Michael Pento

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Contributor since: 19 Oct 2011

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• The Fed’s Slippery Slope

  Published 13 July 2020 | viewed 7,995 times

  We can all be very confident that there will be no change to monetary policy for a very, very long time. But there is a…

• Will The Fed's $2.8 Trillion Bailout Plan Pay Off?

  Published 11 May 2020 | viewed 2,639 times

  Since the Great Recession hit in 2008, central banks have been in the business of keeping insolvent governments from defaulting through the process of pegging…

• The Fed Pledges To Prop Up Economy Until Crisis Subsides

  Published 04 May 2020 | viewed 2,741 times

  My friend Larry Kudlow always says that Profits are the mother's milk of stocks. That used to be true when we had a real economy.…

• America's $16 Trillion Debt Bubble Is About To Burst

  Published 03 December 2019 | viewed 10,553 times

  The stock market has now priced in a perfect resolution for all of its erstwhile perils. Wall Street shills would have you believe that since…

• The Bond Bubble Is Set To Implode

  Published 24 September 2019 | viewed 5,286 times

  The world of fixed income trading has been extremely volatile lately. Rates have not only spiked in the Treasury market but borrowing costs in money…

• Wall Street Unfazed By Recession Fears

  Published 10 September 2019 | viewed 4,097 times

  One of the best examples of Wall Street’s propaganda machine at work is its willingness to dismiss recessionary signals. The inverted yield curve is a…

• The Modern History Of Financial Entropy

  Published 21 May 2019 | viewed 6,475 times

  The global economy began an experiment with fiscal and monetary alchemy when it exited the gold standard almost 50 years ago. In 1971 the USD…

• Is The Global Bond Bubble About To Burst?

  Published 23 April 2019 | viewed 12,161 times

  Historically speaking, a normal Fed tightening cycles consist of raising the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) by 350-425bps. It is at that point that the yield…

• Global Banks Lay Groundwork To Re-Inflate Asset Prices

  Published 19 March 2019 | viewed 3,225 times

  After this latest round of a deflationary recession/depression consummates, global central banks and governments will engage in an epoch battle to re-inflate asset prices such…

• Record 7 Million U.S. Auto-Loans Are Now Delinquent

  Published 25 February 2019 | viewed 3,746 times

  The New York Federal Reserve recently sent out an early Valentine’s Day present to a certain group of individuals. However, this gift wasn’t to overleveraged…

• The Corporate Buyback Bubble Is Bursting

  Published 18 December 2018 | viewed 9,872 times

  The perfect storm of zero percent interest rates that existed concurrently with a debt-disabled economy lured executives at major corporations into a decade-long stock buyback…

• A Decade On: Lessons From Lehman Brothers

  Published 25 September 2018 | viewed 3,431 times

  Global financial services firm Lehman Brother’s stock was in free-fall during the first week of September 2008. After making huge bets in the mortgage securities…

• The Hundred Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis

  Published 07 May 2018 | viewed 3,673 times

  Not too long ago the overwhelming consensus from the perennial Wall Street Carnival Barkers was that investors were enjoying a global growth renaissance that would…

• U.S. Mint Under Fire As Chinese Counterfeits Flood Markets

  Published 12 March 2018 | viewed 5,131 times

  Washington, DC (March 12, 2018) – Congressmen Alex Mooney (R-WV) criticized the United States Mint for its “disappointing and concerning” lack of awareness or action…

• Cryptocurrencies: Modern Day Alchemy

  Published 21 August 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Cryptocurrencies make good currencies, but fail miserably when trying to achieve the status of money. Cryptocurrencies are both created and held electronically inside a virtual…

• Manipulated and Made-up Markets

  Published 12 June 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The economic ruse that is run by Communist China is growing bigger by the day. The formula behind what has been the Great Red Engine…

• Curve Inversion and Chaos to Begin by December 2017

  Published 06 June 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The bounce in Treasury yields witnessed after the election of Donald Trump is now decaying in the D.C. swamp. If the Fed continues to ignore…

• China’s Belt And Road To Nowhere

  Published 30 May 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Moody’s Investors Service downgraded China’s credit rating recently to A1 from Aa3. The rational being that it expects the financial strength of the economy to…

• Markets Should Fear Central Banks More Than Trump

  Published 22 May 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Trump’s economic agenda has become further delayed by what seems like daily leaks from the White House. This may finally bring about the long-awaited equity…

• Bernanke’s Confetti Courage

  Published 16 May 2017 | viewed 0 times

  Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s book titled “The Courage to Act” is now available in paperback. This isn’t a surprise because, after all, his proclivity…