Home » Economics (Page 171)
Category Archives: Economics
How Much Silver Bullion Was Sold By The Top Three Official Mints So Far This Year?
How Much Silver Bullion Was Sold By The Top Three Official Mints So Far This Year? The top three official mints sold a great deal of retail silver bullion products in the first half of 2020. However, the sales figure could have been a great deal higher if the various government mints weren’t forced to […]
A Powerful Ally to the Fed Just Boosted the Prospects for Inflation
A Powerful Ally to the Fed Just Boosted the Prospects for Inflation This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: ECB could follow the Fed’s pro-inflation policy, precious metals in a pandemic, and legendary silver coin to be sold for more than $10 […]
What’s to Be Done Now with All These Zombie Companies?
What’s to Be Done Now with All These Zombie Companies? Saving the Zombies in Europe. Europe’s zombie firms are multiplying like never before. In Germany, one of the few European economies that has weathered the virus crisis reasonably well, an estimated 550,000 firms — roughly one-sixth of the total — could already be classified as […]
The Four D’s That Define the Future
The Four D’s That Define the Future When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were previously viewed as essential crumble to dust. Four D’s will define 2020-2025: derealization, denormalization, decomplexification and decoherence. That’s a lot of D’s. Let’s take them one at a time. I use the word derealization to […]
Election Chaos Means Market Chaos – Michael Pento
Election Chaos Means Market Chaos – Michael Pento Money manager and economist Michael Pento predicts, “We are going to have an election in this country that is the most contested vote this country has ever seen. Whichever party that loses is not going to accept the results. That’s mad chaos for the stock market, and […]
Frederick Soddy’s Debt Dynamics
Frederick Soddy’s Debt Dynamics In the field of ecological economics, Frederick Soddy looms large. Born in 1877, Soddy became a chemist and eventually won a Nobel prize for work on radioactive decay. Then he turned his attention to economics. Between 1921 and 1934, Soddy wrote four books that looked at how money relates to the physical economy. For […]
If You Feel Like Something Really, Really Bad Is About To Happen, You Are Definitely Not Alone
If You Feel Like Something Really, Really Bad Is About To Happen, You Are Definitely Not Alone If this is “the recovery”, what are things going to look like once economic conditions start to deteriorate again? As you will see below, more than half of all households in some of our largest cities “are facing […]
Negative Interest Rates Have Arrived
Negative Interest Rates Have Arrived We are often warned that negative interest rates are an approaching menace — not an immediate menace. Yet are negative rates already reality in the United States? Has the unholy day already arrived? Today we don the sleuth’s cap, step into our gumshoes… and unearth evidence that negative interest rates […]
$65 Oil And $5000 Gold: Traders Expect Volatility In Key Commodities
$65 Oil And $5000 Gold: Traders Expect Volatility In Key Commodities The year of the pandemic put two commodities under the spotlight, but for different reasons. Gold prices hit an all-time high in August, while crude oil slipped into negative for a day in April, when demand crashed and inventories soared. Both oil and gold […]
Weekly Commentary: State-Directed Credit Splurge
Weekly Commentary: State-Directed Credit Splurge New data released Friday confirm ongoing historic Chinese Credit excess. Total Aggregate Financing increased (a ridiculous) $524 billion during August to $40.5 TN, doubling July’s growth and exceeding estimates by almost 40%. It was the strongest monthly gain since March’s record $759 billion. This pushed y-t-d (8-month) growth to $3.828 […]
UNIDOS HACIA EL FUTURO
UNIDOS HACIA EL FUTURO “The markets are the product of 1999 & 2007 hooking up for a one night stand.” Tweet by Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth), 25th August 2020. “In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to / Myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost.” Dante, Inferno. “Zoom is […]
Milton Friedman on Real Economcs
Milton Friedman on Real Economics
Economic War with China is the Final Step Before the “Great Reset”
Economic War with China is the Final Step Before the “Great Reset” With the pandemic dominating the news cycle, the general public has been completely distracted from a much more important crisis; namely, the economic crisis. To be sure, economic decay is not as swift or exciting, but I doubt that’s why the mainstream media […]
Inflation, deflation and other fallacies
Inflation, deflation and other fallacies There can be little doubt that macroeconomic policies are failing around the world. The fallacies being exposed are so entrenched that there are bound to be twists and turns yet to come. This article explains the fallacies behind inflation, deflation, economic performance and interest rates. They arise from the modern […]
