How a Fragile Euro May Not Survive The Next Crisis
By Brendan Brown A big US monetary inflation bang brought the euro into existence. Here’s a prediction: It’s death will occur in response to a…
Economic Collapse
“The Outlook For The Global Economy Has Deteriorated”: Oil, Copper And Lumber Are All Telling Us The Next Economic Downturn Is Here
By Michael Snyder Oil, copper and lumber are all telling us the exact same thing, and it isn’t good news for the global economy. When…
Dollar In Crisis Mode: China Just Dumped A LOAD Of US Treasuries AGAIN
By Mac Slavo China has just dumped its biggest load of United States treasuries in 8 months. China’s share of US Treasuries holdings had the highest…
11 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Starting To Slow Down Dramatically
By Michael Snyder The pace at which things are changing is shocking the experts. Just a few months ago, many of the experts were still…
The Fed Will Continue Tightening Until Everything Breaks
By Brandon Smith Around three years ago, in September 2015, I wrote an article titled “The Real Reasons Why The Fed Will Hike Interest Rates“in…
The Economy Does Not Care Who Won The Midterm Elections
By Brandon Smith Over the past few weeks I received numerous requests from readers to publish my predictions on the outcome of the midterm elections,…
In California, Home Sales Are Plunging Like It Is 2008 All Over Again
By Michael Snyder What goes up must eventually come down. For years, the California housing market was on the cutting edge of “Housing Bubble 2”…
How (Not) To Pop A Bubble
By James Corbett It may not have been the craziest headline that the Trump whirlwind has generated in recent months, but you might have seen…
Stock Market Plunges Again – Global Stocks Down 5 Weeks In A Row – 8 Trillion Dollars In Wealth Wiped Out
By Michael Snyder It’s not over. The worst October stock market crash since 2008 got even worse on Friday. The Dow was down another 296…
Globalization Has Hollowed Out Rural America
By Charles Hugh Smith The value of local control and local capital far exceed the pathetic “savings” reaped from shoddy commoditized goods. What do we make of an economy…
Teetering On The Brink Of Disaster: 14 Of 19 Bear Market Signals Have Now Been Triggered
By Michael Snyder October 2018 is turning out to be a lot like October 2008. The S&P 500 has now fallen for 12 of the…
Global Banking Stocks Are Crashing Hard – Just Like They Did In 2008
By Michael Snyder Global stocks are falling precipitously once again, and banking stocks are leading the way. If this reminds you of 2008, it should,…
Middle Class Destroyed: 50 Percent Of All American Workers Make Less Than $30,533 A Year
By Michael Snyder The middle class in America has been declining for decades, and we continue to get even more evidence of the catastrophic damage…
Subprime Loans Are Back, Proving We Have Learned Nothing from 2008
By Brittany Hunter For as often as the phrase “history repeats itself” is used, it’s shocking how rare it is for mankind to actually learn…