Twelve short months ago, the immediate future looked like a lock. Overvalued equities had to fall, ridiculously-low interest rates had to rise, and beaten-down precious
To say that gold is in a bear market is to misunderstand both gold and markets. Gold isn’t an investment that goes up and down.
So the markets are getting skittish and the media is obsessing about the many things that could go wrong out there. It’s like 2007 all
Of all the problems with fiat currency, the most basic is that it empowers the dark side of human nature. We’re potentially good but infinitely
It’s been quite a month. In late October Japan, despite a year of fairly aggressive quantitative easing, dropped back into recession and concluded that even
One of the surest signs that a bubble is about to burst is junk bonds behaving like respectable paper. That is, their yields drop to
The world’s central banks and derivatives traders have been having their usual fun with gold and silver lately, dumping huge volumes of futures contracts into
With US QE about to end, the rest of the world faced the prospect of another “taper tantrum” financial crisis, one that this time around
Now that bitcoin has subsided from speculative bubble to functioning currency (see the price chart below), it’s safe for non-speculators to explore the whole “cryptocurrency”
The dollar is on a tear. And the world is scrambling to figure out what it means. Beginning with the always-interesting Martin Armstrong in a
New car sales have been one of the bright spots of the US recovery. And they’re still at it: September U.S. auto sales to rise
In his book The Postcatastrophe Economy, iTulip’s Eric Janszen notes that financial bubbles don’t repeat. That is, yesterday’s bubble is never tomorrow’s because hot money
Nearly a century after the fact, the Great Depression remains THE object lesson for virtually every branch of economics. To monetarists the fact that the
Europe is an economic basket case while the US is kind-of sort-of recovering. Why? Several reasons, but the only one that really matters these days
By now it’s an article of faith within the sound money community that most major countries have borrowed so much that they’re left with only
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