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Fed’s Balance Sheet Reduction Reaches $402 Billion
Fed’s Balance Sheet Reduction Reaches $402 Billion The QE unwind has started to rattle some nerves. For the past two months, the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Fed’s QE unwind has been deafening. The Fed started the QE unwind in October 2017. As I covered it on a monthly basis, my […]
Markets are all about flows
Markets are all about flows This article looks at prospective supply and demand factors for financial assets in the New Year and beyond. Investors should take into account money flowing into and out of financial assets as well as stock flows, particularly escalating government bond issuance, which looks likely to accelerate significantly in the coming […]
Chinese Professor Censored After Admitting Real GDP Growth Is Below 2%
Chinese Professor Censored After Admitting Real GDP Growth Is Below 2% Stirring up unpleasant echoes of the market chaos that swept the world in the opening days of 2016, Apple’s decision to cut its quarterly revenue guidance for the first time in 16 years – citing slowing iPhone sales in China as the primary culprit […]
Plunge Protection Myths = Keynesian Economic Myths
Plunge Protection Myths = Keynesian Economic Myths QUESTION: What about what China did by buying stocks a few years ago to stop the hang sang from dropping LW Video Player 00:00 01:17 ANSWER: Do not confuse attempts to support a market from actually being able to do so. This is the same as Keynesian economics that […]
Monetary Policy ‘Reset’: From Rhetoric to Actuality
Monetary Policy ‘Reset’: From Rhetoric to Actuality A resurgence in nationalistic tendencies has been predominately associated with the advents of Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency. But have these outcomes meant that we now neglect to give due consideration to the years that preceded the supposed breakdown of the ‘rules based global order‘? It was in Davos […]
Trump Is A Pied Piper For The New World Order Agenda
Trump Is A Pied Piper For The New World Order Agenda In my last article, ‘The Fed Is A Suicide Bomber With A Deeper Agenda’, I explored and dismantled recent propaganda surrounding the Federal Reserve’s tightening actions, including the propaganda that Jerome Powell is some kind of rogue central banker who is rebalancing the system […]
Drain, drain, drain…
Drain, drain, drain… Money from thin air going back whence it came from – circling the drain of a ‘no reinvestment’ black hole strategically placed in its way by the dollar-sucking vampire bat Ptenochirus Iagori Powelli. Our friend Michael Pollaro recently provided us with an update of outstanding Fed credit as of 26 December 2018. […]
Commoditization = Deflation
Commoditization = Deflation The other deflationary pressure is the stagnation of wages for the bottom 90%. Apple’s slumping sales growth in China re-energized discussions on the commoditization of smart phones: the basic idea is that once devices, services, goods, platforms, etc. are interchangeable and can be produced/generated anywhere, they are effectively commodities and their value […]
Population wrapped up: a response to Jane O’Sullivan
Population wrapped up: a response to Jane O’Sullivan And so we come to Small Farm Future’s final blog post of 2018. Time for some seasonal goodwill and an offer of peace to all? Nah, time to settle old scores – in this case my debate with Jane O’Sullivan about population and poverty that’s been rumbling […]
Re-regionalization: Bioregional development as a regenerative pathway
Re-regionalization: Bioregional development as a regenerative pathway Based on an excerpt of the ‘Ecological Design Dimension’ of Gaia Education’s online course in ‘Design for Sustainability’ To relocalise effectively we need to map the productive potential of our regions and communities, including resource, material, waste and energy flows and identify threads and opportunities for relocalising production […]
The Everything Bubble Has Met Its Needle… and It’s Named Jerome Powell
The Everything Bubble Has Met Its Needle… and It’s Named Jerome Powell In December, Jerome Powell confirmed that he is going to implement a financial reset. That reset will crash stocks. We know this because the Fed didn’t even HINT at tapering its Quantitative Tightening program at this latest Fed FOMC despite stocks staging the […]
Three Things That Will Definitely Happen In 2019
Three Things That Will Definitely Happen In 2019 Much about 2019 is uncertain. But a few things are pretty much guaranteed, including the following: Government debt will rise at an accelerating rate Like a life-long dieter who finally gives up and decides to eat himself to death, the US is now committed to trillion-dollar deficits […]
Debt, Death, and the US Empire
Debt, Death, and the US Empire Deep State Operative John Bolton In a talk which garnered little attention, one of the Deep State’s prime operatives, National Security Advisor John Bolton, cautioned of the enormous and escalating US debt. Speaking before the Alexander Hamilton Society, Bolton warned that current US debt levels and public obligations posed an […]
Bear Markets, Fed Mistakes, and Quick Shots from John
Bear Markets, Fed Mistakes, and Quick Shots from John Powell Was Right but the Fed Is Wrong Time for an Emergency Fed Meeting Living on Island Time Quick Shots from the Frontline A winters day, In a deep and dark December… “Wait, it doesn’t feel like winter. It’s not deep and dark, and it’s actually […]
