by John Rubino Back in December there was a flurry of press around the passage of a banking bill that was 1) reportedly written by Citigroup and 2) put taxpayers on the hook for over-the-counter derivatives, […]
By Michael Snyder This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at the Economic Collapseblog. Editor’s Note: As Michael Snyder notes, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and plenty of others have manipulated the […]
By Michael Snyder Could rapidly falling oil prices trigger a nightmare scenario for the commodity derivatives market? The big Wall Street banks did not expect plunging home prices to cause a mortgage-backed securities implosion back in […]
Japan’s black swan flaps its wings by Chris Martenson The central planners are in a state of fear and panic. They are trying everything and anything to create market validation for their policies, watching with […]
By Mac Slavo In 2011 the price of silver topped $50 per ounce, but just a few years later we’ve seen it collapse to such levels that it is now becoming nearly impossible to for mining […]
By Michael Snyder Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the middle class is slowly being suffocated by rising food prices. Every single dollar in your wallet is constantly becoming less valuable because of the inflation the Fed […]
By Tyler Durden Three months ago, the CEO of Total, Christophe de Margerie, dared utter the phrase heard around the petrodollar world, “There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars,” as we noted here. Today, RT […]
Casey Research The Fed claims that signs of economic stress are very low, but savvy investors feel otherwise. With geopolitical unrest expanding and central banks doing the opposite of the right things, is a currency […]
The case for hedging against a market downturn by Adam Taggart And nobody in all of Oz No Wizard that there is or was Is ever gonna bring me down! ~ Wicked, “Defying Gravity” Today’s […]
by Chris Martenson The current bubbles in financial assets — in equities and bonds of all grades and quality — raging in every major market across the globe are no accident. They are a deliberate […]
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