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Why The Risk Of A Correction Is So High Right Now
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • How our driven pursuit of “growth” is putting the entire system at risk
  • Why those running the system do NOT have our interests in mind
  • Why a correction risk is so high right now
  • Why our odds keep getting worse

If you have not yet read Part 1: The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

My main message here in Part 2 is to show you why, from my vantage point of following the economy and financial markets daily, things are serious right now.

I trust actions over words; and the Fed’s actions are consistent with a big problem happening somewhere deep in the shadow banking system.

Further, all of the global macro data I track closely is screaming that a slowdown is here.

On top of that, investor confidence in the Fed’s ability to push market prices ever higher is dangerously overextended.

Stock gains have zoomed way ahead of the Fed’s recent excess liquidity, as this chart shows… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Why The Risk Of A Correction Is So High Right Now
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • How our driven pursuit of “growth” is putting the entire system at risk
  • Why those running the system do NOT have our interests in mind
  • Why a correction risk is so high right now
  • Why our odds keep getting worse

If you have not yet read Part 1: The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

My main message here in Part 2 is to show you why, from my vantage point of following the economy and financial markets daily, things are serious right now.

I trust actions over words; and the Fed’s actions are consistent with a big problem happening somewhere deep in the shadow banking system.

Further, all of the global macro data I track closely is screaming that a slowdown is here.

On top of that, investor confidence in the Fed’s ability to push market prices ever higher is dangerously overextended.

Stock gains have zoomed way ahead of the Fed’s recent excess liquidity, as this chart shows… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

Image | The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
by Chris Martenson

The Federal Reserve is now directly monetizing US federal debt.

Sure, it’s not admitting to this. And it’s using several technical jinks and jives to offer a pretense that things are otherwise.

But it’s not terribly difficult to predict what’s going to happen next: the Federal Reserve will drop the secrecy and start buying US debt openly.

At a time, mind you, when US fiscal deficits are exploding and foreign buyers are heading for the exits.
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
 by Chris Martenson

The Federal Reserve is now directly monetizing US federal debt.

Sure, it’s not admitting to this. And it’s using several technical jinks and jives to offer a pretense that things are otherwise.

But it’s not terribly difficult to predict what’s going to happen next: the Federal Reserve will drop the secrecy and start buying US debt openly.

At a time, mind you, when US fiscal deficits are exploding and foreign buyers are heading for the exits.
Image | Grant Williams: A Reset Of The System Is Inevitable
Grant Williams: A Reset Of The System Is Inevitable
by Chris Martenson

While at the New Orleans Investment Conference this past weekend, Chris and I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Grant Williams, publisher of the economic blog Things That Make You Go Hmmm and principal of Real Vision TV.

There will be no smooth transition back to sustained economic growth, he warns

Instead, the distortion of today’s excessive asset prices will require a systemic reset to fix. Either by a deflationary event that destroys the malinvestment, or by an inflationary event that destroys the currency.

Grant Williams: A Reset Of The System Is Inevitable
 by Chris Martenson

While at the New Orleans Investment Conference this past weekend, Chris and I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Grant Williams, publisher of the economic blog Things That Make You Go Hmmm and principal of Real Vision TV.

There will be no smooth transition back to sustained economic growth, he warns

Instead, the distortion of today’s excessive asset prices will require a systemic reset to fix. Either by a deflationary event that destroys the malinvestment, or by an inflationary event that destroys the currency.

Image | A Tower of Debt Begins to Lean
A Tower of Debt Begins to Lean
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • The debt bomb waiting to explode is truly staggering in size
  • Key warning signals we’re approaching a late cycle market crash
  • The Fed’s aggressive actions belie its fear that the system is extremely sick
  • How to use the time left to be on the right side of the coming wealth transfer

If you have not yet read Part 1: The End of Money , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

The Fed is now flat-out lying to us.

Jerome Powell insists that the Fed is not printing more money, is not engaging in QE, and is not directly intervening to make stocks go higher in price. But none of this is true.

In addition, the Fed has reversed course and is steadily cutting rates.  This even as the employment and wage data (if you believe them) have been strong of late.

So what gives? What could be causing this?

Hundreds of billions of dollars, printed and injected at a faster pace than in the depths of the Great Financial Crisis is not exactly a comforting sign.

I am quite certain that something very big is very broken in the background.

Deutsche Bank might be failing.  That’s a distinct possibility here.  Or it could be massive funding flow reversals from… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

A Tower of Debt Begins to Lean
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • The debt bomb waiting to explode is truly staggering in size
  • Key warning signals we’re approaching a late cycle market crash
  • The Fed’s aggressive actions belie its fear that the system is extremely sick
  • How to use the time left to be on the right side of the coming wealth transfer

If you have not yet read Part 1: The End of Money , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

The Fed is now flat-out lying to us.

Jerome Powell insists that the Fed is not printing more money, is not engaging in QE, and is not directly intervening to make stocks go higher in price. But none of this is true.

In addition, the Fed has reversed course and is steadily cutting rates.  This even as the employment and wage data (if you believe them) have been strong of late.

So what gives? What could be causing this?

Hundreds of billions of dollars, printed and injected at a faster pace than in the depths of the Great Financial Crisis is not exactly a comforting sign.

I am quite certain that something very big is very broken in the background.

Deutsche Bank might be failing.  That’s a distinct possibility here.  Or it could be massive funding flow reversals from… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

Image | The End Of Money
The End Of Money
by Chris Martenson

Today we live in a bifurcated economy: it is boom times for some and bust times for others.

Your personal situation depends largely on how close you fall on the socioeconomic spectrum to the protected elite class, towards which the central banks are directing their money-printing firehoses.

Why should we care about this bifurcation? History.
The End Of Money
 by Chris Martenson

Today we live in a bifurcated economy: it is boom times for some and bust times for others.

Your personal situation depends largely on how close you fall on the socioeconomic spectrum to the protected elite class, towards which the central banks are directing their money-printing firehoses.

Why should we care about this bifurcation? History.
Image | Off The Cuff: Central Banks Are Net Buyers Of Gold
Off The Cuff: Central Banks Are Net Buyers Of Gold
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Jeff Clark discuss: Central banks are now net buyers of gold China and India are buying like crazy Why the gold’s prospects haven’t been this good since 2003 Why silver remains the even better bargain at today’s prices Several years ago, Grant Williams famously explained bullion’s…
Off The Cuff: Central Banks Are Net Buyers Of Gold
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Jeff Clark discuss: Central banks are now net buyers of gold China and India are buying like crazy Why the gold’s prospects haven’t been this good since 2003 Why silver remains the even better bargain at today’s prices Several years ago, Grant Williams famously explained bullion’s…
Image | Could Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Actually Save Us?
Could Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Actually Save Us?
by charleshughsmith

The problem is we’re misallocating capital, resources and labor on a vast scale. That’s the problem.

Adding more currency and capacity/”growth” via programs like MMT doesn’t fix this problem; it actually makes it worse.
Could Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Actually Save Us?
 by charleshughsmith

The problem is we’re misallocating capital, resources and labor on a vast scale. That’s the problem.

Adding more currency and capacity/”growth” via programs like MMT doesn’t fix this problem; it actually makes it worse.
Image | Why The Fed Will Fail
Why The Fed Will Fail
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Why we know that something really BIG has the Fed freaking out
  • Why the risk of systemic breakdown is uncomfortably high
  • The key charts that tell the tale: recession ahead!
  • Why, this time, the Fed will fail

If you have not yet read Part 1: The Fed Is Lying To Us , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Touring through the global and domestic US macro economic data, it’s easy to determine that mounting recessionary forces are in play.

Everything from sentiment, import/export data, (the lack of) credit growth, shipping rates — all are in alignment; the economy is weakening.

The responses of the Federal Reserve and Donald Trump are in alignment on one facet of the story; both desperately want the US stock markets to go higher. Trump applies strategic Tweets each day to that effect, and the Fed is printing $2 billion a day in their effort to cause stocks to go higher.

I think they fail this time. Adding up all the data and risks and I clearly see that…(Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

Why The Fed Will Fail
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Why we know that something really BIG has the Fed freaking out
  • Why the risk of systemic breakdown is uncomfortably high
  • The key charts that tell the tale: recession ahead!
  • Why, this time, the Fed will fail

If you have not yet read Part 1: The Fed Is Lying To Us , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Touring through the global and domestic US macro economic data, it’s easy to determine that mounting recessionary forces are in play.

Everything from sentiment, import/export data, (the lack of) credit growth, shipping rates — all are in alignment; the economy is weakening.

The responses of the Federal Reserve and Donald Trump are in alignment on one facet of the story; both desperately want the US stock markets to go higher. Trump applies strategic Tweets each day to that effect, and the Fed is printing $2 billion a day in their effort to cause stocks to go higher.

I think they fail this time. Adding up all the data and risks and I clearly see that…(Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

Image | The Fed Is Lying To Us
The Fed Is Lying To Us
by Chris Martenson

The recent statements from the Federal Reserve and the other major world central banks (the ECB, BoJ, BoE and PBoC) are alarming because their actions are completely out of alignment with what they’re telling us.

Their words seek to soothe us that “everything’s fine” and the global economy is doing quite well. But their behavior reflects a desperate anxiety.

Put more frankly; we’re being lied to.
The Fed Is Lying To Us
 by Chris Martenson

The recent statements from the Federal Reserve and the other major world central banks (the ECB, BoJ, BoE and PBoC) are alarming because their actions are completely out of alignment with what they’re telling us.

Their words seek to soothe us that “everything’s fine” and the global economy is doing quite well. But their behavior reflects a desperate anxiety.

Put more frankly; we’re being lied to.
Image | Off The Cuff: Not-QE & Negative Interest Rates
Off The Cuff: Not-QE & Negative Interest Rates
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss: Deconstructing the Fed’s new Not-QE program What would life under negative US interest rates look like? How the rich are using hard assets to protect their wealth Life strategies for a low-energy future So much ground to cover… John Rubino returns this week…
Off The Cuff: Not-QE & Negative Interest Rates
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss: Deconstructing the Fed’s new Not-QE program What would life under negative US interest rates look like? How the rich are using hard assets to protect their wealth Life strategies for a low-energy future So much ground to cover… John Rubino returns this week…
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