Contributing Editors' Blog Entries
Technical Analysis of the Lumber Market
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/30/2015 - 20:48 China Futures market Housing Bubble Housing Market Market Sentiment Price Action Real estate Recession Technical Analysis Trading Strategies Twitter Twitter The last two years rents have been rising primarily due to supply and demand issues.
Will 2016 Bring About a 2008 Type Crisis? Pt 1
Submitted by Phoenix Capital... on 12/30/2015 - 19:36 Bank of Japan Central Banks Japan Market Crash Monetary Policy Recession Between these two banking systems alone, you’ve got the makings of a global financial crisis at least on par with 2008.
How Western Bankers SERVE Precious Metals Holders
Submitted by Sprott Money on 12/30/2015 - 10:32 Chicken Little default Precious Metals Purchasing Power Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.
Proof that U.S. Is Directly Supporting ISIS?
Submitted by George Washington on 12/29/2015 - 18:19 Iraq New York Times Tribune Is America DIRECTLY Supporting ISIS?The Catastrophic Threat of Bail-Ins
Submitted by Sprott Money on 12/29/2015 - 12:17 Fail Gambling Global Economy Precious Metals Once upon a time, we had strong, vigorously enforced laws that made a bank the safest place to store paper assets.
The Oil Market
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/29/2015 - 10:17 goldman sachs Goldman Sachs Herd Mentality Middle East OPEC Real estate Saudi Arabia Twitter Twitter I bet OPEC never factored into their analysis the lifting of the US Oil Exporting Ban in 2015 after being a non-starter for so many decades.
McWilliams: Economic Lessons from the Age of the Pharaohs
Submitted by GoldCore on 12/29/2015 - 09:27 “Joseph urged the Pharaoh to set aside one fifth of the crop in the good times and store the grain to ease the famine in the bad times, because if he didn’t do that, the good times would be forgotten and all the people would remember was the bad times. This wouldn’t be politically good for the Pharaoh.”
Falling Interest Causes Falling Profits
Submitted by Gold Standard I... on 12/29/2015 - 01:45 Bond Central Banks Copper Crude Crude Oil ETC Monetary Policy Money Supply Swiss Franc Swiss National Bank Most people assume that prices move as a result of changes in the money supply. Instead, let’s look at the effect of changes in interest.Currency Markets offer some of the Best Trading Opportunities
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/28/2015 - 13:53 Bond Carry Trade Central Banks Crude Crude Oil Fail Goldman Sacks Price Action Technical Analysis Trading Strategies Twitter Twitter Yen Imagine if Casinos told you in advance what the next card from the deck in a game of Blackjack was going to be?The Fed's Academic-Based Theories Are Creating a BRUTAL Economic Reality
Submitted by Phoenix Capital... on 12/28/2015 - 11:01 B+ Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke Bond Central Banks Fail Federal Reserve Housing Bubble Janet Yellen Market Crash Reality Unemployment This is what happens when the Fed’s academic-based nonsense collides with economic realities: perversions of capital that lead to massive bubbles and eventually even more massive crises.
Feldkamp: The Grinch That's Stealing Investors' Christmas
Submitted by rcwhalen on 12/28/2015 - 06:54 Arthur Levitt Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke Bond Corporate Finance Great Depression How 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
