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Image | Off the Cuff: The Longer Reality Is Denied, The Bigger The Inevitable Crash
Off the Cuff: The Longer Reality Is Denied, The Bigger The Inevitable Crash
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In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish discuss:

  • Guess The 2nd Best-Performing Currency of 2014
    • Hint: It's yellow. And shiny.
  • China: Due For "A World of Hurt" in 2015
    • Starting the year off with a run on bank deposits
  • Self-Delusion
    • Critical thought is completely absent from western media
  • Oil
    • The further prices go down now, the higher they'll spike later
Off the Cuff: The Longer Reality Is Denied, The Bigger The Inevitable Crash
 PREVIEW

In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish discuss:

  • Guess The 2nd Best-Performing Currency of 2014
    • Hint: It's yellow. And shiny.
  • China: Due For "A World of Hurt" in 2015
    • Starting the year off with a run on bank deposits
  • Self-Delusion
    • Critical thought is completely absent from western media
  • Oil
    • The further prices go down now, the higher they'll spike later
Image | Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize

At the essential center of the framework of the Crash Course is the almost insultingly simple idea that endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility.

It is so simple it could be worked out by a clever 4 year-old and yet it must not be so simple because the main narrative of every economy in every corner of the globe rests on the idea of endless, infinite growth.
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize

At the essential center of the framework of the Crash Course is the almost insultingly simple idea that endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility.

It is so simple it could be worked out by a clever 4 year-old and yet it must not be so simple because the main narrative of every economy in every corner of the globe rests on the idea of endless, infinite growth.
Image | Doug Parker: The Status Of The Drought In The U.S. West
Doug Parker: The Status Of The Drought In The U.S. West

2014 saw the extension of a historic drought across the US West. Croplands withered or were fully abandoned. Water rationing was enforced. Well tables dropped. The price of many vegetables and meats have skyrocketed.

So is an end to the drought in sight?
Doug Parker: The Status Of The Drought In The U.S. West

2014 saw the extension of a historic drought across the US West. Croplands withered or were fully abandoned. Water rationing was enforced. Well tables dropped. The price of many vegetables and meats have skyrocketed.

So is an end to the drought in sight?
Image | Off the Cuff: More Fed-Induced Froth
Off the Cuff: More Fed-Induced Froth
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In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss:

  • Janet's Joy Juice
    • The Fed speaks and markets soar
  • Currency Crashes
    • Venezuela & Russia are showing us the risks of fiat money
  • Oil's Collateral Damage
    • The 40% price drop is having real consequences
  • What The Next Crash Will Look Like
    • Why past crashes may not be a good guide
Off the Cuff: More Fed-Induced Froth
 PREVIEW

In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss:

  • Janet's Joy Juice
    • The Fed speaks and markets soar
  • Currency Crashes
    • Venezuela & Russia are showing us the risks of fiat money
  • Oil's Collateral Damage
    • The 40% price drop is having real consequences
  • What The Next Crash Will Look Like
    • Why past crashes may not be a good guide
Image | Deflation Is Still Winning!
Deflation Is Still Winning!
 PREVIEW

As we've written on and warned about before, deflation is winning.  We're starting to see very serious cracks in the façade, beginning with oil, then various peripheral currencies — especially from emerging market oil exporters — and now equities.

Deflation Is Still Winning!
 PREVIEW

As we've written on and warned about before, deflation is winning.  We're starting to see very serious cracks in the façade, beginning with oil, then various peripheral currencies — especially from emerging market oil exporters — and now equities.

Image | The Shocking Data Proving Shale Oil Is Massively Over-hyped
The Shocking Data Proving Shale Oil Is Massively Over-hyped

Hooray, oil is suddenly much cheaper than it used to be. That's great news, right?

Not so fast. For certain it's not good news for those counting on a continued rise in US oil production from the "shale miracle". Many drillers were challenged to operate profitably when oil was above $70 per barrel. Very few will remain solvent with oil in the $50s (as it is as of this writing).

So, expect US oil production to suffer from these lower prices if they persist. But even if oil prices rise and rise soon, there's new data that indicates the total amount of extractable oil from America's shale plays is less — much less — than what we're being told (or better put, "sold").
The Shocking Data Proving Shale Oil Is Massively Over-hyped

Hooray, oil is suddenly much cheaper than it used to be. That's great news, right?

Not so fast. For certain it's not good news for those counting on a continued rise in US oil production from the "shale miracle". Many drillers were challenged to operate profitably when oil was above $70 per barrel. Very few will remain solvent with oil in the $50s (as it is as of this writing).

So, expect US oil production to suffer from these lower prices if they persist. But even if oil prices rise and rise soon, there's new data that indicates the total amount of extractable oil from America's shale plays is less — much less — than what we're being told (or better put, "sold").
Image | Oil Armageddon Arrives
Oil Armageddon Arrives
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Yesterday, WTIC — that's US oil — just broke under $60 a barrel on very heavy volume. Canada heavy crude is at $42 a barrel, and Brent is at $61.73.

All of these are multi-year lows not seen since the great oil crash of 2008 that preceded the even greater financial crash that came just a few months later.

 
Oil Armageddon Arrives
 PREVIEW

Yesterday, WTIC — that's US oil — just broke under $60 a barrel on very heavy volume. Canada heavy crude is at $42 a barrel, and Brent is at $61.73.

All of these are multi-year lows not seen since the great oil crash of 2008 that preceded the even greater financial crash that came just a few months later.

 
Image | Off the Cuff: The Buck Stops Nowhere
Off the Cuff: The Buck Stops Nowhere
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In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss:

  • Zig-Zag Markets
    • More evidence the long term trend is reversing
  • When Will Oil Find A Floor?
    • And where will the collateral damage of the current drop be most felt?
  • US Admits To Torture
    • Are we going to hold anyone accountable?
  • Gold Shows A Slight Glitter Again
    • Dare we begin to hope?
Off the Cuff: The Buck Stops Nowhere
 PREVIEW

In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss:

  • Zig-Zag Markets
    • More evidence the long term trend is reversing
  • When Will Oil Find A Floor?
    • And where will the collateral damage of the current drop be most felt?
  • US Admits To Torture
    • Are we going to hold anyone accountable?
  • Gold Shows A Slight Glitter Again
    • Dare we begin to hope?
Image | Mike Maloney: The Coming Wealth Transfer
Mike Maloney: The Coming Wealth Transfer

History may not repeat but it sure does rhyme. Mike Maloney has studied monetary and financial breakdowns throughout history and concludes that there’s nothing new or different happening this time, except its global and far more massive than any other time in history. Worse, there are echoes of 1911 where a series of diplomatic blunders and national pride and intransigence combined to create the still largely inexplicable start to WW I.

Mike Maloney: The Coming Wealth Transfer

History may not repeat but it sure does rhyme. Mike Maloney has studied monetary and financial breakdowns throughout history and concludes that there’s nothing new or different happening this time, except its global and far more massive than any other time in history. Worse, there are echoes of 1911 where a series of diplomatic blunders and national pride and intransigence combined to create the still largely inexplicable start to WW I.

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