Stock Market Expectations & Realities For 2015
There are good points and bad points to where we currently are in the stock market. What are the expectations and realities for the stock market of 2015… Watch below…
Monthly Archives: January 2015
US And Canadian Expatriates Comment On US Healthcare
I have a couple more emails from readers in response to Single-Payer “Medicare for All” Proposal; Live and Let Die; Why Does Single-Payer “Work” in Europe? Comments From a US Expatriate Reader David a US citizen living in Europe writes … Hi Mish, I am a native born US citizen who has worked mainly outside of…
Wow, They Really Are Tapering
In the sound-money community there is universal skepticism about the Fed’s plan to stop monetizing the world’s debt. Hardly anyone thinks they’ll go through with it and absolutely no one thinks they’ll succeed if they do. But the Fed is acting like it’s serious. Take a look at the monetary base, which is the amount…
11 Predictions Of Economic Disaster In 2015 From Top Experts All
Will 2015 be a year of financial crashes, economic chaos and the start of the next great worldwide depression? Over the past couple of years, we have all watched as global financial bubbles have gotten larger and larger. Despite predictions that they could burst at any time, they have just continued to expand. But just…
Bear Of The Day: EQT Corporation
Many investors have been focused in on the oil crash of 2014 as prices for the important commodity have basically been halved in the year. Yet many investors might not realize that even with a chilly start to 2015 across much of the nation, natural gas prices remain subdued as well. In fact, natural gas…
Energy Price Declines Not Limited To Oil
With all the focus on falling crude oil prices (chart below) as well as sharp reductions in the cost of gasoline (including retail), jet fuel, and heating oil, it’s easy to miss the fact that prices of other energy products have been hit quite hard as well. Source: barchart Here are a few examples: 1. US natural gas price…
Forecast 2015 — Life In The Breakdown Lane
“Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you,” Satchel Paige famously warned. For connoisseurs of civilizational collapse, 2014 was merely annoying, a continued pile-up of over-investments in complexity with mounting diminishing returns, metastasizing fragility, and no satisfying resolution. So we enter 2015 with greater tensions than ever before and therefore the likelihood that…
Another January Swoon In Store? – Weekly Market Outlook
Barring a big move on Monday, the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 isn’t going to be the beneficiary of a so-called Santa Claus rally. The S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) is now down 1.1% since the Christmas break, versus the average 1.8% gain we usually see during this period of the year. That,…
Minimum Wage Increases In The Wake Of WW II
Some people have fixated upon the near doubling of the minimum wage after WW II (one person misidentifies the date as 1948, but it’s actually 1950) as a cause of disemployment in certain groups. This may have happened; however, the increase in the minimum wage from $0.40 to $0.75 was not associated with a decrease…
Japanese Stocks Tumble 350 Points From Friday Highs, JPY 119 Hand
USDJPY tumbles to a 119 handle briefly before Japan opened to its normal JPY-selling spike temporarily lifted the pair ‘off the lows’. This drop dragged stock futures lower with Nikkei 225 tumbling over 350 points from its Friday trading highs. Oil prices continue to slide (WTI now with a $51 handle) and EURUSD is bouncing back from…