Michael Pento

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• Great Recession Redux

  Published 23 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  We are fast approaching the time when it will become obvious to all that mortally-wounded economies cannot be resuscitated by a massive increase in credit…

• Austerity is Now Extinct

  Published 17 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Greece's newly elected leftist Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, is bringing deficit spending back into vogue. The charismatic prime minister laid out plans to dismantle Greece's…

• Yellen: Looking For Inflation In All The Wrong Places

  Published 09 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  In 1958, economist W.H. Phillips wrote a paper that argued an inverse relationship existed between wage inflation and unemployment. The crux of his theory was…

• Say Goodbye to the 'Strong Dollar Policy'

  Published 02 February 2015 | viewed 0 times

  It is absurd to believe that the inhabitants of the Eccles building in D.C. promote a strong dollar policy. Printing $3.8 trillion dollars and keeping…

• Why QE in Europe Will Fail

  Published 26 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The fear of deflation has become the cornerstone of Keynesian economic thought. A lack of inflation has been used to explain periods of economic weakness…

• Where Would Interest Rates Be If The Fed Didn't Exist?

  Published 19 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  On January 7th CNBC's Rick Santelli and Steve Leisman engaged in a heated debate that posed an interesting question; is the free market at work…

• Enjoy The Ride on The Inflation/Deflation Rollercoaster

  Published 12 January 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Politicians and central bankers are desperately trying to convince investors that the economy has returned to what they deem as a "pre-crisis normality". But the…

• Will Cheap Oil Bail Out the Consumer?

  Published 29 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Analysts on every financial news network are screaming about how the lower oil and gas prices will spur on the U.S. consumer and lead to…

• The Passive Management Bubble

  Published 15 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  We have happened upon that time in the investment cycle when investors vastly eschew active management of their assets in favor of a more passive…

• Why Wall Street and Governments Hate Gold

  Published 08 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Gold is hated more than ever by both governments and the financial services community. This is because it has now become imperative to keep the…

• The World Has Become Obdurate

  Published 01 December 2014 | viewed 0 times

  There is a perfect word that describes the current condition of governments and consumers around the world today. The word is obdurate, and it means…

• Why Gold is Headed Much Higher

  Published 24 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  What really drives the price of gold? Some say it's a fear gauge. Others prefer to look at the demand coming from the Indian wedding…

• Financial Repression Authority with Michael Pento

  Published 18 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Special Guest: Mr. Michael Pento is the President of Pento Portfolio Strategies and serves as Senior Market Analyst for Baltimore-based research firm Agora Financial. Pento…

• Japan's Last Stand

  Published 17 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  There is a popular American military term called a "last stand", which is meant to describe a situation where a combat force attempts to hold…

• Yellen Hands Off Printing Press to Japan

  Published 10 November 2014 | viewed 0 times

  There is a saying: "The rich just keep getting richer". And by all accounts, since the 2008 financial crisis, they have. Unfortunately, for the struggling…

• Ebola is The New Weather Excuse

  Published 27 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The perennially-optimistic crowd on Wall Street never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. So whenever the stock market doesn't move…

• A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to Raising Rates

  Published 20 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  It wasn't too long ago that the stock market was busy celebrating a "great" September jobs report. There were 248k net new jobs created and…

• Q3 Earnings Horror Show

  Published 13 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its global growth forecast for both this year and next, highlighting among other things, the threat of weakening…

• Dollar's Ride is About to End

  Published 06 October 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Under the stewardship of Shinzo Abe, the nation of Japan has become a global leader in debt, currency devaluation and inflation. Unfortunately for the Japanese,…

• Yo - This Market is Set For a Major Correction

  Published 29 September 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Wall Street came to a halt recently, as Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba made its Initial Public Offering debut. The media became myopically focused over this…