Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now? – The Economic Collapse 07-22-15

Salient to Investors: Michael Snyder writes: Global debt is at record highs, too big to fail banks have never been more reckless, and global financial markets have never been more primed for a collapse. Most people lack the patience to wait for long-term trends to play out so if the stock market is

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The Free Market Is Dead – Goldman Says China Is A Buy! – David Stockman’s Contra Corner 07-20-15

Salient to Investors: Michael Pento at Pento Portfolio Strategies writes: In not allowing participants to sell stocks, China has fallen off the free market wagon. The same China that believes that economies grow by building empty cities. China’s actions are the antithesis of capitalism and free markets so it shocking to

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Urgent Warning: 6 Signs the Great Crash Is Upon Us! – David Stockman’s Contra Corner -7-16-15

Salient to Investors: Harry Dent writes: All the signs point to the end of the global bubble. The greatest trigger will be the bursting of the massive, unprecedented China bubble. China’s stock market loss of 35% in less than 30 days signals its stock bubble has peaked: a drop of 30% to 40%

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Billionaire Paul Singer: China Crash Is ‘Way Bigger Than Subprime’ – Bloomberg Business 07-15-15

Salient to Investors: Paul Singer at Elliott Management said China’s debt-fueled stock market crash is way bigger than the US subprime mortgage crisis but may not be enough to cause a global financial market meltdown. Bill Ackman at Pershing Square Capital Mgmt said China is a bigger global threat than Greece by far, their stock

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 06-28-15

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Singapore mandates ethnic diversity in all neighborhoods – over 80% of Singaporeans live in public housing. US efforts in the 50s and 60s to desegregate schools and integrate neighborhoods were largely abandoned by the 80s and America is now strikingly segregated. A UCLA study in 2014 said

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The Warren Buffett Economy – Why Its Days Are Numbered (Part 4) – David Stockman’s Contra Corner 06-15-15

Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: The Fed has generated a $50 trillion financial bubble and made money and capital markets to little more than gambling casinos. Speculative rent-seeking in the financial market has replaced entrepreneurial innovation and supply side investment and productivity, resulting in a severe drop in real growth and a

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 06-14-15

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The cold war between Russia and the West over Ukraine is worsening. Saudi Arabia will not build a nuclear weapon whatever happens with Iran’s nuclear program because it cannot – oil is 44 % and manufacturing less than 10% of GDP. Saudi Arabia could not

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The Warren Buffett Economy – Why Its Days Are Numbered (Part 3) – David Stockman’s Contra Corner 06-11-15

Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: The ratio of finance to GDP has risen to 540% vs. the historic norm of 200%. Central bank driven bubble finance since the late 1980s has resulted in the GDP deflator-adjusted value of corporate equities and credit market debt outstanding rising 8 times, while real median household

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The Warren Buffett Economy – Why Its Days Are Numbered (Part 2) – David Stockman’s Contra Corner 06-10-15

Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: The financial carrying capacity of the developed market economies has deteriorated since the 1980s; due to aging demographics, declining competitiveness v. emerging market economies, declining productivity growth, and the big increase in the leverage ratio against public and private incomes. The US’s ability to

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