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Plunder Capitalism
by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Photo by Coco Curranski | CC BY 2.0 I deplore the tax cut that has passed Congress. It is not an economic policy tax cut, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with […]
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Monetary Imperialism
by MICHAEL HUDSON In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and “foreign aid” (defined simply as any government credit) depicts an almost utopian system […]
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Don’t You Believe It—-The Melt-Up Madness
By David Stockman. Posted On Monday, November 27th, 2017 Don’t you believe it! The melt-up madness now underway marks the most dangerous, unstable and combustible financial bubble in human history. It was fostered by Keynesian central […]
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Markets Are Trapped in “Zombie-like” State
BY JAMES RICKARDS Markets are holding their collective breath. Not much is happening. But the potential for huge moves has not been greater since late 2015. The euro is meandering between $1.16 and $1.17. Gold is […]
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Jim Rickards: Gold is Rising Despite Threat of Higher Interest Rates
Jim Rickards, BY JAMES RICKARDS POSTED NOVEMBER 16, 2017 Gold, Interest Rates and Super Cycles When the Fed raised interest rates last December, many believed gold would plunge. But it didn’t happen. Gold bottomed the day […]
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The Moment Gary Cohn Realized His Entire Economic Policy Is A Disaster
by Tyler Durden Ever since 2012 (see “How The Fed’s Visible Hand Is Forcing Corporate Cash Mismanagement“) we have warned that as a result of the Fed’s flawed monetary policy and record low rates, corporations have […]
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Home » Market Analysis » Running Straight into Worst Case Scenario – Gregory Mannarino Running Straight into Worst Case Scenario – Gregory Mannarino
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Early Sunday Release) Trader/analyst Gregory Mannarino is nervous about the distortions in the markets that are breaking records. Mannarino contends, “It’s going to come down very, very, very rapidly. There is not going […]
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Global Markets Stumble, Spooked By Japanese Stock Fireworks
by Tyler Durden The overnight fireworks in Japan, which saw the Nikkei plunge by 860 intraday points and sent vol and volumes soaring (before recovering most losses), spooked traders in Asia and around the globe, and U.S. equity […]
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What Could Go Wrong?
Everybody and his uncle, and his uncle’s mother’s uncle, believes that the stock markets will be zooming to new record highs this week, and probably so, because it is the time of year to fatten […]
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The Economy Is Okay? U.S. Retail Store Closings Hit A New Record High As West Coast Homelessness Soars
By Michael Snyder If the U.S. economy is doing just fine, why have we already shattered the all-time record for retail store closings in a single year? Whenever I write about our “retail apocalypse”, many try […]