOF that the US Peaked During Ronald Reagan’s Presidency
April 13, 2015 Santiago, Chile On March 16, 1936, the government of the United States published the very first edition of the Federal Register. President Roosevelt had been taking a lot of heat over the previous year; under his New Deal program, dozens of government agencies were passing new rules, regulations, and codes at an absolutely feverish pace. It became impossible for anyone to keep[...]
50-Year Veteran – This Global Crisis Is Incredibly Dangerous And More Western Government Theft Is On The Way
With continued uncertainty in global markets, today a 50-year market veteran warned King World News that people should not believe the Western mainstream media because this crisis has now become incredibly dangerous. He also discussed the coming theft of people's money by Western governments. John Embry: “I must say that the current news in virtually all areas must be very troubling for[...]
Disaster Is Inevitable When The Two Decade-Old Stock Bubble Bursts
Six years after the Global Financial Crisis, the U.S. stock market continues to soar to new heights with nary a pullback or correction. In this piece, I will explain why the stock market is experiencing a new bubble that is actually another wave of the bubble that has existed since the mid-1990s. A two-decade old bubble? Yes, you’ve read that correctly. Most people will consider this assertion [...]
Hedge Fund Legend Julian Robertson Warns Of A “Complete Explosion” Unless Fed Contains “Boiling, Bubble” Market
Legendary hedge fund manager Julian Robertson, who has been conspicuously absent from CNBC in recent months, spoke with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo about his take on markets. He was hardly bullish, which may explain his absence from the cadre of CNBC bubble cheerleaders. Robertson (in addition to some generic comments on the weather impacting the jobs numbers: apparently the weather only[...]
It Just Happened: “The Moment the United States Lost its Role as the Underwriter of the Global Economic System.”
bySimon BlackonApril 6, 2015 Last week, the government of China closed the enrollment window to join its new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a ‘founding member’. The AIIB, if you haven’t heard of this yet, is designed to essentially displace the Western-controlled IMF and World Bank. And prior to last Tuesday’s deadline, dozens of nations around the world from New Zealand[...]
Putin: More Members To Join BRICS Bank
BRICS are coordinating their policies on key international issues ever more closely, and are playing an active part in shaping a multi-polar world order and developing modern models for the world’s financial and trading systems. – Putin,The BRICS Post Vladimir Putin assumed the annual Presidency of the BRICS last Wednesday and Shanghai will be the host city for the BRICS headquarters.[...]
Australia Wants to Tax Bank Deposits. Does Anyone Think the US Won’t?
bySimon BlackonApril 1, 2015 Several months ago, the government of Australia proposed to tax bank deposits up to $250,000 at a rate of 0.05% (5 basis points). Their idea was for the money to be invested in a rainy day Financial Stabilization Fund to insure against in the unlikely event of a banking crisis… or all-out collapse. And as of this morning, it looks like the levy might just pass and[...]
Fed’s Yellen Says Rate Hikes—But Not Too Many—Are Coming
By Greg Robb WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen on Friday channeled her inner Mary Poppins, giving markets a spoonful of sugar while delivering the message that an increase in interest rates is coming soon. “I expect that conditions may warrant an increase in the federal funds rate target sometime this year,” Yellen told a conference sponsored by the San[...]