09.28.21- The Dark Winter DIE-OFF begins: Mass vaccination deaths collide with engineered starvation and the collapse of gas and energy
Mike Adams

The so-called Dark Winter is actually a die-off plan to exterminate humanity, and the vectors of attack against human beings include mass vaccination genocide, engineered food supply collapse (leading to mass starvation), financial sector disruptions and an accelerating supply collapse of energy (gasoline, natural gas) needed to heat homes, make fertilizer and power transportation. Read More

09.27.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: “Damn You To Hell, You Will Not Destroy America”
Spartacus

Here Is The ‘Spartacus COVID Letter’ That’s Gone Viral

This is an anonymously posted document by someone who calls themselves Spartacus. Because it’s anonymous, I can’t contact them to ask for permission to publish. So I hesitated for a while, but it’s simply the best document I’ve seen on Covid, vaccines, etc. Whoever Spartacus is, they have a very elaborate knowledge in “the field”. If you want to know a lot more about the no. 1 issue in the world today, read it. And don’t worry if you don’t understand every single word, neither do I. But I learned a lot. -Raul Ilargi Meijer Read More

09.25.21- Apple’s Influence on Investing… And How You Can Profit From Its
Next Product Launch
Jeff Brown

It was January 2007…

Wearing his signature jeans and black turtleneck, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs walked on stage in front of a crowded audience. It was Apple’s 2007 MacWorld conference.

Addressing the audience, Jobs said he was going to reveal a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone.” That device was – of course – the original iPhone. Read More

09.24.21- The Coming “Reversion To The Mean” Of Economic Growth
Lance Roberts

From stimulus boom to income thud, the coming “reversion to the mean” of economic growth is happening faster than economists expected.

We previously noted that while many mainstream economists believed the current economic “boom” would persist, several factors suggested it wouldn’t. Read More

09.23.21- Evergrande = EverSCAMMED… why the debt bomb contagion will spread globally
Mike Adams

The Evergrande (“EverSCAMMED”) fiasco is nothing more than a classic Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme involving property developers and greed-driven investors who chased high returnswhile forgetting about the existence of risk. (Every generation, it seems, must learn this painful lesson the hard way…)

Like all successful Ponzi schemes, Evergrande’s rise to become a global Fortune 500 business hinged on it finding a steady supply of new suckers to hand over their money as “investments” in the Evergrande scheme. Read More

09.22.21- Biden’s Wrecking Ball for Financial Privacy
James Bovard

The Biden administration is seeking to compel banks to report to the IRS any bank account with more than $600 in transactions per year. This proposal is a linchpin of Biden’s American Families Plan, and will supposedly help generate almost $500 billion in federal revenue over the next decade. But previous catch-all financial reporting requirements have helped spur national disasters, complete with pervasive federal looting. Read More

09.21.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: It's a Fourth Turning:
What Did You Expect?
Jim Quinn

“Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle. Day to dayvestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance. Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Read More

09.20.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: So how did 15,000 Haitians suddenly find their way to Del Rio, Texas?
Monica Showalter

The migrant mass of some 15,000 mostly Haitians now illegally on U.S. territory in a squalid, never-before-seen shantytown under a bridge near Del Rio, Texas, demands some answers. 

Here's how bad it is:

BREAKING: I am absolutely stunned by what I’m witnessing right now. We are on a boat in the Rio Grande near the Del Rio international bridge and we are watching as masses of hundreds of migrants walk across the river from Mexico and stream into the US illegally. @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/xXE4pDkpIe — Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 18, 2021 Read More

09.18.21- Why Is the Fed Desperate
to Hide Inflation?
Thorsten Polleit

Speaking at the Jackson Hole meeting on August 27, 2021, Federal Reserve (Fed) chairman Jerome J. Powell indicated that he supported “tapering” toward the end of this year and hastened to add that interest rate hikes are still a long way off. The term “tapering” means that the central bank reduces its monthly purchases of bonds and slows down the monthly increase in the quantity of money accordingly. In other words, even with tapering, the Fed will still churn out newly printed US dollar balances, but to a lesser extent than before; that is, it will still cause monetary inflation, but less than before. Read More

09.17.21- What a Collapse of China’s Evergrande Would Mean
Wolf Richter

China hasn’t bailed out its over-indebted property developers yet, to the shock of foreign investors who’d bought their dollar bonds. Could the forced deleveraging trigger a financial crisis?

Property development has been a huge factor in China’s economic growth. It accounts for 28% of GDP. And much of it has been funded by debt, including dollar-debt, and much of it is now blowing up. Read More

09.16.21- Nothing is Real: A Visual Journey Through Market Absurdity
Matthew Piepenburg

When it comes to modern markets, risk assets and the now normalized yet twisted tango of fiscal and monetary policy gone wild, it’s safe (rather than sensational) to simply confess that nothing is real.

As I recently watched BTC drop by 16% in one hour from $50K to $43K, only to reach back up to $46K in 20 minutes, my 20+ years of Wall Street experience watched with bemused yet experienced awe at what amounted to just another day of leverage, emotion and institutionalized front-running as the big money whales in crypto pulled off yet another media and SEC-ignored pump-dump-and-pump trade.  Read More

09.15.21-And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Because They Are Evil
Andrew W. Coy

There are a great many things coming from Biden, Fauci, the CDC, the State Department, the military, the Justice Department, and basically the Deep State that make no sense.  From Biden and the Deep State, we are getting executive orders, mandates, guidelines, decisions, policies, and edicts that just do not make any sort of intellectual sense.  It is not just a difference of opinion.  It is not just different politics or a different point of view.  Decisions, guidelines, policies, and proposed laws are coming out of Washington D.C., Biden, and the Deep State that one just can't figure out in an intellectual, factual, common-sense sort of way.  Read More

09.14.21- Seven Possible Causes Of The Next Financial Crisis
Alex Pollock

The great financial historian, Charles Kindleberger, pointed out in the 1970s that over several centuries, history showed there was a financial crisis about once every ten years.

His observation still holds.

In every decade since his classic Manias, Panics and Crashes of 1978, such crises have indeed continued to erupt in their turn, in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and again in 2020. 

What could cause the next crisis in this long, recurring series? 

I suggest seven possibilities: Read More

09.13.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Gov’t Special Ops Demo Expert Confesses to Planting Explosives in WTCs Before 9/11
Matt Agorist

In a story that should be on the front page of every newspaper, or at least have any reporter worth their salt digging into it, a man who purports to be a controlled demolitions special operative for the United States, has come forward with a damning confession. According to Manuel Garcia Jr., he was tasked by a team created by Dick Cheney to help carry out a false flag attack on the World Trade Centers, otherwise known as 9/11, in order to “reshape the World Order to secure another century of US control.” Read More

09.11.21- Weekend Rant: There Is No Turning Back After This
Michael Snyder

This is the most sickening thing that Joe Biden has ever done.  That is saying a lot, because Biden has a long history of doing sickening things.  For the past couple of hours I have been trying to find the right words to put what we just witnessed into proper perspective.  This truly is one of the most pivotal moments in American history, and there will be no turning back after this.  We are descending into full-blown tyranny, and I have literally felt sick to my stomach as I have pondered the ramifications.  What remained of the country that so many of us once loved is being absolutely eviscerated, and it is deeply heartbreaking to watch it happen. Read More

09.10.21- These Dangers Loom Over the Fragile U.S. Economy in the Next 12 Months
Brandon Smith

The U.S. and most of the world is at the threshold of what I would call a nexus point in history. There are establishment forces at play that seek to impose a permanent authoritarian presence within our nation in the name of Covid “safety.” This includes lockdown mandates and restrictions on economic participation for the unvaccinated (including being unable to keep a job).

At the same time, only 53% of the public has been fully vaccinated against Covid. A significant number of the unvaccinated seem likely to dig in their heels and refuse to comply with the advice of medical professionals and the government. Read More

09.09.21- What Is Coming Is A Bigger Economic, Market, And Geopolitical Earthquake
Than QE Tapering 
Michael Every

Where's the beef? (And pork and chicken?)

Yesterday US stocks had the temerity to go down. Not a lot: S&P -0.13%, Dow -0.2%-- but red, not green. It’s apparently headline news. More significantly, markets are worrying the all-time high in stocks might not last for all time. The chatter / whisper is of a possible correction which, to be fair, it has been for a long time as stocks have kept levitating regardless. Meanwhile, as Treasury yields dropped to reverse the previous day’s climb, 3-month USD LIBOR is still only just above the lowest level this year at 0.11% vs 0.24% at the start.Read More

09.08.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: How to Tell What the Government
Fears Most
J.B. Shurk

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

I am of the opinion that we are all a part of one of the great epochal shifts in human history and that what we fight to secure today will reverberate through society for generations. We did not ask for this moment — most of us, in fact, have hoped that by quietly enduring the hardships that come our way, our toleration of what is intolerable would somehow be rewarded with comfort and peace. As with all turning points in human history, Read More

09.07.21- Human Capital Losses
John Mauldin

• Desperately Seeking Labor
• A Single Variable
• Long COVID, Long Problem
• Homeschoolers Drop Out (of the Labor Force)
• The Return of Stagflation
• Palm Beach, Longevity, and Time Management

Remember math class? Let me give you a quick refresher.

In the equation 3 x 5 = 15, the 3 and 5 are factors, and 15 is the product. You can’t have a product without factors. Read More

09.06.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Slowly But Surely,
The Stupid Is Failing
Karl Denninger

It is slowly dawning on all the different entities, including health care, that if they actually try to enforce jab mandates they're going to be screwed.  Some of this is very visible already if you know where to look.  Hospitals report "staffed and available" ICU (and regular) beds.  For a bed to be usable legally-mandated staffing levels must be present.  Beds don't "disappear" in a hospital; you don't make the building larger or smaller, do you?

Nope -- it's all about staff levels.

Well? Read More

09.04.21- The Four Horseman
of the Coming Crash, Pt 3
Graham Summers

Over the last two days, I’ve outlined THE single most important development you need to see, in order for the market to crash.

Think of them as BIG warnings, or the FOUR Horsemen that precede a stock market apocalypse.

What are they?

When most heavily weighted companies began to break down badly. Read More

09.03.21- The Four Horsemen
of the Coming Crash, Pt 2
Graham Summers

Yesterday I outlined THE single most important development you need to see, in order for the market to crash.

Think of them as BIG warnings, or the FOUR Horsemen that precede a stock market apocalypse.

What are they?

When most heavily weighted companies began to break down badly. Read More

09.02.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Yes, the Left is that Stupid
J.R. Dunn

We’ve been hearing a lot of speculation that the Afghan debacle is more than it seems – that rather than being a typical outcome of activity by some of the dumbest, most ill-informed, and most blinkered individuals ever to occupy places in the U.S government, it is instead a dark, convoluted conspiracy aimed at some goal sinister beyond words.

Some of this is from the usual suspects who see conspiracies every time a cat falls out of a tree, and some by more reputable people. The core concept here can be expressed simply: “There has to be something else going on. Nobody could be that stupid.” Read More

09.01.21- Bonds Tell Truth,
but the Market is Broken
Bill Blain

“Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.” 

The great Autumnal Bond Funding Season is upon us, but the looming taper of Central Bank Asset Purchase Schemes could well expose just how broken and dysfunctional bond markets have become. Markets always over-react to stress and panics, but when markets struggle with price discovery and liquidity the coming sell off could be magnified, which means a great buying opportunity in bonds may be coming! Read More

08.31.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: A Heedless Aftermath
James Howard Kunstler

For all the seeming power of the Deep State — a.k.a. the “Intel Community” — one really has to be impressed by its stupidity and desperation. It can’t keep secrets or cover its tracks. Anyone who was paying attention to the RussiaGate operation has seen the published evidence of all the lawless behavior it spawned and knows the names of all the players. Ditto, the effort to engineer the 2020 election and install an obviously senile puppet-stooge in the White House. And ditto the effort to manufacture the Covid-19 crisis by hijacking the public health apparatus of the federal government. Read More

Port Congestion, Spiking Container Rates, Backlogs, Chaos: The Peak Shipping Season from Hell is Here
Wolf Richter

Getting ready for the holiday selling season.

There are currently 56 cargo ships anchored in front of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. This includes a record of 44 container ships, bypassing the infamous record of 40 set in February 2021.

This is the run-up to the holiday selling season in the US, when retailers are desperately trying to stock up their inventories, which from many categories, including apparel, have already been running low. Green dots are cargo ships, red dots are tankers (image via Maritime Traffic): Read More

08.28.21- Avoid the Herd of Bulls Stampeding Toward the Exit
Birch Gold Group

If you’re concerned that the equities markets are going insane and that you might need to adjust your plan, you’re not alone.

Let’s first shed some light on the insanity…

Every Friday after Thanksgiving (except perhaps last year), major retail stores have had a “doorbuster” sale of some type.

The mainstream media images of people trampling on each other and brawling to get through the door: Fix these in your mind. Read More

08.27.21- The Distorted Truth about Stocks
Bill Bonner

YOUGHAL, IRELAND – We’re backing and filling this week.

Are our views correct? Are we on firm footing?

Or are we slipping and sliding, with a cockeyed perspective?

We’ve already seen that the actions that produce wealth are those where people work to satisfy others’ needs and desires. Neither goods nor services have any value of their own. They are given value by the people who want them… whose desires are aggregated and measured in market prices. Read More

08.26.21- Don’t Let Recency Bias Distort Your Investment Decisions
Kris Sayce

Kris’ note: Before we get into today’s Dispatch, a quick reminder about a special event that’s due to kick off around four hours from now (at 8 p.m. ET). It involves a dear friend of Casey Research, Jeff Brown.

As far as we’re concerned, Jeff is hands down the best technologist and tech investing expert we’ve come across in our 25-plus years in the market. And tonight, Jeff is livestreaming details about his latest project. Read More

08.25.21- “You have to be prepared for a future with more Black Swan events.”
Simon Black

If there’s one thing the world has taught us over the past 18-24 months, it’s that everything can change… in an instant.

We’ve seen the world shut down over a virus. Riots, looting, and chaos spilled into the streets in some of the most stable democracies in the West.

Fanatical progressives in the Land of the Free hijacked the education system, from kindergarten through university, and began forcing their woke doctrine into young minds. Read More

08.24.21- What We Really Should
Be Worrying About
Bill Blain

“How many divisions does the Pope have?”

As markets shake off their summer slumbers, what should we be worrying about? Lots..! From real vs transitory inflation arguments, the long-term economic consequences of Covid, the future for Central Banking unable to unravel its Gordian knot of monetary experimentation, and the prospects for rising political instability in the US and Europe.

Same as, same as….  Read More

08.23.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Biden Trashes Constitution
Jim Rickards

We’re now in the middle of a new surge of COVID cases blamed on the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Delta surge should abate significantly by mid-September.

But I’m afraid the consequences of bad economic policies engendered by the pandemic will last much longer.

In the immediate aftermath of the first pandemic wave (March – May 2020), the White House, Congress and the Fed implemented a financial wave of new policies. Read More

08.21.21- The Most Important Price in Capitalism
Vitaliy Katsenelson

When I was growing up in the Soviet Union, our local grocery store had two types of sugar: The cheap one was priced at 96 kopecks (Russian cents) a kilo and the expensive one at 104 kopecks. I vividly remember these prices because they didn’t change for a decade. The prices were not set by sugar supply and demand but were determined by a well-meaning bureaucrat (who may even have been an economist) a thousand miles away. If all Russian housewives (and househusbands) had decided to go on an apple pie diet and started baking pies for breakfast, lunch and dinner, sugar demand would have increased but the prices still would have been 96 and 104 kopecks. As a result, we would have had a shortage of sugar — a very common occurrence in the Soviet era. Read More

08.20.21- The Real Story Behind Collapsing Supply Chains and What it Means for You
Doug Casey

International Man: The COVID hysteria and the shutdowns have caused supply chain disruptions. Central bankers and the media were quick to pin the blame for soaring inflation on these disruptions.

It seems like sophistry—a fallacious argument with the intention of deceiving. What is really going on here? Read More

08.19.21- Former Spook Warns This Is "One Of The Most Dangerous, Unpredictable Times In History"
Bryan Dean Wright

Brian Dean Wright, a former CIA Ops Officer, explains in a brief but incisive Twitter thread that "former US intelligence colleagues are angry and deeply worried at what has happened in Afghanistan."

Wright warns that "there's nearly universal belief that America and the world are in for one of the most dangerous, unpredictable times in modern history." Read More

08.18.21- The Folly of Ruling Out a Collapse
John P. Hussman, Ph.D.

Investors accept in theory the premise that the stock market may have its recessions in the future. But these drops are envisaged in terms of the experience of the past ten years when the maximum decline was only 19 percent. The public is confident that such setbacks will be made up speedily, and hence that a small amount of patience and courage will bring great rewards in the form of a much higher price level soon thereafter.

Investors may think they are basing this view of the future on past experience, but in this they are surely mistaken. The experience of the 1949-1959 market – or of all bull markets put together – reflects only the sunny side of the investment. Read More

08.17.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: We are led by buffoons, everything they touch turns to chaos
Tucker Carlson

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08.16.21- Why I No Longer Invest
In Stocks And Bonds
Paul Rosenberg

I’ve touched upon this subject in my subscription newsletter, but I had no plans to write anything more until I got a note from a friend, mentioning a particular investment analyst and his views on investing over the next few years. I had to agree that it was brilliant analysis, but at the same time I knew that I’d never do anything about it, because I simply can’t bring myself to put money into “the markets” anymore.

As a young man I spent time learning the nuts and bolts of investing: Price to earning ratios, book values, charting, puts, calls, covered positions, and so on. And when I had extra money, I tended to put it into the markets and use my tools. But I can no longer do that, and I think explaining why may be useful. Read More

08.14.21- Weekend Rant: Situation Report
Hardscrabble Farmer

I don’t get out that often. Farming requires a constant set of eyeballs on the herds and flocks as well as a fair degree of labor regardless of the season. Throughout the past year and half as the rest of the world seemed to have descended into a collective psychosis over an annual flu bug I watched from a comfortable distance, not only in the physical sense, but psychologically as well. I began to pay attention to the developing narrative very early in January of 2020 when most people were going about their lives blithely unaware of the developing storm clouds building on the horizon. Read More

08.13.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: How to Remove Magnetic Graphene from the Body After Covid-Jab
La Quinta Columna

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08.12.21- A Global Liquidity Crisis Is Underway
William Anderson

I’ve been analyzing currency wars for years. In fact, I’ve written a book called Currency Wars, so I have some expertise in the subject.

A new front in the currency wars is emerging, but it has not yet erupted into blatant currency manipulation. That will probably come in early 2022. Read More

08.11.21- What Would Our Economy Look Like in the Shadow of Vaccine Passports?
Brandon Smith

Yes, it’s an official concern now. The mainstream media and the Biden Administration have gone from suggesting that Covid vaccinations would “not be mandated” to saying they “should be mandated.” This means several very uncomfortable consequences are on the way for our economy and the nation as a whole. Remember, the federal government already decided it’s legal for companies to require coronavirus vaccines. The most obvious next step: A mandatory “vaccine passport” certifying its holder has gotten the recommended injections. Read More

08.10.21- The Fall of the Dominoes
Antony Davies

Inflation, as measured by the PCE (personal consumption expenditures) index, was, on an annualized basis, over 7 percent in March and April, and over 6 percent in May and June. Going by the more popular CPI (consumer price index), annualized inflation was between 8 and 11 percent in those same months. For perspective, the last time the economy experienced four consecutive months of inflation this high was at the tail end of Jimmy Carter’s stagflation. Read More

08.09.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Of Common, Public, and Private Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization
Hans-Hermann Hoppe

I have three goals. First, I want to clarify the nature and function of private property. Second, I want to clarify the distinction between “common” goods and property and “public” goods and property, and explain the construction error inherent in the institution of public goods and property. Third, I want to explain the rationale and principle of privatization. Read More

08.07.21- Currency Emergency: When the Debt Comes Due
Stefan Gleason

What happens when the debt comes due?

It’s a question millions of Americans are grappling with in their personal finances. It’s also a multi-trillion dollar question facing officials in Washington, D.C.

How they decide to answer it – or evade it, as the case may be – will have profound implications for investors and anyone who holds U.S. dollars. Read More

08.06.21- MMT – When Theories Collide With Reality
Lance Roberts

Previously, we discussed Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and its one limitation of inflation. However, as is always the case when “theories” collide with “reality,” the tenants of the theory are quickly discarded.

There is no doubt that since 2020 both Republicans and Democrats alike have shunned fiscal responsibility for the short-term gratification of MMT. Ms. Kelton tweeted such earlier this year. Read More

08.05.21- Stop the Lies
Jim Rickards

Health officials continue to lose credibility over COVID-19. They seem to change their minds daily based on whim rather than science. But that’s been the case since the pandemic started.

Going back to last January, official comments on COVID have been mostly wrong. The comments were either outright lies or were prescriptions based on politics, not medicine.

In January 2020, the World Health Organization said there was no human-to-human transmission of COVID. They knew better because of data from China, so that was a lie. Dr. Anthony Fauci said there was little risk of COVID coming from China to the U.S. Another lie. Read More

08.04.21- This Company Gave Us a Glimpse Into What’s Coming to the Broader Market
Graham Summers

The deflationists had another bad day yesterday.

Deflationists argue that inflation doesn’t exist because the Treasury market isn’t acting as if inflation is a problem. They always fail to mention that the Treasury market is ALSO the most manipulated market on the planet. The Fed is currently spending over $1 trillion per year buying these bonds, effectively cornering them.

So why was yesterday a bad day for deflationists? Read More

08.03.21- And Now for Something Entirely Different: A New State of Segregation: Vaccine Cards Are Just the Beginning
John W. Whitehead

Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc.

This is the slippery slope upon which we are embarking, one that begins with vaccine passports and ends with a national system of segregation.

It has already begun. Read More

08.02.21- The Road To Totalitarianism
CJ Hopkins

People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did.

They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic script. They read:

“THIS IS THE ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM.”

I’m not going to show you all those signs out again. People like me have been pointing them out, and reading them out loud, for 17 months now. Anyone who knows anything about the history of totalitarianism, how it incrementally transforms society into a monstrous mirror image of itself, has known since the beginning what the “New Normal” is, and we have been shouting from the rooftops about it. Read More

07.31.21- Toilet Paper Rolls Are Getting Smaller: Blame The Fed
Doug French

A term has been coined for product sellers who shrink their packages, and thus, the amount of product in those packages, keeping the package price the same: shrinkflation. Anyone with a bit of good sense or economics training knows this is another form of price inflation, caused by what used to be the dictionary meaning of inflation; an increase in the supply of money. Read More

07.30.21- Housing Prices Slide
after Housing Sales Fall
David Haggith

Interestingly, you’re about to find out that the fall in housing prices and home sales may power us further into high inflation for longer. We are entering a situation that could turn into a true oxymoron where lower prices equal higher prices as early as this week at the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting. I’ll tell you how that works.

Housing prices are finally falling Read More

07.29.21- It's Game Over If The Markets Call The Fed's Bluff
Peter Schiff

The Federal Reserve insists inflation is “transitory” and the economy is making “progress.” Yet, it continues with the extraordinary monetary policy it launched at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, we’re seeing all kinds of data hinting that the economy may not be as great as advertised. Despite this, and even as prices continue to spiral higher, the Fed’s only monetary policy is talk. Peter breaks it all down on his podcast and drills down to the key question: what happens if the markets call the Fed’s bluff? Read More

07.28.21- How to Beat Wall Street at Its Own Game
Jason Bodner

Imagine you’re in an upscale Manhattan restaurant waiting to meet someone for dinner.

As you sit in your booth, you overhear two people speaking softly behind you. You realize that this meeting is between a very well-known hedge fund manager and his analyst.

The manager says he wants to take a $1 billion stake in a stock because its story was too compelling not to. The analyst rattles off some solid fundamentals and agrees with his boss. The manager says, “Great! Tomorrow, we get to work.” Read More

07.27.21- 2021’s Most Common Financial Scams
Peter Reagan

Among the many contenders for the most frequent scams in 2021, Business Insider has selected the five most frequent offenders. Last year, there were more than 800,000 scams with some form of online presence, resulting in losses of more than $4.2 billion. Scammers haven’t taken it any easier this year, and the diversity of the scams shows that caution and common sense should be part of everyone’s daily routine. Read More

07.26.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: The Evidence Is In...
The Covid “Pandemic” Is Not Real
But the Vaccine Pandemic Is
Paul Craig Roberts

Every Word of the Official Covid Narrative Is a Lie.  There is a vast amount of hard empirical evidence disproving the orchestrated narrative, but the presstitute scum censors it instead of reporting it.  

Covid deaths are associated with co-morbidities, impaired immune systems, and deficiency of Vitamin D and Zinc. There have been known safe cures for the virus since the beginning, and the cures were blocked from use in order to have a market for the vaccines. Read More

07.24.21- Market Volatility Is Troubling, But This Is the Real Problem
Birch Gold Group

If you were awake at all this week, you caught glimpses of the stock market drama. Maybe you tuned it out? Here’s a quick recap:

Monday: Huge sell-off, the worst one-day decline since October 2020.

Tuesday: Big rebound recaptured 80% of Monday’s losses.

Wednesday: Rally continues, Monday’s losses fully recouped.

Thursday: Stocks rise a bit, ended the day up.

Friday: All major indices up, near their record highs. Read More

07.23.21- Time to Buy Your Umbrella
Brian Maher

Heavy weather barreled through Wall Street Monday — beneath the weatherman’s detection — and gave investors a savage drenching.

Squalling rains washed away 925 points from the Dow Jones Industrial Average… before relenting late in the day.

High pressure, high skies and high expectations were back yesterday. The Dow Jones reclaimed 536 points. It took back another 286 points today. Read More

07.22.21- Do You Have This Smartphone App?
Jim Rickards

The stock market bounced back today after yesterday’s major losses. “Buy the dip” is alive and well.

But today, I want to revisit a topic I haven’t addressed much lately due to the pandemic, the inflation debate, and many other topics that have taken center stage.

I’m talking about the war on cash. Read More

07.21.21- Markets "Are Bouncing Off The Walls"
Bill Blain

Tuesday was an “Interesting” day in markets. Monday’s full-on wobble in global equities reversed into a buying binge as investors sensed the opportunity to buying a cheap market, at pretty much the same price it was the day before when they sold because it was an expensive market. What had changed? Precisely nothing.

You could dig into the details and guess on Monday people got scared of the ongoing consequences of Covid. On Tuesday the market voted again and decided the pandemic isn’t an issue… Basically it’s a market bouncing off the walls, looking for something to trade around. Read More

07.20.21- Charts For A Crazy World: Did Investors Just Realize Their Problems Are Unfixable?
John Rubino

Short-term interest rates are now as negative as they were in the inflationary 1970s.

But that’s where the similarity ends. As the above chart shows, 1970s indebtedness was relatively modest as a percentage of GDP, which gave that financial system the resiliency to withstand the double-digit interest rates necessary to throttle inflation and bring things back into balance. Today, debt in both nominal terms and as a percentage of GDP is off the charts, which means even modestly higher interest rates would bankrupt the world. Read More

07.19.21- What Triggered the Crash?
John P. Hussman, Ph.D.

And so on to the moment of mass disillusion and the crash. This last, it will now be sufficiently evident, never comes gently. It is always accompanied by a desperate and largely unsuccessful effort to get out. The least important questions are the ones most emphasized. What triggered the crash?

This is not very important, for it is in the nature of a speculative boom that almost anything can collapse it. Any serious shock to confidence can cause sales by those speculators who have always hoped to get out before the final collapse, but after all possible gains from rising prices have been reaped. Their pessimism will infect those simpler souls who had thought the market might go up forever but who now will change their minds and sell. Read More

07.17.21- Soaring Debts
And Plummeting Yields...
David Stockman

After decades of unhinged money-pumping, the Fed has driven real interest rates so low that there are no more bond investors - just traders and suckers.

The former have driven the 10-year yield in recent days to just 150 basis points in nominal terms (and deeply into the red in real terms in the face of surging monthly inflation numbers), because they are “pricing-in” one thing and one thing only: simple and supreme confidence that the spineless fanatics who occupy the Eccles Building will keep buying $120 billion per month of government and quasi-government debt. Read More

07.16.21- Today, Private Pensions and Savers Face the Same Challenge
Peter Reagan

Bad news … Retirement savers with some (or all) of their assets tied up in a private pension could be facing a nightmare scenario sooner than expected.

Both public and private pensions have been in trouble for quite some time. But it appears private pensions are in the hot seat again. But this time, it's not a self-inflicted problem... Read More

07.15.21- The Approaching Storm
CJ Hopkins

So, it looks like GloboCap isn’t going to be happy until they have fomented the widespread social unrest — or de facto global civil war — that they need as a pretext to lock in the new pathologized totalitarianism and remake whatever remains of society into a global pseudo-medicalized police state, or that appears to where we’re headed currently. We appear to be heading there at breakneck speed. I don’t have a crystal ball or anything, but I’m expecting things to get rather ugly this Autumn, and probably even uglier in the foreseeable future. Read More

07.14.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Republicans Protect America’s Reputation by Covering Up the Stolen 2020 Election
Dr Paul Craig Roberts

When the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Trump, the Republican Establishment was happy to be rid of him.  Trump’s intent to bring the offshored corporate jobs back home to Americans where they belong was regarded as a threat to corporate profits.  Wall Street and corporate executives were strongly opposed and used their influence against Trump. Read More

07.13.21- China's Digital Currency is a 'Trojan Horse' to Project Digital Authoritarianism
Kyle Bass

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07.12.21- Why I Don’t Operate On My Gut Instincts
Jason Bodner

When I was younger and desperate to “figure out the stock market,” I’d ask everyone all the questions I could. I thought that was the best way to learn.

But I ended up frustrated at the conflicting information I would get. And nothing irked me more than hearing that profiting from the market required a lot of “feel.”

That’s probably because I had no “feel.” Or worse yet, my feelings were constantly wrong. Read More

07.10.21- This “Financial Law of Gravity” Predicts an Inevitable Market Collapse
Peter Reagan

“Brace for a significant market correction,” said Mark Zandi earlier this week. He hinted that a 10 to 20% correction was already underway.

Which isn’t surprising, as manic investing behavior coupled with last year’s pandemic mitigation attempts eventually must give way to fundamental market forces.

CNBC reported that a moment of clarity may have finally clicked with investors: Read More

07.09.21- The Problems With Central Planning
Bill Bonner

Picking up from yesterday…

Ms. Rana Foroohar, writing in the prestigious Financial Times, proposed…

…simply bringing a smidgen of strategic and long-term foresight to the way America’s economy is run. In a world in which we have to compete with state-run giants like in China, that think on 50-year time horizons, quarterly capitalism simply doesn’t cut it any more (not that it really ever did).

It is easy to lament… and fun to mock… the shallow “thinking” of the thinking classes. Read More

07.08.21- China: Fragile Giant
Jim Rickrds

I’ve made many visits to China over the past thirty years and have been careful to move beyond Beijing (the political capital) and Shanghai (the financial capital) on these trips.

My visits have included Chongqing, Wuhan (the origin of the coronavirus outbreak), Xian, Nanjing, new construction sites to visit “ghost cities,” and trips to the agrarian countryside. Read More

07.07.21- When will rising interest rates become a major problem for the stock market?
Steven Saville

We asked and answered the above trick question in a blog post on 22nd March. It’s a trick question because although rising interest rates put downward pressure on some stock market sectors during some periods, they are never the primary cause of major, broad-based stock market declines. After all, the secular equity bull market that began in the early-to-mid 1940s and ended in the mid-to-late 1960s unfolded in parallel with a rising interest-rate trend, and the preceding secular equity bear market unfolded in parallel with a declining interest-rate trend. Read More

07.06.21- The Dollar’s Declining Status as Dominant “Global Reserve Currency” v. the Dollar’s Exchange Rate
Wolf Richter

Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight line, not even the dollar’s hegemony.

Yes, the Fed is a drunken reckless money-printer, and the US government has been high for years on deficit spending, but other major central banks and governments do the same or worse. The long-term trends are clear, however. Read More

07.05.21- Fire!
Brian Maher

1: The stock market is deliriously overvalued by history’s standards…

2: Investors fully acknowledge 1…

3: Investors continue to pile into the stock market despite 1.

Conclude the gentlemen and ladies of Bespoke Investments:

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07.03.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Russia warns UK it will blow up British ships in the Black Sea
Ramon Tomey

Russia warned the U.K. that it would bomb any British warships it finds in the Black Sea. The June 24 threat from the Kremlin followed a British Royal Navy vessel passing by the waters of Crimea – which Russia annexed in 2014. On the other hand, Downing Street has insisted that the disputed territory’s waters belong to Ukraine and the warship made no provocative actions.

On June 24, British Ambassador to Russia Deborah Bronnert was summoned for a formal diplomatic reprimand over Britain’s purportedly “dangerous” action in the Black Sea. Read More

07.02.21- The Fed Can’t Tighten
Dan Amoss

Gold’s recent selloff looked familiar in that it resembled the types of gold selloffs that occurred when the Fed talked about tightening its loose policy for years in the mid-2010s.

It sure talked a good game. But, when it came time to really test how much tightening the debt-saturated economy could handle, by late 2018, the Powell Fed folded like a cheap suit. Read More

07.01.21- George Orwell’s 1984 Has Become a Blueprint for Our Dystopian Reality
John W. Whitehead

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”— George Orwell, 1984

Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell (Jun. 25, 1903-Jan. 21, 1950) has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. Read More

06.30.21- These Big Inflation Numbers Are Interesting But Ultimately Unimportant
John Rubino

It’s been hard, lately, to untangle the many causes of inflation’s sudden surge. How much is due to the pandemic lockdown distorting year-over-year comparisons? How much to crippled supply chains forcing manufacturers to pay up for needed components? And how much to good old-fashioned excessive money printing? 

Whatever the cause, headline inflation numbers have been brutal, with the CPI rising at rates that would normally call for a fast, hard tightening. See Key inflation indicator posts biggest year-over-year gain in nearly three decades. Read More

06.29.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Agricultural Commodities Supercycle Predicted: How Will You Prepare?
Joanna Miller

Inflation is here, and with it the possibility of an agricultural commodities supercycle. We’ve all seen inflation at the gas pump and the grocery stores, and heaven help you if you need to build something right now. Just recently ZeroHedge published an article about ag leaders predicting a mini supercycle in commodities.

Let’s unpack this a little bit. Read More

06.28.21- The Only Metric That Matters
Brian Maher

Interest rates remain chained at zero. Any slight increase remains one year distant — at minimum — and likely two years distant.

Meantime, the Federal Reserve continues to purchase assets at the rate of $120 billion the month.

It is only now beginning to “talk about talking about” kinking the liquidity lines.

That is, the Federal Reserve remains what professional men term… accommodative. Read More

06.26.21- Do You Hear The Bells Ringing?
MN Gordon

There’s an old Wall Street adage, you’ve likely heard it, “No one rings a bell at the top (or bottom) of the market.”

The bell, of course, is the signal to sell at the market top.  Here we pause to take exception with this adage. 

As far as we can tell, bells do ring at market tops.  Yet few hear them.  Most people’s ears are plugged with the prospects of easy riches. Read More

06.25.21- Welcome To The “Pre-Taper” Tantrum
John Rubino

In 2018, the Fed tried to moderate its post-Great Recession emergency policy of low interest rates and torrential money printing. It reduced (or tapered) its asset purchases and, in a series of tiny steps, boosted short-term interest rates by about one percentage point.  Read More

06.24.21- It Always Ends The Same Way: Crisis, Crash, Collapse
Charles Hugh Smith

Risk has not been extinguished, it is expanding geometrically beneath the false stability of a monstrously manipulated market. 

One of the most under-appreciated investment insights is courtesy of Mike Tyson: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." At this moment in history, the plan of most market participants is to place their full faith and trust in the status quo's ability to keep asset prices lofting ever higher, essentially forever. Read More

06.23.21- Hedge Fund Manager Kyle Bass Estimates U.S. Inflation at 12%
Joshua Caplan

Appearing Tuesday on CNBC’s Squawk Box, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass estimated that the United States’ inflation rate is approximately 12 percent.

A transcript is as follows: 

REBECCA QUICK: As someone who is looking to invest in the market, what do these higher numbers mean? What does that mean for the Fed? Read More

06.22.21- The Decentralization Fetish
William J. Luther

There is a common view among bitcoin advocates, which also prevails to some extent among economists working in the Austrian tradition, that decentralization is always good and more-decentralized solutions are always better. In both forms, this view starts with a reasonable premise. Bitcoin revolutionized payments by enabling digital transactions to take place between strangers without a trusted third party serving as a centralized clearinghouse. Ludwig von Misesargued that economic calculation was impossible under central planning, while Friedrich Hayek explained that markets relied on decentralized knowledge of a particular time and place. Read More

06.21.21- How To Buffer The Fallout From America's Third World Death Spiral
MN Gordon

“What the hell?!” – President Joe Biden, June 16, 2021

Out of Control

American workers are trying to make their way in an economy that’s rigged against them.  We made this claim many years ago.  Today, for fun and for free, we revisit this assertion…starting with the latest from those doing the rigging. Read More

06.19.21- Too Much Liquidity
Alasdair Macleod

Yesterday, the FOMC released its June statement which only served to remind us that its members are powerless in the face of inflationary conditions. They refuse to accept the price consequences of monetary inflation, still clinging on to an increasingly untenable hope that price rises are “transitory”.

The fact of the matter is that the world is now awash with excess money, the two greatest inflationists being the Fed and the Bank of England. In the US, the Fed’s $120bn monthly QE continues to goose financial asset values, while the US Government has spent a further trillion into circulation from its general account at the Fed. This tidal wave of money threatened money market funds totalling over $4 trillion with negative rates, thereby “breaking the buck”, which is why the Fed has increased its outstanding reverse repos to $721bn. Read More

06.18.21- No Return to “Normal”
Bill Bonner

Our subject today has a little of everything – ambition… betrayal… idealism… cynicism… democracy… revolution… corruption… you name it!

But today’s setting is not the USA. Still, we will turn to the U.S. media for a big surprise, before taking up our parable.

Here’s a rare event… where the reporter got the story almost right. The Hill: Read More

06.17.21- Are we at the Inception of an Inflationary Depression?
Shanmuganathan Nagasundaram

It is an acknowledged fact within the circle of Austrian Economists that the Central Banks have to continuously rely on and actively indulge in a propaganda of Voodoo Economics to hide the extreme imbalances that they have created in the world economy.

What lies in the decade ahead for much of the Western economies and indeed most parts of the world is a prolonged period of high inflation combined with an economic depression. Read More

06.16.21- WEF Warns of Cyber Attack Leading to Systemic Collapse of The Global Financial System
Whitney Webb

A report published last year by the WEF-Carnegie Cyber Policy Initiative calls for the merging of Wall Street banks, their regulators and intelligence agencies as necessary to confront an allegedly imminent cyber attack that will collapse the existing financial system.

In November 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace co-produced a report that warned that the global financial system was increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. Advisors to the group that produced the report included representatives from the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund, Wall Street giants likes JP Morgan Chase and Silicon Valley behemoths like Amazon. Read More

06.15.21- Michael "Big Short" Burry: This Is The Greatest Bubble Of All Time In All Things
"By Two Orders Of Magnitude"
Tyler Durden

Earlier this year, none other than Michael 'Big Short' Burry confirmed BofA's greatest fears, as he picked up on the theme of Weimar Germany and specifically its hyperinflation, as the blueprint for what comes next in a lengthy tweetstorm cribbing generously from Parsson's seminal work, warning that:

"The US government is inviting inflation with its MMT-tinged policies. Brisk Debt/GDP, M2 increases while retail sales, PMI stage V recovery. Trillions more stimulus & re-opening to boost demand as employee and supply chain costs skyrocket."  Read More

06.14.21- Deutsche Bank issues dire economic warning for America
Chris Talgo

As the world economy awakens from the 15-month slumber caused by the pandemic, Deutsche Bank has launched a series of research articles to spark debate and discussion about pressing post-pandemic economic issues.

On June 7, Deutsche Bank issued its first report of the new series, titled “Inflation: The defining macro story of this decade.” Read More

06.12.21- How Fanatics Took Over the World
Jeffrey Tucker

Early in the pandemic, I had been furiously writing articles about lockdowns. My phone rang with a call from a man named Dr. Rajeev Venkayya. He is the head of a vaccine company but introduced himself as former head of pandemic policy for the Gates Foundation.

Now I was listening.

I did not know it then, but I’ve since learned from Michael Lewis’s (mostly terrible) book The Premonition that Venkayya was the founding father of lockdowns. While working for George W. Bush’s White House in 2005, he headed a bioterrorism study group. From his perch of influence – serving an apocalyptic president — he was the driving force for a dramatic change in U.S. policy during pandemics.  Read More

06.11.21- It's "Permanent" Not "Temporary" - Dollar's Purchasing Power Plunged
At Fastest Pace Since 1982
Wolf Richter

...and it’s a lot worse than it appears.

The Consumer Price Index jumped 0.6% in May, after having jumped 0.8% in April, and 0.6% in March – all three the steepest month-to-month jumps since 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. For the three months combined, CPI has jumped by 2.0%, or by an “annualized” pace of 8.1%. This current three-month pace of inflation as measured by CPI has nothing to do with the now infamous “Base Effect,” which I discussed in early April in preparation for these crazy times; the Base Effect applies only to year-over-year comparisons. Read More

06.10.21- Deutsche Bank Issues a Terrifying Warning for America Under Biden
Tyler O'Neil

On Monday, Deutsche Bank released a report that further confirms a portent of doom for the U.S. economy and Democrats led by President Joe Biden. While many economists and policymakers claim that the recent uptick in inflation is temporary, Deutsche Bank warned that Biden’s profligate spending, the Federal Reserve’s low interest rates, and global economic trends threaten to unleash persistent inflation, which amounts to an insidious tax on the poor and middle class that benefits the government. Read More

One Bank Goes Apocalyptic: Inflation Is About To Explode "Leaving Global Economies Sitting On A Time Bomb"
Tyler Durden

As excerpted from “Inflation: The defining macro story of this decade” a must-read report written by Deutsche Bank’s global head of research, David Folkerts-Landau, co-authored by Peter Hooper and Jim Reid.

Ronald Reagan (1978): “Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

Joe Biden (2021): “A job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about being able to look your kid in the eye and say everything will be okay. Too many people today can’t do that – and it’s got to change.”  Read More

06.08.21- The U.S. is Staring at a Dollar Collapse by the End of 2021
Mac Slavo

People used to call those who could see the writing on the wall “crazy conspiracy theorists.” Now, major mainstream media outlets are reporting that the United States dollar could crash by the end of 2021.

Honestly, I am surprised the dollar hasn’t crashed already.  It’s almost worthless in the sense that prices are skyrocketing and hyperinflation is right around the corner.

The “seemingly crazed idea” that the US dollar will collapse against other major currencies in the post-pandemic global economy is not so crazy anymore, the economist Stephen Roach told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. –Business Insider  Read More

06.07.21- The coming winds of change against the seething
David Bryan

Energies of legalism, monetarism and fatalism Complete control of humanity

The seething energies of legalism, monetarism and fatalism raise the question, why is it better to be ruled by the head and not the heart? 

LEGALISM

Due to the tradition of Abrahamic laws, it has been much too easy for our Western rulers to impose the unemotional political ideology of legalism. It also explains why most of our politicians are lawyers. Legalism has led to a statute book with thousands of laws and created a monstrous bureaucratic labyrinth of government agencies.  Read More

06.05.21- Weekend Rant: What If
the “Big Lie” Is the Big Lie?
James Howard Kunstler

Maybe now that Dr. Tony Fauci has begun to spill the beans on his doings in service to the Wuhan virology lab, the phrase “conspiracy theory,” flogged by the media as jauntily and incessantly as by the soviet kommissars of yore, will have worn out its welcome.

In a sane polity, Dr. Fauci would be cooked. He looks circumstantially like an epic villain of history, who promoted and funded dangerous research activities knowingly, which led to an international disaster that killed millions of people and destroyed countless livelihoods and households, perhaps even the whole global economy. Read More

06.04.21- And Now, for Something Entirely Different: Idiocracy, They Live and The Rockefeller/Gates Plan to Cancel Culture
Jeff Berwick

I could start this blog with “Don’t listen to morons, ever.”

That would basically be the same as starting this blog with “They’re dumbing down the kids and no one’s noticing because they’re so busy being social justice warriors.”

Especially the kids in question.

Generation Z is said to be the strongest generation America has ever seen. (If you don’t mentally see the meme of the old white guys laughing, you’d better watch today’s video). Read More

06.03.21- Why Do Inflation Expectations Matter?
James L. Caton

There is, understandably, a lot of talk about inflation lately. Much of this talk is rooted in a naïve interpretation of the quantity theory. An increase in the quantity of money is thought to surely lead to a proportionate increase in the price level. Yet, the monetary base has increased from around $850 billion to over $5.8 trillion in just over the span of a decade. Despite this nearly 600% increase in the quantity of money, the price level has increased by just 26%. The Fed’s balance sheet stands at $8 trillion today. Where is the inflation hiding? Read More

06.02.21- The shocking truth about the future of the economy
Jim Rickards

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06.01.21- Increasingly Chaotic Volatility Ahead--The New Normal Few Think Possible
Charles Hugh Smith

That the era of stability has ended and a new era of increasingly chaotic volatility has begun is not on anyone's radar as a possibility. 

The standard debate about the future of the economy is: which will we get, high inflation or a deflationary collapse of defaults and asset bubbles popping? 

The debate goes round and round in widening circles of complexity as analysts delve into every nuance of the debate. Read More