Great Depression
For Commodities, This Is The Next Great Depression
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/07/2016 18:05 -0500While the "sell in 1973, and go away" plan had worked out for some in the commodity space, the destruction of the last decade has only one historical comparison... the middle of The Great Depression.
Is 2016 The Year Of The Dollar Collapse?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/04/2016 19:35 -0500"In America, the idea is that if you work hard and play by the rules, you’ll be rewarded with a good life for yourself and a better chance for your children.” That’s what America used to stand for, and indeed much of the Western world. Freedom. Truth. Hard work and fair play. Building a better life. But those ideals have all but faded now, displaced by a new normal of war, debt, government surveillance, freedom-killing bureaucracy, and a monetary policy that decimates responsible, hard-working people for the benefit of a tiny elite.
Pretend To The Bitter End
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/04/2016 14:45 -0500- Afghanistan
- Bernie Sanders
- Bond
- BRICs
- China
- Corruption
- CRAP
- Detroit
- Donald Trump
- ETC
- Eurozone
- Federal Reserve
- Ford
- France
- Germany
- Global Economy
- Goldilocks
- Great Depression
- Greece
- High Yield
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- KIM
- Middle East
- NASDAQ
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Nomination
- North Korea
- Portugal
- Racketeering
- Reality
- recovery
- Saudi Arabia
- SWIFT
- Turkey
- Ukraine
There’s really one supreme element of this story that you must keep in view at all times: a society (i.e. an economy + a polity = a political economy) based on debt that will never be paid back is certain to crack up. Its institutions will stop functioning. Its business activities will seize up. Its leaders will be demoralized. Its denizens will act up and act out. Its wealth will evaporate. Given where we are in human history - the moment of techno-industrial over-reach - this crackup will not be easy to recover from. Things have gone too far in too many ways. The coming crackup will re-set the terms of civilized life to levels largely pre-techno-industrial. How far backward remains to be seen.
What Really Happened In 2015, And What Is Coming In 2016...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/04/2016 10:36 -0500A lot of people were expecting some really great things to happen in 2015, but most of them did not happen. But what did happen? A global financial crisis began during the second half of 2015 threatens to greatly accelerate as we enter 2016. This is what the early stages of a financial crisis look like, and the worst is yet to come.
Will 2016 Be The End Of The Current Skyscraper Boom?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/01/2016 16:40 -0500With more financing in place, the world’s tallest skyscraper is moving forward. Saud Arabia's Kingdom Tower in Jeddah is only the latest phase in an enormous boom that began setting new records in 2014, raising another 'skyscraper alert' as the completion of record-setting skyscrapers has long seemed to indicate the beginning of economic crises.
2015 Was First Pre-Election Year to End In the Red Since the Great Depression
Submitted by George Washington on 12/31/2015 17:19 -0500Deja vu, 1939 ...
Feldkamp: The Grinch That's Stealing Investors' Christmas
Submitted by rcwhalen on 12/28/2015 06:54 -0500How the SEC handed large banks a monopoly on short-term finance in 1998 by amending Rule 2a-7 and made the 2008 financial crisis inevitable
The Year In Charts: Presenting The Latest "PunchLine" Chartporn
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/26/2015 20:28 -0500
What Fresh Horror Awaits The Economy After Fed Rate Hike?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/23/2015 22:30 -0500Rather, economic collapse is the greatest weapon at the disposal of globalists. National panic, riots, looting, starvation, magnified crime: All of these things result in mass die-offs and desperation. Desperation leads to calls for "strong leadership", and strong leadership usually results in totalitarianism. It might seem sensationalist to tie all of these possible outcomes to the Fed rate hike decision, but give it a little time. Those who make accusations of sensationalism and “fear mongering” today will be asserting tomorrow that such developments were “easily predictable.”
The Big Short: "Every American Should See This Movie & Be F##king Pissed Off"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/23/2015 21:32 -0500"This is a dangerous movie for Wall Street, the government, and the establishment in general. ... cuts through the crap and reveals those in power to be corrupt, greedy weasels who aren’t really as smart as they want you to think they are. The finale of the movie is sobering and infuriating."
Do We Need The Fed? (Spoiler Alert: No!)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/22/2015 11:21 -0500The only way to restore economic stability and avoid a major economic crisis is to end the Fed, or at least allow Americans to use alterative currencies. Some economists and policy makers claim that the way to stop the Federal Reserve from causing economic chaos is not to end the Fed but to force the Fed to adopt a “rules-based” monetary policy. Adopting rules-based monetary policy may seem like an improvement, but, because it still allows a secretive central bank to manipulate the money supply, it will still result in Fed-created booms and busts.
Feldkamp: The Macroeconomics of Crises and Fraud
Submitted by rcwhalen on 12/22/2015 08:22 -0500Financial fraud is any method by which deception or duplicity induces those with money to "invest" in a scheme...
Peter Schiff: "Mission Accomplished"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 20:29 -0500"The new rounds of rate cutting and Quantitative Easing that the Fed will have to unleash will echo the military "surge" in Iraq in 2007. Those fresh troops were needed to roll back the chaos that the Administration had ignored for so long. But just as that surge only bought us a few years of relative calm, look for the gains brought about by our next monetary surge to be even more transitory. That is a development for which virtually no one on Wall Street is preparing."
Money Velocity Is Crashing - Here's Why
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/17/2015 08:20 -0500Manipulating the PR optics (i.e. perception management) as a substitute for an open market doesn't make you omnipotent, it makes you a hubris-soaked fool.
Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/16/2015 22:00 -0500If ecological panic is the primary trigger of collapse, war and industrialized death, the elites escape all blame. They are the ones, after all, trying to “save us” from ourselves by introducing carbon emissions controls, not to mention the idea of population controls. Global warming becomes a catch-all bogeyman, a Frankenstein monstrosity created by humanity and plaguing humanity. Those who deny the existence of global warming or who question the legitimacy of its high priests (climate scientists) are not exercising their right to skepticism; they are contributing to inevitable genocide. Therefore, climate denial would have to be punished by governments, as climate scientists have been publicly suggesting.




