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Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons
Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by […]
A Survival Guide For 2019
A Survival Guide For 2019 How to safely navigate the ‘Year Of Instability’ As the first month of the year concludes, it’s becoming clear that 2019 will be a very different kind of year. The near-decade of ‘recovery’ following the Great Financial Crisis enjoyed a stability and tranquility that suddenly evaporated at the end of […]
Peter Schiff: This Is the Beginning of the End (Video)
Peter Schiff: This Is the Beginning of the End (Video) During his keynote speech at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, Peter Schiff said we are at the beginning of the end. The Fed appears to have paused interest rate hikes in order to save the stock market. The markets have reacted positively and a lot of analysts […]
RBI Bows To Political Pressure With Unexpected Rate Cut
RBI Bows To Political Pressure With Unexpected Rate Cut Fed Chairman Jerome Powell isn’t the only leader of a major central bank to capitulate to political (and market) pressure so far this year. On Thursday, RBI Gov. Shaktikanta Das during his first meeting at the helm of the bank led a 4-2 vote to cut […]
The Difference Between Money Supply & Liquidity
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MONEY SUPPLY & LIQUIDITY The US debt ceiling suspension, signed on February 2018, expires in March this year. According to some experts, the US Treasury will have to carry out special measures because of possible delays in raising this ceiling. Treasury would need to draw down its deposits with the Fed and […]
New Monetary Theory is Like Sleepwalking
New Monetary Theory is Like Sleepwalking QUESTION: Bernie Sanders was basing his whole economic proposal to just keep spending and make everything free. They seem to be teaching this in school now. This macroeconomic theory whereby a country’s spending is only constrained not by revenue in taxes but by inflation when it creates a sovereign currency. […]
Debts and Deficits are Out of Control
Debts and Deficits are Out of Control Understandably, the problems and politics of the moment dominate the news and attract the attention of most policy commentators and much of the public. Will there be another government shutdown, will House Democrats attempt to impeach the president, will interest rates remain low, and will there be a […]
Chapter 4: Early Days
CHAPTER 4: EARLY DAYS. The situation we are in today has evolved over many centuries. Economists had plenty of time and opportunity to comment – and comment they did. Only recently has it become highly controversial to notice that banks create money, let alone to discuss the implications.[1] This makes the comments of earlier economists particularly […]
US sanctions on Venezuela could lead to higher gas prices
US sanctions on Venezuela could lead to higher gas prices MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images The Trump administration announced last week it would impose sanctions on Venezuela’s state-run oil industry. That could lead to higher energy prices, especially in wake of the US withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Together with Iran sanctions, analysts say the […]
The Business Cycle & Why They Pretend it Cannot be Forecast
The Business Cycle & Why They Pretend it Cannot be Forecast QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I have studied you Economic Confidence Model and found it to be extremely accurate in forecasting the business cycle. When I showed it to my professor here at ——— he responded that itis impossible to forecast the business cycle. He would not […]
How An Italian Debt Crisis Could Take Down The EU
How An Italian Debt Crisis Could Take Down The EU Plagued by another run of bank bailouts and simmering tensions between the partners in its ruling coalition, Italy’s brief reprieve following the detente between its populist rulers and angry bureaucrats in Brussels is already beginning to fade. As Bloomberg reminded us on Monday, Italy’s $1.7 trillion pile of […]
This Russian Oil Giant Is Driving Putin Toward Showdown With Trump In Venezuela
This Russian Oil Giant Is Driving Putin Toward Showdown With Trump In Venezuela “Russia is now so deeply invested in the Maduro regime that the only realistic option is to double down,” writes senior fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center Alexander Gabuev. He details in a Financial Times op-ed that Moscow-based state oil giant Rosneft owns two offshore gas fields in […]
China’s ‘zombie’ companies are a big threat to the economy — and JPMorgan says their debt pile means the country could be slowing faster than anyone thought
China’s ‘zombie’ companies are a big threat to the economy — and JPMorgan says their debt pile means the country could be slowing faster than anyone thought China’s economy is beset by huge public and corporate debt problems which threaten to derail the country’s growth story, according to JPMorgan. Economic growth in China has been […]
We’re Flash Crashing to Hell – Jim Sinclair & Bill Holter
We’re Flash Crashing to Hell – Jim Sinclair & Bill Holter Financial writer Bill Holter and renowned gold and financial expert Jim Sinclair warned last summer there were big problems coming in the global financial system. Today, Sinclair says, “We destroyed everything. We not only destroyed the financial markets, we destroyed society. I’m going for […]
