Another Brutal Monday
One of the challenges of managing money is the (increasingly-frequent) need to translate non-financial tragedies into action to protect clients and, yes, profit from the...
Author : DollarCollapse.com
Paris Attacks May Hand Presidency To Marine Le Pen’s Anti-Euro National Front AND Lead To Massive Euro Devaluation
Earlier today, articles started appearing about the rise of France’s right wing, anti-immigration National Front party in recent polls. This wasn’t a surprise given the...
Retail Earnings Disaster Points To Gathering Storm
The big retail chains are generally seen as pretty good barometers of the health of “the consumer.” And since — in today’s late-cycle debt-binge pseudo-capitalism...
Even Small, Well-Run Countries Can’t Escape The Currency War
The old saying “When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled” captures perfectly the dilemma of the world’s non-superpowers. From Brazil to Thailand to non-eurozone Europe,...
This Is How Fossil Fuels Die
Some interesting stories from, of all places, Texas, offer the first clear glimpse of the coming energy revolution. The short version: Combine wind at night,...
Portugal Is Potentially A Very Big Deal
Portugal has entered a phase change, with potentially huge ramifications. After handing a parliamentary majority to a coalition of leftist (i.e., anti-austerity, anti-euro, anti-NATO) parties,...
In A Variable-Rate World, Higher Interest Rates Are A Disaster
US stocks opened down hard today, in part because China released some truly horrendous trade numbers over the weekend, but also because the imminence of...
What Can’t Go On Won’t Go On, Part 1: Corporate Leverage
By now everyone knows the corporate share repurchase story, about how major companies are engineering higher per-share profits and share prices by buying back their...
Mission Creepy: U.S. Puts Boots On The Ground Russia Is Bombing
Russia’s decision to bomb pretty much everyone opposed to Syria’s Assad regime — including the guys the US was training and funding — startled the...
The Fed Just Whacked Corporate Earnings
The markets seemed to like what the Fed had to say yesterday, including the part about definitely, for sure, no kidding around this time raising...