European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
By Michael Snyder
A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we are watching a replay of the financial crisis of 2008, but this time around the world is in far worse shape financially. Global debt levels are at an all-time high, the 75 trillion dollar global shadow banking system could implode at any time, and there are hundreds of trillions of dollars in derivatives that threaten to wipe out major banks all over the planet. The last major worldwide financial crash was almost seven years ago, and very little has been done since that time to prepare for the next one. If global markets do not calm down, we could see carnage in the months ahead that is absolutely unprecedented.
The Bankruptcy Of The Planet Accelerates – 24 Nations Are Currently Facing A Debt Crisis
By Michael Snyder
There has been so much attention on Greece in recent weeks, but the truth is that Greece represents only a very tiny fraction of an unprecedented global debt bomb which threatens to explode at any moment. As you are about to see, there are 24 nations that are currently facing a full-blown debt crisis, and there are 14 more that are rapidly heading toward one. Right now, the debt to GDP ratio for the entire planet is up to an all-time record high of 286 percent, and globally there is approximately 200 TRILLION dollars of debt on the books. That breaks down to about $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet. And since close to half of the population of the world lives on less than 10 dollars a day, there is no way that all of this debt can ever be repaid. The only “solution” under our current system is to kick the can down the road for as long as we can until this colossal debt pyramid finally collapses in upon itself.
12 Ways The Economy Is Already In Worse Shape Than It Was During The Depths Of The Last Recession
By Michael Snyder
Did you know that the percentage of children in the United States that are living in poverty is actually significantly higher than it was back in 2008? When I write about an “economic collapse”, most people think of a collapse of the financial markets. And without a doubt, one is coming very shortly, but let us not neglect the long-term economic collapse that is already happening all around us. In this article, I am going to share with you a bunch of charts and statistics that show that economic conditions are already substantially worse than they were during the last financial crisis in a whole bunch of different ways. Unfortunately, in our 48 hour news cycle world, a slow and steady decline does not produce many “sexy headlines”. Those of us that are news junkies (myself included) are always looking for things that will shock us. But if you stand back and take a broader view of things, what has been happening to the U.S. economy truly is quite shocking. The following are 12 ways that the U.S. economy is already in worse shape than it was during the depths of the last recession…
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now?
By Michael Snyder
If we were going to see a stock market crash in the United States in the fall of 2015 (to use a hypothetical example), we would expect to see commodity prices begin to crash a few months ahead of time. This is precisely what happened just before the great financial crisis of 2008, and we are watching the exact same thing happen again right now. On Wednesday, commodities got absolutely pummeled, and at this point the Bloomberg Commodity Index is down a whopping 26 percent over the past twelve months. When global economic activity slows down, demand for raw materials sinks and prices drop. So important global commodities such as copper, iron ore, aluminum, zinc, nickel, lead, tin and lumber are all considered to be key “leading indicators” that can tell us a lot about where things are heading next. And what they are telling us right now is that we are rapidly approaching a global economic meltdown.
Copper, China And World Trade Are All Screaming That The Next Economic Crisis Is Here
By Michael Snyde
If you are looking for a “canary in a coal mine” type of warning for the entire global economy, you have a whole bunch to pick from right now. “Dr. Copper” just hit a six year low, Morgan Stanley is warning that this could be the worst oil price crash in 45 years, the Chinese economy is suddenly stalling out, and world trade is falling at the fastest pace that we have seen since the last financial crisis. In order not to see all of the signs that are pointing toward a global economic slowdown, you would have to be willingly blind. In recent months, I have been writing article after article detailing how the exact same patterns that happened just before the stock market crash of 2008 are playing out once again. We are watching a slow-motion train wreck unfold right before our eyes, and things are only going to get worse from here.
Now Is The Time – Fear Rises As Financial Markets All Over The Planet Start To Crash
By Michael Snyder
Can you feel the panic in the air? CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index
measures the amount of fear in the financial world on a scale from 0 to
100. The closer it is to zero, the higher the level of fear. Last
Monday, the index was sitting at a reading of 36. As I write this
article, it has fallen to 7. The financial turmoil which began last week
is threatening to turn into an avalanche. On Sunday night, we witnessed
the second largest one day stock market collapse in China ever, and
this pushed stocks all over the planet into the red. Meanwhile, the
twin blades of an emerging market currency crisis and a commodity price crash
are chewing up economies that are dependent on the export of natural
resources all over the globe. For a long time, I have been warning
about what would happen in the second half of 2015, and now it is here.
The following is a summary of the financial carnage that we have seen
over the past 24 hours…An Expert That Correctly Called The Last Two Stock Market Crashes Is Now Predicting Another One
By Michael Snyder,
What
I am about to share with you is quite stunning. A well-respected
financial expert that correctly predicted the last two stock market
crashes is now warning that we are right on the verge of the next one.
John Hussman is a former professor of economics and international
finance at the University of Michigan, and the information in his latest
weekly market comment
is staggering. Since 1970, there have only been a handful of times
when a combination of market signals that Hussman uses have indicated
that a major market peak has been reached. In 1972, 2000 and 2007 each
of those peaks was followed by a dramatic stock market crash. Now, for
the first time since the last financial crisis, all four of those
signals appeared once again during the week of July 17th. If Hussman’s
analysis is correct, this could very well mean that the next great stock
market crash in the United States is imminent.Tuesday, July 28, 2015
The U.S. and Greece: Far Too Much in Common
By Michael D. Tanner
Last week, Keith Hall, director of the Congressional Budget Office, told Congress that the United States could be facing a Greek-style debt crisis down the road.
“Unfortunately,” Hall testified, “there is no way to predict confidently whether or when such a fiscal crisis might occur in the United States… . But all else being equal, the larger a government’s debt, the greater the risk of a fiscal crisis.”
That’s not exactly a ringing vote of confidence.
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