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Peak Insiders
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- How our driven pursuit of “growth” is putting the entire system at risk
- Why those running the system do NOT have our interests in mind
- Why a correction risk is so high right now
- Why our odds keep getting worse
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
My main message here in Part 2 is to show you why, from my vantage point of following the economy and financial markets daily, things are serious right now.
I trust actions over words; and the Fed’s actions are consistent with a big problem happening somewhere deep in the shadow banking system.
Further, all of the global macro data I track closely is screaming that a slowdown is here.
On top of that, investor confidence in the Fed’s ability to push market prices ever higher is dangerously overextended.
Stock gains have zoomed way ahead of the Fed’s recent excess liquidity, as this chart shows… (Enroll now to continue reading)
Why The Risk Of A Correction Is So High Right Now
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- How our driven pursuit of “growth” is putting the entire system at risk
- Why those running the system do NOT have our interests in mind
- Why a correction risk is so high right now
- Why our odds keep getting worse
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
My main message here in Part 2 is to show you why, from my vantage point of following the economy and financial markets daily, things are serious right now.
I trust actions over words; and the Fed’s actions are consistent with a big problem happening somewhere deep in the shadow banking system.
Further, all of the global macro data I track closely is screaming that a slowdown is here.
On top of that, investor confidence in the Fed’s ability to push market prices ever higher is dangerously overextended.
Stock gains have zoomed way ahead of the Fed’s recent excess liquidity, as this chart shows… (Enroll now to continue reading)
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- The debt bomb waiting to explode is truly staggering in size
- Key warning signals we’re approaching a late cycle market crash
- The Fed’s aggressive actions belie its fear that the system is extremely sick
- How to use the time left to be on the right side of the coming wealth transfer
If you have not yet read Part 1: The End of Money , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
The Fed is now flat-out lying to us.
Jerome Powell insists that the Fed is not printing more money, is not engaging in QE, and is not directly intervening to make stocks go higher in price. But none of this is true.
In addition, the Fed has reversed course and is steadily cutting rates. This even as the employment and wage data (if you believe them) have been strong of late.
So what gives? What could be causing this?
Hundreds of billions of dollars, printed and injected at a faster pace than in the depths of the Great Financial Crisis is not exactly a comforting sign.
I am quite certain that something very big is very broken in the background.
Deutsche Bank might be failing. That’s a distinct possibility here. Or it could be massive funding flow reversals from… (Enroll now to continue reading)
A Tower of Debt Begins to Lean
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- The debt bomb waiting to explode is truly staggering in size
- Key warning signals we’re approaching a late cycle market crash
- The Fed’s aggressive actions belie its fear that the system is extremely sick
- How to use the time left to be on the right side of the coming wealth transfer
If you have not yet read Part 1: The End of Money , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
The Fed is now flat-out lying to us.
Jerome Powell insists that the Fed is not printing more money, is not engaging in QE, and is not directly intervening to make stocks go higher in price. But none of this is true.
In addition, the Fed has reversed course and is steadily cutting rates. This even as the employment and wage data (if you believe them) have been strong of late.
So what gives? What could be causing this?
Hundreds of billions of dollars, printed and injected at a faster pace than in the depths of the Great Financial Crisis is not exactly a comforting sign.
I am quite certain that something very big is very broken in the background.
Deutsche Bank might be failing. That’s a distinct possibility here. Or it could be massive funding flow reversals from… (Enroll now to continue reading)
by
charleshughsmith
Executive Summary
- The siren song of “free money” programs like MMT and UBI
- Why these are financial “roach traps”
- The inevitable inflationary end of our current trajectory
- What to invest in to protect your wealth
If you have not yet read Part 1: Could Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Actually Save Us?, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
MMT is a financial Roach Trap — it’s impossible to back out of MMT once it’s launched. The demands for more spending will skyrocket, and there will be no politically viable way to say “no” to additional spending.
The initial surge of spending will likely be highly successful: as trillions of dollars gush into the economy, spending and tax revenues will leap and the illusion of sustainability will be anchored in the public’s mind and in the media: look, MMT is working just like we said it would! Inflation is still tame.
Yes, inflation will be tame for a brief honeymoon, as inventories can be drained without raising prices. But once the higher demand races through the supply chain, prices will rise in correlation to scarcity, competing demands, etc.
One can easily imagine the land rush of special interests and constituencies to demand a new piece of the “free money” pie in this honeymoon phase: “free” medications (at full Big Pharma prices, of course); “free” university (at full tuition, of course); “free” childcare; “free” Social Security increases, and so on in a tsunami of demands.
Once inflation starts rising, the current rigged methodology of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) will mask it for a time, just as it does now. But eventually, reality will break through the artifice and… (Enroll now to continue reading)
Life Under MMT: A Self-Reinforcing, Inflationary Feedback Loop
PREVIEW by charleshughsmithExecutive Summary
- The siren song of “free money” programs like MMT and UBI
- Why these are financial “roach traps”
- The inevitable inflationary end of our current trajectory
- What to invest in to protect your wealth
If you have not yet read Part 1: Could Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Actually Save Us?, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
MMT is a financial Roach Trap — it’s impossible to back out of MMT once it’s launched. The demands for more spending will skyrocket, and there will be no politically viable way to say “no” to additional spending.
The initial surge of spending will likely be highly successful: as trillions of dollars gush into the economy, spending and tax revenues will leap and the illusion of sustainability will be anchored in the public’s mind and in the media: look, MMT is working just like we said it would! Inflation is still tame.
Yes, inflation will be tame for a brief honeymoon, as inventories can be drained without raising prices. But once the higher demand races through the supply chain, prices will rise in correlation to scarcity, competing demands, etc.
One can easily imagine the land rush of special interests and constituencies to demand a new piece of the “free money” pie in this honeymoon phase: “free” medications (at full Big Pharma prices, of course); “free” university (at full tuition, of course); “free” childcare; “free” Social Security increases, and so on in a tsunami of demands.
Once inflation starts rising, the current rigged methodology of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) will mask it for a time, just as it does now. But eventually, reality will break through the artifice and… (Enroll now to continue reading)
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Why we know that something really BIG has the Fed freaking out
- Why the risk of systemic breakdown is uncomfortably high
- The key charts that tell the tale: recession ahead!
- Why, this time, the Fed will fail
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Fed Is Lying To Us , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Touring through the global and domestic US macro economic data, it’s easy to determine that mounting recessionary forces are in play.
Everything from sentiment, import/export data, (the lack of) credit growth, shipping rates — all are in alignment; the economy is weakening.
The responses of the Federal Reserve and Donald Trump are in alignment on one facet of the story; both desperately want the US stock markets to go higher. Trump applies strategic Tweets each day to that effect, and the Fed is printing $2 billion a day in their effort to cause stocks to go higher.
I think they fail this time. Adding up all the data and risks and I clearly see that…(Enroll now to continue reading)
Why The Fed Will Fail
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Why we know that something really BIG has the Fed freaking out
- Why the risk of systemic breakdown is uncomfortably high
- The key charts that tell the tale: recession ahead!
- Why, this time, the Fed will fail
If you have not yet read Part 1: The Fed Is Lying To Us , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Touring through the global and domestic US macro economic data, it’s easy to determine that mounting recessionary forces are in play.
Everything from sentiment, import/export data, (the lack of) credit growth, shipping rates — all are in alignment; the economy is weakening.
The responses of the Federal Reserve and Donald Trump are in alignment on one facet of the story; both desperately want the US stock markets to go higher. Trump applies strategic Tweets each day to that effect, and the Fed is printing $2 billion a day in their effort to cause stocks to go higher.
I think they fail this time. Adding up all the data and risks and I clearly see that…(Enroll now to continue reading)
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Urgency is needed, as society’s alarm bells aren’t working
- The most important charts of all
- Recent learnings on resilience relocation
- When a culture becomes desperate, it reacts desperately. No one wins.
If you have not yet read Part 1: Getting Real About Green Energy, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
What seems to be true is that humanity is in the early innings of a great transition. Losing access to abundant energy will change more things that you or I can appreciate at this time.
The future is barreling towards us at a furious pace. And the pace of that change is accelerating.
It’s time to freak out a bit. To get serious about protecting ourselves. To make different decisions and reorganize our priorities.
If you understand energy and its relationship to the economy the way I do, you’d share my urgency to create community and develop a resilient homestead. My goal here is to nudge you towards action.
Here’s what has me so concerned right now. These charts clearly show the… (Enroll now to continue reading)
Reality Shock
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Urgency is needed, as society’s alarm bells aren’t working
- The most important charts of all
- Recent learnings on resilience relocation
- When a culture becomes desperate, it reacts desperately. No one wins.
If you have not yet read Part 1: Getting Real About Green Energy, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
What seems to be true is that humanity is in the early innings of a great transition. Losing access to abundant energy will change more things that you or I can appreciate at this time.
The future is barreling towards us at a furious pace. And the pace of that change is accelerating.
It’s time to freak out a bit. To get serious about protecting ourselves. To make different decisions and reorganize our priorities.
If you understand energy and its relationship to the economy the way I do, you’d share my urgency to create community and develop a resilient homestead. My goal here is to nudge you towards action.
Here’s what has me so concerned right now. These charts clearly show the… (Enroll now to continue reading)
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