“Extreme Greed” Trigger’d – Gold, Bonds, & Stocks Rally As Dollar Dives

Thanks to a melt-up today, US equities (apart from Trannies) ended the week higher… But today’s gains were farcically driven by a full-court press of jawboning (5 Fed Speakers, Mnuchin, and Kudlow) to open the US equity markets… 0830ET Jobs Beat – Dow +100 0915ET Fed’s Kashkari dovish: “we’re not at maximum employment.. in free lunch zone” – Dow…

Loading

Read More

Chinese Bank On Verge Of Collapse After Sudden Bank Run

Coming to America SOON, when dealing with a collapsing Ponzi scheme, only those who pull their money first stand to recover anything …. First, it was Baoshang Bank, then it was Bank of Jinzhou, then, two months ago, China’s Heng Feng Bank with 1.4 trillion yuan in assets, quietly failed and was just as quietly nationalized. Today, a…

Loading

Read More

U.S. Shale Braces For Brutal Earnings Season

A lot of big names will report third-quarter earnings this week, and the results are expected to be worse than the same period in 2018. The timing comes as the shale sector is facing somewhat of a reckoning. After years of price volatility – with more downs than ups – oil prices have failed to return…

Loading

Read More

One Of The World’s Largest Oil Companies Just Ditched The Dollar

The dollar is being intentionally killed, a one-world currency is now on the global oil markets… Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft has already completed the switch away from the U.S. dollar to euros in its export contracts to minimize risks from potential new U.S. sanctions, Rosneft’s chief executive Igor Sechin said on Thursday. Rosneft has already fully…

Loading

Read More

Peter Schiff: QE Is A Monetary Roach Motel

This Is Not a Printing Press! (Or Is It?) Rene Magritte’s 1929 painting “The Treachery of Images,” depicts a tobacco pipe with a caption that reads “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” (French for “This is not a pipe”). Everyone who has taken a course in modern art knows that Magritte’s exercise in contradiction was meant to…

Loading

Read More

Goldman Sachs Banker Arrested For Insider Trading Scheme

Goldman Sachs has avoided staying out of the insider trading spotlight for about a year. But on Friday, new court documents reveal that an investment banker at the firm’s New York branch was arrested for his alleged involvement in an insider trading scheme that generated $2.6 million in illicit profits, according to Bloomberg.  Bryan Cohen, a vice president…

Loading

Read More