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Doug Casey on the Year the World Falls Apart
Doug Casey on the Year the World Falls Apart Justin’s note: It’s “Totally Incorrect” week here at Casey Research… We’ve shared Doug Casey’s uncensored insights – on topics ranging from the climate change hoax to the next 9/11-type event. But today’s essay may be the most controversial one yet… Doug says a disaster of historic proportions is on the […]
The Real Problem With Modern Monetary Theory
The Real Problem With Modern Monetary Theory MMT supporters will point to 2008 and say, “Just look at QE. In 2008, the Federal Reserve Balance sheet was $800 billion. But as a result of QE1, QE2, and QE3, that number went to $4.5 trillion. And the world didn’t end. To the contrary, the stock market […]
Extrapolating The Recent Past Can Be Hazardous To Your Wealth
Extrapolating The Recent Past Can Be Hazardous To Your Wealth “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” remarked George Santayana over 100 years ago. These words, as strung together in this sequence, certainly sound good. But how to render them to actionable advice is less certain. George Santayana – purveyor of […]
The Fed Has Given Up: Get Ready for More QE
The Fed Has Given Up: Get Ready for More QE The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to keep the federal funds rate unchanged. Overall, the FOMC signaled it has made a dovish turn away from the promised normalization of monetary policy which the Fed has promised will be implemented “some day” for […]
Politics Has Failed, Now Central Banks Are Failing
Politics Has Failed, Now Central Banks Are Failing With each passing day, we get closer to the shift in the tide that will sweep away this self-serving delusion of the ruling elites like a crumbling sand castle. Those living in revolutionary times are rarely aware of the tumult ahead: in 1766, a mere decade before the […]
Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts
Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts [ Venezuela is experiencing a double whammy of drought and low oil prices, which has lead to blackouts and inability to import food. It just keeps getting worse and worse. Related posts: Book review of “In order to live: A North Korean girl’s journey to freedom” by Yeonmi Park Inside North […]
A Major Bank Capitulates: “This May Be The Time For Helicopter Money Drops”
A Major Bank Capitulates: “This May Be The Time For Helicopter Money Drops” Long before the Fed was humiliated into reversing its hawkish rate hike policy in January and then again in March, we published – back in June 2015 – “The Blindingly Simple Reason Why The Fed Is About To Engage In Policy Error“, […]
IT’S OFFICIAL; U.S. Silver Production The Lowest In More Than 70 Years
IT’S OFFICIAL; U.S. Silver Production The Lowest In More Than 70 Years With the latest release by the USGS, silver production in the U.S. is now the lowest in more than 70 years. We have to go all the way back until the year after World War II ended to see U.S. silver production less […]
Exposing the Myth of MMT
Exposing the Myth of MMT Yesterday I discussed modern monetary theory (MMT) and how it’s become very popular in Democratic circles. That’s because it allows for much greater government spending without having to raise everyone’s taxes. And everyday citizens could get behind it because it promises to fund lots of programs without seeing their taxes […]
The ‘Big Short’ In Canada: Eisman Ups Bets Against “Big Six” Canadian Banks
The ‘Big Short’ In Canada: Eisman Ups Bets Against “Big Six” Canadian Banks Over the last year, Neuberger Berman portfolio manager Steve Eisman – who gained notoriety beyond Wall Street thanks to ‘The Big Short’ and his portrayal by Steve Carrell in the movie adaptation – has taken seemingly every opportunity to talk his book, […]
Which Nations Will Crumble and Which Few Will Prosper in the Next 25 Years?
Which Nations Will Crumble and Which Few Will Prosper in the Next 25 Years? Adaptability and flexibility will be the core survival traits going forward. What will separate the many nations that will crumble in the next 25 years and those few that will survive and even prosper while the status quo dissolves around them? As […]
A Different View of Venezuela’s Energy Problems
A Different View of Venezuela’s Energy Problems It would be easy to write a story about Venezuela’s energy problems and, in it, focus on the corruption and mismanagement that have taken place. This would make it look like Venezuela’s problems were different from everyone else’s. Taking this approach, it would be easy to argue that the […]
Nothing Happens, Then Everything Happens
Nothing Happens, Then Everything Happens On the Fits and Starts in Markets and in Life After traveling the world for over five years aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin returned to England on October 2, 1836. You would think that after half a decade of documenting the unknown flora and fauna of the globe Darwin […]
The Neutered Fed Is Politically Trapped
The Neutered Fed Is Politically Trapped Everyone now knows that the only meaningful goal of Fed policy is propping up the world’s greatest credit-asset bubble. In this era of fake news and deep-fake digital recordings and images, it’s important to use unedited images. With this firmly in mind, here is an unedited photo of Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell and […]
THE BLOODBATH IN U.S. SHALE STOCKS CONTINUES: Worst Is Yet To Come
THE BLOODBATH IN U.S. SHALE STOCKS CONTINUES: Worst Is Yet To Come Have you noticed the absolute carnage taking place in the U.S. shale oil stocks? It seems as if Wall Street and investors are finally growing weary of an industry that hasn’t made money in the past decade. Unfortunately, it took a longer than […]
