On
Wednesday we witnessed the third largest single day point gain for the Dow
Jones Industrial Average ever. That sounds like great news until you
realize that the two largest were in October 2008 right in the middle of
the last financial crisis. This is a perfect example of what I wrote
about yesterday. Every time the market crashes, there are
huge up days, huge down days and giant waves of market momentum. Even though
the Dow was up 619 points on Wednesday, overall we are still down more
than 2,000 points from the peak of the market. During the weeks
and months to come, we are going to see many more wild market swings, but the
overall direction of the market will be down. (Read More....)
This
is exactly the type of market behavior that we would expect to
see during the early stages of a major financial crisis. In every major
market downturn throughout history there were big ups, big downs and giant
waves of momentum, and this time around will not be any different. As I
have explained repeatedly, markets tend to go up when things are calm, and they
tend to go down when things get really choppy. During a market meltdown,
we fully expect to see days when the stock market absolutely soars. Waves
of panic selling are often followed by waves of panic buying. As you will
see below, six of the ten best single day gains for the Dow Jones Industrial
Average happened during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. So dont be fooled for a moment
by a very positive day for stocks like we are seeing on Tuesday. It is
all part of the dance. (Read More....)
On
Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 588 points.
It was the 8th worst single day stock market crash in U.S. history, and it was
the first time that the Dow has ever fallen by more than 500 points on two
consecutive days. But the amazing thing is that the Dow actually performed
better than almost every other major global stock market on Monday. In
the U.S., the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both did worse than the Dow. In
Europe, almost every major index performed significantly worse than the
Dow. Over in Asia, Japanese stocks were down 895 points, and Chinese
stocks experienced the biggest decline of all (a whopping 8.46 percent). On
June 25th, I was not kidding around when I issued a red alert for the last six months of 2015. I had never issued a
formal alert for any other period of time, and I specifically stated that a major financial collapse is
imminent.
But you know what? As the weeks and months roll along, things will eventually
be even worse than what any of the experts (including myself) have been
projecting. The global financial system is now unraveling, and you better pack
a lunch because this is going to be one very long horror show. (Read More....)
Have
you noticed that more Americans than ever seem to be going totally
insane? When even reporters start going on racially-motivated shooting
sprees, you know that things are getting crazy in this country. On
Wednesday, most Americans were absolutely stunned to learn that a former
WDBJ-TV reporter shot and killed a 24-year-old female reporter named Alison
Parker and a 27-year-old male cameraman named Adam Ward right as they were in
the middle of shooting a live news segment at 6:45 in the morning. As a
reporter, the shooter was known as Bryce Williams, but his legal name was Vester Lee Flanagan
II. He fled the scene, but was later tracked down by police. Before
they could take him into custody he shot himself, and he later died at a
hospital in northern Virginia. So what would cause a talented young man
to do such a thing? (Read More...)
If you have not been preparing for
what is coming, you need to get off your sofa and you need to start prepping right
now. Just remember what happened back in 2008. That crisis
took most people totally by surprise. Millions of Americans lost their
jobs, and because most of them were living paycheck to paycheck, all of a
sudden most of them couldnt pay the rent or the mortgage either. Large
numbers of families that were once living a comfortable middle class lifestyle
suddenly found themselves destitute. Well, this coming crisis is going to
be even worse by the time it is all said and done, and it is not just going to
be economic in nature. Over the past two trading days, the Dow has gone
down more than a thousand points.
The shaking that so many have warned about has begun. As this shaking
plays out, you and your family will need cash, food, supplies and a whole bunch
of other things. If you do not already have everything prepared, then you
need to kick your prepping into overdrive because we are on a very compressed
time frame now. (Read More...)
We
witnessed something truly historic happen on Friday. The Dow Jones
Industrial Average plummeted 530 points, and that followed a 358 point crash on Thursday.
When you add those two days together, the total two day stock market crash that
we just witnessed comes to a grand total of 888 points, which
is larger than any one day stock market crash in U.S. history. It is also
interesting to note that this 888 point crash comes in the 8th month of our
calendar. Perhaps that is just a coincidence, and perhaps it is
not. It just struck me as being noteworthy. This is the first time
that the Dow has dropped by more than 300 points on two consecutive days since
November 2008, and we all remember what was happening back then.
Overall, this was the worst week for the Dow in four years, and there have only
been five other months throughout history when the Dow has
fallen by more than a thousand points (the most recent being October
2008). Of course we still have six more trading days left in August, so
there is plenty of time remaining for even more carnage. (Read More....)
What
has been happening on Wall Street the past few days has been nothing short of
stunning. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 358
points. It was the largest single day decline in a year and a
half, and investors are starting to panic. Overall, the Dow is now down more
than 1300 points from the peak of the market. Just yesterday, I
wrote about all of the experts that are warning
about a stock market crash in 2015, and after today I am sure that a lot
more people will start jumping on the bandwagon. In particular, tech
stocks are getting absolutely hammered lately. The Nasdaq has fallen
close to 3.5% over the past two days alone, and it has dropped below its
200-day moving average. The Russell 2000 (a small-cap stock market index)
is also now trading below its 200-day moving average. What all of this
means is that the stock market crash of 2015 has already begun. The only
question left to answer at this point is how bad it will ultimately turn out to
be. (Read More....)
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. (Read More....)