Financial

By Michael Snyder Does the economy move in predictable waves, cycles or patterns?  There are many economists that believe that it does, and if their projections are correct, the rest of this decade is going […]

  By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com   (Early Sunday Release) Renowned analyst, Martin Armstrong contends the financial markets run in cycles, and “confidence will always outweigh reality.”  Armstrong clarifies, “It’s basically what you believe.  There have been […]

by David Stockman The Fed was forced to note in its last meeting release that the housing market has hits some head winds. Well it might have. March new home sales were down by 13% and […]

Source: The Automatic Earth Lewis Wickes Hine Berry pickers shack, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1909 Hey, say what you will, but I’m not one to dodge the more difficult questions. And in the case of […]

Source My Budget 360 It might have come as a surprise to many that the pumped up stock market had no rally from the big employment report last week. Why? The unemployment rate fell from […]

By George Washington Excessive leverage by the banks was one of the main causes of the Great Depression and of the 2008 financial crisis. As such, lower levels of “fractional reserve banking” – i.e. how […]

By The Automatic Earth   Russell Lee Love Shack, South Side Chicago April 1941 I’m not going to argue here that a market collapse would be a positive thing no matter what, because the implications […]

By Mark O’Byrne Today’s AM fix was USD 1,302.00, EUR 938.45 and GBP 772.79 per ounce. Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,294.25, EUR 934.88 and GBP 769.38 per ounce. Gold climbed $9.80 or 0.76% on […]

By Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com   www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It has been a feeding frenzy for junk debt. Yield-desperate investors, driven to near insanity by the Fed’s strenuous interest-rate repression, are holding their noses and closing their eyes, and […]