Tag: Interest rates

Energy
Chris MacIntosh

The Hidden Cost of Rising Rates

The world has become used to cheap money. That paradigm is about to change, and the implications for the US dollar and certain commodities will be enormous.

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Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

THIS Was A Great Article!

My buddy Kuppy, who I’ve introduced you to many times before and who you can find hanging out here, wrote a piece last week. It’s a great piece and worth sharing. More below, but first… Talking of hanging out… Kuppy, as well as Jamie, our resource guru, and Brad, our trading guru,

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Debt Implosion
World Out Of Whack
Chris MacIntosh

WOW: Debt Crisis – What To Own In A Debt Implosion

Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday we take time out of our day to laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all it’s glorious insanity.

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Why the Singapore Dollar is Staring Into the Abyss

Singapore is regarded as the “safe haven” or Switzerland of Asia. While on the surface Singapore is the economy to which most others can only aspire to one day become, beneath the scenes is a very fragile economy highly dependent on the cost of capital staying low or at least

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Debt Chart Porn

Like a bad case of hemorrhoids, debt is a topic too often left out of polite conversation. It’s a good thing then that you don’t come here for polite conversation! It is a topic previously written about in these pages and one which has the power to keep me awake

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Trading Floor Insights – How to Protect Against an Inevitable Risk

Recently, while going through the process of changing an insurance policy on a home I own, I was subjected to the stereotypical fear driven sales “facts”. Apparently THOUSANDS of homes each year burn to the ground! Thousands, I tell you. Hail Mary, save us from the terror. With the requisite

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Betting on an Inevitable and Overlooked Crisis

It seems as if all the present focus in financial markets is on Europe and “solving” their debt crisis. Debt is by far the biggest problem facing the developed world. What is interesting is that there lurks a far greater crisis on the horizon in my opinion, one that dwarfs

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