Category: Economics & Investing

OPSEC about gold from Dilbert – G.G. o o o If the world can no longer expand, will it implode? – T.A. o o o “Two hundred or four hundred dollar silver! Outrageous! Yes, of course, when we think in terms of today’s dollars, euros, and yen. But what if current deflationary forces overwhelm markets and currencies, debts are defaulted, and central banks panic. Rather than accept crushing deflation, they massively “print” to boost asset prices and thereby create a huge inflation. Instead of dollars and euros, we soon have mini-dollars and mini-euros.” Outrageous Silver Speculation o o o Federal …

Crossing Borders with Gold and Silver Coins – a Glimpse of Things to Come – B.B. o o o Nine of world’s biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership – G.P. o o o I Have No Fear Of Economic Collapse – RBS o o o How Is The Silver Bullion Product Shortage Impacting Gold?

Interest Rates and the Debt Saturated Global Economy – A.L. o o o Hewlett-Packard to Cut Up to 30,000 More Jobs in Restructuring – GJM o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: This Is Why Americans Will Pay More For Gasoline If U.S Export Ban Is Lifted – Interesting article Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’ Proposals: $18 Trillion – For some comic relief… Suppose if he wasn’t serious Why the Fed Is Likely to Stand Pat This Week – It boggles my mind how these folks don’t know (or pretend to not) that the entirety of the global “recovery” is …

Understanding Why Budgets Fail May Help Us Succeed: 5 Big Reasons Budgets Fail – A.L. o o o Could the Fed Implement a “Carry” Tax on Physical Cash? by Phoenix Capital – D.S. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: USA Drops to 16th on ‘Economic Freedom’ List… – While it may be a stretch to say the U.K. has more economic freedom than some of these other countries, it is definitely indicative to the direction we have been heading for quite some time. US Interest Rate Rise Could Trigger Global Debt Crisis – We are all aware of this …

Glencore CEO: China Weaker than Expected – A.L. o o o Wal-Mart finding it more difficult to squeeze suppliers – RBS o o o Expatriates choosing to leave the U.S. rather than pay taxes – G.G. o o o BIS fears emerging market maelstrom as Fed tightens – G.P. o o o Two Clear Signs That the Political/ Financial Elite Know Another Crisis is Coming – B.B.

Visual Capitalist & China’s Resource Consumption – A.L. o o o The American Dream deferred: Looking at the 4 horsemen of middle class destruction. Student debt, household income, low wage jobs, and FIRE economy dominance. o o o Puerto Rico Debt Crisis: A Bond Guide as Potential Defaults Loom – G.G. o o o 30% Of Millennials Would Sell An Organ To Erase Student Loans

Zombie Home Foreclosures – A.L. o o o Glencore and the World of Global Commodities – A.L. o o o This Is EXACTLY What The Early Phases Of A Market Meltdown Look Like o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Welcome To The Recovery – Two Out Of Five American Children Experience Poverty Video: David Stockman On Bloomberg: The Unemployment Rate At 5.1% Is In The Fed’s Full-Employment End Zone—–More ZIRP Is Crazy

Personal Austerity – A.L. o o o Buy Gold, Sell the S&P o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Peter Schiff – Meet QT; QE’s Evil Twin GLOBALIST WARNS FED RATE HIKE WILL CAUSE PANIC, CALLS FOR QE 4 Government Employees Outnumber Manufacturing Employees 1.8 to 1 – News Flash: We are in trouble… Krugman `Really, Really’ Worried Abenomics Might Fail – You need no better proof that sometimes people with high IQ’s can be downright stupid. What alternate universe does he think his beliefs on economics exist?

Social Security Disability Fund Will Be Broke Next Year – G.G. o o o The Minimalists: Debt Free – A.L. o o o Something Just Snapped At The Comex o o o Old School Venice: What does one million dollars buy you in a gentrified market? Riding it out in the Westside. o o o Will Deflation Destroy the United States of America? – R.M.

The government admits its own statistics are phony – R.M. o o o Opinion: The Euro and Why the Dollar Will Not be Dethroned – R.M. o o o Record shattering 94 Million Americans not in the labor force: The army of non-working Americans continues to grow. o o o The Truth About The Unemployment Rate o o o Peak everything, charted – G.G.

This has, so far, pretty much run parallel to Rickards’s warnings and descriptions, the first round of the reality turning out, if anything, rather “a kinder, gentler” bullet than that described in ‘Currency Wars”… But it’s still plenty deadly. And it’s still only a first round; the numbers are in: China Dumps A Record $94 Billion In US Treasurys In One Month o o o 7 Characteristics of Debt-Free People – A.L. o o o When “Virtuous Debt” Turns Ferociously Vicious: The Mother Of All Corporate Margin Calls On Deck – A.L. o o o America’s Housing Market: This is …

Inside Look At Silver Shortage With CEO Of US Mint’s Silver Eagle Blank Provider o o o When “Virtuous Debt” Turns Ferociously Vicious: The Mother Of All Corporate Margin Calls On Deck – A.L. o o o Education Debt Burdens Students, Economy; Elite Schools Lobby Against Proposal To Cap Graduate School Loans – PLC o o o Keep out Californians: How high home prices in California migrate into other states where Californians follow.

Full-Time Work Is Harder to Find – G.G. o o o Downtown Austin vault of precious metals turns up mostly empty – A.C. o o o Have You Bothered to Tell Your Children That They Have No Future? – S.K. o o o If You Want To Know The Truth About The Unemployment Rate Read This Article – B.B. o o o Meet the evil twin of ‘quantitative easing’ – K.C.

The “Dead-Cat-Bounce”: That Dead Cat Is Truly Dead; And That Bounce Is Truly Over… “Nihilo Ex Nihilo” – GJM o o o Record 94 Million Americans Not In The Labor Force; Participation Rate Lowest Since 1977 – B.B. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Central Banks Can’t Save the Markets From a Crash. They Shouldn’t Even Try – The first section of this is pretty good, but after that it starts venturing off topic. Dow Dumps 600 Points From Last Friday’s Panic-Buying Ramp, Drops 10% Year-To-Date Chart Of The Day: Since 12/2007—— 1.5 Million More Waiters/Bartenders, 1.4 Million Fewer …

A closer look at the cost of living between 2000 and 2015: Looking at tuition at USC and the typical priced US home. o o o Silver and S.M.S. o o o Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide o o o Venezuela Delaying The Inevitable With $5 Billion From China