Recent economic data has bond yields jumping a little bit on the worry of higher future inflation. According to many this is the main concern behind the recent volatility in stock and bond markets so let’s see if we can’t put some of this data in perspective so we can better understand the risks to our portfolios.
Read More »Precipitous Decline In U.S. Dollar Index Could Result In Gold & Silver Boost – Here’s Why (+5K Views)
This looks like an excellent point to short the dollar, which is expected to drop and probably accelerate away to the downside. This should provide a boost for the Precious Metals sector which...will increasingly be seen as a safe haven.
Read More »We Have Entered the Final Topping Process Of This Extended & Stretched Market & Economic Cycle
...Volatility has now returned to the stock market after a hibernation of several years...[and such] an explosion of volatility is indicative of a change of trend. The recent signals transmitted by this market have been classic and have been telling us that we have entered the final topping process of this extended and stretched economic cycle.
Read More »U.S. National Debt: What’s Driving It & When Does It Reach A Tipping Point? (+2K Views)
The last time the United States had a national debt level this high (106% debt-to-GDP), it was during the immediate aftermath of WWII in the late 1940s so what's driving the national debt so high these days and at what point does the situation reach a tipping point that gets people to act?
Read More »Snapshot Of Economic Inequality Around The World (+2K Views)
The World Inequality Report 2018 is a rich resource, with lots of information on inequality of incomes by country and by region, inequality of wealth, shifts in public wealth, and other topics. Here are a few of the figures that jumped out at me.
Read More »Bubble Alert! Prepare NOW Before the Carnage Hits (+2K Views)
The market is now officially in the largest bubble relative to the economy in history according to the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio, which, incidentally, is Warren Buffett's favorite means of valuing stock.
Read More »Some Nasty Dark Clouds Are Forming On the Financial Horizon (+2K Views)
Some nasty dark clouds are forming on the financial horizon as total world debt is increasing nearly three times as fast as total global wealth.
Read More »The Fundamentals Point To A GREAT DELEVERAGING Of The Economy – Dead Ahead (+2K Views)
The U.S. and global economies will contract to a level we have never experienced before. We are most certainly in unchartered territory. The GRAND FACADE will come crashing down to the shock and surprise of the masses. Here is my analysis and the reasons we are heading towards a cliff. Words: 1171
Read More »These 5 Currencies Experienced Hyperinflation – Here’s Why (+3K Views)
In the following infographic we look at 5 occasions when currencies crashed in a big way.
Read More »Hyperinflation: Has Occurred in 28 Countries – Here’s Where, When, For How Long & By How Much (+4K Views)
From the beginning of 1990 hyperinflation has occurred in 28 countries around the world on a total of 35 different occasions of which 17 occurred during 1992 alone.
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