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Have We Reached Peak Wall Street?
by charleshughsmith

Though the mainstream financial media and the blogosphere differ radically on their forecasts—the MFM sees near-zero systemic risk while the alternative media sees a critical confluence of it—they agree on one thing: the Federal Reserve and the “too big to fail” (TBTF) Wall Street banks have their hands on the political and financial tiller of the nation, and nothing will dislodge their dominance.

But what id Wall Street’s power has peaked and is about to be challenged by forces that it has never faced before? Put another way,what if the power of Wall Street has reached a systemic extreme where a decline or reversal is inevitable?
Have We Reached Peak Wall Street?
 by charleshughsmith

Though the mainstream financial media and the blogosphere differ radically on their forecasts—the MFM sees near-zero systemic risk while the alternative media sees a critical confluence of it—they agree on one thing: the Federal Reserve and the “too big to fail” (TBTF) Wall Street banks have their hands on the political and financial tiller of the nation, and nothing will dislodge their dominance.

But what id Wall Street’s power has peaked and is about to be challenged by forces that it has never faced before? Put another way,what if the power of Wall Street has reached a systemic extreme where a decline or reversal is inevitable?
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David Stockman: We’ve Been Lied To, Robbed, and Misled
by Adam Taggart

David Stockman, former director of the OMB under President Reagan, former US Representative, and veteran financier is an insider's insider. Few people understand the ways in which both Washington DC and Wall Street work and intersect better than he does.

In his upcoming book, The Great Deformation, Stockman lays out how we have devolved from a free market economy into a managed one that operates for the benefit of a privileged few. And when trouble arises, these few are bailed out at the expense of the public good.

By manipulating the price of money through sustained and historically low interest rates, Greenspan and Bernanke created an era of asset mis-pricing that inevitably would need to correct.  And when market forces attempted to do so in 2008, Paulsen et al hoodwinked the world into believing the repercussions would be so calamitous for all that the institutions responsible for the bad actions that instigated the problem needed to be rescued — in full — at all costs. 
David Stockman: We’ve Been Lied To, Robbed, and Misled
 by Adam Taggart

David Stockman, former director of the OMB under President Reagan, former US Representative, and veteran financier is an insider's insider. Few people understand the ways in which both Washington DC and Wall Street work and intersect better than he does.

In his upcoming book, The Great Deformation, Stockman lays out how we have devolved from a free market economy into a managed one that operates for the benefit of a privileged few. And when trouble arises, these few are bailed out at the expense of the public good.

By manipulating the price of money through sustained and historically low interest rates, Greenspan and Bernanke created an era of asset mis-pricing that inevitably would need to correct.  And when market forces attempted to do so in 2008, Paulsen et al hoodwinked the world into believing the repercussions would be so calamitous for all that the institutions responsible for the bad actions that instigated the problem needed to be rescued — in full — at all costs. 
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How the Market Failure Will Happen
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • The central-planning Status Quo will fight to the bitter end in order to keep stock and housing prices elevated
  • HFT algorithms dramatically increase the odds of immediate "air pockets" in stock prices
  • Persistently high gasoline prices are choking economic growth
  • A parade of economic headwinds (weakening GDP growth, higher taxes, the impact of Obamacare, sequester cuts, chronic unemployment) are blowing increasingly stronger
  • Powerful TBTF ("too-big-to-fail') interests are likely supporting the Fed's current efforts to boost asset prices
  • Both near-term and long-term history tell us that the more asset prices are artificially increased, the farther they eventually fall, as intervention hits its point of diminishing returns
  • Why you don't want to be long in this market when that happens

If you have not yet read Part I: Warning: Stocks Likely to Crater from Here, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Hey, Where's My Cheap Gasoline?

Expensive energy is a serious drag on economic growth.  It always has been and always will be, for obvious reasons.

The average person can be forgiven for being confused by the recent spike in gasoline prices. Since early 2012, there has been a concerted effort to tell the tale that the U.S. is producing more oil than it has in a long time and is on track to rival Saudi Arabia.  

Literally hundreds of articles have breathlessly repeated the same information over and over again, like all good marketing programs should.  But here in 2013, gasoline is on track to set price records and possibly make this year the most expensive one in history for gas prices: 

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How can this be? What is going on? How do we reconcile all the reports of record-breaking advances in U.S. oil production with these concurrent record-high gasoline prices?

The answer starts with the fact that the U.S. still imports 40% of its daily oil supply and is nowhere near energy independence when it comes to petroleum. This means that the U.S. remains wedded to the world price of oil, which remains quite elevated in price – with Brent crude remaining stubbornly elevated between $110 and $120 a barrel over the majority of the past year…

How the Market Failure Will Happen
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • The central-planning Status Quo will fight to the bitter end in order to keep stock and housing prices elevated
  • HFT algorithms dramatically increase the odds of immediate "air pockets" in stock prices
  • Persistently high gasoline prices are choking economic growth
  • A parade of economic headwinds (weakening GDP growth, higher taxes, the impact of Obamacare, sequester cuts, chronic unemployment) are blowing increasingly stronger
  • Powerful TBTF ("too-big-to-fail') interests are likely supporting the Fed's current efforts to boost asset prices
  • Both near-term and long-term history tell us that the more asset prices are artificially increased, the farther they eventually fall, as intervention hits its point of diminishing returns
  • Why you don't want to be long in this market when that happens

If you have not yet read Part I: Warning: Stocks Likely to Crater from Here, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Hey, Where's My Cheap Gasoline?

Expensive energy is a serious drag on economic growth.  It always has been and always will be, for obvious reasons.

The average person can be forgiven for being confused by the recent spike in gasoline prices. Since early 2012, there has been a concerted effort to tell the tale that the U.S. is producing more oil than it has in a long time and is on track to rival Saudi Arabia.  

Literally hundreds of articles have breathlessly repeated the same information over and over again, like all good marketing programs should.  But here in 2013, gasoline is on track to set price records and possibly make this year the most expensive one in history for gas prices: 

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How can this be? What is going on? How do we reconcile all the reports of record-breaking advances in U.S. oil production with these concurrent record-high gasoline prices?

The answer starts with the fact that the U.S. still imports 40% of its daily oil supply and is nowhere near energy independence when it comes to petroleum. This means that the U.S. remains wedded to the world price of oil, which remains quite elevated in price – with Brent crude remaining stubbornly elevated between $110 and $120 a barrel over the majority of the past year…

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Gold’s Regular Morning Mugging
by Adam Taggart

Not everyone is a morning person. And few people like Mondays.

But if you're a precious metals investor, mornings – especially Mondays – are brutal.

The Evidence

The precious metals are routinely sold off at or soon after the 8am morning open of the New York NYMEX exchange.

Below are the daily gold price charts (source: Kitco) for each Monday (or Tuesday, if Monday was a holiday) since early this year. The current day's gold price is noted by the bright green line. The morning takedown is highlighted by the orange oval.

Gold’s Regular Morning Mugging
 by Adam Taggart

Not everyone is a morning person. And few people like Mondays.

But if you're a precious metals investor, mornings – especially Mondays – are brutal.

The Evidence

The precious metals are routinely sold off at or soon after the 8am morning open of the New York NYMEX exchange.

Below are the daily gold price charts (source: Kitco) for each Monday (or Tuesday, if Monday was a holiday) since early this year. The current day's gold price is noted by the bright green line. The morning takedown is highlighted by the orange oval.

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