Chris Martenson
2015 Year In Review - Scenic Vistas From Mount Stupid
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/19/2015 20:35 -0500- Alan Greenspan
- Albert Edwards
- Ally Bank
- Apple
- Baltic Dry
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bank of England
- Bank of International Settlements
- Bank of Japan
- Barry Ritholtz
- Bear Market
- Ben Bernanke
- Ben Bernanke
- Bill Gross
- Black Friday
- Black Swan
- Bob Janjuah
- Bond
- Book Value
- Brazil
- Bridgewater
- Capital Expenditures
- Carlyle
- Cato Institute
- Central Banks
- Chicago PMI
- China
- Chris Martenson
- Chrysler
- Citadel
- Cliff Asness
- Counterparties
- CRAP
- Credit Conditions
- Creditors
- Crude
- David Einhorn
- David Rosenberg
- default
- Demographics
- Department of Justice
- Deutsche Bank
- Dumb Money
- Equity Markets
- ETC
- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- Federal Reserve
- FINRA
- fixed
- France
- Futures market
- GE Capital
- Germany
- Glencore
- Global Economy
- Global Warming
- Gluskin Sheff
- Greece
- Gundlach
- Hayman Capital
- Holiday Cheer
- Hyperinflation
- Illinois
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Janet Yellen
- Japan
- Jeff Gundlach
- Jeremy Grantham
- Jim Cramer
- Jim Reid
- Jim Rickards
- Joe Saluzzi
- John Hussman
- John Maynard Keynes
- Kazakhstan
- Ken Griffin
- KIM
- KKR
- Kyle Bass
- Kyle Bass
- Larry Summers
- LBO
- Lehman
- Mark Spitznagel
- Market Manipulation
- Maynard Keynes
- McKinsey
- Mervyn King
- Mexico
- MF Global
- Michigan
- Middle East
- Milton Friedman
- Monetary Policy
- Money Velocity
- Morgan Stanley
- Natural Gas
- New York Fed
- New York Stock Exchange
- Nikkei
- None
- Norway
- Paul McCulley
- Paul Tudor Jones
- Paul Volcker
- Precious Metals
- Quantitative Easing
- Rahm Emanuel
- Random Walk
- Ray Dalio
- Real estate
- Recession
- recovery
- Rick Santelli
- Robert Shiller
- Rosenberg
- Sovereign Debt
- Sovereigns
- St Louis Fed
- St. Louis Fed
- State Street
- Stephen Roach
- SWIFT
- Swiss National Bank
- Switzerland
- Themis Trading
- Transparency
- Treasury Department
- Unemployment
- University of California
- University Of Michigan
- Value Investing
- Wall Street Journal
- Warren Buffett
- Wholesale Inventories
- Willem Buiter
- Yield Curve
“To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious, but the stupid have an answer for everything.” ~Edward Abbey
“Moment of Historic Opportunity For Gold”
Submitted by GoldCore on 12/10/2015 11:11 -0500“We're at a moment of historic opportunity”.
Gold is one of the few investments that every investor should have in their portfolio.
We are now at the dangerous end-game period of a very bold but very reckless & disappointing experiment with the world's fiat (unbacked) currencies. If this experiment fails -- and we observe it's in the process of failing -- gold will provide one of the best forms of wealth insurance. But like all insurance products, it only works if you buy it before you need to rely on it.
The Screaming Fundamentals For Owning Gold
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/09/2015 17:40 -0500- Bank of England
- Bear Market
- BOE
- Bond
- Central Banks
- China
- Chris Martenson
- Creditors
- default
- ETC
- European Central Bank
- Fail
- Federal Reserve
- Foreign Central Banks
- Gambling
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hong Kong
- India
- Janet Yellen
- Japan
- March FOMC
- Market Conditions
- Monetary Base
- Monetary Policy
- Money Supply
- MZM
- None
- Precious Metals
- Purchasing Power
- Real Interest Rates
- Reuters
- Sovereign Debt
- Standard Chartered
- Switzerland
- World Gold Council
Gold is one of the few investments that every investor should have in their portfolio. We are now at the dangerous end-game period of a very bold but very reckless & disappointing experiment with the world's fiat (unbacked) currencies. If this experiment fails -- and we observe it's in the process of failing -- gold will provide one of the best forms of wealth insurance. But like all insurance products, it only works if you buy it before you need to rely on it.
Murder And Mayhem In The Middle East (Why It Matters To Those Living In The West)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/01/2015 22:00 -0500While the populations of Europe and the US are fed raw propaganda about the regional aims involved, the reality is far different. While we might be tempted to sit in our Western environs, secure in the idea that at least we aren’t ‘over there’ where all the bad things are happening, it would be a mistake to think that this turmoil will not impact you.
Why The Status Quo Is Doomed, Part 1
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2015 11:06 -0500The current world-system (call it whatever you like--cartel-crony neoliberal-state capitalism, etc.) is as doomed as the Titanic, for the same reasons: the design of the system is the source of its failure.
Making The World A More Dangerous Place
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/07/2015 13:45 -0500Forget anything you might read about “brutal dictators” that need to go or the importance of “democracy” to the region. That's dumbed-down pablum for the masses and has literally nothing to do with the motivations of the (clinically insane) external power brokers actually driving the events on the ground and crafting the narrative that is faithfully scribed and re-told by the media. In fact, disturbingly often, the scribed narrative is exactly opposite of the truth.
Deflation Warning: The Next Wave
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/01/2015 16:30 -0500The signs of deflation are now flashing all over the globe and the possibility of an associated financial crisis is now dangerously high over the next few months. Our preferred model for how things are going to unfold follows the Ka-Poom! Theory, which states that this epic debt bubble will ultimately burst first by deflation (the "Ka!") before then exploding (the "Poom!") in hyperinflation due to additional massive money printing efforts by frightened global central bankers acting in unison. First an inwards collapse, then an outwards explosion.
Buy Gold While You Still Can!
Submitted by GoldCore on 09/28/2015 06:52 -0500There’s an enormous and growing disconnect between the cash and physical markets for gold. This is exactly what we would expect to precede a major market-shaking event based on a physical gold shortage.
Gold "Tightness": When There's No More To Sell, There's No More To Buy (At Any Price)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/26/2015 19:20 -0500"...there’s an enormous and growing disconnect between the cash and physical markets for gold. This is exactly what we would expect to precede a major market-shaking event based on a physical gold shortage."
Does The Fed Really Have A Choice?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/08/2015 07:10 -0500We all know the global economy is slowing, so why would stocks soar from here? The basic answer is simple: The Fed has no choice, because this game is now for all the marbles.
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/22/2015 13:56 -0500The eventual outcome to all this is captured brilliantly in this quote by Ludwig Von Mises, the Austrian economist: "There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." The credit expansion happened between 1980 and 2008, there was a warning shot which was soundly ignored by ignorant central bankers, and now we have more, not less, debt with which to contend.
No, Bernanke … Defense Spending Does NOT Help the Economy!
Submitted by George Washington on 08/18/2015 14:01 -0500- Afghanistan
- Alan Greenspan
- Barney Frank
- Ben Bernanke
- Ben Bernanke
- China
- Chris Martenson
- Congressional Budget Office
- Dean Baker
- Deficit Spending
- Department Of Commerce
- ETC
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Reserve Bank
- Global Economy
- Global Warming
- Iraq
- James Galbraith
- Japan
- John Maynard Keynes
- Joint Economic Committee
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Krugman
- Larry Summers
- Ludwig von Mises
- Main Street
- Maynard Keynes
- Middle East
- Monetary Policy
- national security
- Paul Krugman
- Purchasing Power
- Recession
- Robert Gates
- Ron Paul
- Treasury Department
- Unemployment
Bernanke Shills for El Militario-Industrio Complexo
Deflation Is Winning - Beware!
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/26/2015 12:30 -0500- Australia
- Bank of Japan
- Bond
- Brazil
- Central Banks
- China
- Chris Martenson
- Corruption
- default
- France
- Greece
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hyperinflation
- Japan
- Market Manipulation
- Mexico
- Michael Pettis
- Muni Bonds
- Puerto Rico
- Real estate
- Reality
- Recession
- Shenzhen
- Sovereign Debt
- Swiss National Bank
- Volatility
- Yen
- Yuan
Deflation is back on the front burner and it's going to destroy all of the careful central planning and related market manipulation of the past 6 years. Clear signs from the periphery indicate that a destructive deflationary pulse has been unleashed. After years of suppression, the forces of reality are threatening to overwhelm our managed global ""markets"'. And it's about damn time.
All Hail Our Banking Overlords!
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/18/2015 18:15 -0500There’s simply too much debt and too little cheap oil for there to be any other trajectory to this story. We need to all prepare for the inevitability that, as the rot proceeds, the people of Greece will not be the only casualties of the banks' attempts at self-preservation. They'll try to throw all of us under the bus before taking any losses themselves.
Credit Market Warning
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/21/2015 18:15 -0500There are large signs of stress now present in the credit markets. You might not know it from today's multi-generationally low interest rates, but other key measures such as liquidity and volatility are flashing worrying signs. While some may hope that rising yields are signaling a return to more rapid economic growth, or at least that the fear of outright deflation has lessened, the more likely explanation is that something is wrong and it’s about to get... wronger.




