Stocks continue to push toward record highs even as the Federal Reserve expands liquidity, inflation shows signs of turning higher, and investors grapple with the possibility of the largest energy shock in modern history. What happens when more money enters the system just as inflation begins to turn higher? Chris Martenson joins Market Insider below to discuss.
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This is an astonishing chart that, in one picture, shows the complete abandonment of the entire middle class.
The top 10% of earners now account for over half of all consumer spending, the exact opposite of how it was 30 years ago.
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I was shocked when I heard this the first time, and I'm still shocked every time I hear it. Elon Musk says there are "magic money computers" at the government that just emit payments - credits without debits. In accounting, every credit must always have a matching debit, but Elon said that's not the case. These computers just emit credit.
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Keep your eye on this, everyone. Long bond yields have risen to their highest level in decades. The change in trend is visible across all Western economies, and this tells us something very different from what we're hearing in the financial mainstream media.
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How detached from reality can you be? Trump says his administration has substantially lowered costs for the American consumer. Is he talking about gas, food, property taxes, or insurance, because none of those have gone down for me!
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I had somebody in the industry once accuse me of being a fear-mongerer for advising my clients to prepare for 5.5%+ inflation. Am I fear-mongering still, or am I helping people prepare for possible outcomes?
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@LukeGromen put together this great chart that shows how PPI always leads CPI. If this continues, we can expect a major uptick in inflation within the next several months.
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The Fed is drastically exceeding their 2% inflation mark, and it's about to get even worse. The current pace of change is about as steep as we've ever seen, very closely mirroring the 1970s.
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The stock market has never been higher, but consumer sentiment has never been lower. I can show you the reason why in just one chart.
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Monetary conditions are about as loose as I've seen things in a long time. When the secured overnight funding rate dips below the Fed funds rate, it means monetary policy is loose, because banks are willing to lend to each other for less than they'd get at the Fed. Look how far it's dipped in the past month.
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This chart of margin debt is insane. The recent spike to 5.3% of GDP is mind-boggling and puts the dot-com bubble to shame. If we get a reversion in the market, which is historically normal, forced liquidations will cause people to entire positions on a scale we've never seen before.
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The Fed is currently printing $1 billion per day. In just four short years, money market funds have increased by 60%. Where is all the money coming from?
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$17 trillion has been added to the global money supply since 2025. It's not going into bonds, so that only really leaves equities, which is why we're seeing stock market price inflation. As this unfolds, passive investing won't be able to make the adaptations quickly enough to navigate the shifting allocations in global capital.
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Every major Western stock market is through the roof, regardless of country. This tells me there is a massive money flood inflating the markets.
So, you've got a perfect storm that's making it impossible to know when this ends, but the longer it lasts, the more damage it's going to do to the average person.
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Crude oil, gasoline, and diesel inventories are at the lowest levels they've been in the US for 16 years, and they're still heading lower while we export like crazy. At some point, this becomes a major crisis, perhaps in July or August if things continue as they are.
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At the current pace that we're draining our strategic petroleum reserve, we have 158 days before we hit the wall at full speed.
The US is effectively funding the world's oil demand from the SPR by bringing supply up to meet demand instead of letting price drive demand down to meet supply. We can only do that for so long before it turns into a major crisis.
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We just got through a punishing round of inflation with COVID, and we have another one coming. More printed money + less available oil = much higher prices. Even if they can use the options market to artificially hold prices down, it's eventually going to break and get much more expensive.
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This energy crisis is just barely getting started, and we have to be prepared for vastly higher energy prices. It's highly unlikely any deal will be reached, and the market seems to be paying more attention to propaganda than facts.
With inflation already surging, this is going to hit people like a baseball bat to the face.
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We have to stay prudent in the market conditions we're seeing. We can't let emotions control our decisions, because if we give in to FOMO, we may feel joy on the front end, but we'll have emotional pain on the other end once we revert back to the mean.
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Here's what you see when looking at an average of the four major value indicators:
➡️ 74% lead to the Great Depression
➡️ 124% lead to the dot-com crash
➡️ 181% is where we are right now
Are we about to shatter another record?
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