Archive - 2014 - Blog entry

Woe unto the gold speculators, and a curse laid upon the house of silver.

At least, that’s how it may feel. In more clinical terms...

The perks that come with being kept will not survive the breaking of the keep.

They had no idea what was coming...

When Calpers buys an international asset for its investors, is it intervening in the forex market on behalf of the US?

The Federal Reserve is saying one thing, but is actually doing the complete opposite...

U.S. Ignoring Earthquake Risks to Nuclear Plants

On Friday Morgan Stanley cut a note highlighting European equity data.  Here's a few key charts.

The Doomsday Machine has been unleashed in Tokyo...........

This is only going to usher in the next round of the Great Crisis that much faster. Only this time around, entire countries will go bust, NOT just banks.

A look at the currency market as if analysis mattered.  

Bankruptcies in Japan more than doubled in the first nine months of 2014 compared with the same period a year ago. Japan has embarked on a radical monetary experiment to spur inflation. But it may backfire and lead to stagflation and in a worst case scenario a German ‘Weimar’ style hyperinflation ...

FOMC stops buying securities in the open market and the world falls apart, right? WOW. Are you folk’s economists, traders, or just a bit naive?

That's right, Trick "O" Freak... 

So… the economy is weak, corporate profits are unlikely to rise much, if at all, and stocks are sharply overvalued… ALL of these point towards another collapse in the markets…

On eliminating investment risk...