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Question: In a last gasp effort to forestall a recession will negative interest rates become the norm everywhere? Source: You know negative interest rates are bad when… | Sovereign Man

It’s becoming more difficult to ignore the news from around the world. Baltic Dry Index on all time lows, shipping of goods appearing to be in a lull and manufacturing posting poor results. None of this by itself says recession is coming but a multitude of factors starts to mount up against having optimism. We…

Macleod would be classified as a ‘gold bug’ by someone like Harry Dent who views gold as simply a commodity like any other commodity that will suffer from a deflationary economy but he has a very lucid view on a number of things including the prospects of gold. This interview with an American interviewer is just…

Markets everywhere are struggling, everywhere. But manipulation is also clear as derivative traders cover positions. It has nothing to do with economic growth that appears to have stalled globally and this is the issue with the illusion of making money in markets; some may be making money shorting stocks or indices others who need to…

If you get to hear on the TV news OR radio broadcast, you know the ones where they talk to a leading ‘bank economist’ or ‘leading fund manager’, that the US economy is doing just fine and ‘reaching escape velocity’ and that in December the US created a ‘seasonally adjusted’ 292,000 jobs’ take a deep…

Bill Fleckenstein runs his own fund management company Fleckenstein Capital and has been wrong about the market direction for a long time. Maybe this is his time.   Eric King:  “The fantasy is coming to an end but this day had to come, right?” Bill Fleckenstein:  “You’re right, it had to come to an end.  One…

Mike Maloney has published a number of videos about the economic system we live in you can find them on Youtube and they are highly recommended. This is Episode 6. In my recent Articles by Kiwiwatch post ‘Reading the market Soothsayers’ I reviewed the predictions of a couple of well known but non mainstream economic commentators,…

Greg Hunter interviews commentator Bill Holter about his views for 2016. His views are worth listening to

Nomi Prins is a very smart lady and has addressed and advised the very highest of financial officials. Her comments are worth reading   Source: My Financial Road Map For 2016 – Thoughts – Nomi Prins