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The Next Wave of Debt Monetization Will Also Be A Disaster
The Next Wave of Debt Monetization Will Also Be A Disaster According to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the IIF (Institute of International finance) global debt has soared to a new record high. The level of government debt around the world has ballooned since the financial crisis, reaching levels never seen before during peacetime. This has happened in […]
Political and Social Conflict Is Accelerating: Here’s Why
Political and Social Conflict Is Accelerating: Here’s Why All the status quo “fixes” only hasten the collapse of the status quo. That economic, social and political conflict is accelerating is self-evident. What’s open to debate are the core drivers of conflict / disorder /unraveling. Here’s the core self-reinforcing dynamic in my view: 1. The status quo […]
World Trade Barometer Suggests Global Economy Continues To Plunge As Trade War Takes Toll
World Trade Barometer Suggests Global Economy Continues To Plunge As Trade War Takes Toll The World Trade Organization (WTO) published a new report Monday that warns global merchandise trade in goods will plunge through this quarter amid no resolution to the trade war, along with the continuation of a worldwide synchronized slowdown that shows no signs of […]
Peter Schiff: There Are Bubbles Everywhere and They’re All Going to Pop
Peter Schiff: There Are Bubbles Everywhere and They’re All Going to Pop The Dow pushed above 28,000 on Friday. The Nasdaq also closed on a record high above 8,500, and the S&P 500 made a new record high of 3,120. This despite some more gloomy economic data that came out during the day. Industrial production […]
Brace For Impact! The U.S. Economy Is Going Down, And It Is Going Down Hard…
Brace For Impact! The U.S. Economy Is Going Down, And It Is Going Down Hard… I have so many bad economic numbers to share with you that I don’t even know where to start. I had anticipated that the U.S. economic slowdown would accelerate during the fourth quarter of 2019, and that is precisely what […]
If Not-QE Is QE, then is Not-a-Blowoff-Top a Blowoff Top?
If Not-QE Is QE, then is Not-a-Blowoff-Top a Blowoff Top? Can $300 billion, or $600 billion, or even $1 trillion continue to prop up an increasingly risk-riddled, fragile $330 trillion global bubble in overvalued assets? When is “Not-QE” QE? When Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell declares QE is not QE. We can constructively recall the story […]
Fed Fears Next Crash Fatal – John Rubino
Fed Fears Next Crash Fatal – John Rubino Financial writer and book author John Rubino says he can see the end of the economic expansion fueled by massive debt creation. Rubino explains, “Every sector of the U.S. economy is so over indebted I don’t see how we go on much longer. The Fed is desperately […]
Is the Fed Secretly Bailing Out a Major Bank?
Is the Fed Secretly Bailing Out a Major Bank? Prettifying Toxic Waste The promise of something for nothing is always an enticing proposition. Who doesn’t want roses without thorns, rainbows without rain, and salvation without repentance? So, too, who doesn’t want a few extra basis points of yield above the 10-year Treasury note at no added […]
Understanding the Repo Crisis
Understanding the Repo Crisis COMMENT: Marty, thank you for a great conference. The comments out there on the liquidity crisis have been just domestically focused. Thank you for keeping my eyes focused on international events and your analysis about the crisis at Deutsche Bank GH REPLY: The raid on Deutsche Bank in Germany back in September over […]
GDP Estimates Crash on Dismal Economic Reports
GDP Estimates Crash on Dismal Economic Reports GDP Estimates are well below 1.0% following industrial production and retail sales estimates. The GDPNow model forecast for the fourth quarter took a dive today to 0.3% from 1.0% a week ago. Similarly, the Nowcast model fell to 0.4% from 0.7%. Pat Higgins at GDPNow explains: “The GDPNow model estimate for real […]
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up!
Nurturing vital diversity & resilience: Scaling out, rather than scaling-up! There is an unfortunate knee-jerk response programmed into many people in leadership positions to want to ask: “How do we scale it up?” every time they hear a seemingly good idea. To a larger or lesser extent, many of the people who have this response have contracted […]
The Free Money Bubble Is About To Burst
The Free Money Bubble Is About To Burst Recently, there has been a parade of central bankers along with their lackeys on Wall Street coming on the financial news networks and desperately trying to convince investors that there are no bubbles extant in the world today. Indeed, the Fed sees no economic or market imbalances […]
Global Debt To Hit All Time High $255 Trillion, 330% Of World GDP
Global Debt To Hit All Time High $255 Trillion, 330% Of World GDP There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and that global debt will keep rising in perpetuity. Addressing the third, yesterday the Institute of International Finance reported that global debt has now hit $250 trillion and is expected to hit a record $255 trillion […]
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt In a very real way, MMT is already here Sure, it’s not admitting to this. And it’s using several technical jinks and jives to offer a pretense that things are otherwise. But it’s not terribly difficult to predict what’s going to happen next: the Federal Reserve will […]
Vladimir Putin Sums Up The New World Order In 5 Words
Vladimir Putin Sums Up The New World Order In 5 Words Russian President Vladimir Putin succinctly summarized the shifting tectonic plates of geopolitics. Vladimir Putin: “The Dollar Enjoyed Great Trust Around The World. But For Some Reason It Is Being Used As A Political Weapon, Imposing Restrictions. Many Countries Are Now Turning Away From The […]
