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Another Iconic Deflationist Capitulates: According To Russell Napier, “Control Of Money Supply Has Permanently Left The Hands Of Central Bankers
One by one the world’s legendary deflationists are taking one look at the following chart of the global money supply (as shown most recently by DB’s Jim Reid) and after seeing the clear determination of central banks to spark a global inflationary conflagration, are quietly (and not so quietly) capitulating. One…
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Doug Casey On COVID Brainwashing: “Look, Hysteria Is The Problem; Not The Flu Itself”
Recently, gold bug and investor Doug Casey sat down with Kenneth Ameduri of Crush the Street. Casey jumped right in saying the breakdown of the United States under the boot of tyranny is “actually predictable.” Casey says Western civilization peaked around World War 1, just after the Federal Reserve took over…
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Depositors Beware: Deutsche Bank Warns Trading Revenue Boom Is Ending
With Europe’s benchmark interest rates still staunchly in negative territory, the long-suffering European banks, epitomized by fading German ‘national champion’ Deutsche Bank, have benefited from the surge in trading activity during the first half of 2020 that helped its Q1 results surprise to the upside. But as DB CEO Christian…
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Rabobank: “Markets Are, Across The Board, Totally Divorced From Reality. Facts No Longer Matter”
Make It So! Back in the 1980s, there was a lot of discussion at my college about “post-modernism”. At that point, it was in a strictly cultural sphere. It meant different things to different people, but I personally found enlightenment in the example of Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the starship…
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How Deutsche Bank Helped Con The Public Into Believing In Wirecard
By Tyler Durden More reporting on the Wirecard situation has emerged over the long weekend in the US, and none of it is flattering. As a court-appointed administrator begins the process of managing what’s left of Wirecard through the insolvency process, while doing the best the government can compensate shareholders who were…
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USDA Crop Report Shocker Sends Corn Futures Surging
Chicago corn futures surged 8% in the last two sessions after a massive reduction to the U.S. government’s acreage estimate reported Reuters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) crop report on Tuesday showed farmers planted 92 million acres of corn in 1H20, which was a huge miss in expectations and 5 million acres below the USDA’s March…
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US Bankruptcies Busting Out to Match 2009 Peak Mean Trouble for Stock Market
The following article by David Haggith was published on The Great Recession Blog: Bloomberg reported this week that thirteen US companies (in the 50-million-plus size) filed for bankruptcy last week. That brought the total for the big boys and girls this year to 117, which matches the record peak for the first half…
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Who Is The Next Wirecard?
Now that the multi-year saga of German fintech megafraud Wirecard is finally over, the pain is only just starting for disgraced German regulator BaFin (with the EU launching an investigation into its borderline criminal “regulation” which punished short sellers while never once looking at the real fraud). Also let’s not forget about…
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“Red Flags Galore”: Companies Sold A Mindblowing $113 Billion In Stock In Q2
When it comes to bearish market flow red flags, aggressive selling of stock by corporate insiders is traditionally viewed as the biggest red flag – after all, nobody knows the prospects for their companies better than the people who run them – followed closely by companies selling stock. The logic…
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