Larry Edelson: Martin and Larry here, with an urgent report on the next, explosive stage of the European crisis now unfolding before your eyes … Yesterday’s election in Greece is just one chapter in this saga. Read more…
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Martin D. Weiss: Even as I write these words, the world’s largest economy — the E.U. — is coming unglued at the seams. The world’s second largest — the U.S. — is careening headlong toward a fiscal cliff that promises to gut its GDP. Read more…
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Sara Nunnally: It is clear the U.S. economy is “too big to fail.” But what happens when that is the only option? You won’t like the answer. Read more…
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Michael Snyder: Debt is a “soft” form of slavery. In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with chains and force them to work for you, but that doesn’t mean that there are not millions upon millions Read more…
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Michael Snyder: The Democrats, the Republicans and especially Barack Obama promised that something would be done about the too big to fail banks so that they would never again be a threat to Read more…
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Martin D. Weiss: I rarely recommend that you wade through a wordy speech by an economic theorist delivered to an audience of stuffy bankers. But last week’s address by PIMCO Vice President El-Erian to the St. Louis Fed is one you absolutely MUST not miss. Read more…
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Don Miller: Based on recent performance from the sector’s biggest names, it’s easy to argue that financial stocks are making a comeback. Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE:COF) is up 27% in 2012. Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) is up 29%. Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) is up a whopping 59%. Read more…
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Dr. John Chapman: In the spring of 2003 then-Fed Governor Ben Bernanke travelled to Tokyo as the guest of the Bank of Japan’s Tokiko Shimizu, who arranged meetings for him with the then newly-independent BoJ, as well as the Ministry of Finance and Financial Services Agency Read more…
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Toby Connor: As convincing as this rally has been I am confident this is an ending phase and not the start a new secular bull market. Actually the bear market began last year in May but was temporarily aborted by massive Central Bank printing. Let me explain. Read more…
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Michael Snyder: How is the U.S. economy doing in 2012? Unfortunately, it is not doing nearly as well as the mainstream media would have you believe. Yes, things have stabilized for the moment but this Read more…
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Thomas Carreno: The market as represented by the major indices has not been able to make new significant upward ground in recent days. Essentially the indices have been flat the last 5 days. This flat sideways market action is occurring at the same level as the ‘twin peaks’ of July 2011. It could be that the Read more…
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Thomas Carreno: The Bearish Gartley Butterfly pattern that I posted previously on the Financial Sector ETF (NYSEArca:XLF) is looking like it is starting to work and we may be seeing the ‘fruits’ of that bearish pattern right now. The early market action now is in rejection mode and we could see downside Read more…
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Thomas Carreno: The Financials ETF (NYSEArca:XLF) is currently showing a possible gartley butterfly sell pattern. If the pattern is valid then we should begin to see very soon a sell off in the XLF Financials ETF. The pattern and its bearish implications will not work if we start to see the XLF trade higher Read more…
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Michael Snyder: The people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should have their heads examined. Read more…
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Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Suddenly the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), a key index that economist watch for signs of expansion or trouble ahead for the world economy, has collapsed. Because two Read more…
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