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Next Stop: Recession!
Wikimedia Next Stop: Recession! We’ve arrived at the end of the line. We’ve enjoyed years of “recovery” since the Great Financial Crisis by literally papering over our problems with newly-printed money, instead of addressing their root causes. But we’ve now arrived at the awkward part of the story; when all of our prior mistakes finally […]
‘Exactly What I Was Worried About’: Warren Warns New Big Bank Merger Will Increase Risk of Another Crash
‘Exactly What I Was Worried About’: Warren Warns New Big Bank Merger Will Increase Risk of Another Crash “We can’t let banks become too big to fail again: American families will suffer.” “Gigantic banks wrecked our economy, but the Fed told me they are rubber-stamping nearly every proposed bank merger,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote […]
The Pseudo-Psychology Behind Monetary Policy
The Pseudo-Psychology Behind Monetary Policy In his various writings, the champion of the monetarist school, Milton Friedman, argued that there is a variable time lag between changes in money supply and its effect on real output and prices. Friedman holds that in the short run changes in money supply will be followed by changes in […]
Debt Trifecta at All-Time Highs – Billionaires Panic
Debt Trifecta at All-Time Highs – Billionaires Panic The “trifecta” of national, corporate, and consumer debt has reached all-time highs, and could prove to be catastrophic if a recession hits. Let’s start by quickly bringing each part of this debt trifecta up to date as much as possible… U.S. National Debt The national debt, ever […]
The U.S. Faces A Catastrophic Food Supply Crisis In America As Farmers Struggle
The U.S. Faces A Catastrophic Food Supply Crisis In America As Farmers Struggle American farmers are battling several issues when it comes to producing our food. Regulated low prices, tariffs, and the inability to export have all cut into the salaries of farmers. They are officially in crisis mode, just like the United States’ food supply. “The […]
The Big Government Show Must Go On
The Big Government Show Must Go On Another week. Another week of distractions. On Tuesday, for instance, was the great State of the Union Address. To this, many opinions and observations have been offered. Here, we’ll contribute several of our own… President Trump is a showman of stout ego. How he must have relished the run-up […]
Dreams Die Hard
Dreams Die Hard Somewhere between the fevered Zzzz’s of American Dreaming and the blinding shock of being “woke,” there is a recognition that an awful lot about contemporary life is not working and can’t go on. At the bottom of this discontent is the mistaken notion that the unwind of modernity can be arrested or […]
Store Gold Bullion In Safest Ways – Learning from Tragic Venezuela Today
Store Gold Bullion In Safest Ways – Learning from Tragic Venezuela Today – Store gold bullion in the safest ways possible and learn from Venezuela’s gold battle with the Bank of England and Trump’s White House – What in the world is happening in Venezuela and to the people of Venezuela’s gold?– How you store gold and […]
For the First Time Since 2007, Central Banks Are Net DRAINING Liquidity
For the First Time Since 2007, Central Banks Are Net DRAINING Liquidity Yesterday was a wake up call for the bulls. Unfortunately it’s only going to get worse. The fact is that no matter what verbal interventions Central Banks or the political elite issue, liquidity is now rapidly leaving the financial system. The Fed continues […]
The Most Depressing Stat Of The Month: The U.S. National Debt Is About To Pass The $22 Trillion Mark
The Most Depressing Stat Of The Month: The U.S. National Debt Is About To Pass The $22 Trillion Mark The U.S. national debt is wildly out of control, and nobody in Washington seems to care. According to the U.S. Treasury, the federal government is currently $21,933,491,166,604.77 in debt. In just a few days, that figure […]
Are Investors Finally Waking up to North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis?
Are Investors Finally Waking up to North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis? The fracked gas industry’s long borrowing binge may finally be hitting a hard reality: paying back investors. Enabled by rising debt, shale companies have been achieving record fracked oil and gas production, while promising investors a big future payoff. But over a decade into the “fracking miracle,” investors […]
Rabobank: “We Can’t Even Imagine What The Chinese Response Will Be To The Green New Deal”
Rabobank: “We Can’t Even Imagine What The Chinese Response Will Be To The Green New Deal” The bent out of shape of things to come If regular readers have not picked up on our view on US-China relations, it is that although just enough good will can be scraped together to kick the can down […]
Why Monetary Easing Will Fail
WHY MONETARY EASING WILL FAIL The major economies have slowed suddenly in the last two or three months, prompting a change of tack in the monetary policies of central banks. The same old tired, failing inflationist responses are being lined up, despite the evidence that monetary easing has never stopped a credit crisis developing. This […]
Frank Homes–Peak Gold is Here: No Major Gold Discoveries and Falling Exploration Dollars
FRANK HOMES – PEAK GOLD IS HERE: NO MAJOR GOLD DISCOVERIES AND FALLING EXPLORATION DOLLARS SBTV speaks with returning guest Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of US Global Investors, about gold. Has gold production plateaued and are there less capital invested in gold exploration? Frank shares his insights to both questions. Discussed in this interview: 02:43 Disappointment […]
The next recession could force the Fed to cut interest rates into negative territory. Here’s what that means, and how it could affect you.
The next recession could force the Fed to cut interest rates into negative territory. Here’s what that means, and how it could affect you. The San Francisco Federal Reserve recently published a paper indicating that an unprecedented policy step, if adopted, would have helped the economy recover more quickly from the most recent financial crisis. […]
