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Subprime Spikes Auto Sales, Delinquencies Soar, Industry in Total Denial, Fallout to Hit Main Street
New vehicle sales in the US have been on a tear in 2014, rising to 16.5 million units, the highest since banner year 2006. General Motors CEO Mary Barra sees “still plenty of room for the auto industry to grow.”…
Morgan, Macleod, Murphy Round Table- Most Historic Mania Stampede Ever By 2016?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download David Morgan, Alasdair Macleod, & Bill Murphy join The Doc & Eric Dubin this week for a special Precious Metals Round Table edition of Metals & Markets, discussing: Is JPMorgan sourcing silver by the warehouseload- directly from the miners via…
OUTLOOK 2015 – Uncertainty, Volatility, Possible Reset, Diversify!
OUTLOOK 2015 – Uncertainty, Volatility, Possible Reset, Diversify! Introduction Gold – Positives and Negatives Ultra Loose Monetary Policies Globally Risk of Bail-Ins in 2015 and Beyond Currency and Gold Wars Eurozone Debt Crisis Again – ‘Grexit’ and ‘PIIGS’ Global Debt…
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2015: The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss
In 1967, the rock group Buffalo Springfield recorded a song titled For What It’s Worth which speaks not just to the late 1960s but to the present. Consider the opening lines: There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly…
Savage Murder In Paris Shows Freedom, Western Societies and Economies Vulnerable
Savage Slaughter In Paris Shows West and Freedom Itself Vulnerable The savage attacks on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, in Paris leaving 12 dead yesterday shows how vulnerable western societies and economies are to the twin threats of terrorism and…
Is the ex Anglo banker Drumm insolvency ruling a side show for the plebs?
It will be interesting to see how the secretive Irish 1%’s Slush fund NAMA and the IBRC (the State owned rebranding of Anglo Irish Bank) will respond to the US Drumm insolvency ruling? Is it a side show for the…
2015: Asymmetric Oil Warfare
Let’s consider some examples of potential asymmetric-warfare tactics as they relate to the price of oil. The world has habituated to the never-ending undeclared war over ownership and access to hydrocarbons. Now we are entering a new phase of asymmetric…
Oil-Bust Bloodletting: Projects Cancelled, Layoffs Ripple to Other Areas, Default Hits Private-Equity and Pension Funds
Drilling for oil these days is all about endless amounts of no-questions-asked cheap money. And now, as the price of oil plunges relentlessly, the cheap money is drying up faster than ceiling paint. At these prices, the entire North American…