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Michael Snyder: Is the petrodollar dead? Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this. For decades, most of the nations of the world Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Regular readers of my work know that I have been outlining (and warning people about) two potential economic scenarios; as the West’s terminally-ill economies lurch towards their final collapse. These hollowed-out, debt-saturated economies Read more…
Kevin McElroy: The good news is that stocks are up. You don’t have to read the newspaper very closely or listen to the shills on TV or radio to come to this realization. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Providing coherent economic analysis has become a nearly impossible task. By definition, “coherent” implies something which “holds together”. Conversely, this analysis is being produced in a world Read more…
Chris Martenson: At this moment, the news media is constantly clamoring about the “Three Ds” that are buffeting the markets: debt, deleveraging, and deflation. We intuitively sense that they’re linked — but how, exactly? Read more…
Jeff Harding: The official “inflation” numbers came in last week and they show declining prices, something that the Fed calls “deflation”. The Fed and most policy makers will panic if deflation continues and prices steadily drop. It’s a tricky thing to evaluate Read more…
JT Long: So far, 2012 has been a banner year for the stock market, which recently closed the books on its best first quarter in 14 years. But Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey insists that time is running out on the ticking time bombs. Next week when Casey Research’s spring summit gets underway, Casey will Read more…
Dr. John Chapman: Introduction: The Prologue to Today and the Current Situation Summarized: On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon unilaterally terminated U.S. obligations under the 27-year old Bretton Woods monetary framework, and with it the U.S. Dollar link to gold. The world became at once a Read more…
Daily Capitalist: On June 28 last year, I wrote a post titled Important Battle at Four Dollar Copper. Shortly thereafter, copper surged half a buck but then dropped by one-third to $3. With global money-printing picking up and hopes that only a minor European recession and mild Chinese growth slowdown Read more…
Michael Snyder: Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad. On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University. But that lecture was not Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: As a post-Lehman solution to the Western world, which suddenly found itself drowning in debt, drags well into year three, speculation of an inevitable endgame to Kondratiev’s Winter of discontent is coming more into focus. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: If you like extreme risk and consider living on the edge to be “normal,” today’s column isn’t for you. Today I’m writing to the millions of investors who are completely terrified by the prospect of what’s next and who simply want their faith restored – not to mention their investments. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: One of the reasons why I stay very active in discussions with readers on our forum is that it is a wonderful way of keeping in touch with what the ordinary investor is thinking. More specifically, Read more…
Ron Rowland: Inflation can be deadly to your investments. It’s a silent killer, too — one that reduces your “real” asset value even when the “nominal” worth looks higher. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Forget about lost decades. Forecasts that we’ll be turning Japanese couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s why. It’s simple, really. Deflation is not in the interest of anybody in power, so it’s very unlikely to happen. Read more…
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