Latest Articles: Business/Finance
Getting a D Grade … A Stock Top? … Bearish Barometer
Post Date: 2016-02-06 13:18:10 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
Getting a D Grade … A Stock Top? … Bearish Barometer The Money and Markets Team | Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 7:30 am Here’s a summary of stories from this past week of trading, with a link to the full articles online. Deflation + Debt = Disaster Virtually no one alive today has firsthand, personal experience with deflation. But you need to be aware of how it works and how it affects the markets. Dr. Martin D. Weiss examines the issue and explains. Corporate Profits Need Oil Rebound — Quickly S&P 500 earnings fell 14.1% in the third quarter of 2015 over the year-earlier period. But that becomes a 3.4% rise in earnings when the drag from the energy sector is ...
Citi: 'We Should All Fear Oilmageddon'
Post Date: 2016-02-06 11:08:49 by BTP Holdings
8 Comments
Citi: 'We Should All Fear Oilmageddon' Image: Citi: 'We Should All Fear Oilmageddon' Friday, 05 Feb 2016 08:02 AM Markets are currently in a well-oiled "death spiral," according to Citigroup Inc. analysts led by Jonathan Stubbs. "It appears that four inter-linked phenomena are driving a negative feedback loop in the global economy and across financial markets," the analysts write, citing the resilient U.S. dollar, lower commodities prices, weaker trade and capital flows, and declining emerging market growth. "It seems reasonable to assume that another year of extreme moves in U.S. dollar (higher) and oil/commodity prices (lower) would likely ...
Ya Gotta Have a Plan
Post Date: 2016-02-06 10:29:58 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
Ya Gotta Have a Plan By The Mogambo Guru Richard DaughtyHaving a little time on my hands lately, I had generously offered my Valuable Mogambo Time (VMT) to provide a little free economic education to neighbors and the media. Alas, as it turned out, my sweet disposition again mislead me to mistake their natural stupidity for mere ignorance and sloth. In making the glorious announcement, I even took the time to happily go house to house, banging on doors and loudly proclaiming the glad tidings that “I’m back, you morons! Now, get out here! I want to tell you, right to your stupid faces, how stupid you are! Hup! Hup! Let’s go!” Naturally, as I always do, I expected ...
Latest Jobs Figures Offer Something for Everyone; How Will Markets Sort it Out?
Post Date: 2016-02-06 06:33:22 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
Latest Jobs Figures Offer Something for Everyone; How Will Markets Sort it Out? Mike Larson | Friday, February 5, 2016 at 4:20 pm A Rorschach test. That’s what I thought of when I saw this morning’s January jobs report. On one hand, headline job creation missed expectations by a decent margin. We created only 151,000 jobs last month, compared with an average forecast for a reading of 190,000. That was one of the lowest monthly readings over the past couple of years. The revised figures for the past couple of months show a clear deceleration, too: 280,000 in November; 262,000 in December; and now 151,000 in January. On the other hand, the unemployment rate sank to 4.9% from 5% ...
Super Bowl 50 to Resemble a War Zone
Post Date: 2016-02-05 12:45:20 by Stephen Lendman
2 Comments
Super Bowl 50 to Resemble a War Zone by Stephen Lendman Anyone who’s watched football games, especially NFL ones the way they’re played today, close to the action, understands their extreme violence, what television doesn’t show - or discuss longterm physical damage to many players. Some end up with permanent disabling injuries. Traumatic head ones caused by concussions and powerful bodies smashing into each other disrupt normal brain functioning, affecting learning, thinking and other cognitive abilities. Affected players are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia, devastating their lives, shortening them. Short-term high pay ...
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Brawl Over His “Insinuation” That She’s Corrupt
Post Date: 2016-02-05 07:49:41 by Ada
3 Comments
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a series of momentous exchanges Thursday night over what Clinton called Sanders’s “artful smear” – the suggestion that taking massive amounts of money from corporate special interests had corrupted her. Clinton told Sanders during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate that he would not find a single example of money changing her mind or her vote, and she attacked him for his criticism “by innuendo, by insinuation” that “anybody who ever took donations or speaking fees from any interest group has to be bought.” Sanders responded by citing examples of political and prosecutorial decisions in the recent ...
Savers Are About To Get Railed... (David Stockman)
Post Date: 2016-02-04 20:09:36 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
We were sitting in a small parlor in his Manhattan penthouse yesterday... “Everyday savers are getting a raw deal,” explained colleague David Stockman. “But it’s about to get even worse…” Addison and I met with David to discuss the landscape for investors like you… and how he could be of further help to you. Bill Bonner joined us. (That’s Bill with David in the featured image atop today’s issue. They're reminiscing over a cartoon lampooning David’s efforts in the ’80s to slash defense spending.) Over $1 trillion in paper wealth has been lost since we popped the cork on 2016. Forty stock markets around the globe are in a bear ...
Do NOT Ignore the Euro-Bank Crash
Post Date: 2016-02-04 19:50:12 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
Do NOT Ignore the Euro-Bank Crash Mike Larson | Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 4:22 pm Get a load of these year-to-date losses in the massive euro-banks that trade here in the U.S.: Deutsche Bank (DB), down 29.8% Credit Suisse (CS), down 31.4% HSBC Holdings (HSBC), down 14.8% Barclays PLC (BCS), down 21.1% UBS Group (UBS), down 20.6% Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (RBS), down 20.1% Banco Santander (SAN), down 16.6% These aren’t tiny banks, or obscure companies I’m cherry-picking to make a point. They are some of the largest banks in the world. Slightly different methodologies yield varying rankings. But ranked by assets, Barclays is the sixth-largest in the world, ...
The West Is Traveling The Road To Economic Ruin
Post Date: 2016-02-04 13:02:27 by Ada
1 Comments
Michael Hudson is the best economist in the world. Indeed, I could almost say that he is the only economist in the world. Almost all of the rest are neoliberals, who are not economists but shills for financial interests. If you have not heard of Michael Hudson it merely shows the power of the Matrix. Hudson should have won several Nobel prizes in economics, but he will never get one. Hudson did not intend to be an economist. At the University of Chicago, which had a leading economics faculty, Hudson studied music and cultural history. He went to New York City to work in publishing. He thought he could set out on his own when he was assigned rights to the writings and archives of George ...
Ya Gotta Have A Plan
Post Date: 2016-02-04 08:58:28 by Ada
0 Comments
Having a little time on my hands lately, I had generously offered my Valuable Mogambo Time (VMT) to provide a little free economic education to neighbors and the media. Alas, as it turned out, my sweet disposition again mislead me to mistake their natural stupidity for mere ignorance and sloth. In making the glorious announcement, I even took the time to happily go house to house, banging on doors and loudly proclaiming the glad tidings that “I’m back, you morons! Now, get out here! I want to tell you, right to your stupid faces, how stupid you are! Hup! Hup! Let’s go!” Naturally, as I always do, I expected that they would happily fling open their doors, excitedly ...
Puerto Rico Cries Wolf (Again)
Post Date: 2016-02-04 07:20:44 by BTP Holdings
3 Comments
Puerto Rico Cries Wolf (Again) Published Thu, Feb 4, 2016 | Shelley Goldberg, Senior Correspondent Puerto Rico Debt Crisis: More Trouble On the Way The Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, is crying wolf amid an ongoing – and deepening – debt crisis. The island’s taxpayers are on the hook to pay back a whopping $49.2 billion in debt. Actually, Puerto Rico has about $73 billion in debt – but a big slice of the debt pie belongs to its troubled utility company, as well as other government entities. Thus, the island’s obligated bond payments continue to swell. Puerto Rico's Debt Bills Are Coming Due: Island's Bond ...
Yen Soars, Stocks & Bonds Go Bonkers as Central Bankers Lose Control
Post Date: 2016-02-03 19:32:56 by BTP Holdings
1 Comments
Yen Soars, Stocks & Bonds Go Bonkers as Central Bankers Lose Control Mike Larson | Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 4:20 pm The illusion of control. Can we all admit that’s what it was now? After all, does it make sense to anyone that a handful of unelected bureaucrats and economists … holed up in gilded conference rooms in Washington, Frankfurt, Tokyo or anywhere else … could artificially prop up markets and economies forever? Sure, they could goose asset prices for periods of time. Sure, they could temporarily inflate a handful of credit-sensitive sectors. But when you think about it, the massive amounts of easy money pumped into global markets, the negative interest ...
The Dethroning of Cash: Discouraged, Penalized, Even Banned?
Post Date: 2016-02-03 19:05:10 by BTP Holdings
4 Comments
The Dethroning of Cash: Discouraged, Penalized, Even Banned? Precious Metals Market Update February 3rd, 2016 Stock market gyrations and deteriorating global economic conditions in the early goings of 2016 sent investors fleeing for safety. Or at least what is commonly thought to be safety. Many in the financial media are now trotting out the bromide that “cash is king.” A sampling of recent headlines illustrates how pervasive the thinking is: “Cash Is King as China Sparks Market Turmoil” (MarketWatch, January 20, 2016) “Cash Is King in Times Like These” (Toronto Star, January 15, 2016) “Cash Is King as Europe Adapts to Negative Interest Rates” ...
Death Throes Of The Bull
Post Date: 2016-02-01 08:43:33 by Ada
0 Comments
The fast money and robo-machines keep trying to ignite stock rallies, but they all fizzle because bad karma is beginning to infect the casino. That is, apprehension is growing among whatever adults are left on Wall Street that 84 months of ZIRP and $3.5 trillion of Fed balance sheet expansion, aka money printing, didn’t do the trick. Not only is the specter of recession growing more visible, but it is also attached to a truth that cannot be gainsaid. Namely, having stranded itself at the zero bound for an entire business cycle, the Fed is bereft of dry powder. Its only available tools are a massive new round of QE and negative interest rates. But these are absolutely non-starters. ...
The end is nigh for the Fed’s “Bubble Epoch”
Post Date: 2016-01-31 22:22:48 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
The end is nigh for the Fed’s “Bubble Epoch” By Bill Bonner January 31, 2016 Editor’s Note: In today’s special Daily, we’re pleased to welcome back longtime PBRG friend and Bonner & Partners Chairman Bill Bonner. Bill shows us the end of central banker control of the economy is closer than most “smart” people understand… Bill Bonner From Bill Bonner, chairman, Bonner & Partners: Twice in the last 15 years, markets have tried to correct the mistakes and excesses of the Bubble Epoch. Each time, the Fed came back with even more mistakes and excesses. Trillions in new credit… lower lending rates… easier terms… ZIRP… ...
The IMF Proposes Global Wealth Confiscation
Post Date: 2016-01-30 22:09:20 by BTP Holdings
4 Comments
The IMF Proposes Global Wealth Confiscation By Damon Geller As first reported by Forbes, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dropped a bomb in its October Fiscal Monitor Report. The report paints a dire picture for high-debt nations that fail to aggressively “mobilize domestic revenue,” which is code for “aggressively tax its citizens.” It goes on to build a case for drastic measures and recommends a series of escalating income and consumption tax increases – culminating in the direct confiscation of assets. Why is the IMF proposing this? Because global governments and central banks pumped trillions of dollars of YOUR money into the banks and stock market over ...
Jim Willie: Global Banking Cabal and Their Satanic Rules Are Ready to Strike
Post Date: 2016-01-30 19:22:28 by Neo TryingtoWarnYou
4 Comments
Jim Willie: Global Banking Cabal and Their Satanic Rules Are Ready to Strike In the following video, Dr. Jim Willie pulls no punches when he says, “We’re witnessing the death of a nation.” Is there anyone who needs to ask what nation he’s referring to? If you’re not sure, check out the post titled, History Unlearned Is History Repeated. The theme of that post comes from a man named George Santayana. Everyone’s heard the saying, but few know where it originated: “When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. ...
COLLAPSE 2016
Post Date: 2016-01-30 18:34:05 by BTP Holdings
3 Comments
COLLAPSE 2016 The White House Snubbed Our Founding Fathers' Warning When They Intentionally Broke This #1 Rule. Now, They Have Triggered An Unstoppable Economic Collapse. See Why This Millionaire Economist Is Sounding The Alarm Bells And What He's Doing To Protect His Finances And Family... Take a look at this sandcastle. It looks amazing, doesn't it? And at first glance, America looks amazing, just like this sandcastle. We have our oversized homes, two cars in every garage, cellphones, laptops and flat-panel TVs. We have health care and education for everyone, top-of-the-line infrastructure to help business prosper, and modern luxuries that most of the world can only ...
Shocking Forecasts … Temptations … and Gold
Post Date: 2016-01-30 14:45:30 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
Shocking Forecasts … Temptations … and Gold The Money and Markets Team | Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 7:30 am Here’s a summary of stories from this past week of trading, with a link to the full articles online. Shocking Forecasts Coming True Oil, the dollar, stocks … Warnings were issued about these markets long ago. Dr. Martin D. Weiss takes a look at the past and what’s on the way. Click here to read more. www.moneyandmarkets.com/s...MAIL%&sc=P44&ec=MAMw161AC Avoid the Temptation With today’s uncertain markets, you need to resist the impulse to think it’s all over because the market has risen 1% or more two days in a row. Jon Markman ...
This Is Why "Everyone Was Shocked" By The BOJ Announcement (Negative Interest Rates)
Post Date: 2016-01-29 09:35:01 by Horse
0 Comments
There is just one phrase to explain the market's reaction to last night's BOJ announcement that it would join the ECB, Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland into negative territory: stunned shock. As the WSJ writes, "many investors had anticipated an expansion of the bank’s asset- purchasing program this year, but few expected Japan to join the European Central Bank and central banks of Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland in negative territory on Friday." Reuters add that "there’s a significant surprise factor: almost no economist was calling for this,” according to Alex Dryden, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management. And so on. But if nobody ...
Clinton: ‘Anybody Who Knows Me Knows You Can’t Buy Me’
Post Date: 2016-01-28 21:07:37 by X-15
1 Comments
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said in an interview aired Wednesday night that special interest groups cannot buy her to gain access and influence as she continues to face scrutiny for taking large sums of money in speaking fees from the financial industry in recent years. Speaking over the phone with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Clinton was asked how she will respond to impending attack ads from her main primary challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.), who is expected to target her ties to Wall Street. “As anybody who knows me knows, you can’t buy me,” Clinton said in response, defending her commitment to regulate financial firms and weaken Wall ...
How Healthy IS Our Economy? Durable Goods Orders a Worrisome Sign
Post Date: 2016-01-28 18:52:04 by BTP Holdings
0 Comments
How Healthy IS Our Economy? Durable Goods Orders a Worrisome Sign Mike Larson | Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 4:22 pm Just how healthy IS the U.S. economy? Some officials and economists, including those at the Federal Reserve, point to relatively healthy job growth as an indicator of strength. That’s why Janet Yellen & Co. chose to stand rather than panic yesterday, and left the door open to future rate hikes despite recent market turmoil. Others take a completely opposite tack, saying the risk of recession is rising fast. The junk bond market is signaling a greater than 40% chance of a contraction, according to a recent Bloomberg story. Some Wall Street economists peg the risk ...
Gloom and Doom
Post Date: 2016-01-28 12:23:01 by Stephen Lendman
0 Comments
Gloom and Doom by Stephen Lendman Sharply lower global equity markets since last August reflect years of Fed-led central banks’ money printing madness, running headlong into economic contraction and instability. China when thriving is a key engine of world economic growth, a depressant when declining. Official numbers conceal how much, at best a small fraction of its earlier annual double-digit increases. Its plunging equity markets are flashing red on near-and-perhaps longer-term growth prospects. Noted Gloom, Boom & Doom editor Marc Faber sees grim prospects ahead, saying “I can’t see another bull market in my lifetime.” He’s 69-years-old. Former PIMCO ...
END GAME: IT'S ALL FALLING APART -- Andy Hoffman
Post Date: 2016-01-28 09:18:25 by christine
3 Comments
Poster Comment:Worth 22 mins time
Raid on Cash
Post Date: 2016-01-28 07:19:40 by Ada
0 Comments
Writes Joseph T. Salerno on Mises Wire: Norway’s largest bank, DNB, has joined the relentless campaign by governments and big banks the world over to abolish cash, the physical embodiment of a nation’s monetary unit and the last tangible, if tenuous, link to the 19th-century gold standard. Almost all of today’s national currency notes, notably excluding the euro, originated as claims to a definite weight of gold (or silver). Predictably, a DNB spokesman justified its proposal to completely eliminate the use of cash in favor of digital checking accounts by claiming that the abolition of cash would reduce crimes such as money laundering: Today, there is approximately 50 ...
Latest [Newer] 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 [Older]