Off the Cuff: Market Mayhem PREVIEW In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Alasdair MacLeod discuss: The Market Meltdown What the heck just happened? The Next Round of Bailouts If you hate the problem, wait till you see the solutions Gold Ready for a return to the limelight? Ebola Is the media selling us too much fear? Off the Cuff: Market Mayhem PREVIEW In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Alasdair MacLeod discuss: The Market Meltdown What the heck just happened? The Next Round of Bailouts If you hate the problem, wait till you see the solutions Gold Ready for a return to the limelight? Ebola Is the media selling us too much fear?
Ebola! What Ebola reminds us of is that when a true pandemic arrives it will travel much faster than those in the past (thanks to air travel being an order of magnitude faster than dawning recognition) and that our complex, highly leveraged, just-in-time global economy is utterly unprepared for even a minor glitch in the flow of goods let alone the virtual lockdown that a true pandemic would require. A small amount of preparing can make you much less vulnerable should (when?) that comes to pass. Ebola! What Ebola reminds us of is that when a true pandemic arrives it will travel much faster than those in the past (thanks to air travel being an order of magnitude faster than dawning recognition) and that our complex, highly leveraged, just-in-time global economy is utterly unprepared for even a minor glitch in the flow of goods let alone the virtual lockdown that a true pandemic would require. A small amount of preparing can make you much less vulnerable should (when?) that comes to pass.
Prudent Precautions To Take Now PREVIEW Executive Summary Who is at risk of contracting ebola? What are the odds of the current string becoming more virulent? The worrisome responses governments are considering Should a pandemic occur, here's what you need to survive it If you have not yet read Part 1: Ebola! available free to all readers, please click here to read… Prudent Precautions To Take Now PREVIEW Executive Summary Who is at risk of contracting ebola? What are the odds of the current string becoming more virulent? The worrisome responses governments are considering Should a pandemic occur, here's what you need to survive it If you have not yet read Part 1: Ebola! available free to all readers, please click here to read…
The Market Crumbles PREVIEW ~ Is a market crash possible here? For so many years the stock markets has done just one thing: Go up. And then up some more; until everyone "knew" that the stock market could never go down again, and that the Fed would ride to the rescue if it ever started to go down. Well, for better or worse, the Fed is now committed to ending QEternity here in October 2014. A decision they cannot easily undo. And various markets around the globe are in trouble. The Market Crumbles PREVIEW ~ Is a market crash possible here? For so many years the stock markets has done just one thing: Go up. And then up some more; until everyone "knew" that the stock market could never go down again, and that the Fed would ride to the rescue if it ever started to go down. Well, for better or worse, the Fed is now committed to ending QEternity here in October 2014. A decision they cannot easily undo. And various markets around the globe are in trouble.
Richard Gould: Learning From Ancient Human Cultures Richard Gould is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Brown University (where I was his student) and one of the foremost experts on hunter-gatherer societies. In the 1960s, he and his wife spent years living with the aborigines in Australia's Western Desert, observing first-hand their way of life. Through study of these people and many others around the world, his work focused on understanding how human culture and behavior adapts to environmental stress, risk and uncertainty. We've invited him to this week's podcast to discuss what insights ancient cultures may be able to offer in terms of "natural human behavior" that may fit well within our specie's blueprint. Richard Gould: Learning From Ancient Human Cultures Richard Gould is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Brown University (where I was his student) and one of the foremost experts on hunter-gatherer societies. In the 1960s, he and his wife spent years living with the aborigines in Australia's Western Desert, observing first-hand their way of life. Through study of these people and many others around the world, his work focused on understanding how human culture and behavior adapts to environmental stress, risk and uncertainty. We've invited him to this week's podcast to discuss what insights ancient cultures may be able to offer in terms of "natural human behavior" that may fit well within our specie's blueprint.
Off the Cuff: Volatility With A Vengeance PREVIEW In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss: What Is Market Volatility Telling Us? Sign of a top, or preparing for another leg up? Have Capital Flows Changed the Story? Is too much money entering the US for the markets to correct? Where Is Gold Heading From Here? Long-awaited bullish signals are appearing Society's Happiness Drought Why do we have so much, yet feel so unsatisfied? Off the Cuff: Volatility With A Vengeance PREVIEW In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss: What Is Market Volatility Telling Us? Sign of a top, or preparing for another leg up? Have Capital Flows Changed the Story? Is too much money entering the US for the markets to correct? Where Is Gold Heading From Here? Long-awaited bullish signals are appearing Society's Happiness Drought Why do we have so much, yet feel so unsatisfied?
The Global Slowdown PREVIEW I am on record as saying that the end of the US Fed money printing (a.k.a 'QE') is a bigger deal than the equity markets of the west and Japan have factored in. Further, I don't think that the ECB has sufficiently picked up the baton from the US Fed and I seriously doubt that they will be able to expand their money printing efforts much beyond that already announced due to pressure from a reluctant Germany. The Global Slowdown PREVIEW I am on record as saying that the end of the US Fed money printing (a.k.a 'QE') is a bigger deal than the equity markets of the west and Japan have factored in. Further, I don't think that the ECB has sufficiently picked up the baton from the US Fed and I seriously doubt that they will be able to expand their money printing efforts much beyond that already announced due to pressure from a reluctant Germany.
Off the Cuff: Financial Repression PREVIEW In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Brian Pretti discuss: Financial Repression Central banks have 'cornered the market' for global capital Reason Behind The Dollar's Rise The smart money is getting out of riskier assets Global Flows of Capital The Fed hands the money-printing baton to the EU & China Intergenerational Friction Likely one of the defining issues of the future Off the Cuff: Financial Repression PREVIEW In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Brian Pretti discuss: Financial Repression Central banks have 'cornered the market' for global capital Reason Behind The Dollar's Rise The smart money is getting out of riskier assets Global Flows of Capital The Fed hands the money-printing baton to the EU & China Intergenerational Friction Likely one of the defining issues of the future
Unpacking the Propaganda PREVIEW Almost daily there's some article or another in the US financial press that is little more than marketing collateral for Wall Street. Broken down, the message is always some version of: Now is a great time to buy stocks! It's gotten to the absurd stage where everything justifies higher stock prices. Unpacking the Propaganda PREVIEW Almost daily there's some article or another in the US financial press that is little more than marketing collateral for Wall Street. Broken down, the message is always some version of: Now is a great time to buy stocks! It's gotten to the absurd stage where everything justifies higher stock prices.
Attempting To Sustain The Unsustainable PREVIEW The general theme of the 2008 financial rescues engineered by the world's central banks was: Do more of the same. The same things that got us into trouble — namely too much debt and increasingly expensive energy — simply increased after the 2008 crisis. By a lot. Attempting To Sustain The Unsustainable PREVIEW The general theme of the 2008 financial rescues engineered by the world's central banks was: Do more of the same. The same things that got us into trouble — namely too much debt and increasingly expensive energy — simply increased after the 2008 crisis. By a lot.
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