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All Money is Backed Even Today!
All Money is Backed Even Today! QUESTION: Hi AE, et al. Your blogs not only inform, but are actually entertaining as they give most of us a point of view we’ve never before contemplated.My question….you have stated numerous times that one of the reasons the Roman government survived for 100’s of years is because they simply […]
OECD Slashes Global Growth Outlook, Warns Germany Already In Recession
OECD Slashes Global Growth Outlook, Warns Germany Already In Recession In one of the most downbeat forecasts on the global economy that we’ve seen so far this year, the Paris-based organization of wealthy nations known as the OECD – the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – warned that the global economy is heading toward a […]
Peter Schiff: The Next Crash Could Bring Down the Fiat Money System
Peter Schiff: The Next Crash Could Bring Down the Fiat Money System Peter Schiff appeared on RT Boom Bust on Tuesday (Sept. 17) to talk about interest rates, gold and the dollar. Peter said the fiat currency system may not survive the next recession. The conversation started focusing on the repo operations conducted by the Federal Reserve early in the week, […]
Peter Schiff: Why the Fed Won’t Be Able to Rescue the Economy the Next Time Around
Peter Schiff: Why the Fed Won’t Be Able to Rescue the Economy the Next Time Around Peter Schiff has been saying that the Federal Reserve is going to take interest rates back to zero and launch another round of quantitative easing in order to reinflate the bubble economy after the next crash. The central bank […]
More Money Pumping Won’t Make Us Richer
More Money Pumping Won’t Make Us Richer Whenever a central bank introduces easy monetary policy, as a rule this leads to an economic boom — or economic prosperity. At least this is what most commentators hold. If this is however the case then it means that an easy monetary policy can grow an economy. But […]
Stunning Consensus Emerges: Fed May Announce Launch Of QE In Just A Few Hours
Stunning Consensus Emerges: Fed May Announce Launch Of QE In Just A Few Hours It was back on August 6, in an article titled “Forget China, The Fed Has A Much Bigger Problem On Its Hands“, where we explained why in response to the coming dollar funding shortage and liquidity crunch (we warned about this […]
Nomura Exposes The Fed’s Imminent “Mega-Shift” – Beware Quad Witch & “Untethered” Markets
Nomura Exposes The Fed’s Imminent “Mega-Shift” – Beware Quad Witch & “Untethered” Markets “This is a big deal,” warns Nomura’s Charlie McElligott – a man not known for hyperbole – as he reflects on the sudden, dramatic changes occurring in the very deepest levels of plumbing of the world’s supposed most-liquid markets. Another massively over-subscribed repo […]
Liquidity Shortage Getting Worse: Fed’s Repo Oversubscribed As Funding Demand Soars 50% Overnight
Liquidity Shortage Getting Worse: Fed’s Repo Oversubscribed As Funding Demand Soars 50% Overnight 20 minutes after today’s repo operation began, it concluded and there was some bad news in it: as we feared, yesterday’s take up of the Fed’s repo operation which peaked at $53.2 billion has expanded substantially, and according to the Fed, today there […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – September 18th 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – September 18th 2019 “There is no equilibrium, we invest into unstable constantly changing markets. ” Why so Calm? Even as the Fed meeting pondered raising rates by a smidge, it had to intervene to pump money into the short-term US financial system for the first time since the 2008 crisis. That’s […]
Will the Bank of England join the loose money bandwagon?
Will the Bank of England join the loose money bandwagon? As the year of the 325th anniversary of the Bank of England’s foundation, and as the month of one of the Bank’s more important rate-setting decisions since 2008, September provides a congruous occasion on which to reflect on the history of the BoE and consider […]
Energy Expert Warns Oil Shocks Hit The Economy With Incredible Speed, Usually Within Thirty Days
Energy Expert Warns Oil Shocks Hit The Economy With Incredible Speed, Usually Within Thirty Days The lasting damage from the weekend’s attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure is yet to be fully assessed. Having said that, we can make some broad statements about supply outages and economic cycles. Although we tend to forget it, almost all […]
Oil Explodes 20% Higher, Biggest Jump On Record
Oil Explodes 20% Higher, Biggest Jump On Record With traders in a state of near-frenzy, with a subset of fintwit scrambling (and failing) to calculate what the limit move in oil would be (hint: there is none for Brent), moments ago brent reopened for trading in the aftermath of Saturday’s attack on the “world’s most […]
Hedge Fund CIO: “The Biggest Market Player Is 15x Leveraged; That’s Why When It Starts Going Wrong, You’re Out”
Hedge Fund CIO: “The Biggest Market Player Is 15x Leveraged; That’s Why When It Starts Going Wrong, You’re Out” “Wanted to make sure you’re seeing this,” texted a PM from one of those multi-manager monstrosities. “8 standard deviation move in the Momentum Factor in 5-days,” he added. I heard his heart pounding all the way […]
How Much Will Oil Surge When Trading Reopens
How Much Will Oil Surge When Trading Reopens Now that Goldman has successfully sparked a near-frenzy of chaos, confusion (and market buy orders) ahead of tonight’s trading open, the only question is how high will oil surge. And according to some preliminary estimates, oil analysts expect crude prices to jump at least $5 to $10 a barrel […]
