Contributing Editors' Blog Entries
Federal Reserve Rate Hike At ‘Precisely The Wrong Time’ – Faber
Submitted by GoldCore on 12/17/2015 - 14:42 Bank of England Central Banks Federal Reserve Global Economy Marc Faber Monetary Policy Recession recovery Yesterday’s hike still leaves U.S. monetary policy extremely loose, and Fed officials have signaled they will act cautiously from to nurture a very tenuous recovery indeed.
Economic Disaster
Submitted by Sprott Money on 12/17/2015 - 05:58 Baltic Dry Black Friday Bureau of Labor Statistics Central Banks China Consumer Confidence Copper Dow Jones Industrial Average Eric Sprott Federal Reserve India Marc Faber Peter Schiff Precious Metals Reality recovery Now, slave, get back to work, if you have a job, and make sure you save some energy for your other part time employment as you will be going to those jobs later today.Federal Reserve At End Of Monetary Road
Submitted by GoldCore on 12/17/2015 - 05:37 Central Banks Federal Reserve None Twitter Twitter Grant Williams is very skeptical of the Fed’s ability to continue to control markets much longer.
A Free Market in Interest Rates
Submitted by Gold Standard I... on 12/17/2015 - 01:50 Bond Credit Line Federal Reserve Monetary Policy Swiss Franc Swiss National Bank Many people wonder why couldn’t we let the market set the interest rate. After all, we don’t have a Corn Control Agency or a Lumber Board. So why do we have a Federal Open Market Committee? It’s a very good question.
Why the Fed Is WRONG About Interest Rates
Submitted by George Washington on 12/16/2015 - 19:09 Bank of England Quantitative Easing Rate of Change Recession recovery Unemployment Sigh ...
Sticker Shock: Fed to Hike Rates First Time in NINE Years!
Submitted by ilene on 12/16/2015 - 16:19 Aussie Bond Central Banks China default ETC Federal Reserve Greece Housing Market Housing Prices Janet Yellen National Debt Real estate SPY Student Loans Verizon Yen Yuan China did everything it could to prevent a collapse and it still happened. How do you think other countries will do?Currency Collapse
Submitted by Sprott Money on 12/16/2015 - 05:59 Germany Greece Newspaper Precious Metals Most people have no idea what really happens when a currency collapses, let alone how to prepare.
Freight Shipments Plummet as Inventory Glut Bites
Submitted by testosteronepit on 12/15/2015 - 22:34 Federal Reserve Las Vegas LBO The goods-based economy swoons.
What Happens When Stocks Catch Up With Commodities?
Submitted by Phoenix Capital... on 12/15/2015 - 12:19 Bond Capital Markets Central Banks Global Economy Market Crash Meltdown Monetary Policy Muni Bonds Reality 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.Investors Beware – Credit Market Collapse Warning
Submitted by GoldCore on 12/15/2015 - 12:01 Bond Money Week editor John Stepek has looked at the recent mutual fund collapse in the junk bond market and correctly warns that it is a canary in the coal mine.Big Banks Caught Using Credit Default Swaps To Destroy Nations
Submitted by Sprott Money on 12/15/2015 - 05:58 Barclays CDS Chicken Little Credit Default Swaps default Greece LIBOR Precious Metals Rating Agencies Warren Buffett The Big Banks manipulate credit default swaps to perpetrate economic terrorism against other nations in the world, where they literally destroy the economies of those victim-nations. It used to be a theory, but now the proof is finally emerging.
2015 creating many analogies with the period running up to 2008 crisis
Submitted by zenkick2000 on 12/15/2015 - 05:21 Bond Counterparties Crude Crude Oil fixed Market Crash Unemployment Volatility Despite the low interest rate regime, there are a number of similarities between now and the period running up to the 2008 crisis……
Will The Market Force Yellen Into 'None-And-Done'?
Submitted by Secular Investor on 12/14/2015 - 18:23 Bond Discount Window fixed Gundlach High Yield Investment Grade Italy Jeff Gundlach Jeremy Grantham Jim Cramer Market Conditions Monetary Policy President Obama Twitter Twitter Unemployment Yuan Jim Cramer - of all people - warned about this in 2007: watch the video inside!