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12th March 2018 Nickolai Hubble

The problem with a property price slowdown

The UK’s property boom is sputtering and stuttering. You should be very worried about what happens next. House prices fell nationally in the last three months reported Halifax. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) house price index hit zero…

28th February 2018 Bill Bonner

The Cab Driver Didn’t Have Shoes

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – Another good day for Wall Street on Monday. The Dow rose more than 300 points. And sources tell Bloomberg that the Fed is ready to accept higher levels of inflation – say, 2.5% – before it…

27th February 2018 Bill Bonner

This Has Predicted Every Market Crash in History

MIAMI – As expected, the stock market seems to be on the mend. After the scare of two weeks ago, prices are firming. And the Fed is giving the economy the all-clear. Bloomberg: “Beyond full employment” is a phrase that…

6th February 2018 Bill Bonner

Death Star Headed for the U.S. Economy

PARIS – “Keep your eye on Friday,” the old-timers used to say. When the pros are worried, they sell on Friday so they can spend the weekend without sweating. When they are confident, they buy on Friday so they don’t…

5th February 2018 Bill Bonner

Bond Panic Spreads

CORK, IRELAND – “U.S. Stocks Drop as Treasury Sell-Off Gains Steam,” was headline news at Bloomberg last Thursday. Meanwhile, bitcoin tumbled toward $8,000, wiping about $100 billion off its market value in just 24 hours. And the price of the…

23rd January 2018 Bill Bonner

Ding Dong… The Witch Ain’t Dead

BALTIMORE – Oh, Dear Reader, imagine our alarm! Feel our pain! We were like the boy who saw on the news that his school was on fire. When we left the office on Friday… the federal government was just hours…

22nd January 2018 Nickolai Hubble

Rosetta Stone predicts financial carnage

The Bayeux Tapestry is coming to Britain. All 70 metres of it. So when can you go and see the embroidered cloth to discover the history of the Norman conquest of England? No, not next week. Not even next month….

27th September 2017 Bill Bonner

Trump can’t stop America from going broke

POITOU, FRANCE – From comedy… to farce… to tragedy. We laugh. We guffaw. And then we wish we hadn’t bought a house in inner-city Baltimore. Already, in Charm City, police helicopters peer into our windows… sirens wail at 3 a.m.……

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