Unprecedented chaos is coming.

NEW YORK (PNN) - January 8, 2016 - We have never had a year start the way that 2016 has started. In the Fascist Police States of Amerika, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 have both posted their worst four-day starts to a year ever. Canadian stocks are now down 21% since September, and it has been an absolute bloodbath in Europe over the past four days. Of course the primary catalyst for all of this is what has been going on in China. There has been an emergency suspension of trading in China two times within the past four days, and nobody is quite certain what is going to happen next. Eventually this wave of panic selling will settle down, but that won’t mean that this crisis will be over. In fact, what is coming is going to be much worse than what we have already seen.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (PNN) - January 8, 2016 - Brazil’s industrial production fell more than all analyst forecasts in November, underscoring the challenge that policy makers face in pulling Latin America’s largest economy out of its worst slump in decades.

NEW YORK (PNN) - January 7, 2015 - Another day, another fresh all-time record low in The Baltic Dry Index as Deutsche Bank's "perfect storm" appears ever closer on the horizon. Plunging 4.7% overnight to 445 points, this is 20% lower than the previous record low in 1986 and as one strategist warns, "It’s a brutal start of the year; there’s just nowhere to hide on the market."

Financial Armageddon approaches.

NEW YORK (PNN) - December 29, 2015 - Did you know that there are 5 “too big to fail” banks in the Fascist Police States of Amerika that each have exposure to derivatives contracts in excess of 30 trillion dollars? Overall, the biggest FPSA banks collectively have more than 247 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives contracts. That is an amount of money that is more than 13 times the size of the FPSA national debt, and it is a ticking time bomb that could set off financial Armageddon at any moment.

Corporations lost billions.

NEW YORK (PNN) - November 29, 2015 - For years, Black Friday brawls and rampant materialism on the day after Thanksgiving have become a sort of twisted Amerikan celebration. However, each year the excitement continues to die down as people reject the Black Friday antics and instead do their shopping online or on other days. According to a survey by the National Retail Federation, Black Friday attendance was down over 3%, from 58.7% last year to 55.1% this year.

Social unrest may be unavoidable.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (PNN) - November 27, 2015 - Last week, we brought you the latest from Puerto Rico’s debt debacle. The commonwealth is desperately trying to restructure some $72 billion in debt while staring down a $354 million bond payment due on December 1.

LONDON, England (PNN) - November 20, 2015 - The cost of shipping commodities fell to a record, amid signs that Chinese demand growth for iron ore and coal is slowing, hurting the industry’s biggest source of cargoes.