By Patrick O’Hare By Patrick O’Hare – This week has been filled with remembrances of the financial crisis. We hear them every year at this time, but this year was super-charged with remembrances because it was the 10-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – In addition to the next anticipated fed rate hike, there’s a lesser-known factor set to take effect later this year that may impact markets, and may even cause a flash crash. The change that’s coming has to do with both the S&P and MSCI overhauling… …read more From::

By Danielle Park By Danielle Park – Rivets are starting to blow once more on the debt-on-debt Ponzi driving Chinese markets. Following the lead of western companies, corporate buybacks in China have surged in 2018 (see left). This is the latest desperate… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – We’re currently in the longest bull market in history. Where do we go from here? This time on Financial Sense Newshour’s Big Picture, Jim Puplava discusses the forces that are holding this market up, and what issues might develop under… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff By Matthew Kerkoff – In last week’s article I elaborated on why it’s important to allow the economic backdrop to guide us when price action becomes erratic. Today, I thought we would take a short tour of the… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Peter Boockvar By Peter Boockvar – The NFIB small business optimism index for August rose almost 1 pt m/o/m to 108.8 and that is the highest level in the history of this survey dating back to 1973. Plans to Hire rose 3 pts to the most also on record. Capital spending… …read more From::

By Kurt Kallaus By Kurt Kallaus – We are a couple years into a new net-asset expansion phase today, thus exit signs for stocks become more important over the next year. With the sentiment and wealth surge amidst rising tension with China just before the mid-term elections… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Global Risk Insights By Global Risk Insights – Argentina’s contemporary problems are a typical currency crisis. Those who hold Argentine pesos or peso-denominated assets are selling, partly to buy US dollars and dollar-denominated assets because the US Federal Reserve… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – Contrary to those continually predicting a stock market bubble and crash over the past 8-9 years, well-known market forecaster Martin Armstrong has been telling listeners that systemic problems overseas would continue to drive capital… …read more From:: Financial Sense