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Side-Effects Include: Household Debt
Side-Effects Include: Household Debt Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz fancies himself a surgeon. He compares cutting interest rates to life-saving surgery for the economy. I consider it more like bloodletting, a terrible practice that is now widely accepted as pseudoscience. According to Canada’s central banker, if the interest rate cut resulted in an increase of […]
An Insane Financial World
An Insane Financial World We know that most western governments are deficit spending, borrowing heavily, in debt beyond the point of no return and must increase taxes and appropriations from their citizens. We know that politicians will take the politically expedient path instead of addressing financial problems. We know they will “extend and pretend,” delay, […]
Today’s CPI Lesson: The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target Is Completely Stupid
Today’s CPI Lesson: The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target Is Completely Stupid The madness of the Fed’s pending 81 month run of zero interest rates comes down to an inflation subterfuge that has no logical or empirical grounding in real world economics. Essentially, the Keynesians who currently inhabit the Eccles Building have turned all of central banking’s anti-inflation history on its head, saying, […]
David Stockman Interview——-Kick-The-Can Economics Is Entering The End Game
David Stockman Interview——-Kick-The-Can Economics Is Entering The End Game Today David Stockman, the man President Ronald Reagan called upon along with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts to help save the United States from disaster in 1981, warned King World News that we are now entering the “terminal phase” of the global financial system that will end in total collapse. Eric […]
The problem isn’t overproduction; it’s malinvestment
The problem isn’t overproduction; it’s malinvestment Mr. Max Ehrendfreund, writing in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, believes that he has discovered something new: that the world is producing too much and doesn’t know what to do with it. His solution, of course, is to confiscate the overproduced products, such as oil and cotton, from its rightful owners and […]
Why We Have an Oversupply of Almost Everything (Oil, labor, capital, etc.)
Why We Have an Oversupply of Almost Everything (Oil, labor, capital, etc.) The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article called, Glut of Capital and Labor Challenge Policy Makers: Global oversupply extends beyond commodities, elevating deflation risk. To me, this is a very serious issue, quite likely signaling that we are reaching what has been called Limits to […]
“Surviving Or Thriving” – What Canada’s 40% Surge In Meat Prices Means For Ordinary People
“Surviving Or Thriving” – What Canada’s 40% Surge In Meat Prices Means For Ordinary People On the surface, Canada’s 1.2% inflation is negligible, and barely enough to keep up with the pace of overall growth as mandated by a few central bank academics. It is below the surface, however, that one finds the scary truth. […]
Has The Fed Already Lost?
Has The Fed Already Lost? Growth is dying & the Fed has few options left Increasingly we live in a world of Now. Instantaneous access to digital real time data and news has simply become a given in our lives of the moment. You may be surprised to know that the Federal Reserve has taken notice. […]
Santelli Stunned As Janet Yellen Admits “Cash Is Not A Store Of Value”
Santelli Stunned As Janet Yellen Admits “Cash Is Not A Store Of Value” Intended warning or unintended slip? After Alan Greenspan’s confessional admission that “Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it,” we found it remarkable that during the Q&A after her speech […]
Will Cash Always Be Trash, Or Will It One Day Be King?
Will Cash Always Be Trash, Or Will It One Day Be King? When the phantom wealth evaporates and risk assets go bidless, cash will once again be king, for the simple reason there will be so little of it. Occasionally it’s a good idea to step away from the daily grind to consider the larger […]
BIS Slams The Fed: The Solution To Bubbles Is Not More Bubbles, It Is Avoiding Bubbles In The First Place
BIS Slams The Fed: The Solution To Bubbles Is Not More Bubbles, It Is Avoiding Bubbles In The First Place On one hand there are hard-core Keynesians who will wave the flag of inflation as the only cure to a world drowning in debt, even after the mushroom cloud results of their policies going off […]
Global Trade Grinds To A Crawl
Global Trade Grinds To A Crawl At the start of this month, those who contend that depression-level readings on the Baltic Dry are no longer very meaningful because at this juncture, the index simply shows the extent to which the industry is oversupplied got a rude awakening when the CEO of the company (Maersk) that […]
Why Japan is Not Greece or EU For that Matter
Why Japan is Not Greece or EU For that Matter QUESTION: Hello Martin There are a few writers who speculate the the yen will be the first currency to fall (because Japan has been tied into QE and flat interest rates for decades already, and their manufacturing is suffering). How do you think the currency situation […]
India Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate “Pre-Emptively” For Second Time In 2 Months
India Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate “Pre-Emptively” For Second Time In 2 Months In a surprise move, the RBI just cut its main interest rates for the second time in two months, taking it from 6.75% to 6.50%, in what the central bank calls a “pre-emptive” policy move, but what is in reality merely a […]
