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Download Report a Problem

The Company Store

Leaves almost nothing to live on

by cmartenson

Friday, May 3, 2019, 1:33 PM

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The scam enabled by today’s financial ““markets”” coupled with lots of easy cheap credit flowing to big monied interests is every bit as egregious as the company store of old; only today’s victims are mostly blind to the way that the system is rigged against them.

Run this scam long enough and one day we’ll discover that the banks and their proxy agents — private equity funds, hedge funds, endowments, and family offices, etc — own all of the productive farmland, all of the mines, all of the oil wells, all of the timberland, and every other means of primary wealth production.

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Off The Cuff LIVE!

Axel Merk, John Rubino & Wolf Richter together on stage

by Adam Taggart

Thursday, May 2, 2019, 10:37 AM

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What’s better than an Off The Cuff with John Rubino? Or Wolf Richter? Or Axel Merk?

How about one with ALL of them?

That’s what attendees of last weekend’s Peak Prosperity annual seminar were able to enjoy, live on stage.

This meeting of the minds was the first time Axel, Wolf and John had ever met one another in person. And the idea-exchange that ensued was pure magic.

For this week’s Off The Cuff, we’re giving you a huge treat. A chance to watch these great thinkers in action.

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The Fed Is Dangerously Wrong

It's reaction to its failed policy? We just need to do more!

by cmartenson

Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 7:24 AM

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More voices are starting to join ours in criticizing the Fed.

More and more prominent people from the world of finance and politics are beginning to realize that the Fed’s actions have benefitted the few at the expense of the many.

The 0.01% has gained enormously, while the bottom 80% have lost ground. This deeply unfair outcome is increasingly becoming politicized, meaning that the Fed’s era of free reign to shovel ever more money to their Too Big To Fail bank owners and the ultra-wealthy is coming to a close.

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The Bull(y) Rally

Something unnatural is going on

by Adam Taggart

Sunday, April 14, 2019, 3:00 PM

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“A bully is always a coward.”

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The current market rally is like a playground bully; shoving to the ground anyone in its path.

But like all bullies, the braggadocio belies an underlying cowardice.

Those in charge of the status quo must be absolutely terrified to resort to the unnatural lengths they are going to right now to keep the current rally intact.

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Off The Cuff: Inflationary Pressures Are Rising

Wage growth, other factors, now pushing inflation higher

by Adam Taggart

Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 4:47 PM

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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss:

Powell's Non-Message

He's trying to be as boring as possible to keep the markets placid

Rising Inflation

We may quickly go from “too little” inflation to “too much”

Good Times?

Many of the metrics the Fed looks at are still green

The Boeing Crash & Energy

Why one is related to the other

Fresh off his own reaction to Jerome Powell's appearance on 60 Minutes, Chris sits down with Fed watcher Axel Merk to hear his seasoned perspective on the central bank's future moves:

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Hair-Trigger Markets

Bull market liftoff? Or bear rally rollover?

by Adam Taggart

Saturday, March 16, 2019, 10:33 PM

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The market looks very much paused at the brink of a breakout here. The question is: up or down?

The bulls are expecting a sharp rebound in GDP from Q1, which they claim was artificially low due the government shutdown. They point to 2018's solid 3% economic growth, claiming the US is humming along fine and about to get a shot of adrenaline once America and China announce an end to their trade war. In their eyes, the S&P is poised to rocket higher once it punches vigorously above 2820.

The bears see a topping out of a classic bear market rally, one that has been propelled by no convincing fundamentals — only central bank jawboning/easing and continued massive buyback programs (plus this week's rare Quad Witch options expiration). They see an extremely overbought market, with stocks ready to break down to new lows for the year.

Which way will thing break?

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Peak Prosperity

VIDEO: The Fed Stooges

Laughing (and crying) at the recent '60 Minutes' interview

by Adam Taggart

Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 6:39 PM

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On Sunday night, 60 Minutes treated the American public to a sit-down interview with the current Federal Reserve chairman and his two immediate predecessors.

Hilarity ensued.

Not really…unless you enjoy gallows humor.

In the below video, Chris explains why this relatively gentle puff-piece assisting the Fed's hawking of its “All is well!” message is an intentional soporific, designed to keep the populace slumbering in ignorance of the extreme danger reckless central bank monetary policy has placed society in.

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Off The Cuff: Bad Assumptions = Bad Outcomes

Both the market & the Fed are making dangerous assumptions

by Adam Taggart

Thursday, February 28, 2019, 8:20 AM

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In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Wolf Richter discuss:

The Market Is Making Some Dangerous Assumptions

Right now it’s confident the Fed won’t hike this year. But will that be the case?

A Rate Surprise Would Shock The Markets

But the massive rebound seen since Jan supports hiking

Higher Rates Would Help The Fed Address The Coming Recession

Yet another reason rates can still go up

But There’s No Guarantee The Fed Can Ride To The Rescue

One day its stimulus will stop working, no matter how large

There’s been a lot of releases from the Federal Reserve lately which Chris and Wolf deconstruct here. Wolf is of the mind that the markets are interpreting the Fed’s recent dovish moves as complete capitulation. He’s not so sure about that — he thinks the Fed will raise rates if given the opportunity. And the massive market recovery since the start of the year is giving it more and more validation for further hikes. So Wolf warns that the market could be in for a nasty surprise should the Fed hike later this year.

But he also warns that the Fed is guilty of making some shaky assumptions of its own. Here he explains why its stimulus playbook may not work as expected when the next recession arrives:

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We're Living In 'The Groundhog Show'

In which our leaders make the same mistakes over & over

by cmartenson

Friday, February 22, 2019, 3:48 PM

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It's said that truth mirrors fiction. I'm finding this to be the case more and more these days.

Take the 1993 comedy Groundhog Day. Bill Murray wakes up each day to relieve the exact same daily circumstances and interpersonal interactions. He relives the same day, February 2, over and over again.No matter what he does, the repetitive cycle won't break. He goes to sleep, wakes up to his alarm, and it's the morning of Feb 2 again.

Likewise, in The Truman Show, Jim Carrey lives in a simulated environment where everybody's an actor in a popular TV show except him. For him, it’s his real life. But although he doesn't realise it, everything around him is completely scripted and fake.

If merge these two movies together, they perfectly describe the world in which we live today. Welcome to Groundhog Day meets The Truman Show. Let’s call this mash-up The Groundhog Show.

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Off The Cuff: When Does The System Break?

Where's the line where inflation will become hyperinflation?

by Adam Taggart

Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 10:13 AM

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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss:

When Does The System Break?

When will (hyper)inflation become the greater risk?

When Will The Central Banks Lose Control?

Their intervention is becoming increasingly desperate

Recession & Debt Exhaustion

These are limits that can't be 'printed away' forever

The Rise Of Authoritarianism

More countries are giving the State more power

One of the most frequent questions we're asked here at Peak Prosperity is: When does all this blow up? When do the sins of the past — rampant debt/deificit spending, monetary meddling, cronyism, lies & propaganda, resource despoilage — catch up with us and force a day of reckoning?

Well, in this week's podcast, Chris and John Rubino bravely attempt to answer. Their conclusions aren't pretty; it's better we be forewarned of the risks than slam into them blindly.

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