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Image | Four Signs That We’re Back in Dangerous Bubble Territory
Four Signs That We’re Back in Dangerous Bubble Territory
by Chris Martenson

As the global equity and bond markets grind ever higher, abundant signs exist that we are once again living through an asset bubble – or rather a whole series of bubbles in a variety of markets. This makes this period quite interesting, but also quite dangerous.

With equity and bond markets at or near all-time record highs, with all financial assets consistently shrugging off bad – or worse – news as the riskiest of assets continue to find consistent upward bids, we find ourselves in familiar and bubbly territory.
Four Signs That We’re Back in Dangerous Bubble Territory
 by Chris Martenson

As the global equity and bond markets grind ever higher, abundant signs exist that we are once again living through an asset bubble – or rather a whole series of bubbles in a variety of markets. This makes this period quite interesting, but also quite dangerous.

With equity and bond markets at or near all-time record highs, with all financial assets consistently shrugging off bad – or worse – news as the riskiest of assets continue to find consistent upward bids, we find ourselves in familiar and bubbly territory.
Image | Are the Predominant Macro Trends About to Reverse?
Are the Predominant Macro Trends About to Reverse?
by Adam Taggart

I felt a great disturbance in the Force

— Obi-Wan Kenobi

If you've been watching the precious metals closely – what a day! Both gold and silver plummeted in overnight trading. And by "plummet," I mean the gut-wrenching vertically-straight-down kind of free-fall (silver was down nearly 10% over a matter of minutes). Then, after a few hours of partial recovery and stabilizing, the precious metals went parabolic in the up direction.
Are the Predominant Macro Trends About to Reverse?
 by Adam Taggart

I felt a great disturbance in the Force

— Obi-Wan Kenobi

If you've been watching the precious metals closely – what a day! Both gold and silver plummeted in overnight trading. And by "plummet," I mean the gut-wrenching vertically-straight-down kind of free-fall (silver was down nearly 10% over a matter of minutes). Then, after a few hours of partial recovery and stabilizing, the precious metals went parabolic in the up direction.
Image | The S&P 500 Is Now a Gambler’s Paradise With 76.9% Up Days in May So Far
The S&P 500 Is Now a Gambler’s Paradise With 76.9% Up Days in May So Far
by Chris Martenson

Everyone knows the odds of winning in a casino are worse than 50% (often much worse depending on the game played). So who wouldn't rush to a casino, where instead, the odds were overwhelmingly in the gambler's favor?

That's the promise of today's stock market, which has been experiencing an aberrantly high percentage of up days all year. Toss your money into the market, and on any given day, you're much likelier to make money than not.

The S&P 500 Is Now a Gambler’s Paradise With 76.9% Up Days in May So Far
 by Chris Martenson

Everyone knows the odds of winning in a casino are worse than 50% (often much worse depending on the game played). So who wouldn't rush to a casino, where instead, the odds were overwhelmingly in the gambler's favor?

That's the promise of today's stock market, which has been experiencing an aberrantly high percentage of up days all year. Toss your money into the market, and on any given day, you're much likelier to make money than not.

Image | Francis Koster: Deploying Our Investment Capital Locally Yields Better Returns for All
Francis Koster: Deploying Our Investment Capital Locally Yields Better Returns for All
by Chris Martenson

We are conditioned to think that financial "investing" means sending your capital to Wall Street. There it will be put into paper securities (stocks, bonds, etc.), and hopefully when your next statement arrives, the dollar total is higher than you put in.

There's no connection between the investor and the investment. And in today's market, where safer investments offer nearly no return, investment capital is increasingly paying to chase risk it has little understanding of. And all the while, the middlemen — with their 100% perfect trading quarters and record bonus payouts — demonstrate that the system really exists to siphon off money from this 'dumb capital'.
Francis Koster: Deploying Our Investment Capital Locally Yields Better Returns for All
 by Chris Martenson

We are conditioned to think that financial "investing" means sending your capital to Wall Street. There it will be put into paper securities (stocks, bonds, etc.), and hopefully when your next statement arrives, the dollar total is higher than you put in.

There's no connection between the investor and the investment. And in today's market, where safer investments offer nearly no return, investment capital is increasingly paying to chase risk it has little understanding of. And all the while, the middlemen — with their 100% perfect trading quarters and record bonus payouts — demonstrate that the system really exists to siphon off money from this 'dumb capital'.
Image | Off the Cuff: The Age of Delusion
Off the Cuff: The Age of Delusion
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

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

  • Fuzzy Fed Math
    • Housing-cost methodology understates true inflation
  • China's Gold Hunger
    • Vacuuming up 50% of total world production
  • Market Madness
    • Any news – good, bad, or worse – drives stock prices higher
Off the Cuff: The Age of Delusion
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

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

  • Fuzzy Fed Math
    • Housing-cost methodology understates true inflation
  • China's Gold Hunger
    • Vacuuming up 50% of total world production
  • Market Madness
    • Any news – good, bad, or worse – drives stock prices higher
Image | Bill Fleckenstein: Hold Tight To Your Gold
Bill Fleckenstein: Hold Tight To Your Gold
by Chris Martenson

 

The bond market is an accident waiting to happen.
 

When the bond market finally does crack, it is going to be one epic nightmare that is going to make 2008 and 2009 seem like a picnic. It will be a different kind of a crisis; but it will be an enormous crisis. These people that are bullish about stocks and bonds and the bond market, they do not understand anything.
Bill Fleckenstein: Hold Tight To Your Gold
 by Chris Martenson

 

The bond market is an accident waiting to happen.
 

When the bond market finally does crack, it is going to be one epic nightmare that is going to make 2008 and 2009 seem like a picnic. It will be a different kind of a crisis; but it will be an enormous crisis. These people that are bullish about stocks and bonds and the bond market, they do not understand anything.
Image | This Gold Slam is a Massive Wealth Transfer from Our Pockets to the Banks
This Gold Slam is a Massive Wealth Transfer from Our Pockets to the Banks
by Chris Martenson

I am very disappointed by, but not surprised at, the latest transfer of wealth to the bankers from everyone else.  The most recent gold bear raid has vastly enriched the bullion bankers, once again, at the expense of everyone trying to protect their wealth from global central bank money printing.

The central plank of Bernanke's magic recovery plan has been to get everybody back borrowing, spending, and "investing" in stocks, bonds, and other financial assets.  But not equally so, as he has been instrumental in distorting the landscape towards risk assets and away from safe harbors.
This Gold Slam is a Massive Wealth Transfer from Our Pockets to the Banks
 by Chris Martenson

I am very disappointed by, but not surprised at, the latest transfer of wealth to the bankers from everyone else.  The most recent gold bear raid has vastly enriched the bullion bankers, once again, at the expense of everyone trying to protect their wealth from global central bank money printing.

The central plank of Bernanke's magic recovery plan has been to get everybody back borrowing, spending, and "investing" in stocks, bonds, and other financial assets.  But not equally so, as he has been instrumental in distorting the landscape towards risk assets and away from safe harbors.
Image | Investors Beware: Market Risks Today Are Higher than Ever
Investors Beware: Market Risks Today Are Higher than Ever
by Chris Martenson

After the shot across the bow in 2008, you might have expected regulators and market participants would use the experience to change for the better, to become more prudent, and to reduce the sorts of risky behaviors that almost crashed the entire system.

Unfortunately, you'd be wrong.
Investors Beware: Market Risks Today Are Higher than Ever
 by Chris Martenson

After the shot across the bow in 2008, you might have expected regulators and market participants would use the experience to change for the better, to become more prudent, and to reduce the sorts of risky behaviors that almost crashed the entire system.

Unfortunately, you'd be wrong.
Image | Let’s Stop Fooling Ourselves: Americans Can’t Afford the Future
Let’s Stop Fooling Ourselves: Americans Can’t Afford the Future
by Chris Martenson

The truth is: The three adult generations in the U.S. are suffering, and their burdens are likely to increase with time. Each is experiencing a squeeze that is making it harder to create value, save capital, and pursue happiness than at any point since WWII. At that point, we were a creditor nation with an economy exploding into dominance on the world stage. Now, however, the U.S. is the largest debtor nation and our economic hegemony is increasingly at seige across a number of fronts.

A continuation of the status quo is a decision to sleepwalk face-first into the constraints hurtling towards us.

Instead, shouldn't we stop fooling ourselves and ask: What should we be doing differently?
Let’s Stop Fooling Ourselves: Americans Can’t Afford the Future
 by Chris Martenson

The truth is: The three adult generations in the U.S. are suffering, and their burdens are likely to increase with time. Each is experiencing a squeeze that is making it harder to create value, save capital, and pursue happiness than at any point since WWII. At that point, we were a creditor nation with an economy exploding into dominance on the world stage. Now, however, the U.S. is the largest debtor nation and our economic hegemony is increasingly at seige across a number of fronts.

A continuation of the status quo is a decision to sleepwalk face-first into the constraints hurtling towards us.

Instead, shouldn't we stop fooling ourselves and ask: What should we be doing differently?
Image | Off the Cuff: Red Sky at Morning
Off the Cuff: Red Sky at Morning
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off the Cuff podcast, Chris and Adam discuss:
Off the Cuff: Red Sky at Morning
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

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