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The Leviathan
The Leviathan The economic picture manufactured by the national consensus trance has never been more out of touch with reality in my lifetime. And so the questions as to what anyone might do can hardly be addressed. How can I protect my savings? Who do I vote for? How do I think about where my […]
Does the Bell Toll for the Fed?
Does the Bell Toll for the Fed? Last week Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen hinted that the Federal Reserve Board will increase interest rates at the board’s December meeting. The positive jobs report that was released following Yellen’s remarks caused many observers to say that the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate increase in almost a […]
How the easy money boom ends
How the easy money boom ends Through the door there came familiar laughter I saw your face and heard you call my name Oh, my friend we’re older but no wiser For in our hearts the dreams are still the same Those were the days – “Those Were the Days” by Gene Raskin POITOU, France […]
A Stunning Admission From A BOE Central Banker: This Is What The Coming “Helicopter Money” Will Look Like
A Stunning Admission From A BOE Central Banker: This Is What The Coming “Helicopter Money” Will Look Like Back in early 2009, just around the time the Fed announced it would unleash QE1, we warned that any attempt to reflate the debt (a pathway which ultimately leads to hyperinflation as monetary paradrops are the only […]
The Fed’s 2% Inflation Fairytale—–Who Made It Up And What Does It Mean?
The Fed’s 2% Inflation Fairytale—–Who Made It Up And What Does It Mean? Once upon a time, not too long ago, central bank wizards began telling a fairytale that economies need inflation. But not just any inflation. In their Goldilocks make-believe world, the not too hot, not too cold, just right dose of two percent […]
Yellen Tells Congress Negative Interest Rates Are Possible
Yellen Tells Congress Negative Interest Rates Are Possible Reuters has reported that Yellen told a House of Representatives committee when testifying before Congress: “Potentially anything – including negative interest rates – would be on the table. But we would have to study carefully how they would work here in the U.S. context.” Yellen may have been placating […]
The Fed Desperately Tries to Maintain the Status Quo
The Fed Desperately Tries to Maintain the Status Quo During the press conferences of recent FOMC meetings, millions of well-educated investment professionals have been sitting in front of their screens, chewing their fingernails, listening as if spellbound to what Janet Yellen has to tell them. Will she finally raise the federal funds rate that has […]
This Time Is The Same——And Worse!
This Time Is The Same——And Worse! The current stock market melt-up hardly qualifies as limp. Even the robo-machines and hyper-ventilating day traders apparently recognize that their job is to tag the May 2015 highs and then get out of the way. So when and as they complete their pointless mission, the question recurs as to why the posse […]
Garbage In Garbage Out Economics
Garbage In Garbage Out Economics “On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine the wrong figures, will the right answers come out? …I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” – Charles Babbage, Passages from the […]
Experts Fear a Stealth Crash Has Already Begun: “Risk is Flashing Red”
Experts Fear a Stealth Crash Has Already Begun: “Risk is Flashing Red” It is more clear than ever that the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program will eventually bring destruction to the planet. The world doubled down on risk after the 2008 crisis with nearly unlimited liquidity, and now debt is threatening to drown the global […]
The Fed Can’t Raise Rates, But Must Pretend It Will
The Fed Can’t Raise Rates, But Must Pretend It Will Waiting for Godot is a play written by the Irish novelist Samuel B. Beckett in the late 1940s in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, keep waiting endlessly and in vain for the coming of someone named Godot. The storyline bears some resemblance to the Federal […]
A Brief History on How the Federal Reserve Became the Undemocratic, Corrupt and Destructive Force it is Today
A Brief History on How the Federal Reserve Became the Undemocratic, Corrupt and Destructive Force it is Today Perhaps the most famous, and prescient, financial cartoon in American history is the depiction of the Federal Reserve Bank as a giant octopus that would come to parasitically suck the life out of all U.S. institutions as well […]
WAR ON CASH: Banks to start charging for cash deposits
WAR ON CASH: Banks to start charging for cash deposits Few could have envisioned it even just a few years ago, but it’s happening now, and on an ever-widening scale. More big U.S. banks are shunning cash, because the banking system has become so dependent on other “assets” that large cash deposits actually pose a threat […]
The Yield Curve and GDP – a causal relationship?
The Yield Curve and GDP – a causal relationship? One of the most reliable indicators of an imminent recession through recent history has been the yield curve. Whenever longer dated rates falls below shorter dated ones, a recession is not far off. Some would even say that yield curve inversion, or backwardation, help cause the economic contraction. […]
