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Grant Williams: The End Of The Road





Grant Williams sets the context for tomorrow's FOMC meeting, where the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. To say he is very skeptical of the Fed's ability to continue to control market forces much longer is a gross understatement...

 
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What Happens When Stocks Catch Up With Commodities?





We’ve already gotten a taste of what happens when asset classes finally “adjust” to underlying “demand” with the commodity markets: having operated based on Central Bank money printing for five years, they then wiped out ALL of those gains in six months.

 
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Government Influence Over Asset Prices Growing





Where most analysis on oil markets tends to fall short is on the depth of analysis vs. reading headlines and group think, the latter of which is heavily shaped by misinformed media and government propaganda.

 
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Virtually Every Wall Street Strategist Expects "No End To The Bull Market"





Soaring junk bond redemptions; rising investment grade (and high yield) yields pressuring corporate buybacks; record corporate leverage and sliding cash flows; Chinese devaluation back with a vengeance; capital outflows from EM accelerating as dollar strength returns; corporate profits and revenues in recession; CEOs most pessimistic since 2012, oh and the Fed's first rate hike in 9 years expected to soak up as much as $800 billion in excess liquidity. To Wall Street's strategists none of this matters: as Bloomberg observes, virtually every single sellside forecasts expects "no end to the bull market."

 
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Futures Surge, Oil Rebounds As Fed Starts Historic Two-Day "Rate Hike" Meeting





The start of the Fed's most eagerly awaited two-day policy meeting in years has finally arrived with the market expecting Yellen to announce the first 25 bps rate hike in 9 years tomorrow with nearly 80% probability, and so far US equity futures are enjoying a last minute relief rally, while emerging market stocks rose for the first day in ten after the longest losing run since June. Europe's Stoxx 600 Index has also rebounded from a five-day losing streak, the worst in over four months.

 
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Paper Money Versus The Gold Standard





We are living in a time that can only be considered monetary chaos. The media and the policy pundits may focus on the day-to-day zigs and zags of central bank monetary and interest rate policy, but what really needs to be asked is whether or not we should continue to leave monetary and banking policy in the discretionary hands of central banks and the monetary central planners who manage them.

 
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The Fuse on the Global Debt Bomb Has Been Lit





The $100 trillion global bond bubble has begun bursting.

 
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The End Of The Bubble Finance Era





We are nearing a crucial inflection point in the worldwide bubble finance cycle that has been underway for more than two decades. To wit, the world’s central banks have finally run out of dry powder. They will be unable to stop the credit implosion which must inexorably follow the false boom.

 
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You Can't Seriously Expect Your Banker to Tell You About This





Massive change is coming but don't expect your local banker to see it coming and let you know about it

 
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December 16, 2015 - When The End Of The Bubble Begins





Can the third great bubble of this century survive a Fed that finally wants to get off the zero bound after its way too late, but can’t do it anyway without a massive crash inducing cash drain from Wall Street? And in the teeth of the next recession to boot? Yes, the end of the bubble does begin on December 16th.

 
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China's Gold Army





Meet 'The Gold Armed Police' - China's special army unit dedicated to acquiring and protecting the nation's precious metals.

 
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Good Luck Getting Your Money Out When the Next Crisis Hits





The doors are closing for investors looking to get out before the Crisis hits.

 
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Kinder Morgan - Poster Boy For Bubble Finance





After Tuesday’s dividend massacre, it’s plain as day that Kinder Morgan wasn’t the greatest thing since slice bread after all. That is, a “growth” business paying rich dividends out of rock solid profit margins and flourishing cash flow. In fact, it was just a momo stock on a borrowing spree.

 
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