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Peter Schiff: Bank Bailouts Will Devalue the Dollar
Peter Schiff: Bank Bailouts Will Devalue the Dollar MARCH 28, 2023 BY SCHIFFGOLD 0 0 Peter Schiff appeared on NTD News to talk about the bank bailout and the March Federal Reserve meeting. During the conversation, Peter explained that everybody is going to pay for these bailouts because they will ultimately devalue the dollar as inflation skyrockets. During his press conference after […]
Is a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing?
Is a full-blown global banking meltdown in the offing? If everything is fine, then why have US banks borrowed $153 billion at a punitive 4.75% against collateral at the discount window, a larger amount than in 2008/9? (Express Illustration) Financial crashes like revolutions are impossible until they are inevitable. They typically proceed in stages. Since […]
The Fed Proposes a 4th Function of Money: Means of Social Control
The Fed Proposes a 4th Function of Money: Means of Social Control A Federal Reserve white paper has come up with a new function for money. Let’s tune in. Image from Federal Reserve website. Docket No. OP – 1670 Please consider Docket No. OP – 1670 on Interbank Settlement of Faster Payments. The Federal Reserve Board announced that […]
Fed, Central Banks Created the Current Crisis and Are on Course to Making Matters Worse
Fed, Central Banks Created the Current Crisis and Are on Course to Making Matters Worse The incompetence of our financial regulators, most of all the Fed, is breathtaking. The great unwashed public and even wrongly-positioned members of the capitalist classes are suffering the consequences of Fed and other central banks being too fast out of […]
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’ As we collapse, this free online book provides examples of what action we can take collectively. Taken from academic literature, it’s about how we struggle together as the world we have depended upon contracts and decays. How will we work together as food and water systems breakdown? How can we […]
Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Will Deal A Deathblow To The Dollar
Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Will Deal A Deathblow To The Dollar Jacob Lawrence Struggle: From the History of the American People, Panel 8 1954Eurasia’s geo-economic integration took a great leap forward as a result of the Iranian–Saudi rapprochement, which unlocks the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) trade potential with Russia and China. Its wealthy members can now tap into two series of […]
Unsound Banking: Why Most of the World’s Banks Are Headed for Collapse
Unsound Banking: Why Most of the World’s Banks Are Headed for Collapse You’re likely thinking that a discussion of “sound banking” will be a bit boring. Well, banking should be boring. And we’re sure officials at central banks all over the world today—many of whom have trouble sleeping—wish it were. This brief article will explain […]
‘Some EU Banks May Be Vulnerable’ – ECB Tells Ministers ‘No Room For Complcency’
‘Some EU Banks May Be Vulnerable’ – ECB Tells Ministers ‘No Room For Complcency’ The world was saved there briefly overnight after SNB’s giant liquidity shot into CS. But it didn’t take long fort reality to sink in about the band-aid-like nature of this facility. However, the situation under the hood may in fact be […]
Is the U.S. Banking System Safe?–15 Years Later
IS THE U.S. BANKING SYSTEM SAFE? – 15 YEARS LATER “We’ve got strong financial institutions…Our markets are the envy of the world. They’re resilient, they’re…innovative, they’re flexible. I think we move very quickly to address situations in this country, and, as I said, our financial institutions are strong.” – Henry Paulson – 3/16/08 “I have full confidence […]
For Fed, What Happens Today More Important Than Monday’s Mayhem
For Fed, What Happens Today More Important Than Monday’s Mayhem It was clear from the get-go that Monday would be mayhem for the markets – and as it turned out, it proved a lot more than that, with two-year Treasury yields collapsing the most in decades. At stake was not just the integrity of the financial […]
Bankruptcies Soar Across EU, As Companies Hit Wall At Fastest Rate Since Records Began in 2015
Bankruptcies Soar Across EU, As Companies Hit Wall At Fastest Rate Since Records Began in 2015 Legions of European companies are succumbing to the final straw of Europe’s largely self-inflicted energy crisis. Bankruptcy proceedings in the Canary Islands, Spain’s heavily tourism-dependent island chain, soared a whopping 276% year over year in 2022, according to the latest data […]
Silicon Valley Bank Crisis: The Liquidity Crunch We Predicted Has Now Begun
Silicon Valley Bank Crisis: The Liquidity Crunch We Predicted Has Now Begun There has been an avalanche of information and numerous theories circulating the past few days about the fate of a bank in California know as SVB (Silicon Valley Bank). SVB was the 16th largest bank in the US until it abruptly failed and went […]
The War for the Dollar is Over Part II: The Fly or the Windshield?
The War for the Dollar is Over Part II: The Fly or the Windshield? Live images flashing by Like windshields towards a fly Frozen in that fatal climb But the wheels of time, just pass you by -RUSH, “Between the Wheels” In part I of this series I told you the war over the US dollar […]
“Worst Since Lehman”: Banks Break The World Again
“Worst Since Lehman”: Banks Break The World Again Last week we detailed BofA’s Michael Hartnett’s warning that “The Fed will tighten until something breaks”. Well, something just broke… SVB’s collapse – the second biggest US bank failure in history – dominated any reaction to this morning’s mixed bag from the BLS (hotter than expected earnings growth, rising unemployment (especially […]
