By Greenwich Endeavors After almost 10 years of unprecedented accommodative monetary policy both in the US and abroad, the fixed-income markets are trading at lofty levels never before seen in history. Let that sink in for a moment. Never before. Not during world wars, not during global depressions, never. If you think this is a case of scare mongering or …
One Man’s Opinion: Grant Williams: A Punch In The Face For Central Bankers Is Coming
By Adam Taggert Grant Williams, publisher of the economic blog Things That Make You Go Hmmm and principal of Real Vision TV, returns to the podcast this week to discuss his expectation of a return of volatility to the markets. Grant warns that over the past seven years, the various financial markets around the globe have melded into a single …
One Man’s Opinion: How Much Longer Can The Market Go Without A Correction?
By Zero Hedge With the recent performance of the S&P, in which there has not been even a single 1% drawdown since the election, not only is complacency raging but some traders have forgotten what it even means to experience a modest 5% correction, let alone a 20% bear market. How much longer can this go on? For the answer, …
One Man’s Opinion: 2017’s Real Milestone (Or Why Interest Rates Can Never Go Back To Normal)
By John Rubino Forget about NAFTA or OPEC or TPP or crowd size or hand size or any other acronym or stat or concept that obsesses the financial press these days. Only two numbers actually matter. The first is $20 trillion, which is the level the US federal debt will exceed sometime around June of this year. Here’s the current …
One Man’s Opinion: Donald And The Dollar
Authored by Antonius Aquinas via Acting-Man.com, No Country Can be Made Great by Devaluation John Connally, President Nixon’s Secretary of the Treasury, once remarked to the consternation of Europe’s financial elites over America’s inflationary monetary policy, that the dollar “is our currency, but your problem.” Times have certainly changed and it now appears that the dollar has become an American problem. Richard Nixon …
One Man’s Opinion: The Equation That Explains It All
Authored by Mark St.Cyr, If you were just woken from some form of suspended animation from let’s say 2010 (ancient economic history in today’s terms) then informed of the current state of global political affairs and upheavals, U.S. employment (95+million not,) global currency gyrations, interest rates at not only 0% but some -0%, threats of escalating wars, threats of major …