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Here's Why the Next Market Crash Will Be Vicious In Nature
Why does Mike Maloney see the next crash as being particularly vicious in nature? Join him in today’s presentation where you’ll see some amazing statistics on where the economy is heading.
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Retirement Reality-Check: Millions Won’t Be Able To Afford To Retire. Will You? | Adam Taggart
This short explainer video provides a reality-check on the brewing retirement crisis in America. The situation really is a lot worse than most people realize.
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Why the Price of Gold Could Jump by Up to 20% in Next 12 Months: BARCLAYS
The price of gold could go up by as much as 20 percent over the next 12 months, according to Gerald Moser, chief market strategist at Barclays Bank.
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Stocks Decline as Powell Warns of Higher Inflation and Accelerated QE Tapering
Wall Street's main indexes extended declines in choppy trading on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the risk of higher inflation has increased and that it was appropriate to consider wrapping up tapering a few months sooner.
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The Market is Telling Us It's VERY Sick... Is Another Puke Coming?
Yesterday’s price action was awful. You’d think after a dump like Friday’s we’d get a major bounce. NOPE. Stocks didn’t even “close the gap” created by that drop.
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The High Stakes of Rising Inflation
Although some of the obvious factors behind recent price surges will almost certainly subside in due time, others will linger, adding to the already-high inflationary pressures that have been building across the global economy. Worst of all, major central banks continue to put themselves out on a limb.
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Fed’s Powell Could Slow Crypto Market, Warns Former Goldman Sachs Exec, Mike Novogratz
Mike Novogratz, former Goldman Sachs executive and CEO of Galaxy Digital, has cautioned that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell could slow down the crypto market in his second term in office.
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We're All Talking about Inflation, but Deflation May Also Be on the Way
Most recent data continue to show a visible acceleration in "price inflation," with the yearly growth rate of the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising to 6.2 percent in October from 5.4 percent in September and 1.2 percent in October of last year—its highest level since December 1990.
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How The Banking Crisis And Covid Lockdowns Killed Money Velocity (Death Of King Dollar)
I have written numerous times about nothing has been the same since the housing bubble burst and ensuing financial crisis of 2008. The crisis led to bank bailouts (TARP) and banking legislation (Dodd-Frank) giving The Federal Reserve even more power. And then the COVID lockdowns led to even MORE power for The Fed. And a horrid decline in money velocity (the ability of printing...
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Gold’s Popularity Could Rise In 2022
The bottom line: History offers good support for investing in gold now...
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The Massive Chase for Yield Amid Fed’s Easy Money
La-la-land finance. Junk Bonds, Leveraged Loans, Buyouts by PE Firms, All Blow Past Records in Massive Chase for Yield amid Fed’s Easy Money
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Dear Joe, Keep Calm and Kill Build Back Better, Polls Show Most Don't Want It
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that 51% of Likely U.S. voters oppose the $2 trillion “Build Back Better” bill, including 40% who Strongly Oppose it. Forty-two percent (42%) support the bill, including 27% who Strongly Support it.
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"Team Transitory" Is Dead After Powell Says "Time To Retire Word Transitory Regarding Inflation"
Remember when clueless macrotourists and worthless econo-hacks who have zero understanding of actual economic dynamics spent miles of digital ink convincing their tiny echochambers that they were right and that inflation was transitory (or rather, desperately scrambled to mask their utter lack of grasp of even the simplest concepts):
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Inflation Tracker: The Latest Figures as Countries Grapple with Rising Prices: FT
Some fear this combination might mark a general return to the chronic inflation of the 1970s. The one exception to the worldwide pattern of rising prices are east Asian countries such as China and Japan. But even here, there are signs that inflation is starting to rise.
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Germany's Incoming Finance Minister Rings Alarm Bell on Inflation
Germany's incoming Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Tuesday vowed to champion solid public finances and a reduction of debt levels across the euro zone so that the European Central Bank (ECB) could fight inflation without hesitation if needed.
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UPDATE: What If the Silver Price Matched Other Asset Gains from 1980?
It’s no surprise to our constituency, but silver remains one of the most undervalued investments that can be bought today. Regardless of almost any asset class you compare it to, silver offers a better value to investors right now than almost anything else.
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Home Price Growth in the US Slows Down in September
Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index posted a 19.5% annual gain in September, down from 19.8% from August. The 20-City Composite posted a 19.1% annual gain, down from 19.6% a month earlier. The 20-City results came in lower than analysts’ expectations of a 19.3% annual gain, according to Bloomberg consensus estimates.
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Conference Board Confidence Slumps In November As Hope Nears 5-Year-Low
Having ramped back up to pre-COVID levels in June, Conference Board Consumer Confidence has drifted broadly lower since, and analysts expected November to show a renewed downturn after a brief surprise upturn in October and they were right as the headline confidence printed 109.5, below expectations of 110.9 and down from 113.8 in October. Both Present Situation...
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LIVE: Fed Powell and Treasury Secretary Yellen Testify Before Congress — 11/30/21, 10:00PM ET
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speak before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on Tuesday. The Fed chief and Treasury secretary are required to report to Congress each calendar quarter as part of the March 2020 economic-relief legislation that magnified the central bank’s emergency lending programs.
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Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to Warn Congress That Inflation May Keep Rising Next Year
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is expected to warn Congress that while the Federal Reserve continues to expect inflation will move down "significantly" over the next year, it "now appears that factors pushing inflation upward will linger well into next year."
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