When YOUR Bank Fails, Don’t Walk … Run!
By Brett Redmayne-Titley So. The US economy is just fine. The post-recession 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation has cured all. Banks have lots of cash. Congress is…
Economic Collapse
Why the Financial System Will Break: You Can’t “Normalize” Markets that Depend on Extreme Monetary Stimulus
By Charles Hugh Smith Central banks are now trapped. In a nutshell, central banks are promising to “normalize” their monetary policy extremes in 2018. Nice,…
Financial Crisis – Imminent and Inevitable?
By Chris Kanthan It’s never fun to warn people about an imminent crisis, especially at peak euphoria. Trump and his voters constantly boast about the…
How Will Bitcoin React in a Financial Crisis Like 2008?
By Charles Hugh Smith If the ownership of bitcoin is as concentrated as some estimate, then the liquidity issue distills down to the actions of…
The Economic End Game Continues
By Brandon Smith In November of 2014 I published an article titled ‘The Economic End Game Explained’. In it I outlined what I believed would…
What Could Pop The Everything Bubble?
By Charles Hugh Smith As central bank policies are increasingly fingered by the mainstream as the source of soaring wealth-income inequality, policies supporting credit/asset bubbles…
The Demise of the Dollar: Don’t Hold Your Breath
By Charles Hugh Smith The demise of the U.S. dollar has been a staple of the financial media for decades. The latest buzzword making the rounds…
Financialization and The Destruction of the Real Economy
By Charles Hugh Smith Strip an economy of capital, productive incentives, talent and yes, ethics, and what are we left with? An economy spiraling toward…
Federal Reserve Will Continue Cutting Economic Life Support
By Brandon Smith I remember back in mid-2013 when the Federal Reserve fielded the notion of a “taper” of quantitative easing measures. More specifically, I…
The Trouble with Asset Bubbles: If You Stop Pumping, They Pop
By Charles Hugh Smith The idea that authorities can massage their pumping to keep asset bubbles inflated at a permanently high plateau is currently being…
Rothschild Just Dumped Massive Amounts of US Assets, Sending an Ominous Signal
By Jay Syrmopoulos In what is a sure signal to oligarchs across the globe, Lord Jacob Rothschild, founder and chairman of RIT Capital Partners, has…
Next Stop, Recession: The Financial Meteor Storm Is Headed Our Way
By Charles Hugh Smith Many of those about to be vaporized did not grasp the fragility of the “prosperity” they assumed was both solid and…
Did the Economy Just Stumble Off a Cliff?
By Charles Hugh Smith The signs are everywhere for those willing to look: something has changed beneath the surface of complacent faith in permanent growth….
Preparing to Barter and Trade With Precious Metals Is NOT a Loony Idea
By Clint Siegner Let’s start with this fact; fiat (paper) currencies die – often spectacularly. That is why precious metals may someday be needed for…