Doug Wakefield

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• The Big Nasty D(eflation) Word Is Here

  Published 22 September 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Nomi Prins latest book, All the Presidents Bankers, allows the reader a glimpse into the comments and actions of those sitting at the highest levels…

• The Stock Nirvana Has Been Broken

  Published 21 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Is it possible to have a calm and boring market break down quickly in merely two trading days? Is it possible that THIS is the…

• The Troika Loan Shark Stock Rally

  Published 31 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  July has turned out to be a very volatile month for stocks, whether Asia, Europe, US, or worldwide. Every time it appeared that something from…

• The End of Dow 18,000; Bailouts No Longer Extended

  Published 01 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Eurogroup Says Greece Bailout Program Will Not Be Extended And Will Expire on June 30, ABC News, June 27, 2015 Greece Debt Crisis: Banks to…

• Flatline Investing and Dead End Debt Schemes

  Published 26 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Next Tuesday is the end of the first half of 2015. As of today, the Dow has once again rallied up to break the magical…

• Selling Out: Ignoring Corruption for The Temporary Wealth Image

  Published 16 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  "What happens to price in a bidless market? It goes off a cliff.... Investors in stocks, bonds, and real estate are being herded off the…

• When the Nuclear Money Option Fails

  Published 24 April 2015 | viewed 0 times

  "To combat the economic fallout caused by the credit crisis (07-08), countries have allowed their fiscal deficits to increase dramatically. In order to pay the…

• Investment Parachutes; Do You Have Yours?

  Published 27 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  "After twenty minutes, a bell rings and a commander jumps to the end of the line of us and takes the yellow cord from the…

• Free Money; What Could Go Wrong?

  Published 13 March 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Source - Debt and (not much) deleveraging, McKinsey Global Institute, Feb '15 Isn't all of this QE (quick and easy) money great? When the Federal…

• To Create Unlimited Liquidity or Not; That Is the Question

  Published 30 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  "On October 15, 2014 between 9:33 and 9:45, liquidity evaporated in Treasury futures and prices skyrocketed (causing yields to plummet). Five minutes later, prices returned…

• Messin' With My Financial Brain

  Published 17 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Why is it that unlike anything else we purchase in our daily life, our brains are naturally hardwired to believe that when investment prices move…

• 10 years of 'Why Sell Now?'

  Published 11 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  While finding the end of the largest financial bubble in history has proved very illusive over the last three years for some of the most…

• Destroy A Currency, Extend A Rally

  Published 08 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  What was I thinking? Goodbye All Time Highs? I must have lost my mind to have forgotten that central bankers have unlimited tools to inflate…

• The Gallery of Crowd Behavior: Goodbye All Time Highs

  Published 24 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  "Complex Systems that have artificially suppressed volatility tend to become extremely fragile, while at the same time exhibiting no visible risks. In fact, they tend…

• A History of Unlimited Money: Learn From It or Repeat Its Mistakes

  Published 28 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Thursday, August 28, 2014. Is there anything special about this day? For some it may be an anniversary, marriage or work. For others it may…

• The Three Stocketeers: One for All and...

  Published 01 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Between October 4, 2011, and July 3, 2014, the broadest measure of publicly traded US stock wealth climbed $9.9 trillion. When one considers that as…

• The Yuan Stops Here

  Published 15 July 2014 | viewed 0 times

  My fellow Americans. Did you notice in the last few months, that China has been establishing agreement after agreement with various major financial centres around…

• Two Worlds Collide: The Financial/Political Elephant

  Published 19 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Source - Seen on the New Donetsk Republic Leader's Wall...., Zero Hedge, May 12 "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can…

• Two Worlds Collide: Financial and Political Manipulation Accepted

  Published 08 May 2014 | viewed 0 times

  "Federal Reserve policy is at a crossroads facing unpleasant paths in all directions. Monetary policy around the world has reached the point where the contradictions…

• Always Bet On Black

  Published 19 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Do you remember the following headline from the fall of 2011? "In the Absence of a Credible Plan We Will Have A Global Financial Meltdown…