Are We Doomed to Repeat the 2008 Stock Market Crash? As smoke cleared from the 2008 stock market crash, economists emerged from the wreckage questioning everything they knew. They had believed the stock market was destined for balance, that it tended towards stability, but history showed otherwise. The…
Who or what is supporting today’s stock prices? Well, it’s not retail investors. As mentioned in these pages earlier this week, retail investors have withdrawn $17.0 billion from stock mutual funds in the past two months! And institutional investors aren’t buying stocks either, as they have been selling…
A noted short seller is predicting that the U.S. stock market crash is imminent. Founder of research firm Muddy Waters LLC Carson Block, who is known for alleging fraudulent accounting practices in publicly traded Chinese companies, says he remains bearish on the U.S. stock market and described the…
Peter Schiff: Financial Collapse Real Possibility Peter Schiff, CEO and chief global strategist for Euro Pacific Capital, is sounding the alarm bells once again. In a recent interview on Fox Business, Schiff warned that as long as the Federal Reserve keeps bluffing that it’s going to raise interest…
Jim Rogers Delivers Blunt Reality Check to Americans Jim Rogers is foreseeing a severe financial crisis up ahead that could trigger a U.S. stock market crash in 2016. Speaking with CNN, the billionaire investor blamed the global central banks for putting the world economies in jeopardy. Bearing the…
Who or what is triggering the sell-off in the markets? The first weeks of 2016 have been turbulent at best. Nobody can take the blame exclusively. Yet there are distinct market forces that have been liquidating large positions. Among those responsible, the oil-producing countries’ sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)…
Analyst: Stock Market Crash Coming A U.S. stock market crash may be coming this year, as a rapid decline in China’s foreign reserves will cause the Chinese yuan to collapse. At least that’s the word from noted perma-bear, Albert Edwards, global strategist at Societe General. “A renminbi devaluation…