Archive - Dec 30, 2015
Something Just Broke In The U.S. Silver Market
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 23:45 -0500After looking over all the figures, it seems as if something broke in the U.S. Silver Market this year. By that, we mean the normal supply and demand forces no longer make sense.
Swiss Army Chief Warns Of Social Unrest, Calls Upon Citizens To Arm Themselves
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 22:42 -0500Swiss army chief André Blattmann warned, in a Swiss newspaper article on Sunday, the risks of social unrest in Europe are soaring. Recalling the experience of 1939/1945, Blattman fears the increasing aggression in public discourse is an explosively hazardous situation, and advises the Swiss people to arm themselves and warns that the basis for Swiss prosperity is "being called into question."
Guest Post: "American Capitalism" No Longer Serves Society
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 22:25 -0500America is being destroyed by problems that are unaddressed. Unbridled greed, short-term in nature, will continue to drive America into the ground.
The Next Time Your Financial Advisor Tells You To Buy Stocks, Show Them This Chart
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 22:16 -0500Perhaps mom and pop investors should show the following chart to their financial advisors, who directly or indirectly work for these institutions, and ask them: why should they be buying, when the counterparty they are buying from is, most likely, this very same financial advisor?
Time For Torches & Pitchforks: The Little Guy Is About To Get Monkey-Hammered Again
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 22:15 -0500The prospect that the leaders of our monetary politburo are about to be tarred and feathered by economic reality might be satisfying enough if it led to the repudiation of Keynesian central planning and a thorough housecleaning at the Fed. Unfortunately, it will also mean that tens of millions of retail investors and 401k holders will be taken to the slaughterhouse for the third time this century. And this time the Fed is out of dry powder, meaning retail investors will never recover as they did after 2002 and 2009.
The Minimum Wage Hike Hangover Arrives: Dining Out To Cost 10% More Starting January 1
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 22:00 -0500
Crude Oil Prices Suffer Biggest 2-Year Bloodbath On Record
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 21:50 -0500With yet another false-dawn of crude prices blowing in the wind of cash-flow generation desperation, we thought it an appropriate time for a bigger picture glance at the state of the carnage in crude...
How Politics Brings Out the Worst In Us
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 21:15 -0500Politics - especially elections - creates a system that brings out the worst in people. It poisons relationships. It pulls us in as spectators who stand agog at a completely inauthentic show of national politics (over which we have virtually no power). We end up mostly ignoring the local issues over which we could have considerably more influence. As a consequence, an entire nation falls under a particular kind of spell.
Technical Analysis of the Lumber Market
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/30/2015 20:48 -0500The last two years rents have been rising primarily due to supply and demand issues.
The Rise Of The Temp Economy: More U.S. Employers Than Ever Want A "Disposable Workforce"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 20:05 -0500In this day and age it seems like almost everything is disposable, and many employers have found that they can make a lot more money if they have a workforce that can be turned on and off like a faucet. In America today, there are more than 17 million “independent workers”, and they represent a bigger share of the workforce than ever before.
Will 2016 Bring About a 2008 Type Crisis? Pt 1
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 12/30/2015 19:36 -0500Between these two banking systems alone, you’ve got the makings of a global financial crisis at least on par with 2008.
The Wheels Just Fell Off: US Trucking Has Not Been This Bad Since The Financial Crisis
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 19:30 -0500On the heels of a 59% plunge in new Class 8 orders, we get a fresh take on freight transportation from Morgan Stanley and as you might expect, the picture is most assuredly not pretty. The bank's TLFIs are bumping along at their lowest levels since the crisis for flatbed, hot van, and refrigerated, suggesting the malaise is widespread.
Stocks Flash Crash Into Close As Emerging Market, Commodity Carnage Spreads
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 19:02 -0500The Problem With Progressives: Everything Is Now A Taxpayer-Funded "Right"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 18:55 -0500Progressives are often good people with good intentions. However, modern Progressivism has evolved into something so shapeless and amorphous as to amount to little more than a belief in “things that sound nice.” Simply out, everything is now a taxpayer-funded "right."
Another Regime Change "Success": Ukraine President Less Popular Than State Dept-Ousted Predecessor
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2015 18:20 -0500





