Peter Schiff: The Fed Set The Fiercest Wildfire
Wildfires are raging out of control in western states doing millions of dollars in damage and disrupting countless lives. In a recent podcast, Peter Schiff said the Federal Reserve has set an even fiercer wildfire – inflation. And we are in danger of it burning out of control through the entire US economy. Stock markets…
A Staggering 84% Of All S&P500 Assets Are Now Intangible
Last week, we brought you some of the latest musing from Bank of America’s Jared Woodard, who in the latest Research Investment Committee report discussed the reason why value investing is dead… … attributing it to a recent transformation in the market where it is “all one trade” now: However, besides the merely reflexive, where central bank…
The Worst Economic Crisis Anyone Has Ever Seen
We have been watching, with disbelief and bemusement, how the “recovery-narrative” has been touted in the financial media and among some economists and analysts. Categorically, an economic recovery is a period of expansion, where we eventually exceed the previous peak in employment and output. There’s no such thing coming (anytime soon). It is very human…
Nasdaq Futures Tumble, Stocks Slide As SoftBank Unwinds, Dollar Jumps
If SoftBank’s presence in the public markets was enough to send global markets to 9 consecutive all time highs while stretching tech valuations to unprecedented levels, then it is to be expected that SoftBank’s unwind of its notorious “Nasdaq Whale” trade as we reported yesterday, would send risk tumbling and sure enough Nasdaq futures plunged over…
Stocks Are Crashing, VIX Spikes As Option-Players Panic-Buy Protection
Trouble: VIX is back above 30… …and its put-buying not call-buying this time… The S&P is down over 3% and Nasdaq down 5%… As yields plunge back to 60bps (10Y)… Stocks catching down to bonds… Gold is also dropping… As the smell of liquidation is back. StevieRay HansenEditor, BankstersCrime Source: zerohedge.com God often uses men…
The Fed’s Big Lie
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced on Thursday that the Fed will now shift its focus from hitting inflation targets and instead prioritize closing “unemployment shortfalls”. This gives it the aircover to do “whatever it takes” until the unemployment rate is…
In The Long Run… We Are All Alive
In 1976, economist Herbert Stein, father of Ben Stein, the economics professor in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, observed that U.S. government debt was on an unsustainable trajectory. He, thus, established Stein’s Law: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Stein may have been right in theory. Yet the unsustainable trend of U.S. government…
America’s Coming Double Dip
www.zerohedge.com Soaring financial markets are blithely indifferent to lingering vulnerabilities in the US economy. But the impact of consumers’ fear of COVID-19 on pandemic-sensitive services are unlikely to subside, undermining the case for the uninterrupted recovery that investors seem to expect. The double dip is not a dance. It is the time-honored tendency of the US economy to…
What Are You Going To Do As Our Money Dies?
Central banks are killing our currency to protect the already-rich… In our recent article It’s Time To Position For The Endgame, Chris Martenson explained how the US Federal Reserve and its sister central banks around the world have been engaged in the largest and most egregious wealth transfer in all of history — one that has…
“Stand Down!” – How One Navy Seal Killed A Multi-Billion Hedge Fund
It has now been revealed that the fall of Dan Kamensky’s Marble Ridge Capital was at the hands of a former Navy SEAL, turned trader. Joe Femenia, the head of distressed-debt trading at Jefferies Financial Group, is the man who was outlined in court filings as having taped conversations that brought the hedge fund down, according…