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The purpose of this report is to give readers the essential background to the economic problems in Europe and to bring you up-to-date in what has become a fast-moving situation. At the time of writing, there has been a lull in the news flow, but that does not mean the problems are under control. Far...

Modern investing offers the promise that investors who “do their homework” and use data more intelligently than the herd can gain a valuable edge. But what if the underlying data available to the investing public is fundamentally flawed? The federal government agencies that issue headlin...

I always tell people when they look at their bank account, they think they have got maybe $50,000 in the bank. It says $50,000 CR. Credit. You are a creditor. It is the bank’s property, that $50,000. And they recognize in that document that they owe it to you. So, you have to watch out for that wo...

We are at a key turning moment in history. The actions that we will soon decide to take will be determined by the beliefs we hold. At a time like this, holding the wrong set of beliefs can destroy your wealth, sap your joy, and even prove to be life-shortening. Knowing the ‘right’ sets ...

Every December I write a Year in Review. Last year’s was posted at several sites including Chris Martenson’s [1]. What started as summaries posted for a couple dozen people accrued over 13,000 clicks in total last year. It elicited discussions with some interesting people and several podcast...

Prior to 2008 it was generally understood that the profession hardly merited its claims of its own predictive utility. So the failure to assign enough risk to such a crisis as befell the developed world in 2008 was, frankly, no surprise. But in the aftermath of the crisis, economics, in its professi...

Two weeks ago, Chris Martenson flew to Spain to speak at the 2012 Gold and Silver meeting in Madrid. During the meeting Chris gave his latest, and streamlined version of his popular ‘Crash Course’ titled simply – Unfixable. GoldMoney was a sponsor of the event and recorded the pres...

The global dominant narrative about China is wrong, claims Gordon Chang. Don’t expect it to be the ‘pocketbook of last resort’ that will rescue world markets from their current malaise.  And don’t expect its remarkable economic growth to continue. In fact, expect a “ha...

Around here we like to track things from the outside in, as the initial movements at the periphery tend to give us an early warning of when things might go wrong at the center. It is always the marginal country, weakest stock in a sector, or fringe population that gives us the early warning that t...

On Friday, October 7th, a beautiful blue-sky and warm-ish October day, I went to Zuccotti Park in NYC with Livio Sanchez (film editor) and Debby Brand (camera operator) to see firsthand what Occupy Wall Street was all about and record what we could. What we found were people united by a sense that o...

I do not toss around the idea of a market crash lightly.  If you’ve been following me long enough, you know that only in very rare instances do I issue a cautionary Alert (I’ve only issued four since my website launched in 2008), and I am generally not given to hyperbole. Let’s ...

David Stockman, former US Representative and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Reagan, does not mince words. He sees the monetary systems of the world coming apart. How did we get here? He identifies the root cause as the intentional over-leveraging of world economies by central ...