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Interview with Ted Butler: The End of Silver Price Manipulation
2010 has been an exceptional year for silver. The price has increased over 50% to-date, and the CFTC (the US commodity regulatory body) issued a statement last month admitting that the market price of...
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Peak Oil Is Officially Set To Starve The Economy
Once a year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) releases its World Energy Outlook (WEO), and it's our tradition here at ChrisMartenson.com to review it. A lot of articles have already been written...
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Charles Hugh Smith Explains Why The Status Quo Is Unsustainable
This week's Straight Talk contributor is Charles Hugh Smith, who has been an independent journalist for 22 years.His weblog, www.oftwominds.com, is a daily compendium of observations and analysis on...
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Don't Be Fooled, Inflation Is Already Here
Here at Martenson Central, we are endlessly keeping a close eye out for the emergence of deflation, defined here as the purchasing power of the dollar going up.Technically, inflation and deflation are...
View ArticleZero Hedge's Tyler Durden: The U.S. Is Free Falling Into Bankruptcy
"Straight Talk" features thinking from notable minds that the ChrisMartenson.com audience has indicated it wants to learn more about. Readers submit the questions they want addressed and our guests...
View ArticleThere's Really No Such Thing As Investing Anymore
To anyone paying the slightest bit of attention, these remain very uncertain and trying times. On one side of the intellectual divide are the folks who are counting on deflationary forces overwhelming...
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Bill Fleckenstein: All This Money Printing Is Going To Lead To "A Train Wreck...
"This printing money is going to lead to huge trouble. It’s going to lead to higher interest rates. It’s going to lead to more inflation and at some point there is going to be a train wreck in the...
View ArticleJoe Saluzzi: The Equity Market Is Now Controlled By The Machines
Joe Saluzzi, co-founder of Themis Trading LLC and outspoken exchange expert, is concerned with how high-frequency trading has brought the capital markets into uncharted - and dangerous -...
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Egypt Is A Powerful Reminder That Anything Unsustainable Will One Day Change
One day, a fruit and vegetable seller was arrested in Tunisia, sparking social unrest, and a few weeks later the government of Egypt was set to topple. Such is the nature of complex, chaotic, and...
View ArticleWhy We Could See Commodities And Stocks Temporarily Deflate
There's a scenario that could play out between May and September in which commodities (including my beloved silver) and the stock and bond markets could all sell off between 20% and 40%. The trigger...
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The Screaming Fundamentals For Owning Gold And Silver
This report lays out an investment thesis for gold and one for silver. Various factors lead me to conclude that gold is one investment that you can park for the next ten or twenty years, confident...
View ArticleDavid Stockman: Blame The Fed!
David Stockman, former US Representative and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Reagan, does not mince words. He sees the monetary systems of the world coming apart.How did we get...
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The Next Market Meltdown Will Start On The Outside And Move In
I do not toss around the idea of a market crash lightly. If you've been following me long enough, you know that only in very rare instances do I issue a cautionary alert (I've only issued four since...
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Europe Is The Canary In The Coal Mine
Around here we like to track thingsfrom the outside in, as the initial movements at the periphery tend to give us an early warning of when things might go wrong at the center. It is always the marginal...
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The Fukushima Aftermath Has Led To A New Japanese Crisis
Japan is in serious trouble right now and is a top candidate to be the next black swan. Here are the elements of difficulty that concern me the most, each one serving to reduce Japan's economic and...
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The Markets Are No Longer Sending Useful Price Signals
Okay, the Fed's recent decision to boost its monetary stimulus (a.k.a. "money printing,""quantitative easing," or simply "QE") by another $45 billion a month to a combined $85 billion per month...
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SHALE FAIL: There Won't Be Enough Energy For The Economic Growth We Want
[Many longtime followers of the Crash Course have asked Chris to update his forecasts for Peak Oil in light of the production increases in shale oil and gas over recent years. What started out as a...
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Quantitative Easing For Dummies
A PeakProsperity.com reader recently lamented:I have been trying to get my head around the mechanism of QE. Not being an economist or experienced investor I don't really understand a lot of the jargon....
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The Real Reason The Economy Is Broken
We are far enough and deep enough into the most heroic monetary and fiscal efforts ever undertaken to finally ask, why aren't these measures working?Or at least we should be. Oddly, many in DC, on Wall...
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The Odds Are Very High That Stocks Crater 40% By Fall
I don't relish the job of constantly pointing out the risks to the equity markets. But since few on Wall Street seem willing (or able) to do this, I'm "making the call" for a market correction, as...
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