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Off The Cuff: The Global Flow Of Money

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss: Cultural Capital How will those around you react during a crisis? The Fragility Within Our Centralized System Lots of dependencies that can fail & bring the entire system to a halt Musical Chairs Who will have to eat the bad debts when…

Off The Cuff: The Global Flow Of Money

PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

2016 Year In Review

by David Collum

Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed "Year in Review" synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year's is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It's quite longer than our usual posts, but worth the time to read in full.

2016 Year In Review

by David Collum

Off The Cuff: Rate Hike!

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by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss:

Rate Hike!
- Implications of last week's Fed announcement
Why Are Stocks Still Partying?
- Shouldn't a rate hike spook investors?
The Trump Effect
- What to expect economically from the new president
Cash, Gold & ???
- What to hold going into 2017

Well, it finally happened. After threatening a year ago to hike rates 4 times in 2016, the Fed squeaked in a single buzzer-beating hike last week. The move surprised few, as the predicted odds of the hike among market followers were 100%. Yet the markets still managed to shrug this off and move higher (typically, a rise in rates is seen as 'applying brakes' to the economy, and tends to cause investors to feel less confident in future earnings growth).

Here to talk about the implications of the recent hike, the probabiliy of more to come in 2017, and the shellacking the precious metals have been subject to, is Axel Merk…

Off The Cuff: Rate Hike!

PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss:

Rate Hike!
- Implications of last week's Fed announcement
Why Are Stocks Still Partying?
- Shouldn't a rate hike spook investors?
The Trump Effect
- What to expect economically from the new president
Cash, Gold & ???
- What to hold going into 2017

Here to talk about the implications of the recent hike, the probabiliy of more to come in 2017, and the shellacking the precious metals have been subject to, is Axel Merk…

The Weighted Average Cost Of Capital

by Adam Taggart

Get ready to live in an era of rising interest rates. It’s going to be unfamiliar territory for all of us…

The Weighted Average Cost Of Capital

by Adam Taggart

Get ready to live in an era of rising interest rates. It’s going to be unfamiliar territory for all of us…

Off The Cuff: Topping Markets

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by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss: The Rush To War Tensions with Russia continue to mount Odds Of A Fed Hike Rising? Even if the Fed wants to, can it? Recession Warning Signs It's getting harder to argue we're not already in one Topping Markets To keep them elevated,…

Off The Cuff: Topping Markets

PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Hell To Pay

by Chris Martenson

Those familiar with my writing know I put the word “markets” in quotes because we no longer have a financial system where legitimate price discovery is a regular — or even recognizable — feature.

It's destined to fail. What more can be said about such a flawed system?

Well, a lot as it turns out.

And failure to pay attention at this stage of economic and ecological history will prove to be exceptionally painful.

Hell To Pay

by Chris Martenson

It's destined to fail. What more can be said about such a flawed system?

Well, a lot as it turns out.

And failure to pay attention at this stage of economic and ecological history will prove to be exceptionally painful.

Michael Pento: The Coming Bond Bubble Collapse

by Chris Martenson

In this week's podcast, Michael Pento, fund manager and author of The Coming Bond Bubble Collapse, explains how the United States is fast approaching the end stage of the biggest asset bubble in history. He describes how the bursting of this bubble will cause a massive interest rate shock that will send the US consumer economy and the US government—pumped up by massive Treasury debt—into bankruptcy, an event that will send shockwaves throughout the global economy:

Michael Pento: The Coming Bond Bubble Collapse

by Chris Martenson

Recent Chris Appearances In The Media

by Chris Martenson

Chris has been in high demand over the past few weeks, as media outlets try to make sense of the options available to the Federal Reserve at this point. More and more, the confidence in the asset price bubbles blown by the Fed's "endless easing" policy is coming under scrutiny by the average observer.

How much longer can it continue? What are the long-term societal costs of this central bank intervention?

And more important: What will trigger the return to higher interest rates? (and thereby, the puncturing of the bubbles blown by the Fed) And what will the repercussions be?

Recent Chris Appearances In The Media

by Chris Martenson

How much longer can it continue? What are the long-term societal costs of this central bank intervention?

And more important: What will trigger the return to higher interest rates? (and thereby, the puncturing of the bubbles blown by the Fed) And what will the repercussions be?

If Everything’s Doing So Great, How Come I’m Not?

by charleshughsmith

Whether it's struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living, a 0% return on savings, working longer hours while real wages stagnate, scrimping to pay back education loans, despairing at the abuses of power in our banking and political systems, or lamenting the loss of nourishing social interaction in our increasingly isolated and digital lifestyle — most "regular" people find their own personal experiences to be at odds with the rosy "Everything is awesome!" narrative trumpeted by our media.