Posts by Jeff Berwick

[cresta-social-share] I heard the term “spirit cooking” for the first time a few days ago.  At first I assumed it was some form of culinary style that was done in a spiritual way. Boy was I wrong. Reports on the internet are actually referring to a meal involving “blood, sperm and breastmilk.” The term was…

[cresta-social-share] One of the trends TDV watches closely is the inevitable unraveling of markets, especially equity markets. The stock market has been weaponized by disastrously low interest rates and it is only a matter of time before catastrophe occurs. Just a matter of months, weeks, days or hours. We’re not debating the magnitude of the…

[cresta-social-share] The S&P 500 has only fallen for 7 straight days three times in the last 20 years.  And, each time it was during a financial crisis. And, it just happened again today. The S&P 500 fell 0.65% on Wednesday, marking seven days in a row of losses. Further, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) spiked…

[cresta-social-share] As of yesterday it was eight years to the day since Bitcoin’s initial white paper was posted to the internet. And what a birthday party it had, soaring from $614 on October 1st to around $728 today with gold and silver also rocketing higher, with silver up more than 3% today. Part of the…

[cresta-social-share] If you are one of the few people left watching the mainstream media, you’d think that the only thing currently going on has to do with Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. There is much more going on than that, however.  Aside from the ongoing military tensions with Russia and the faltering economy, there is…