Hyperdeflation is usually followed by hyperdeflation. Hyperdeflation, as in, what happened last week, to wipe out the banks and the ability of...
Bubble? Where are the stockpiles? Where?? The physical supply and demand balance has never been tighter. Every other bursting bubble has...
Next step is de-correlation of assets and asset classes. In the past week, pretty much all world indicies dropped the same amount, measured in...
I don't know if I'd say 'faked'. But fundamentally flawed. Let's say we both get together tomorrow night for a drink. I lend you $10 to pay...
My theory: the Bush speech will coincide with covert monetary policy action of the Federal Reserve. The Republican propoganda machine will...
Banks need *capital* to back the debt they already have, not more debt right now. People switching from equities to cash makes the problem...
At current prices, farmers aren't pulling any net income. If this deflation continues much longer, the indebted ones will send the keys to the...
Food falling??? Why would farmers spend scarce cash to plant crops when they can buy bonds or equities that have imputed returns that are far...
Corporate bonds are 10%+. RE lending, especially in this environment, should be at a premium to corporate lending. So say the rate is 12% for...
At the rate things are going, AAPL should consider itself lucky if they can even sell fully loaded MacBook Pro's at $800. Nevermind anything...
Most people in manufacturing, engineering, science, or any of those 'forgotten' professions would tell you that we've been in a depression for...
Can you say, "mother of all short squeezes"?
Bullion lenders are increasingly worried about not getting their gold back = high lease rates.
Depends on what they're trying to accomplish. Yes, they could have lowered the rate to 0.5%. But that would perhaps set off large-scale and...
The yield curve is still inverted in the very short term part of the market. Until the yield curve manages to un-invert itself, through either...
Where are we on that chart right now if contemporary currency was backed by gold, as was the case in during the Great Depression?
Banks don't pay interest? What??? Maybe not to retail customers that schlep their piggybanks to $15/hour tellers (but they are paying the...
Seriously though, has anyone actually tried negative interest rates in a modern economy? Negative interest rates should encourage inventory...
Sure...if cash is now so valuable, why on earth should banks store it in their vaults for you for 'free'?
The only person who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about is *you*. Well obviously there are some business continuity concerns, but...
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