This is an exclusive "Hedgeye Investing Summit" interview between renowned Economics Professor Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins and CEO Keith McCullough.***This interview originally aired live on Hedgeye.com on April 16, 2020***Mr. Keith R. McCullough is the Founder and CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management LLC. He covers the strategy sector at the firm. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. McCullough was a Partn...Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. After realizing that working on Wall Street was not like the movies, he moved on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Lieute...Read More

Last week the Federal Reserve announced it will keep interest rates at or near zero until the economy recovers from the government-imposed shutdown. Following this announcement, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell urged Congress and the Trump administration to put aside any concerns about the deficit and spend whatever it takes to stimulate the economy and combat coronavirus.The Federal Reserve...Read More

1. Warren Buffett is in the news today after annual shareholder meeting. He sold his stakes in the four largest U.S. airline carriers. I've never seen him sell out of a sector at the lows. I know he is good friends with Bill Gates, so maybe he is just trying to help his buddy accomplish his goal of the next Great Depression. He used to buy into markets in the past. In 2008, he was buying everythin...Read More

"As we were sitting around the board room watching what was happening with prices, it was like watching a train wreck." Continue...Read More

Picking up on our last video about the Newsweek report that the US has been funding bat coronavirus 'gain of function' research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, we dig further into the "Was covid-19 created in a lab?" debate. Digging into the biochemistry of viruses, we are struck in particular by a genetic string of RNA in covid-19 - specifically the polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA - that h...Read More

Governments and central banks are throwing all the money they can into financial markets to support a flaying global economy rocked to its core from the COVID-19 pandemic.Although the world could see the worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Axel Merk, chief investment officer and president of Merk Investments, warned investors: "there will be no free lunch."Merk said that he lik...Read More

Imagine you're on a ship that has struck an iceberg, and you know it's going down. You quickly grab the life vests for you and your family. You rush to the deck to go to the lifeboats, but there you encounter some authority...that is actively taking life vests away from one group of people by force, and giving them to another group of people, and leading them to the lifeboats - deciding who will l...Read More

The FED has opened both doors to the flood gates of irrevocable debt. Record levels of money printing are silently destroying the US dollar. Over 30M jobs have been lost, and the Economic rebound potential is being destroyed day by day. Today I'll uncover the truth behind the headlines, so you can make intelligent decisions around protecting yourself, your families, and your wealth...coming up.Lyn...Read More

"The reality is that we don't know what the right answers are, but it sure would be nice to be able to have a civil discussion about the options."Continue...Read More

There is a lot of conflicting information about Sweden. Some claim that "open" Sweden has no higher infection and death rates than its neighbors, a claim contradicted by this report: Continue...Read More

On a per capita basis, Sweden's Covid-19 deaths are 3 to 5.5 times the other Nordic countries.Continue...Read More

At one time it was the pride of American law enforcement, a symbol of integrity, honesty and incredible courage under fire. But now when we think of the FBI in "action," we think of Continue...Read More

"I think in general they're the right thing, but I don't think they're without consequences, and I think they could be of extreme consequences if pushed far enough. But there would be kind of extreme consequences if we didn't do it as well."Continue...Read More

The economy remains under lockdown, although some states are beginning to relax restrictions. As with so many other aspects of American life, there's been a red state/blue state divide.Continue...Read More

Well, look who's back in town. John Bernard Felderhof, former vice-chairman of Bre-X Minerals, was spotted in Toronto in mid-March, accompanied by his lawyer, Joseph Groia. The pair were walking into the Ontario Securities Commission's offices to take in oft-delayed proceedings relating to allegations Felderhof violated Ontario's securities law eight times.A Canadian citizen, Felderhof has discree...Read More

In this week's gold and silver market update with Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics, Dave covered the latest gold and silver news, including the CME's $7 billion credit facility to protect against a clearing member default.Dave Kranzler spent many years working in various Wall Street jobs. After business school, he primarily traded junk bonds for a large bank. Dave graduated from Oberl...Read More

Over the past two years, nobody knew what would trigger the next financial crisis, but just about everyone saw that it would involve the record pile of corporate debt. And so it happened. Now the Fed fixed it...Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded start...Read More

To show why deflation comes first and why hyperinflation then becomes a distinct possibility, Mike compares US tax receipts to the Wilshire 5000 Index. What is immediately apparent is the high correlation between them-until recently. It takes two consecutive quarters of falling economic activity to officially declare a recession, but it's clear we've entered one now. This is the deflation. As Mike...Read More

The video, filmed by a bystander, showed the plainclothes officer, who was not wearing a protective face mask, slapping 33-year-old Donni Wright in the face, punching him in the shoulder and dragging Continue...Read More