an exploration of how 30 years of Bubble Finance policies at the Fed, feckless interventions abroad and mushrooming Big government and debt at home have brought America to its current ruinous condition.
One of the features of modern life is the number of official bodies telling us that negative interest-rates are not on their way. For example Bank of England Governor Mark Carney told us this only last week. I'm not a fan of negative interest-rate. We've seen the consequences of them in other financial systems. We…
Ultra-accommodative monetary policy — the Bank of Japan has not raised rates above 0.5 per cent since 1995 — has failed to get consumers or businesses to spend.
QE may reach problems sooner than expected: As detailed in the macro section earlier, market size and operational limits of UK QE are already becoming apparent just two days into purchases.
Initial jobless claims dropped 1k to 266k (from a downwardly revised 267k) remaining near 43-year lows. Here's why that's odd... Who do you believe?
With returns up 26.8% year-to-date - its best year since 1979 - gold has returned almost twice as much as higher-risk emerging market dollar bonds and non-U.S. Developed market bonds, and almost five times a 3.1 percent return on U.S. large caps, it said.
The world's 2,473 billionaires are keeping 22.2 percent of their total net worth in cash, according to the Wealth-X Billionaire Census.
Traditional retirement experts focus on income, as opposed to expenses. A common rule of thumb sold by financial professionals is that retirees need to cover roughly 80% of their pre-retirement income.
The role of the economist—to point out the unsuitability of central planning as a means to attain the level of welfare all countries seek—Mises characterized as a “thankless task, [as] most people are intolerant of any criticism of their social and economic tenets
while US economic growth has practically halted and productivity is shrinking, DEBT CONSUMPTION is up. Way up.
“This one is going to be bad...”We’re way overdue for another recession. In this video from Mike, you’ll see the stark contrast between a healthy, growing economy and today’s anemic recovery. It’s only a matter of time.
The market has the technical setup for the greatest gold shock in history. When it rocks markets, gold will soar — ultimately to $10,000
Gold is set to benefit from a “perfect storm” of dwindling investment alternatives and greater investor risk...
Due to the nature of this relationship, I find that the USD/ZAR chart is often a leading indicator for a silver bottom as well as a silver rally.
“I have said many times that we are going to have a reset of the system. Gold, Silver, currencies, bonds, interest rates...
Paul Brodksy explains why central banks are losing control and how the system could be saved
Chastened over their forecasting errors, Federal Reserve officials will be less likely to tip their hands.
What happens when Quantitative Easing QE meets an illiquid market? It seems that the Bank of England just found out.
Swiss investor Marc Faber is known for his pessimistic view of stock markets, & says the S&P 500 index could soon lose more than half of its value.