Economic news worsens but markets continue to rise, marking the final stage of the market cycle. Financial pundits lure sheeple into market, then claim no one saw it coming after crash.

The economic news is getting really bad but markets are still rising. The brief final stage of the market cycle.pic.twitter.com/55ZY4MGgPy https://t.co/rX8hxr3YI3 — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) July 25, 2023 The overwhelming temptation of every financial pundit is to lure sheeple into a …

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2024: Will We Make It? Currently on track for major market and financial system crisis events to break out in September/October [Opinion]

by mark000 Judo Australian Service PMI in contraction territory again, small MFG sector there saw a bounce but still contracting Composite PMI actual 48.3, previous 50.1 Lowest since December 2022 pic.twitter.com/ROlCMamJyr — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) July 23, 2023 Despite leading …

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Financial Climate Change! Billionaire Sternlicht Warns CRE Storm Now “Category 5 Hurricane” (Starwood Defaults On $212.4 Million Commercial Mortgage Loan In Atlanta)

by confoundedinterest17 No, this isn’t a John Kerry/Greta Thunberg hysterical warning about climate change. But a storm created by 1) Biden/Congress spending splurge and 2) excessive monetary stimulypto by The Federal (Feral) Reserve. Now that The Fed is withdrawing the …

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Recession: It’s Already Here! US Household Net Worth Growth Goes Negative For 3 Consecutive Quarters (Worse Growth Since The Great Recession And Financial Crisis)

by confoundedinterest17 To quote Bill Paxton’s character from Twister: “It’s Already Here!” The feared recession, that is. The year-over-year growth rate in Household Net Worth has been negative for 3 consecutive quarters, the worst growth since The Great Recession and Financial …

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Slow burn financial collapse?

by Nice_Flamingo203 I live in the USA. I have been pretty successful so far in life and have done well financially. I’m at a crossroads in life and as I look out at the world I can’t help but question …

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Stock market surge deviates from reality; fund managers buy overvalued stocks to catch up. Economic indicators diverge, earnings revised upwards, similar to 2008 financial crisis.

Recent stock market surge deviates from reality, with fund managers buying overvalued stocks to catch up, pushing the market higher. https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1674879653008359424 Look at NAIIM, they are fully invested now. — The Macro Pulse (@TheMacroPulse) June 30, 2023 Nine months down, …

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Nothing got fixed after the 2008 financial crisis, and no one was ever held accountable – and now Great Financial Crisis 2.0 is going to make 2008 seem like a walk in the park

Bloomberg: Mortgage indicators ring alarms as spreads near post-subprime highs Background Worsening conditions in the U.S. mortgage-backed securities market are doing little to ease fears over financial contagion. Demand for home purchases and refinancing continued to take a hit last …

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The share of nonfinancial firms in financial distress has reached a level that is higher than during most previous tightening episodes since the 1970s

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/distressed-firms-and-the-large-effects-of-monetary-policy-tightenings-20230623.html TLDRS: Since March 2022, U.S. monetary policy has become tighter. More businesses are financially distressed now than in previous instances of tightening since the ’70s. Studies suggest that these conditions could lead to significant declines in investment …

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Swiss National Bank in its 2023 Financial Stability Report on Credit Suisse: “these observations also raise questions regarding the ability of the Too Big To Fail “TBTF” framework to oblige a systemically important bank to take sufficient corrective action in a timely manner”

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.snb.ch/n/mmr/reference/stabrep_2023/source/stabrep_2023.n.pdf These measures need to strengthen banks’ resilience in order to prevent a loss of confidence wherever possible, and ensure a broad range of effective options to stabilise, recover or wind down a systemically important bank in the …

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The West Debt & Inflation Implosion – Investing in gold is the way to protect yourself and your family from a broken financial system, which could lead to conflict.

via Egon von Greyerz: Tom Bodrovics from Palisades Gold Radio welcomes back Egon von Greyerz, Founder and Chairman of Matterhorn Asset Management AG based in Switzerland. Egon explains how the West’s debt is being increased exponentially, and that it’s only …

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