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Have Central Banks Crossed the Line into Tyranny?
Have Central Banks Crossed the Line into Tyranny? With all the conspiracy theories that somehow the bankers are the real culprits in creating excess money supply, there has been an evolution in central banks that has finally crossed the line since 2019. The Federal Reserve was, once upon a time, responsible. The Fed was originally […]
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation
A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY: SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE AND PANDEMIC SIMULATION A year and a half after the arrival of Virus, some may have started wondering why the usually unscrupulous ruling elites decided to freeze the global profit-making machine in the face of a pathogen that targets almost exclusively the unproductive (over 80s). Why all the humanitarian zeal? […]
Seven Possible Causes of the Next Financial Crisis
Seven Possible Causes of the Next Financial Crisis The great financial historian, Charles Kindleberger, pointed out in the 1970s that over several centuries, history showed there was a financial crisis about once every ten years. His observation still holds. In every decade since his classic Manias, Panics and Crashes of 1978, such crises have indeed continued to […]
Central Bank Visions of Absolute Control
Central Bank Visions of Absolute Control There’s not much you can do in the year 2021 that doesn’t leave a digital trail. The collusion of big tech and big government has assured this. Still, there does remain one simple way to elude the busybodies. In fact, one of the last ways to preserve some level […]
Desperate Money Printing Leads to Depression – Dr. Marc Faber
Desperate Money Printing Leads to Depression – Dr. Marc Faber Legendary investor, economist and market forecaster Dr. Marc Faber thinks central banks (CB) are not going to cut back the money printing. Just the opposite. He predicts CBs are going to print even more money at a faster pace to hold the failing economic system […]
The ECB is the Reason We Have the Great Reset
The ECB is the Reason We Have the Great Reset The European Central Bank (ECB) has kept its monetary policy unchanged. However, it did slow down the pace of net asset purchases under its pandemic emergency purchase program. The ECB’s main refinancing operations remain at 0%, on the marginal lending facility at 0.25%, and on […]
Is Anyone Willing to Call the Top of the Everything Bubble?
Is Anyone Willing to Call the Top of the Everything Bubble? Can extremes become too extreme to continue higher? We’re about to find out. Is anyone willing to call the top of the Everything bubble? The short answer is no. Anyone earning money managing other people’s money cannot afford to be wrong, and so everyone in […]
After the Gold Standard, Government Grew While the Dollar Shrank
After the Gold Standard, Government Grew While the Dollar Shrank Public-domain image via Picryl.com Why ending the gold standard led to a bigger government and a smaller dollar As The Hill’s Robert P. Murphy notes, most Americans associate the end of the gold standard and the ensuing dollar erosion with Nixon and his 1971 decision to […]
Inflation, Covid, Central Banks and Politics – about half the things to really worry about…
Inflation, Covid, Central Banks and Politics – about half the things to really worry about… As markets shake off their summer slumbers, what should we be worrying about? Lots..! From real vs transitory inflation arguments, the long-term economic consequences of Covid, the future for Central Banking unable to unravel its Gordian knot of monetary experimentation, […]
The Fed Says, “Let Me Squeeze Your Dollars…5 Basis Points at a Time”
The Fed Says, “Let Me Squeeze Your Dollars…5 Basis Points at a Time” I still maintain no one will mark June 16th, 2021 as the day the world changed. Watching the dollar surge into this weekend thanks to a breakdown in the euro only validates that conclusion in my mind. Remember, on June 16th Presidents […]
A Look Back at Nixon’s Infamous Monetary Policy Decision
A Look Back at Nixon’s Infamous Monetary Policy Decision Putting the World on a Paper Standard Half a century ago one of the most disastrous monetary policy decisions in US history was committed by Richard Nixon. In a television address, the president declared that the nation would no longer redeem internationally dollars for gold. Since the […]
Central Banks Are Now in the Endgame
Central Banks Are Now in the Endgame Central bankers were handed the Midas curse half a century ago. Midas turned everything that he touched into gold– even his own food. Exactly 50 years ago (15 Aug, 1971) central bankers were handed a much worse curse by Nixon. But instead of turning everything into gold, their […]
A Global Liquidity Crisis Is Underway
A Global Liquidity Crisis Is Underway I’ve been analyzing currency wars for years. In fact, I’ve written a book called Currency Wars, so I have some expertise in the subject. A new front in the currency wars is emerging, but it has not yet erupted into blatant currency manipulation. That will probably come in early 2022. […]
