
Margin Debt in Freefall Is Another Reason to Worry About S&P 500
• BloombergMost people get concerned about margin debt when it's shooting up. To Doug Ramsey, the problem now is that it's falling too fast.
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Most people get concerned about margin debt when it's shooting up. To Doug Ramsey, the problem now is that it's falling too fast.
WTI Crude is back above $50 to its highest in almost 3 months following a 10%-plus gain on the week (the 2nd best since Jan 2009). This surge has sparked the biggest surge in European and US Oil & Gas stocks since 2008
Economists now see a 15 percent chance of a downturn in the next year
KINGSTON, NY, 7 October 2015--It is official. Global equity markets had their worst quarterly showing since 2011.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke discusses the 2008 financial crisis and his book "The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath."
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke discusses the 2008 financial crisis and his book "The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath."
Peter Schiff joins the Liberty Report to discuss market trends and the bursting bubbles in our future. Where to turn for a safe haven? Europe?
Jobless claims fell by 13,000 to 263,000 in the week ended Oct. 3, the fewest since July 18, a Labor Department report showed Thursday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for 274,000 applications.
Editor's Note: Clearly, not only is there a massive bubble that could send shockwaves through the financial system, but there is such a tidal wave of debt that generations of Americans will be backwards with opportunity, as they struggle to finance
Saudi Arabia announced price cuts to its oil that it is exporting to Asia, in a bid to hold onto market share.
"You Cannot Stop What Is Coming… 25 to 50 Million Dead in 90 Days"
"When in doubt, go to Italy" is the saying.
"When in doubt, go to Italy" is the saying.
Maurice Obstfeld hasn't been chief economist at the International Monetary Fund for a full month yet and he's already being asked if a worldwide recession is looming.
Saudi Net Foreign Assets Down $90 Billion Since Sept. 2014
Three Hedge Funds Shut Down After Summer Rout
Editor's Note: Dr. Richard Ebeling's latest book, Monetary Central Planning and the State, published by the Future of Freedom Foundation, is now available.
"Investors" are so desperate to hold on to short-term paper that they paid $100 for a 3-month Treasury-bill at today's auction.
In previous articles I summed up the immigration problems in Europe and the US as the direct result of an "unlimited demand for free services, free shelter, and free food".
One week ago, after Carl Icahn joined the legion of doomsayers launched in mid-September by none other than the former "balls to the wall" bull David Tepper, we wondered who would be next:
The federal government uses very carefully manipulated numbers to cover up the crushing economic depression that is going on in this nation.
Hedge funds trimmed bullish oil bets for the first time in six weeks, losing faith in a swift recovery as Russia boosted output to the highest since the Soviet Union collapsed.
He is best known for not only bailing out Wall Street from the folly of his and his predecessor's bubble-creating monetary policy and boosting the Fed's balance sheet to $4.5 trillion, but also for the following selection of quotes:
More and more, bond traders are drawing the same conclusion: central bankers globally are coming up short in their attempts to combat the world's economic woes.
The Fed unsurprisingly chickened out from the much touted September hike. International conditions and a disapproval from Mr. Market was enough to unnerve an increasingly bewildered FOMC board.
The probability of a major dollar crisis is very high. Things are mirroring the conditions that existed in 2008 except much worse. (Publisher Recommended)
The world has added approximately $60 Trillion in debt since 2007, much of it sovereign debt created from deficit spending on social programs, wars, and much more.
While the Obama administration and their mainstream surrogates maintain that the economy is growing at a booming pace, the reality of the situation is starkly different.
The 142,000 September payroll jobs reported today (2 Oct 2015) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is too small to be consistent with the still high stock averages or the alleged economic recovery.
ROME – What are we doing in Rome?