Burning Down the House to Keep Warm

The numbers are coming in and they are grim... Get some exposure to the best gold investments now. We’re just getting started, and it’s going to get ugly. [Outsider Club logo] Burning Down the House to Keep Warm [Adam English Photo] By [Adam English]( Written Jul 14, 2020 The numbers are coming in and they are grim. We already know that second-quarter earnings results are going to be a disaster, yet we’ll get the “better than expected” bumps. It’s absurd when profits are plunging into steep losses, but earnings hype has always been a charade. What I want to highlight are the “big picture” numbers emerging and, boy, are they scary. [Are We About to See the Next Gold Rush?]( Gold prices have already surged 22% this year and most pundits are calling for a $5,000 price by the end of the year. Legendary investor Jim Rickards is even calling for $10,000 per ounce. Now is the time to get in and get ready to profit from the next gold surge. And right now, this secret loophole allows anyone to [get in the gold market for as little as $8.10 per ounce!]( While we’re talking about what corporations are up to, we can look at the first nightmarish number. $1 trillion. That’s how much new global corporate debt is expected to grow this year, equivalent to a 12% jump, according to a new corporate debt index of 900 companies created by Janus Henderson, a major global asset management group. It would be one thing if this was a reversal of a trend. Instead, it represents an acceleration. Last year saw an 8% rise driven by M&A and share buybacks fueled by debt. Companies in the corporate debt index already owe almost 40% more than they did in 2014 and debt growth is far outpacing profit growth. Debt relative to shareholder finance is up to a record 59% for 2019’s figures. The percentage of profit devoted to servicing debt hit a new record high with it. This is a wildly unsustainable trajectory, and any reversion means painful cuts to everything from dividends, to profit margins, and that wonderful thing that actually leads to long-term growth — capital expenditures. Remember those? The Fed is creating an asset and debt bubble directly related to this new borrowing surge. It geared up for panic mode back in March as lenders froze new issuance, but the Fed didn’t react to corporate lenders reverting back and lending money to just about anyone that wants it. Now debt is virtually free for all but companies that can’t even muster enough free cash flow to cover their interest payments, and even then debt for these so-called zombie companies is cheaper than it was for top-rated companies in decades past. The number of zombie companies is growing, and it will get far worse with any increase in interest, effectively trapping the Fed into allowing the debt bubble to endlessly grow. The effect will spill over into the burgeoning asset bubble. [They Laughed When I Recommended Cannabis in 2013… and They’re Laughing Again…]( When I recommended a tiny cannabis company in 2013, I was seen as a joke. Until that stock skyrocketed 3,502%, turning $10,000 into over $360,000. Now, I’m hearing snickers again... especially from older folks... as I’m recommending a new industry that’s sweeping the globe. It’s growing faster than smartphones, streaming TV, and other big tech. [They aren’t laughing anymore at this pick.]( How does all this look for the Fed then? Its balance sheet, and thus ours as lowly taxpayers in an indirect way, jumped from $4 trillion to $7 trillion so far this year. Speaking of what we owe, the U.S. government just borrowed as much in June as it normally does in an entire year. With three months left in the fiscal year, the $2.7 trillion deficit has surpassed the last record sum of $1.4 trillion in 2009. It’ll hit $3.7 trillion without any additional spending commitments. All of this is strong evidence that we’re being locked into a death spiral. One that the market is concealing. [sp500 vs us gdp 14 july 20 chart] While stocks haven’t been as expensive since the Dot Com bubble, sitting at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 21.5, we’ve never seen such a massive divergence between economic reality and valuation. [China Harasses the U.S. Military in Djibouti]( The Pentagon is still reviewing an incident from last year when two U.S. pilots were flying a C-130 on a routine flight to the U.S. military base in Djibouti… and then just a minute before landing safely, both pilots were injured by a Chinese laser. And the attacks continue... Every single day, a new laser incident is reported somewhere in the world. It’s part of China’s systematic plan to intimidate and threaten our troops. But it gets worse. Experts believe these attacks from low-powered lasers are just practice runs for the real threat: a high-powered laser that can destroy anything in its path. The Pentagon has launched a $317 million response plan that will change U.S. defense forever — and early investors will make a fortune. [Click here for the full story.]( I’m not here to talk politics or policies. We’re all adults and make up our own minds. If anyone has a solution there are some pedestals without statues we can repurpose for them. They’d have earned it. One thing is for sure though. If we need to or not, this is the equivalent of burning down our home to keep warm. The trends we are seeing now are virtually guaranteed to be locked in for years to come. However, it is not just the dire negative ones. There are positive trends we can use to our advantage. Gold has been surging up and all the data points to it being the start of a multi-year, if volatile, trend. [Get some exposure to the best gold investments now](. We’re just getting started, and it’s going to get ugly. Take care, [Adam English] Adam English [follow basic]( [@AdamEnglishOC on Twitter]( Adam's editorial talents and analysis drew the attention of senior editors at [Outsider Club](, which he joined in mid-2012. While he has acquired years of hands-on experience in the editorial room by working side by side with ex-brokers, options floor traders, and financial advisors, he is acutely aware of the challenges faced by retail investors after starting at the ground floor in the financial publishing field. For more on Adam, check out his editor's [page](. *Follow Outsider Club on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. Enjoy reading this article? [Click here]( to like it and receive similar articles to read! 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