Broad Oak Magazine

My trader's intuition is flashing warnings that the stock market might drop off a waterfall starting this week. - Charles Hugh Smith Bu...

As in "Alien", no-one knows where it's going to come from, but there's a bad feeling around: 1. ... it's easy to see t...

Richard Bookstaber ( whom we've met before, here ) looks at asset allocation and makes a point he's made before: in a crisis, everyo...

Look at this fascinating interactive graphic from the New York Times, about the shrinking and swelling of the major US financial firms. They...

Last month, Marc Faber used the word "collapse"; now, Max Keiser says the same: the dollar will halve, gold will leap 50 - 100%, i...

... in my view, the big crisis is ahead of us. It may come in 4 or 5 years' time, maybe only in 10 years' time, but the total breakd...

Marc Faber is now using the phrase "total collapse". A commenter on this post says he's joking, because he's smiling, but ...

Cash for now, while we wait for the second half selloff; then stocks and gold to hedge against inflation, says the good Doctor .

What Mr. Greenspan and Mr. Bernanke have achieved is historically quite unique. They have managed to create a bubble in everything, everywhe...

It's not just about money. There will, thinks Faber, be graver consequences. Here. Also, here , from which the following extract: The be...

Belatedly, I refer you to Karl Denninger's end-year review and forecast . He sees continuing deflation, and makes a number of other plau...

(Graph reproduced by iTulip from NowAndFutures.com) In an extended "Titanic" analogy, Eric Janszen describes what he sees as the ...

Richard Daughty , aka The Mogambo Guru, comments on the sharp rise in raw materials prices. Further to my recent post on whether gold is ove...

People are starting to run around looking for a haven for wealth. German bond issues partially unsold; US bonds yielding virtually nothing y...

Marc Faber's latest interviews on Bloomberg and CNBC show him estimating the recession to last "2, 5, 10 years". He also says ...

It's hard to measure what's going on, because currencies have turned out to be rulers made out of very stretchy elastic - especially...

Thanks to the glacial catchup by the mainstream media, the public is finally worrying about economic depression, and consoling itself with ...

Marc Faber, on Bloomberg : " US stocks will rally further he maintains, at least for a short while. In January to March next year you m...

UPDATE: "This secular bear market will last a lot longer and be much deeper than anyone thinks. Sadly, very few are prepared for it....

Two more US banks have just failed , bringing the total this year to 19: The FDIC estimates that through 2013 there will be about $40 billio...