Can We Rein In the Excesses of Financialization Without Crashing the Economy?
By Charles Hugh Smith Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready to clean house when the…
By Charles Hugh Smith Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready to clean house when the…
By Michael Snyder Warren Buffett did not become a billionaire by being stupid. According to Forbes, Buffett is worth more than 144 billion dollars, and…
By Tyler Durden Market observers have been puzzled by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s abrupt selling of billions of dollars of its long-held stake in Bank…
By Daisy Luther Some folks are calling August 5, 2024 “Black Monday 2.0.” It could be remembered as the day when the global market crash…
By Michael Snyder If you are surprised by what is happening in the financial world right now, you probably haven’t been paying much attention. Stock…
By Tyler Durden US retail traders are panicking this AM after likely receiving push notifications on their smartphones about market turmoil in Asia and Europe,…
By Charles Hugh Smith The past 24 years can be viewed as an era in which risk declined due to the dynamics of globalization and…
By Michael Snyder Are the financial markets headed for trouble? There was quite a bit of panic on Wall Street on Thursday after more bad…
By PPSA Like a gourmand gorging at a banquet table, the government’s growing appetite for expanding surveillance is beginning to get a little hard to…
By Michael Snyder If stock prices are going to start plunging just because inflation is running a little bit hotter than expected, what is going…
By Kit Klarenberg A new academic study has made a shocking and highly controversial finding. Suspicious Israeli stock market activity in the days preceding Operation…
By Tyler Durden JPM’s boss summed shit up succinctly: “This may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades,” Jamie Dimon said…
By Stefan Gleason Crude oil futures shot up over the weekend while gold prices gained and global stock markets teetered ahead of U.S. markets opening…
By Michael Snyder History is starting to repeat itself. In 2008, bond prices crashed before stock prices did. Here in 2023, bond prices are crashing…