Huge growth patterns in markets -- more commonly known as "bubbles" -- have a remarkable timing signature common to every single one of them - they all have lasted 64 or 65 months from initial growth to blow-off top.
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We Will Experience the Anguish of Severe Inflation In the Coming Years – Here’s Why (+2K Views)
The Fed's buying of U.S. Treasuries by creating currency (paper money) out of thin air is inflationary (either now or long term) and those that do not accept this premise are, with all due respect, daft, and is sure to result in a momentous growth in the value of hard assets such as gold and silver. Here's why.
Read More »S&P 500 Likely to DROP to 1740 Soon! Here’s Why
Right now the monthly chart of the S&P 500 Index (SPX) is crying out -- screaming, even -- for a 38.2% retracement to 1740. Here's why.
Read More »All’s Well That Ends Well BUT It Won’t End Well This Time!
Since 2008 stocks have risen dramatically throughout every stage of quantitative easing but, when the various phases of quantitative easing have ended, stocks have always responded by declining substantially...only to eventually start rising again was a new round of quantitative easing. So what will happen this time?
Read More »Housing Bubble Threatens Financial Stability of Canada – Here’s Why (+2K Views)
Over the last 14 years, house prices in Canada have increased by 150%, twice as fast as in the U.S...[and] far outpacing household incomes. Any increase in interest rates would prick the bubble, and its implosion would trigger all sorts of mayhem to the point that the Canadian government has expressed concerned that such an event would be a significant risk to the "stability of the financial system".
Read More »There’s NO Way To Dodge the Bullet: We Must Continue to Leverage & Inflate – or Die! Here’s Why
Interest rates will not rise again in our lifetime. Why, you ask? Because the leverage in the system would collapse the very financial assets and governments which underpin the global financial systems. It is INFLATE or DIE and it provides the additional benefit of feeding insolvent welfare states and the socialist politicians to feed their "useful idiot" supporters. Today’s missive will put some meaning into that observation.
Read More »Coming Market Crash? Don’t Hold Your Breath! Here’s Why
With two huge market declines in a the same decade, investors are constantly on edge waiting for the next crash, but we’re more likely to see cyclical, not secular, market drops for the simple fact that they happen more often. Here are the details.
Read More »Today’s Financial Entertainment: Economic Collapse Is Coming – What Will Be To Blame? (+2K Views)
Very interesting times we now live in; the financial system is running out of options very quickly and "blowing up the world" seems to be the only final option. I know, that sounds grandiose and dire but let me explain.
Read More »Confirmed Hindenburg Omen Says 23.5% Probability of -15%+ Stock Market Crash; 61.7% Chance of +5% Decline (+3K Views)
No stock market crash (a decline greater than 15%) has occurred over the past 30 years without the presence of a Hindenburg Omen except on one occasion (the mini-crash of July/August 2011). As such, without an official confirmed Hindenburg Omen, we are pretty safe from experiencing a major stock market correction. On the other hand, if we have an official Hindenburg Omen, then a critical set of market conditions necessary for a stock market crash exists. As of September 19th, 2014, we have such a condition in the market...
Read More »Historical Comparisons Suggest Silver Is Ready to Rally!
Silver currently looks inexpensive compared to crude oil, the S&P 500 and the size and rate of increase of the national debt suggesting silver is ready to rally.
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