Economy

Warning: Reader discretion is advised! You are about to read a fictional account of what we could be faced with in the coming years - perhaps as early as 2024 - based on events that are already taking place in America today. It is most alarming but, unfortunately, after everything I’ve seen during my time inside Wall Street, inside the CIA and inside the halls of the Pentagon, that’s the path America’s heading down.

The Oxford Economics Financial Indications Index shows a recession in Canada is almost certain at this point. It’s unlikely to be a brief one either,

The internet is awash with financial videos of various quality and length. This post presents access to 10 sets of 10 of the best such videos.

Most of the major financial news outlets and many investors have come to rely on the movements of the U.S. Dollar Index as a daily barometer of the U.S. dollar's relative strength and weakness taking it on faith that the Dollar Index is the dollar – pure and simple. In reality, the Index offers a very distortive view of the movement of the dollar against the currencies that matter most. If anything, recent movements of the Index are a reflection of euro weakness rather than dollar strength. Words: 1019

Debt isn’t without consequences - and the consequences will be severe when the chickens come home to roost.

The Fed’s current raising of interest rates could trigger a credit collapse, ushering in deflation and a New Great Depression.

Exactly what is inflation, and how do we measure it? It is very important to investors, savers, and people in general, that we understand.

Powell has three jobs at the Federal Reserve: Ensure the US Treasury market functions; Price stability and Employment. [Below is my assessment of how each is evolving and what we can expect from the Fed over the next 3 to 6 months and the effect on the U.S. economy.] 

Lyn Alden: The economy is crashing into stagflation... Edward Dowd: CV19 vax deadliest fraud in history … Jim Rickards : New kind of globalization is coming … Stanley Druckenmiller: The bubble has burst with a vengeance … and more.

A BIS study warns that budgets of most advanced economies, excluding interest payments, "would need 20 consecutive years of surpluses exceeding 2 per cent of gross domestic product – starting now – just to bring the debt-to-GDP ratio back to its pre-crisis level".