Michael Pento

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Contributor since: 19 Oct 2011

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• Monetization Without End

  Published 28 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  I have long predicted that our central bank's debt monetization efforts would be of greater quantity and duration than most everyone at the Fed and…

• De-Crowning The Dollar

  Published 21 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The gradual erosion of the U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency has been greatly hastened of late. This is due not only to…

• Raising the Roof on the Debt Ceiling

  Published 07 October 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson weighed in on the budget and debt ceiling gridlock in Washington and offered a solution last week by saying, "I…

• Ready for QE Five? - It's Already Here

  Published 30 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The sad truth is that the primary function of the Fed and Treasury has now become the sustention and expansion of disastrous asset bubbles. In…

• Fed Puts Ceiling on Long-Term Rates

  Published 23 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The President of the Europe's central bank said back in July of 2012 that it would fight rising borrowing costs by doing "whatever it takes"…

• The Credit Crisis: Five Years Past or Five More in the Making

  Published 16 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Wall Street is now reflecting upon the fifth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the start of the Credit Crisis. In fact, most are…

• Cash and Gold are Kings this Fall

  Published 10 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  After being bullish on equities for most of 2013, back on July 16th I warned that the U.S. stock market was due for a significant…

• Fear the Inflation

  Published 04 September 2013 | viewed 0 times

  While officials from the Federal Reserve gather recently in Jackson Hole Wyoming to bemoan that inflation isn't yet high enough for their liking, the truth…

• Will the Last Person to Exit the Treasury Market Please Turn Out the Lights

  Published 26 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Wall Street and Washington love to spread fables that facilitate feelings of bliss among the investing public. For example, recall in 2005 when they inculcated…

• 3 Reasons to Fear the Fall

  Published 12 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  I generally shy away from making time-specific economic and stock market predictions simply because they are extremely difficult to accurately pinpoint. During 2006 I warned…

• Second Half Recovery Predictions Fail Again

  Published 09 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Each of the last five years Wall Street pundits have predicted, and our government has promised, that a second half recovery in the economy will…

• Housing Recovery in Jeopardy

  Published 30 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  A major determinant for U.S. GDP growth is the state of the real estate sector. The construction of new homes contains only small section of…

• Best Days for Gold Still Ahead

  Published 22 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The prevailing mantra on Wall Street is that gold's bull market is now over and it's time to bury precious metals as an investment theme…

• How High Will Interest Rates Go?

  Published 09 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  To best answer the question as to where U.S. Treasury yields are headed in the next quarter or two, it is important to know where…

• Unprecedented Volatility has Begun

  Published 02 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  I have warned investors in the past that the Fed's rapid expansion of credit would cause the U.S. economy to enter a period of unprecedented…

• Baffled Bernanke Sinks Stocks

  Published 25 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The incredibly confused Fed is desperately trying to maintain its unprecedented control over the most important price signal in our economy, which is the level…

• Market Calls Fed's Bluff

  Published 17 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The Fed has recently expressed a desire to begin winding down its Quantitative Easing program in the next few months. This would be the first…

• Here's Your Inflation

  Published 11 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Wall St. Pundits have summarily exculpated Ben Bernanke from the negative effects derived from artificial interest rates and massive increase in the Fed's balance sheet.…

• Low Interest Rate Addictions

  Published 03 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It is amazing so many investors are oblivious to the fact that the developed world is completely addicted to artificially-produced low interest rates. Perhaps that…

• Why Tepper Should Fear the Taper

  Published 22 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Billionaire hedge fund manager, David Tepper, made news this week when he emphatically stated that investors have nothing at all to fear regarding the eventual…