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US Treasury Yields Enter ‘The Death Zone’
Tyler Durden 10Y Yield just tested 2.90%… The death zone for stocks in the last two week… But it’s different today… so far as VIX’s tumble is running the show.
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Hedge Funds, the Unacceptable Face of Capitalism: Their Role in Precipitating the Collapse of Financial Markets
By Hans Stehling In 1992, acting virtually alone, an individual hedge fund operator used the international monetary system to bet against the Pound Sterling thereby forcing the United Kingdom government to withdraw from the European Exchange […]
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Peter Schiff: Political Rhetoric Vs. Economic Reality
by Tyler Durden Via SchiffGold.com, Just over a week ago, President Trump delivered the State of the Union speech. The president gave a speech with a decidedly optimistic tone. This was certainly welcome with the increasingly […]
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Gundlach: Market Unwind Will Be “Turbulent, Not Just A Few Days”
by Tyler Durden Doubleline CEO Jeffrey Gundlach echoed earlier calls by analysts from SocGen and Morgan Stanley, saying that the “low rate-low volatility” market environment went on for so long that now “the unwind will be turbulent and […]
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Market “Earthquake Is Coming” – Icahn Warns “A Lot Of People Will Pay The Price Like In 1929”
by Tyler Durden Billionaire investor Carl Icahn spoke to CNBC via telephone this morning and had some very ominous warnings after what he has seen in the last few days. Reflecting on the market’s moves recently, […]
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Is the 9-Year Long Dead Cat Bounce Finally Ending?
Ignoring or downplaying these fundamental forces has greatly increased the fragility of the status quo. The term dead cat bounce is market lingo for a “recovery” after markets decline due to fundamental reversals. Markets tend to bounce back […]
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Two Elephants In The Room That The GOP Has Completely Forgotten
By David Stockman The US economy is threatened by two giant problems which cause all others to pale into insignificance. We are referring to a rogue central bank that has become an absolute enemy of […]
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Albert Edwards: “It Feels Similar To Just Before The 1987 crash”
by Tyler Durden Add SocGen’s grouchy permabear Albert Edwards to the growing list of bond bears. In his latest letter, the SocGen strategist echoes what we have said earlier this week, namely that equities are wobbling as […]
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30Y TSY Yield Nears 3.00% – Triggers Gundlach’s “Bonds Will Damage Stocks” Threshold
by Tyler Durden While all eyes are on the 10Y, it’s the 30Y bond that is bloodbath-ing today with its yield snapping above October’s highs, breaking towards 3% for the first time since May 2017… Notably, […]
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State Efforts to Facilitate Ownership of Gold and Silver Ramp Back Up in 2018
JANUARY 23, 2018 BY SCHIFFGOLD Many state legislatures kick off their 2018 sessions this month and that means continuing efforts to facilitate gold and silver ownership at the state level. Bills introduced in Tennessee and Alabama would repeal state […]