This is an outstanding summary of the current state of the world economy, explained in the simplest possible terms. Jim Rickards is a current day financial Copernicus, amidst global institutions

“S&P 500 earnings have barely grown by 10 percent since late 2011, notwithstanding more than a trillion dollars of share buybacks. So there are bubbles everywhere— even the broad market

Excellent video analysis of economic policy and its consequences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6cwJmI7sQ&feature=youtu.be

The US stock market remains over owned, over leveraged and over valued. It is clear that most investors have not understood the enormous risk they are taking for inevitably poor

This article has astonishing insight on current thinking at the higest level of central bank policy discussion. Very clearly there is growing awareness that over the last 5 years their

Do higher stock and house prices produce higher growth as the Fed believes? If so, not much, if any. This explains the poor forecasting by the Fed and why it

The Federal Reserve now has a very difficult hand to play. This video does a great job of describing the set of issues that will shape its decisions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Jt39TdcmM&feature=em-uploademail-ctrl

Valuation is so crucial to long term investment success but so poorly understood. 100 years of data on US equities shows the record. The current CAPE value is 25. What

The consensus believes that the US has just begun a long economic recovery, whereas we believe it is already quite advanced and vulnerable to events in Asia. Falling US MSCI

Podcast of Jim Rickards discussing his new book out next month with Simon Black. https://www.sovereignman.com/podcast/003-the-coming-collapse-of-the-international-monetary-system-13907/