You Can Profit From the Global Financial Crisis... If You're Prepared
It seems like every time the Federal Reserve meets stocks rally and the dollar gets hammered. But, I wonder… how much longer can this game go on? There are signs – it appears that quantitative easing is having less and less levitating impact on markets and that those effects last for a shorter time. How [...]
Common sense leads to the conclusion that the U.S. stock market is a rigged skimming operation that is essentially a form of legalized, officially sanctioned fraud. Active traders and professional money managers already know how the U.S. stock market actually works, but Joe and Jane Citizen, whose pensions generally depend on the market in some [...]
PIMCO founder and co-CEO Bill Gross told Bloomberg Television earlier today that he believes the Fed will likely shift its quantitative easing focus to mortgage securities to keep borrowing rates low when Operation Twist ends in June. If Bill Gross is correct then we can expect more of the QE induced rally in stock prices [...]
Bank stocks look terrible, just about the worst market sector out there, but at least they’re not doing as badly as they did in the 1930s. Yet. Take a look at this frightening chart, which shows the lost decades for bank stocks that followed The Great Depression. Banks have been somewhat more volatile during this [...]
Most experts would agree that the biggest threat to the Chinese economy is a real estate bubble. Arguably, China has a massive housing and overbuilding bubble as can be seen on the chart below, … [Read More...]
The short version of the Long Wave story is that human beings are emotional creatures with limited memories. For as long as there have been markets we have been traversing the same sequence of … [Read More...]
Mainstream economists have filled the minds of most Americans with economic myths that are constantly reinforced by the media and repeated on the streets. These myths are erroneous at best, … [Read More...]