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The popular TV program Person of Interest starts with the phrase: “You are being watched.”A byproduct of this magnificent information age is that governments, companies, hackers, and...
Back in May, we were about to go to the printer with the June issue of Boom & Bust when I put on the brakes.My team wasn’t happy to hear it since these things take time to put together. But...
Since the invention of the microchip in 1971, the device has multiplied by the trillions at exponentially lower costs, creating more chips per person and a revolution in human communication.Yet people...
I have three step kids. Two are generation X. The youngest is generation Y.Just looking at them, you can tell a clear difference in their personalities and aspirations. My older step kids are more...
This morning we had to face some hard truths. The economy’s beginning to show its true colors.Last month the economy added just 142,000 jobs. August was revised substantially lower to just...
I have an important update regarding how far we could see the market drop in the short days and weeks ahead…I’ve been warning for months that it looks like this bubble may finally be...
I’ve been warning all year about the various signs I see that could be the trigger for the next global financial crisis.The slide in commodity prices… China’s slowing economy and...
Since the financial crisis, central banks have injected trillions of dollars into the global economy. Their goal: to offset the natural downturn from slowing demographic trends and the crushing debt...
There’s a reason why I warn you to get out of a bubble a little early rather than a little late. It’s because the first wave down tends to happen in a matter of a few weeks or months,...
The global economy has $57 trillion more debt now than it did at the last bubble peak in 2008. The energy sector alone has $248 billion in junk bond debt – some of the riskiest debt there...
I’m practically drowning in interviews. I had half a dozen yesterday and even more today. But it’s time to put the word out that the second greatest bull march in history is finally coming...
It’s finally happening. The crash season is upon us.We’ve seen the early signs this week with leading stocks getting the carpet swept out right from underneath them. China’s stocks...
I’ve been to Mumbai about three times in the past decade or so. It’s the most packed city in India. There’s no doubt it’s a magnificent, sprawling city full of wonder. Yet as...
I recently explained that it’s one thing for a central bank to artificially prop up its own stock market. It’s another thing entirely to even imagine doing something similar to falling oil...
I and a few brave experts such as Jim Chanos, Gordon Chang, and David Stockman have been arguing for years that China has the greatest investment and overbuilding bubble in all of modern...
Oil is on a course to test its $42 lows from March, as I’ve said it would. And the way it’s been falling lately, I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens in the next couple of...
I’ve been invited to speak on many media outlets lately, hammering on and on about how this is another bubble. Worse, an artificial one!A bubble occurs naturally when market forces converge....