What If Everything You Believed Was True…Isn’t?
What if, in September 1929, you are a highly regarded Yale University economist who believes ‘shares have reached a permanently high plateau’?
What if, in September 1929, you are a highly regarded Yale University economist who believes ‘shares have reached a permanently high plateau’?
By Vern Gowdie,
In 1973, Jim Rogers and George Soros founded the Quantum Fund. According to Wikipedia: ‘…from 1973 to 1980, the [Quantum Fund] portfolio gained 4,200% while the S&P advanced about 47%.’ In April 2007 (around the time Ben Bernanke was assuring us subprime would be contained), Jim Rogers was again in the news. As reported by Reuters: […]
By Vern Gowdie,
If we’re headed into another debt crisis and severe global recession, then the chickens of ill-conceived central banker and government policies will come home to roost.
By Vern Gowdie,
The widespread instability now embedded within the system, guarantees a man-made seismic shock in financial markets — far worse than 2008 — is in our future.
By Vern Gowdie,
Balance is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady’.
By Vern Gowdie,
When you’ve been conditioned to an environment of low inflation, low interest rates, rising asset markets, and (almost) continual GDP growth, the prospect of a future that’s entirely different is almost inconceivable.
By Vern Gowdie,
Real-life scenarios involving chaos, unintended consequences, unbridled greed/fear, and unforeseen out-of-left-field reactions are not something they can easily relate to in their perfectly simulated and cloistered world.
By Vern Gowdie,
The failure to address the global debt problem in 2007 has produced an environment far more toxic and lethal to our community’s wellbeing than any number of coal-fired power stations could ever be.
By Vern Gowdie,
The GFC, compared with what’s to come, was nothing more than a dress rehearsal.
We ain’t seen anything like this before.
By Vern Gowdie,
As the deflation of the everything bubble gathers momentum, we’re going to be treated to story after story of man’s infinity stupidity.
By Vern Gowdie,
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