by Charles Hugh-Smith Only when speculative sizzle attracts no buyers / marks will the bottom be in. There hasn’t been a truly organic bottom in stocks in decades. Fifteen years of relentless central bank manipulation since the 2008-09 Global Financial Meltdown …
by Craft GERMAN ECONOMY MINISTER HABECK: SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE REASON FOR NORD STREAM 1 LEAK ARE CURRENTLY FORBIDDEN. — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) September 27, 2022 So, first words were illegal in Germany. Now thoughts are illegal. To the Germans you should go …
Speculation CAD will drop below 60 cents this week. An historic low. Global currency in total freefall. https://www.baystreet.ca/articles/forex_trader.aspx h/t DMIX333
by Chris Black Wall Street loves speculation and driving contracts higher to make a profit. There isn’t a trading house on Earth that takes delivery of physical product to actually use. If they have no use for a product, then …
by jessefelder One of the most astounding phenomena in the markets over the past couple of years is retail investors’ enthusiastic embrace of leveraged speculation. Everything from good old-fashioned margin debt to ultra-short-dated call options was utilized recently and to a degree never seen before to …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Surely the Fed gods will affirm the cult’s most revered articles of faith. But false gods eventually fail, even the Fed. Every once in awhile the zeitgeist sets up an either / or: either the zeitgeist is …
*China #Property names face huge selling pressure again Monday after "housing is for living not for speculation" was added back to the Central Economic Work Conference statement published Friday which is seen as the general policy guideline for the housing …
Speculation seems a bit high 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Hcx3R0Wjy6 — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) October 13, 2021 The IMF has issued a warning about the growing risks in the expanding cryptocurrency space, including fraud, excess speculation, and potential "runs" on seemingly more …
by Keith Weiner of Monetary-Metals A few recent articles bring to the public’s awareness that wealthy investors are preferring not to sell their assets, and thereby pay capital gains taxes. Instead, they borrow against them, on margin. This reminds me of an experience I …
by Charles Hugh-Smith It’s all so pathetic, isn’t it? The only way left to get ahead in America is to leverage up the riskiest gambles. It’s painfully obvious that the only way left to get ahead in America is crazy-risky …
by Cumsocktornado I would like to lay out my thinking here regarding social media in an essay-style format for open discussion. I think that laying it out here amongst reasonable thinkers and everymen to help assess the idea and evaluate …
by jessefelder “Even the most circumspect friend of the market would concede that the volume of brokers’ loans—of loans collateraled by the securities purchased on margin—is a good index of the volume of speculation.” -John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929 January …
via MSN: 1772: The Credit Crisis British creditors had allowed southern colonies to flourish; Colonials did not have enough liquid assets to pay them back. 1792: The Panic of 1792 First Bank of the United States had been overextending credit …
from Zero Hedge It has long been speculated that Mattress Firm, the US mattress retailing giant, was in a solvency crisis, largely as a result of an aggressive expansion strategy in recent years coupled with the spectacular collapse of its parent, Steinhoff International Holdings …
by Thinker One week after Israel demonstratively released a video of a 2007 airstrike on a suspected Syrian nuclear facility (after refusing to officially acknowledge the operation for more than a decade), the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported late on Thursday …
Four Years of Cryptocurrency ICO Sales, Visualized in One Graphic This graphic shows the full history of token sales (aka initial coin offerings), from the early days of 2014 to their meteoric rise in 2017. https://elementus.io/blog/token-sales-visualization/ We’re headed towards another …
Kevin Lawton, recently wrote a Kindle short titled “Beyond the Bitcoin Trap: A Crypto Currency for Human 2.0” predicts, “This year is going to be the year of volatility in Bitcoin price. I expect liquidations, but it’s like a tug …
Resource analyst and futurist Chris Martenson thinks many people will be devastated when their paper wealth disappears in a coming market crash. Martenson explains, “We have these things call wealth destructions. Markets crash and people lose money they thought they …
by Pamela Williams First I want to stress this is just speculation, but I will present the facts in the article, a map of possible submarine, and a video. First of all, below is the video: Here is the map: …