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I’ve written about several leading, lagging, and coincident indicators for the economy over the last year: Stocks, real estate, jobs, GDP – each says a different thing about the economy....

In a recent update I gave six signs of an impending crash. Just today we have a number of those signs starting to hit.Despite a $486 billion fund to prop up its market, China’s stocks sunk...

You’ve probably seen the Jack Link’s Beef Jerky commercials where unsuspecting campers think it would be fun to mess with Sasquatch – an eight-foot tall, 400-lb. freak of nature.I...

I’ve been stressing several different triggers that could cause the next great crash and depression, after over six years of non-stop stimulus and bubble denial. They are: the faults in southern...

Europe has extended deadline after deadline to strike a deal with Greece. It’s been a massive display of tensions across the euro zone – between Germans and Greek, the northern countries...

When a business closes and gets kicked out of its building, it’s common for another business to sign a lease… especially on valuable real estate. But this might be one of the weirdest...

They call it an oil glut for a reason.There is too much oil in the system today. The U.S. fracking revolution has added four million barrels of oil to the global supply per day. But that’s just...

The Fed has delayed a rate hike yet again. It seems convinced the economy isn’t ready to survive on higher short-term rates. So we continue to see zero rates to stimulate more economic activity....

423,000 in November. 257,000 in January. 223,000 in April. 280,000 in May. Economists are acting like the new normal in monthly jobs growth is 200,000-plus. They’re celebrating a 5.5%...

The U.S. stock market has finally hit a speed bump after more than six years of a Fed- and QE-driven rally. The S&P 500 is up 232% since March of 2009, despite this unprecedented stimulus in the...

Someone rings the bell at 9:30 a.m. and gets the hell out of the way. All types of chaos erupt from second-to-second. Everyone knows, in real-time, what they made or lost.Users drive the system. Not...

Most commentary on the housing markets — from the industry, from analysts, from the media — all give the impression that the housing crisis is well behind us. One economist in U.S. News...

Recent statistics show that the affluent are rapidly slowing in their spending. Economists are surprised, as usual. We’re not. The beauty of demographic trends is that they allow us to see...

France was in a bind.In the early 1700s, the country had run up astronomical debts from endless wars with the British. They needed money… desperately. So, John Law — the first central...

In today’s global monetary system, money is created out of thin air — like magic — but it can disappear even faster.As I explained in a webinar for our Boom & Bust Elite...

I have been touting a major top in stocks, especially in the Dow and the largest small-cap index, the Russell 2000.With each new bubble, we reach higher highs, and then crash to lower lows. It’s...