It’s All Math, It’s Just Numbers
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Central bankers are playing a giant game of Jenga with markets.
MoneyWeek | John Stepek Between all the hints and U-turns in the past couple of weeks, you might be wondering what’s going on with central bankers. Last week, European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi found himself in the pleasant Portuguese town of Sintra, not far...
Swiss National Bank Owns $80 Billion In US Stocks – Here’s The Catch
MauldinEconomics | John Mauldin The SNB is buying massive quantities of dollars and euros, paid for by printing hundreds of billions in Swiss francs. Switzerland is a small country of just 8 million people, but they make an outsized impact on economics and finance...
“Clint Eastwood’s” advice on Bitcoin speculation.
SovereignMan | Simon Black Whenever people starting buying up some item or asset exclusively because they expect to sell it quickly after a rapid price increase, and not for the asset or item’s originally intended purpose, you can be certain that you are in a...
The Real Unemployment Number: 102 Million Working-Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
Source: EconomicCollapse | Michael Snyder “I don’t see how anyone can possibly claim that the U.S. economy is doing well… prior to the last recession there were 26 million Americans on food stamps, now we have 44 million, we’re on pace to shatter the all-time record...
The Genesis Of The Bubble’s Bubble – “It’s Financial Civil War, How Much You Bleed Is Up To You”
source: RealInvestmentAdvise | Richard Rosso You will bleed. How much is up to you. The financial services industry is headed for the greatest debate in recent history. Regardless of what occurs from here –a continued stock market bullish trend or reversion to...
“Market Risk Is Highest Since Before The 2008 Crisis”
BloombergInvest | U.S. markets are at their highest risk levels since before the 2008 financial crisis. Speaking at the Bloomberg Invest summit in New York, Bill Gross (of the recently merged Janus Henderson) who may or may not have been talking his bond book, issued...
What Europe’s First Official Bail-In Looks Like
ZeroHedge | Tyler Durden “If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention…” …warns MINT Partners’ Head of Capital Markets Bill Blain, as he reflects on what just happened in Europe (that US equities seem happy to brush off as yet another...
The Real Unemployment Number: 102 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
EconomicCollapse | Michael Snyder "I don’t see how anyone can possibly claim that the U.S. economy is doing well… prior to the last recession there were 26 million Americans on food stamps, now we have 44 million, we’re on pace to shatter the all-time record for...
Soaring Debt = Slow Growth = Even More Debt = Systemic Crisis
DollarCollapse | John Rubino It’s just common sense: Borrow too much money and the weight of this debt makes it hard to do things that used to be easy. This truism is now (finally!) hitting home, and blame is being apportioned. A couple of recent examples: (Economic...
Gold Seen Rising to 4-Year High as Fed Goes ‘Gentle’ on Rates
Bloomberg | Ranjeetha Pakiam Gold may extend gains after climbing to the highest level in six weeks following disappointing monthly reports on U.S. employment and wages, according to two analysts attending a conference in Singapore this week. Prices will probably...
A Rising (Central Bank) Tide Turns Everyone Into A Genius…NOT!
Source/Author: OffTwoMinds | Charles Hugh-Smith Until the system implodes–you’re a genius. So you’ve ridden the markets higher–stocks, housing, commercial real estate, bat guano, quatloos, you name it–everything you touch turns to gold. What can we say, bucko, other...
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New Private Design Submitted
New Private Design Submitted As some may know, I am of Dutch-Indonesian heritage. INDO for short. Below is a card submitted to corporate for final approval. We hope to debut the card at the Annual Holland Festival, May 28th in Long Beach, CA. If you know any...
DEBT – A Polite History of Government “Predictions”
source/author: SovereignMan | Simon Black Recently the Congressional Budget Office published a scathing report that the US government debt-to-GDP ratio will double over the next 30-years. Few government agencies are as blunt as the Congressional Budget Office. In...
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