Michael Pento

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• Real Estate Bubble Part II

  Published 23 May 2016 | viewed 0 times

  It shouldn't be hard to understand that nearly 90 months of ZIRP has regenerated the equity and real estate bubbles that first pushed the global…

• Why Puerto Rico Defaulted and Greece Did Not

  Published 16 May 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico is in the throes of a debt crisis that recently reached a breaking point when it missed a $422…

• Japan: An Economy of Zeros

  Published 09 May 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The red sun on the flag of Japan symbolizes its position as the land of the rising sun. However, during WWII that round shape was…

• Save the Environment and Your Retirement: Sell Tesla

  Published 04 May 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The stock price of Tesla Motors (TSLA) has soared along with the recent announcement that pre-orders (i.e. a fully-refundable $1k deposit) for its Model 3…

• Stocks or Dollar About to Enter a Bear Market

  Published 20 April 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The first month and a half of 2016 were brutal for the U.S. equity market, as the major averages plunged over 10%. The culmination of…

• Time to Invest for Stagflation

  Published 11 April 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Whether you call it a 1970's style stagflation or, as we call it, a recessflation, investors need to prepare their portfolios to profit from a…

• Goldman is Dead Wrong on Gold

  Published 28 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Goldman Sachs has been predicting the demise of gold for the past few years. Back in July of 2015, Jeff Currie (Global Head of Commodities…

• Price Discovery is Essential, It is The Nucleus of Capitalism and We Haven't Had it in Decades

  Published 26 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  FRA Co-founder Gordon T. Long is joined by Michael Pento in discussing topics from the government debt problem, the current boom in gold and the…

• May the Phillips Curve Rest in Peace

  Published 21 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  In 1958, economist William Phillips claimed there was a historical inverse relationship between the rate of unemployment and the corresponding rate of inflation. His conclusion…

• President Obama is the One Peddling Fiction

  Published 14 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  In his final State of the Union Address, President Obama chided, "Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction." Following the recently…

• The Rebound in Stocks Won't Last

  Published 07 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  After taking a beating in January the S&P 500 has rebounded by about 5% in February, and this uptrend has continued into March. But before…

• China's Newest Export: Empty Buildings

  Published 29 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  A little over six months ago the owners of the Baha Mar, a $3.5 billion Bahamian resort, filed for bankruptcy. Shoddy construction from the China…

• Central Bank Inflation Targets: Be Careful What You Wish For

  Published 25 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Did you ever ask yourself what this central bank obsession with inflation is really all about? After all, it is highly ironic that these erstwhile…

• Inflation Doesn't Come From Seasonally Adjusted Employment

  Published 16 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 151k, 000 net new jobs created in the month of January, and the unemployment rate…

• Oil's True Message

  Published 08 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The pervasive narrative on Wall Street is that the collapse in oil prices will, any second now, restore consumers to their profligate spending ways. In…

• The Davos Confetti Club

  Published 01 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The Keynesian elite gathered in Davos Switzerland this past week to pontificate on global economic issues and to strategize the engineering of The Fourth Industrial…

• This Is Not 2008: It's Actually Worse

  Published 18 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The S&P 500 has begun 2016 with its worst performance ever. This has prompted Wall Street apologists to come out in full force and try…

• Junk Rhymes with Subprime

  Published 11 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  On December 16th 2008, in what Ben Bernanke averred took a tremendous amount of "moral courage", the Federal Reserve officially arrived at its Zero Interest…

• Pento's Predictions for 2016

  Published 05 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  2015 was a year where nearly every asset class failed to provide any returns at all. If fact, the S&P 500 hasn't gone anywhere in…

• Beware of Central Bank Success

  Published 21 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The most important question investors will soon have to face is: "what's going to happen once central banks finally meet their inflation targets?" For example,…