The Federal Reserve has cut its funds rate to zero (to 0.25%) and announced another wave of quantitative easing (QE4). These actions provide confirmation that the U.S./global financial system is so dependent on stable/rising asset [...]
As the coronavirus continues to spread, activity in the financial markets suggests that the worst is not over. The growing sense of unease was on full display yesterday when U.S. stocks plunged by the most [...]
Vanity Fair’s Bess Levin recently said that when it comes to the trade war hoopla the “Three Horsemen of the Economic Apocalypse are on it”. The article in question, tinged with an anti-Trump bias, is [...]
The opening salvos have been fired and the body count could soon start piling up. No, I am not talking about the steel and aluminum tariffs announced by Trump a couple of weeks ago (which [...]
On Janet Yellen’s last day as Fed boss the markets suffered their worst percentage loss in 20-months. Yesterday, on Jerome Powell’s first day as Fed Chairman, the VIX spiked by its largest amount on record [...]
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Hoping to strike it rich, “junior miners” like to dig holes in the ground after they secure funding. When times are good money is easily attracted and many holes are dug, and when times are [...]
A painting recently sold for a record $450 million, a blanket recently sold for $1.5 million, Bitcoin has gone ballistic, and Cramer thinks there are ‘bubbles’ everywhere except stocks. Are these the types of signals [...]
Despite her Keynesian’ shortcomings it is difficult to vilify Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. After all, when Yellen took over Bernanke already had ultra-easy experimental monetary policies in place. Moreover, Yellen, for the most part, [...]
Marc Faber, who has long been an entertaining market commentator, stood up to the avalanche of ridicule following his recent letter by stating: “If stating some historical facts makes me a racist, then I suppose [...]