Lacy Hunt: Negative Real Rates Are A Strong Recession Warning Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, In his 4th Quarter Review and Outlook, Lacy provides some...
Europe's Spendthrifts Are Stuck In Irreversible Debt-Traps Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, A Euro Catastrophe Could Collapse It This article looks at the situation in...
Many market observers have been predicting a sharp rise in US real yields for at least a year (ourselves included). In 2021 it never quite came....
What Is Diversification in Investing? In finance and investing, diversification is a popular term for mitigating risk by dividing one’s investments between a variety of asset...
2021 Greatest Hits: The Most Popular Articles Of The Past Year And A Look Ahead One year ago, when looking at the 20 most popular stories...
Stock Market Crashes: Key Takeaways Many market bubbles have turned into widespread crashes — study the past! Are we in a stock market bubble? Learn the...
The Fed's Catch-22 Taper Is A Weapon, Not A Policy Error Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Back in 2018 leading up to Christmas the Federal...
By prioritising prudence over business support, the chancellor will probably do more harm in the long run.
The Great Reconciliation Of Asset Prices In 2022 Authored by Michael Pento via PentoPort.com, The coming new year will be fraught with risk due to the...
For the past three weeks, financial markets have been ruled by the unknowns related to the Omicron variant and those surrounding the US Federal Reserve’s monetary...
Until recently the Federal Reserve had been purchasing roughly $120 billion of assets every month to support the US economy. The Fed began scaling back those...
Until recently the Federal Reserve had been purchasing roughly $120 billion of assets every month to support the economy. The Fed began scaling back those purchases...
The Issue: In the recovery from the Great Recession, the announcement that the Fed was considering tapering its security purchases sent the markets into a “tantrum”...
I'm working madly to finish The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. This is a draft of Chapter 21, on how to think about today's emerging...
October’s employment report was rosy, with more than 500,000 jobs added in the month. There were also signs that the American workforce was heading back to...
The Federal Reserve decided to slow its pace of bond-buying, potentially the beginning of the end of a program that’s been supporting the economy since March...
Bitcoin & The US Fiscal Reckoning Authored by Avik Roy via NationalAffairs.com, Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have few fans in Washington. At a July congressional hearing, Senator...
Distraction As Policy While Our Economic Rome Burns Authored by Matthew Piepenberg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Desperation and distraction are masquerading as economic policy. Below we see how...
Hidden Bankruptcy: The Reality Behind Uncle Sam's Inflated Bar Tab Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Below, we look at The hidden bankruptcy of the US in the...
Futures are slightly lower this morning after two strong days of gains as bulls remain in charge but the rebound continues. Treasury bonds and the dollar...
Markets are set to drop this morning as the Fed "taper" announcement approaches. Market bulls spent the better part of Friday trying to hold 50-dma but...
The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic strained many sectors of the economy, including the municipal bond market, prompting an unprecedented intervention by the Federal Reserve. This...
The last two weeks of summer, psychologically speaking, are the two weeks before labour day weekend. Families are still on holiday (whatever types of holidays are...
Risk Off: Futures, Oil And Yields Slide, Hong Kong In Bear Market; Dollar Surges Another ugly day for risk assets with US equity-index futures dropping alongside...
The Fed Stabilizes The Economy? Via SchiffGold.com, According to the Federal Reserve, it exists to “stabilize” the economy. Does it though? Despite inflation coming in hotter than...
The Death Of Truth & The Rise Of Centralized Government Control Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, As I write this from a France making ever...
"With Asset Prices So Frothy"... Former RBI Governor Fears Dangers Of Endless QE Authored by Raghuram Rajan via Project Syndicate, With asset prices so frothy, it...
In mid-June, Fed Chair Jay Powell pulled the rug from beneath the reflation trade by suggesting current inflation pressures were perhaps not transitory after all. Fixed...
Oil steadies after steep falls Oil prices are rebounding following steep declines in the previous session. Oil prices tumbled more than 3% on Tuesday as OPEC+...
John Taylor: Is The Fed Getting Burned Again? Authored by John Taylor via Project Syndicate, As in the stagflationary 1970s, the US Federal Reserve is once...