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Silver Linings: Keynesian Central Banking Is Heading For A Massive Repudiation
Silver Linings: Keynesian Central Banking Is Heading For A Massive Repudiation For several years now the small coterie of Keynesian academics and apparatchiks who have seized nearly absolute financial power through the Fed’s printing presses have justified the lunacy of unending ZIRP and massive QE on the grounds that there is too little inflation. The bureaucrats at the IMF […]
The Silver Age of the Central Banker
The Silver Age of the Central Banker We all sing along But the notes are wrong – Matt & Kim, “Get It” (2015) The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must. – Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War” (c. 400 BC) Xerxes: Come Leonidas, let us reason together. It would […]
The First Steps to Ending Currency
The First Steps to Ending Currency While I don’t want to sound like a broken record, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Federal Reserve, other central banks and governments around the world are laying the foundation for a negative interest rate environment that will more than likely be imposed during the next recession. Governments […]
Deere In Headlights After Guidance Cut: Sees 10% Sales Drop Due To “Downturn In Global Farm Economy”
Deere In Headlights After Guidance Cut: Sees 10% Sales Drop Due To “Downturn In Global Farm Economy” It is not just Caterpillar that continues to post horrendous numbers, and has now recorded 38 consecutive months of declining Y/Y sales, double the length of the contraction of the great financial crisis. Moments ago heavy farm equipment […]
The US Economy Has Not Recovered And Will Not Recover
The US Economy Has Not Recovered And Will Not Recover The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted corporate executives and shareholders, because lower labor and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital […]
This Is The Real Reason For The War On Cash
This Is The Real Reason For The War On Cash Originally posted Op-Ed via The Wall Street Journal, These are strange monetary times, with negative interest rates and central bankers deemed to be masters of the universe. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that politicians and central bankers are now waging a war on cash. That’s right, […]
The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture
The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture This interview with Michael Hudson was conducted by Finnish journalist Antti J. Ronkainen. Antti J. Ronkainen: The Federal Reserve is the most significant central bank in the world. How does it contribute to the domestic policy of the United States? Michael Hudson: The Federal Reserve supports the status […]
50% Of Canadians Say They Are Within $200/Month Of Being Unable To Pay Their Bills
50% Of Canadians Say They Are Within $200/Month Of Being Unable To Pay Their Bills It was just last month when we profiled Canada’s “other problem”: record high household debt. Canada is struggling to cope with falling crude prices which have put enormous amounts of pressure on some parts of the country, most notably Alberta, where suicide […]
Larry Summers Launches The War On Paper Money: “It’s Time To Kill The $100 Bill”
Larry Summers Launches The War On Paper Money: “It’s Time To Kill The $100 Bill” Yesterday we reported that the ECB has begun contemplating the death of the €500 EURO note, a fate which is now virtually assured for the one banknote which not only makes up 30% of the total European paper currency in circulation by […]
Deranged Central Bankers Blowing Up the World
DERANGED CENTRAL BANKERS BLOWING UP THE WORLD It is now self-evident to any sentient being (excludes CNBC shills, Wall Street shyster economists, and Keynesian loving politicians) the mountainous level of unpayable global debt is about to crash down like an avalanche upon hundreds of millions of willfully ignorant citizens who trusted their politician leaders and […]
Repricing Reality
Repricing Reality It ought to be a foregone conclusion that Mr. Obama’s replacement starting January 20, 2017 will preside over conditions of disorder in everyday life and economy never seen before. For the supposedly thinking class in America, the end of reality-optional politics will come as the surprise of their lives. Where has that hypothetical […]
The War On Paper Currency Begins: ECB Votes To “Scrap” 500 Euro Bill
The War On Paper Currency Begins: ECB Votes To “Scrap” 500 Euro Bill Update: in case there was any doubt about the ECB’s true intentions, we just got the official “denial”: DRAGHI: ANY ECB ACTION ON EU500 NOTE IS NOT ABOUT REDUCING CASH Translation: the ECB action is only about reducing physical cash, some 30% of it […]
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit Credit is not innately good or bad. Simplistically, productive Credit is constructive, while non-productive Credit is inevitably problematic. This crucial distinction tends to be masked throughout the boom period. Worse yet, a prolonged boom in “productive” Credit – surely fueled by some type of underlying monetary disorder – can […]
Are You Ready for a Crack-Up Boom?
Are You Ready for a Crack-Up Boom? Crack Up! BALTIMORE – The Dow rose on Wednesday morning… after Janet Yellen made soothing remarks about a “gradual” return to normal interest rates. Then investors must have realized that returning to normal is not on the Fed’s agenda. The Dow finished the day down 99 points. We […]
Janet Yellen Admits Fed Is Evaluating Possibility Of Negative Rates
Janet Yellen Admits Fed Is Evaluating Possibility Of Negative Rates One week before the BOJ shocked the world by adopting negative interest rates and unleashed the next leg lower in global risk assets, it warned everyone “please not to worry, all is under control” Moments ago at least Yellen had the courtesy of “warning” market […]
