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What Happens to the Markets If Long-Term Interest Rates Double from Here? Did Low Interest Rates Boost Auto Sales? Do These Covid Markets Make Any Sense?
What Happens to the Markets If Long-Term Interest Rates Double from Here? Did Low Interest Rates Boost Auto Sales? Do These Covid Markets Make Any Sense? Wolf Richter on This Week in Money, by HoweStreet.com:
Yellen Challenges Powell’s Unlimited Control of the Markets
Yellen Challenges Powell’s Unlimited Control of the Markets Source: Federal Reserve The Fed attempts to maintain control of various rates (including inflation, unemployment and long-term interest rates) through its monetary policy decisions. In the past, poor choices arguably led to both the dot-com bubble and the Great Recession. But that’s old news. Today, Fed Chairman […]
The Early Roots of a Modern Crisis
The Early Roots of a Modern Crisis This is our challenge: to move a world of almost 8 billion people, most involved in an economic system with tremendous inequality, a clear imperative to expand, and a chronic tendency to stagnate, toward some real rapprochement with earth. This is a monumental challenge. If nothing else, the […]
Hot Money
Hot Money I watched the new documentary Hot Money by Susan Kucera tonight. An intelligent world-wise father (General Wesley Clark) and his son discuss some of the problems we face with many smart participants. I don’t think they interviewed a single idiot, which was refreshing. They know something is seriously wrong and make an honest attempt to […]
Shipping Costs, Trucking Rates Soar Despite Demand Below Prior Years. Now Add Diesel Price Surge to the Mix
Shipping Costs, Trucking Rates Soar Despite Demand Below Prior Years. Now Add Diesel Price Surge to the Mix One more manifestation of the inflation pressures working through various levels of the economy despite suboptimal demand. January, in terms of freight volume, is usually a slow month of the year, after the shipping season before the […]
Who Bought the $4.5 Trillion Added in One Year to the Incredibly Spiking US National Debt, Now at $27.9 Trillion?
Who Bought the $4.5 Trillion Added in One Year to the Incredibly Spiking US National Debt, Now at $27.9 Trillion? Someone had to buy every dollar of this monstrous debt. Here’s Who. The Fed isn’t the only one. But China continues to unwind its holdings. Driven by stimulus and bailouts, and fired up by the […]
Why Global Warming was a Total Farce & it’s Now Incorporated into the Great Reset
Why Global Warming was a Total Farce & it’s Now Incorporated into the Great Reset QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, your computer and you have been correct on everything from politics to markets and even climate. You said we would be headed back to global cooling. Was this based on the solar waves of energy from the sun? […]
Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux
Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux Giorgione The Tempest 1508“Mankind’s only chance to not destroy its planet lies in diverging from all other species in that not all energy available to it, is used up as fast as possible. But that’s a big challenge. It would, speaking from a purely philosophical angle, truly separate us from […]
Federal Reserve & Fake Conspiracies
Federal Reserve & Fake Conspiracies QUESTION: I found your history of the Federal Reserve very insightful which nobody else has put together. Can you explain your comment that the ECB could go bankrupt but not the Fed? Thank you very much. HB ANSWER: Here is a full set of $1 bills with each issued by its respective […]
Presidents Day: Carter’s Prescient Farewell Address in 1981
Presidents Day: Carter’s Prescient Farewell Address in 1981 Regardless of our opinions about President Carter and his legacy, his Farewell Address is worthy of our attention and study. On Presidents Day 2021, I invite you to read/watch President Carter’s Farewell Address from 40 years ago. As a Washington outsider, Carter was relentlessly mocked and undermined by […]
A Market Crash AND High Inflation?
A Market Crash AND High Inflation? Financial researcher Jesse Felder warns of twin dangers ahead Imagine for a moment that the price of all your investments — your stocks, your retirement portfolio, your house — suddenly drop in half this year. Now imagine that on top of that inflation suddenly picks up, making your cost of living […]
Demateralizing the economy isn’t happening (Hint: All that material is actually hiding in plain sight)
Demateralizing the economy isn’t happening (Hint: All that material is actually hiding in plain sight) If you are trying to prove something is true and certain facts get in the way, it’s almost always useful to exclude them. This is apparently what technology cheerleader Andrew McAfee has done in his recent book More from Less, which […]
Governments are Creating Horror Scenarios for Lockdowns to Retain Power
Governments are Creating Horror Scenarios for Lockdowns to Retain Power Magdalena Martullo-Blocher: “The federal government has introduced a dictatorship. He switched off democracy » The entrepreneur Magdalena Martullo-Blocher, a Swiss billionaire, businesswoman, Swiss People’s Party politician, the CEO of Ems-Chemie, and the daughter and an heiress of former Swiss Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher has come out and called for […]
A World that Operates by Financial Cheating and Unsound Money Is Doomed
A World that Operates by Financial Cheating and Unsound Money Is Doomed It’s all phony money but there’s no revolt yet. Value for ValueMy friend Hugo Salinas Price wrote a short post that I agree with. Please consider A World that Operates by Cheating Is Doomed In ages past, gold and silver provided humanity with a […]
