page-loading-spinner

markets

Image | Market Update: Comforting Lies
Market Update: Comforting Lies
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

Last week’s observed bearish engulfing has so far proved a non-event as the markets continue to reach maximum stupid heights lifted by Jerome Powell’s recent soothing remarks to the nation on 60 Minutes.

The trouble is, so much of what Powell said in that interview just isn’t true.
Market Update: Comforting Lies
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

Last week’s observed bearish engulfing has so far proved a non-event as the markets continue to reach maximum stupid heights lifted by Jerome Powell’s recent soothing remarks to the nation on 60 Minutes.

The trouble is, so much of what Powell said in that interview just isn’t true.
Image | WTF: What The Fed?!? (Round 2)
WTF: What The Fed?!? (Round 2)
by Adam Taggart

Back in mid-January, Grant Williams, Mike Maloney, Charles Hugh Smith, Chris Martenson and I sat down for an in-depth discussion on the dangerous distortions to financial markets and the global economy that central bank intervention is causing.

So, if this group of experts was highly concerned about systemic risk pre-coronavirus, what are they thinking now?
WTF: What The Fed?!? (Round 2)
 by Adam Taggart

Back in mid-January, Grant Williams, Mike Maloney, Charles Hugh Smith, Chris Martenson and I sat down for an in-depth discussion on the dangerous distortions to financial markets and the global economy that central bank intervention is causing.

So, if this group of experts was highly concerned about systemic risk pre-coronavirus, what are they thinking now?
Image | Market Update: A Bearish Engulfing
Market Update: A Bearish Engulfing
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

Despite market prices remaining at maximum stupid heights, we’ve seen some notable weakness, volatility and a rare ‘bearish engulfing’ this week.

All of these are advance indicators we would expect to see preceding a fall in prices.

Market Update: A Bearish Engulfing
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

Despite market prices remaining at maximum stupid heights, we’ve seen some notable weakness, volatility and a rare ‘bearish engulfing’ this week.

All of these are advance indicators we would expect to see preceding a fall in prices.

Image | Market Update: Maximum Stupid
Market Update: Maximum Stupid
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

Since rebounding sharply from the March lows, the markets have re-entered a manic melt-up phase where no news is so terrible it can’t send prices higher.

The NASDAQ is green on the year now, for crying out loud. How is that even possible since, between then and now, GDP has fallen by 30%???

In an attempt to understand these increasingly non-sensical markets, we’ve once again asked the lead partners at New Harbor Financial, Peak Prosperity’s endorsed financial advisor, for their latest perspective.

Market Update: Maximum Stupid
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

Since rebounding sharply from the March lows, the markets have re-entered a manic melt-up phase where no news is so terrible it can’t send prices higher.

The NASDAQ is green on the year now, for crying out loud. How is that even possible since, between then and now, GDP has fallen by 30%???

In an attempt to understand these increasingly non-sensical markets, we’ve once again asked the lead partners at New Harbor Financial, Peak Prosperity’s endorsed financial advisor, for their latest perspective.

Image | Market Update: Flying Too Close To The Sun?
Market Update: Flying Too Close To The Sun?
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

The disconnect between the accelerating economic damage caused by covid-19 and the reckless exuberance seen in the stock and bond markets is crazy-making at this point.

Prices have been steadily marching upwards in defiance of the ugly data. And in Big Tech, companies are now more overvalued than they were before the pandemic hit.

How, pray tell, can you even pretend to justify these companies trading near the same prices as they did three months ago — after 30 million Americans have been laid off, GDP is contracting the largest rate in history, and household and corporate budgets are being slashed?
Market Update: Flying Too Close To The Sun?
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

The disconnect between the accelerating economic damage caused by covid-19 and the reckless exuberance seen in the stock and bond markets is crazy-making at this point.

Prices have been steadily marching upwards in defiance of the ugly data. And in Big Tech, companies are now more overvalued than they were before the pandemic hit.

How, pray tell, can you even pretend to justify these companies trading near the same prices as they did three months ago — after 30 million Americans have been laid off, GDP is contracting the largest rate in history, and household and corporate budgets are being slashed?
Image | Market Update: The Battle For Control
Market Update: The Battle For Control
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

As more data pours in showing the severe and worsening contraction of the global economy due to the impact of covid-19, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the only thing propping up today’s financial markets is the $trillions in rescue stimulus promised by governments across the globe.

Bloomberg estimates that flood to be in the range of $8 trillion — and counting.

Will it be enough?
Market Update: The Battle For Control
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

As more data pours in showing the severe and worsening contraction of the global economy due to the impact of covid-19, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the only thing propping up today’s financial markets is the $trillions in rescue stimulus promised by governments across the globe.

Bloomberg estimates that flood to be in the range of $8 trillion — and counting.

Will it be enough?
Image | Market Mayhem Update: Eye Of The Storm
Market Mayhem Update: Eye Of The Storm
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

A mind-blowing 22 million people have filed for unemployment benefits over the past four weeks: Yet stocks continue rebounding. So much so that, insanely, the FANG-stock complex is back to an all-time high:
Market Mayhem Update: Eye Of The Storm
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

A mind-blowing 22 million people have filed for unemployment benefits over the past four weeks: Yet stocks continue rebounding. So much so that, insanely, the FANG-stock complex is back to an all-time high:
Image | Market Mayhem Update: The Empire Strikes Back!
Market Mayhem Update: The Empire Strikes Back!
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

As unprecedented job losses continue to mount from the coronavirus-induced economic slowdown, America’s central authorities have finally leapt into action with equally unprecedented firepower.
Market Mayhem Update: The Empire Strikes Back!
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

As unprecedented job losses continue to mount from the coronavirus-induced economic slowdown, America’s central authorities have finally leapt into action with equally unprecedented firepower.
Image | What Comes Next?
What Comes Next?
by Chris Martenson

If covid-19 is indeed hastening the permanent disruption of the status quo, what will life in a post-coronavirus world look like?

In a prognosticating session building on last week’s Economic Shockwaves roundtable, John Rubino, Charles Hugh Smith and I — also joined by Chris Martenson this time — discuss the myriad ways in the future may be permanently altered by the disruptions happening right now.

How will the economy, fiat currencies, jobs & the nature of work, as well as our general lifestyle, be forced to evolve? What new solutions will be required and what shape with they take?

What Comes Next?
 by Chris Martenson

If covid-19 is indeed hastening the permanent disruption of the status quo, what will life in a post-coronavirus world look like?

In a prognosticating session building on last week’s Economic Shockwaves roundtable, John Rubino, Charles Hugh Smith and I — also joined by Chris Martenson this time — discuss the myriad ways in the future may be permanently altered by the disruptions happening right now.

How will the economy, fiat currencies, jobs & the nature of work, as well as our general lifestyle, be forced to evolve? What new solutions will be required and what shape with they take?

Image | Economic Shockwaves
Economic Shockwaves
by Adam Taggart

Small/medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) like your local restaurant, dry cleaner, bookstore and building contractor are being hit especially hard by the coronavirus, as they don’t have the reserves to withstand the many weeks of no income the lockdown is placing them under. Many of them have already laid off their employees. Many may never reopen.

The jaw-dropping severity of this job carnage can already be seen in last week’s unemployment numbers. Claims spiked up to 3.3 million — nearly 6x higher(!) than the worst week of the Great Financial Crisis.

So what impact will this all have? What will the rest of 2020 be like?
Economic Shockwaves
 by Adam Taggart

Small/medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) like your local restaurant, dry cleaner, bookstore and building contractor are being hit especially hard by the coronavirus, as they don’t have the reserves to withstand the many weeks of no income the lockdown is placing them under. Many of them have already laid off their employees. Many may never reopen.

The jaw-dropping severity of this job carnage can already be seen in last week’s unemployment numbers. Claims spiked up to 3.3 million — nearly 6x higher(!) than the worst week of the Great Financial Crisis.

So what impact will this all have? What will the rest of 2020 be like?
Total 163 items

Community

Top Conversation

 Prep Now for the Coming Winter Challenges
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the needs and sustainability of our family. We have six young children, our oldest just turned 12 and our youngest just turned 3 months old. I love the considerations that the article had above and thought I would add a few things that I have considered for our situation. My...
Image | hgrootveldgmail-com by hgrootveldgmail-com
36 95
View the conversation
Image | eQRP: Self-Directed Retirement

eQRP: Self-Directed Retirement

Learn more
Image | AlertsUSA

AlertsUSA

Learn more