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Off The Cuff: Rate Cut!
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss the recent Fed cut and Jerome Powell’s subsequent press conference. Markets have rocked both high and low in the 24 hours since. We’re working on providing a transcript for this excellent podcast. But we’re bringing you the audio now — given this conversation’s…
Off The Cuff: Rate Cut!
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss the recent Fed cut and Jerome Powell’s subsequent press conference. Markets have rocked both high and low in the 24 hours since. We’re working on providing a transcript for this excellent podcast. But we’re bringing you the audio now — given this conversation’s…
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Overdosing On Crazy Pills
by Chris Martenson

If you prefer to listen to this article, read by its author Chris Martenson, click the player here below: ___________________________________________________________________________________ Sometimes an otherwise-forgettable movie will be lifted up out of obscurity by the internet and made into a useful meme. In the movie Zoolander Will Ferrell’s character, ‘Jacobim Mugatu,’ screams the line “I feel like…
Overdosing On Crazy Pills
 by Chris Martenson

If you prefer to listen to this article, read by its author Chris Martenson, click the player here below: ___________________________________________________________________________________ Sometimes an otherwise-forgettable movie will be lifted up out of obscurity by the internet and made into a useful meme. In the movie Zoolander Will Ferrell’s character, ‘Jacobim Mugatu,’ screams the line “I feel like…
Image | Off The Cuff: Decoding This Week’s Fed Minutes
Off The Cuff: Decoding This Week’s Fed Minutes
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss: Decoding The Fed’s Latest Commentary Cuts are coming = expect more bad news on the economy The Uncertainty Principle By reacting, the Fed may be creating the conditions it wants to avoid Gold Looking Good Lower real rates will push the gold price…
Off The Cuff: Decoding This Week’s Fed Minutes
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss: Decoding The Fed’s Latest Commentary Cuts are coming = expect more bad news on the economy The Uncertainty Principle By reacting, the Fed may be creating the conditions it wants to avoid Gold Looking Good Lower real rates will push the gold price…
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‘Somebody’ Finally Cares About Gold
by Adam Taggart

On Tuesday, Mario Draghi apparently went rogue on his fellow policymakers and launched into a swan song version of his all-time hit “Whatever it takes”. The next day, Jerome Powell at the Fed confirmed his willingness to ease and let the market know he stands ready to cut rates multiple times over the next year.

That — plus a downed US drone patrolling the Iran border — poured gasoline on gold, which spiked as high as $1,410/oz, finally breaking free of the $1,350 ceiling that had blocked its advance for years.
‘Somebody’ Finally Cares About Gold
 by Adam Taggart

On Tuesday, Mario Draghi apparently went rogue on his fellow policymakers and launched into a swan song version of his all-time hit “Whatever it takes”. The next day, Jerome Powell at the Fed confirmed his willingness to ease and let the market know he stands ready to cut rates multiple times over the next year.

That — plus a downed US drone patrolling the Iran border — poured gasoline on gold, which spiked as high as $1,410/oz, finally breaking free of the $1,350 ceiling that had blocked its advance for years.
Image | Off The Cuff: Into The Abyss
Off The Cuff: Into The Abyss
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss: The Fed’s Desperation It’s just playing for time at this point Why Lower Rates Will Blow Up The System ZIRP/Negative rates create all sort of perversities Italy Threatens To Revert To The Lira Is the Eurozone about to break up? Bad Corporate Debt…
Off The Cuff: Into The Abyss
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss: The Fed’s Desperation It’s just playing for time at this point Why Lower Rates Will Blow Up The System ZIRP/Negative rates create all sort of perversities Italy Threatens To Revert To The Lira Is the Eurozone about to break up? Bad Corporate Debt…
Image | Turd Ferguson: The Highs In Gold Are Ahead Of Us
Turd Ferguson: The Highs In Gold Are Ahead Of Us
by Chris Martenson

With the world re-entering a period of greater economic instability, with the central banks painted into a corner, with global stocks looking weaker by the day, the price of gold is starting to shine again.

The yellow metal has recently hit all-time highs priced in a number of world currencies (the dollar not among them…yet).

Is this a short-term result of ‘risk-off’ fever as the markets have stumbled, to be undone during the next rally in stocks? Or are we seeing the beginnings of a more fundamental re-pricing of gold (and silver), as investors wake up to the currency risks created by more than quintupling the world money supply within less than a decade while simultaneously buring the economy under trillions of newly-minted debt?

Craig Hemke, better known by his nom-de-plume, Turd Ferguson, explains why gold looks like it finally has a brighter future ahead.
Turd Ferguson: The Highs In Gold Are Ahead Of Us
 by Chris Martenson

With the world re-entering a period of greater economic instability, with the central banks painted into a corner, with global stocks looking weaker by the day, the price of gold is starting to shine again.

The yellow metal has recently hit all-time highs priced in a number of world currencies (the dollar not among them…yet).

Is this a short-term result of ‘risk-off’ fever as the markets have stumbled, to be undone during the next rally in stocks? Or are we seeing the beginnings of a more fundamental re-pricing of gold (and silver), as investors wake up to the currency risks created by more than quintupling the world money supply within less than a decade while simultaneously buring the economy under trillions of newly-minted debt?

Craig Hemke, better known by his nom-de-plume, Turd Ferguson, explains why gold looks like it finally has a brighter future ahead.
Image | Why The Next U.S. Recession Will Be Exceptionally Painful
Why The Next U.S. Recession Will Be Exceptionally Painful
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

We all know another recession is coming at some point.

Economies are cyclical. Bust always follows boom in the same way the moon follows the sun.

We very nearly had a recession in early 2016. I remain impressed how it was averted then by the application of tremendous amounts of newly-printed-from-thin-air money.  It took several trillions of dollars globally, but it worked (if we can call enabling the global economy to take on additional $trillions in debt that will never be repaid ‘working’)
Why The Next U.S. Recession Will Be Exceptionally Painful
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

We all know another recession is coming at some point.

Economies are cyclical. Bust always follows boom in the same way the moon follows the sun.

We very nearly had a recession in early 2016. I remain impressed how it was averted then by the application of tremendous amounts of newly-printed-from-thin-air money.  It took several trillions of dollars globally, but it worked (if we can call enabling the global economy to take on additional $trillions in debt that will never be repaid ‘working’)
Why The Next Downturn Will Be The Most Destructive In Modern History — And Why You Must Act Now In Order To Preserve Your Wealth (and the Planet!)
by Adam Taggart

Our society’s pursuit of endless economic growth is unsustainable. We’re at the point where we’ve sabotaged our future by taking on too much debt, while at the same moment, we’ve started to run dangerously low on the resources necessary to run our modern way of living, straining key ecosystems in the process. But rather than…
Why The Next Downturn Will Be The Most Destructive In Modern History — And Why You Must Act Now In Order To Preserve Your Wealth (and the Planet!)
 by Adam Taggart

Our society’s pursuit of endless economic growth is unsustainable. We’re at the point where we’ve sabotaged our future by taking on too much debt, while at the same moment, we’ve started to run dangerously low on the resources necessary to run our modern way of living, straining key ecosystems in the process. But rather than…
Image | Off The Cuff LIVE!
Off The Cuff LIVE!
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

What’s better than an Off The Cuff with John Rubino? Or Wolf Richter? Or Axel Merk?

How about one with ALL of them?

That’s what attendees of last weekend’s Peak Prosperity annual seminar were able to enjoy, live on stage.

This meeting of the minds was the first time Axel, Wolf and John had ever met one another in person. And the idea-exchange that ensued was pure magic.

For this week’s Off The Cuff, we’re giving you a huge treat. A chance to watch these great thinkers in action.
Off The Cuff LIVE!
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

What’s better than an Off The Cuff with John Rubino? Or Wolf Richter? Or Axel Merk?

How about one with ALL of them?

That’s what attendees of last weekend’s Peak Prosperity annual seminar were able to enjoy, live on stage.

This meeting of the minds was the first time Axel, Wolf and John had ever met one another in person. And the idea-exchange that ensued was pure magic.

For this week’s Off The Cuff, we’re giving you a huge treat. A chance to watch these great thinkers in action.
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The Company Store
by Chris Martenson

The scam enabled by today’s financial ““markets”” coupled with lots of easy cheap credit flowing to big monied interests is every bit as egregious as the company store of old; only today’s victims are mostly blind to the way that the system is rigged against them.

Run this scam long enough and one day we’ll discover that the banks and their proxy agents — private equity funds, hedge funds, endowments, and family offices, etc — own all of the productive farmland, all of the mines, all of the oil wells, all of the timberland, and every other means of primary wealth production.
The Company Store
 by Chris Martenson

The scam enabled by today’s financial ““markets”” coupled with lots of easy cheap credit flowing to big monied interests is every bit as egregious as the company store of old; only today’s victims are mostly blind to the way that the system is rigged against them.

Run this scam long enough and one day we’ll discover that the banks and their proxy agents — private equity funds, hedge funds, endowments, and family offices, etc — own all of the productive farmland, all of the mines, all of the oil wells, all of the timberland, and every other means of primary wealth production.
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