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75% of Existing Government Bonds Now Trading Below Par Value
The underpinning of the 30+ year bull market has been the Fed cutting rates when more than 50% of government bonds traded below par. Another example of the Fed painted into a corner.
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Only 14% of Unemployed, Able-to-Work US Adults Are Counted as 'Unemployed'
When despondency helps statistics: At what point do official unemployment numbers become completely meaningless because so many have completely dropped out of the officially counted labor market?
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The Fed Is Lying About Economic Strength and Risk, Just Like It Did in 2007
In Bernankian echoes, Powell is trying to sell the market on a 'very strong' economy even as an inverted yield curve, which has predicted recession all nine time it has occurred, draws near.
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Since the 2008 Crisis, Buybacks Have Been the Primary Driver of Stock Gains
How is it possible that in a stock world where institutions and individuals have both been net sellers of stocks since the 2008 crisis, stocks have soared? Thank the Fed and Fed-funded corporate buybacks.
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The Quiet Global Shift in Sovereign Monetary Policy Toward Gold
Global central banks abruptly changed monetary course in 2010, and for eight straight years have been stockpiling gold. This is how world governments prepare for the collapse of the US dollar.
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Hussman: Assuming a Limit to Investor Recklessness Was 'My Greatest Error'
"In hindsight, imagining there was some limit to speculative recklessness was my greatest error in over three decades as a professional investor."
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Swiss Asia CEO: "Very Favorable Environment For Gold. Full Stop."
Juerg Kiener, CIO and Managing Director at Swiss Asia Capital, tells it like it is. Gold's current COMEX trading price is completely detached from the reality of the physical gold market.
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As Fed Raises Leave Growth Sputtering, World Markets "On the Brink"
The exhausted global bull warily eyes the Fed as tightening into weakness sets international equity markets on the edge of a precipice.
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Russia Enters Trade War Fray With Tariffs Against US Energy, Mining
As the unwinnable-by-definition trade war escalates, Russia takes action against the US, allying itself with fellow gold-hoarder China.
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Fed Minutes Reveal Fear Inflation Will Kill the US Economy
What do you do when you must raise rates to ward off inflation, but can't raise rates because the increase in debt expense will choke out the economy? The stuff a recessionary zero hour is made of.
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As Yield Curve Portends Doom, the Fed Creates a New Recession Indicator
In the Fed's grand tradition of fixing things that aren't broken, they've conjured a new recession indicator. Because when the deadly accurate inverted yield curve spells a reality you don't like, create a new reality!
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213K Jobs Created, but Earnings Stagnant and Unemployment Up
Who says you can't be all things to all people all the time? Government data reports more jobs created, yet higher unemployment, while the primary wealth-gap driver, hourly wages, continue to go nowhere fast.
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Yardeni: Mother of All Credit Bubbles?
The “global economy is now awash in debt.” The US budget deficits will exceed $1.0 trillion per year on average over the next 10 years.
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There Are Fears About an Oil Spike Above $150
Prices could surge past 2008 highs if new reserves not found.
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Dollar's Allure to Last a Little Longer but Fade Next Year
The U.S. dollar's recent resurgence will last another three months, and possibly up to six, but its dominance will fade next year, a Reuters poll of currency strategists showed.
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China: The US Has Started 'the Biggest Trade War' in History
Trump threatens another $500 billion. China on Friday accused the U.S. of starting "the biggest trade war in economic history" as the two sides imposed steep new tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of each other's exports.
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Michael Pento: You're Running out of Time to Get Gold Cheap
Gold and You Will be the Big Beneficiary in Coming October Market Crash
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Why One Trader Thinks Trade War Will Send The Dollar Tumbling
"The outlook for the dollar is increasingly bearish because investor positioning is misaligned with how the trade war will play out in the market."
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The Yield Curve Is The Economy’s Canary In A Coal Mine
The take-down in the price of gold and silver, is quite similar to preceding the collapse of Bear & Lehman in 2008.
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The Dark Cloud of Global Debt…
While everyone is debating the effects of possible trade sanctions on the global economy, few are paying attention to a far more serious issue. Enormous global debt, combined with low-interest rates, have set the stage for a global recession that has the potential for economic chaos. The combination of enormous debt and artificially low-interest rates […]
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