After The European Bank Bloodbath, Is Canada Next?
Back in the summer of 2011, when we reported that Canadian banks appear dangerously undercapitalized on a tangible common equity basis… … the highest Canadian media instance, the Globe and…
Another Data Point To Ignore: Dividend Cuts Have Surpassed 2008
Being “paid to wait” in high-yielding stocks last year was a death by 394 cuts. As Bloomberg reports, the number of dividend reductions far surpassed 2008, almost 100 more than…
Ron Paul Slams Government Plan For “Mandatory Depresssion Screening” Of All Americans
Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, The United States Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended mandatory depression screening for all Americans. The task…
Abenomics Fails Miserably As Japan’s Workers “Get Nothing” In 2015
Late last month, in what amounted to a tacit admission that nothing is working when it comes to pulling Japan out of its decades’ long stint in the deflationary doldrums,…
“The Market Knows It’s Over” Jim Rogers Warns “We’re All Going To Suffer”
Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, Back in the 1970’s as recession gripped the world for a decade, stocks stagnated and commodities crashed, investor Jim Rogers made a fortune. His…
This Is What Central Bank Failure Looks Like
From omnipotence to impotence… Peter Pan(ic) is here… NKY is 1000 points below pre-NIRP levels and USDJPY is 4 handles lower (JPY stronger)… Simply put – not only are words…
Guest Post: How To Defeat Your Government
Submitted by Robert Gore via StraightLineLogic.com, In a recent article, “How to Defeat Your Enemies,” we maintained that governments and their people were natural enemies, and that the most powerful…
Japanese Stocks Crash Most Since August Black Monday, 10Y Yields Hit Zero
The total and utter failure of The BoJ continues to accelerate… With Japanese Bank stocks leading the way, now down 25% since NIRP was unleashed (and 32% since the start…
“I Was Far Too Bullish”: Jeremy Siegel Admits Things Are Really, Really Bad Out There
Well, no one ever accused Jeremy Siegel of being bearish, but now he is at least less bullish after witnessing one of the worst Januarys for stocks in history. “I…
“People In The Market For Many, Many Years Have Been Replaced By An Algorithm”
Two years ago, just before Michael Lewis released Flash Boys starting a sharp if brief revulsion against parasitic, predatory High Frequency Trading frontrunners, which delayed Virtu’s IPO by one year,…