How To Help Kids Make The Leap From College To Work

Oct 31, 2015

College costs are higher than ever, and emerging adults are often daunted by the prospect of accumulating debt on the way to a degree. What to do?

China Contraction Unexpectedly Continues Third Month

Oct 31, 2015

Given that economists hardly expect anything bad ever, this headline is hardly shocking: China’s Factory Activity Shrinks for an Unexpected Third Month. Activity in China’s manufacturing sector unexpectedly shrank for a third straight month in Octob…

The Empty Bus

Oct 31, 2015

From the Slope of Hope: With all the grousing and grumbling I do here, I thought I’d change my tone and write up a genuinely positive, optimistic post. This has to do with what I think will be a tectonic shift over the next twenty years: tran…

Analyst Warns Of Turbulence: "Geopolitical Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing"

Oct 31, 2015

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,
Some of the world’s biggest investors have been taking significant positions in the commodity resource sector as of late, most notably in gold. With geopolitical tension and fear of economic breakdown reac…

Fed Admits "Something’s Going On Here That We Maybe Don’t Understand"

Oct 31, 2015

In a somewhat shocking admission of its own un-omnipotence, or perhaps more of a C.Y.A. moment for the inevitable mean-reversion to reality, Reuters reports that San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Friday that low neutral interest rates are …

Another Black Swan? Turkey Holds Snap Elections Amid NATO-Backed Civil War

Oct 31, 2015

There’s a potential black swan event taking place in Turkey on Sunday and no one seems to care. That is, the media isn’t devoting nearly enough coverage to Turkish elections considering the impact the outcome will invariably have on the situation i…

HaPPY HoRRoRWeeN 2015

Oct 31, 2015

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Crude Supertanker Rates Collapse As VLCC ‘Traffic’ To China Lowest In 13 Months

Oct 31, 2015

A few days ago we warned, confirming Goldman Sachs' earlier analysis that the world was running out of space to store crude distillate products, that China was running out of storage space for crude oil as it dramatically ramped up its Strategic Pe…

Mario Draghi Admits Global QE Has Failed: "The Slowdown Is Probably Not Temporary"

Oct 31, 2015

Undoubtedly, the most amusing this about the prospect of more easing from the ECB (as telegraphed by Mario Draghi last week) and the BoJ (where Haruhiko Kuroda just jeopardized his status as monetary madman par excellence by failing to expand stimulus)…