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Wikileaks Reveals IMF Plan To “Cause A Credit Event In Greece And Destabilize Europe”

Wikileaks Reveals IMF Plan To “Cause A Credit Event In Greece And Destabilize Europe” One of the recurring concerns involving Europe’s seemingly perpetual economic, financial and social crises, is that these have been largely predetermined, “scripted” and deliberate acts. This is something the former head of the Bank of England admitted one month ago when Mervyn King […]

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China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption

China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption Chairman of large power company slips, apparently. OK, we’ve heard the official story. China is transitioning from a manufacturing economy to a consumption-based economy. Consumers are king. They’re going to buy stuff. And that’s going to heat up the economy. Imports and exports have been plunging for months, but […]

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Emissions standstill boosts Paris hopes

Emissions standstill boosts Paris hopes Reduced coal use in China will have a positive impact on poor air quality. Image: V.T. Polywoda via Flickr The link between global economic growth and emissions growth has been further weakened as greenhouse gas levels show no increase for the second year in succession. LONDON, 18 March, 2016 – The world continued […]

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Confronting the Fiscal Bogeyman

Confronting the Fiscal Bogeyman BERKELEY – The world economy is visibly sinking, and the policymakers who are supposed to be its stewards are tying themselves in knots. Or so suggest the results of the G-20 summit held in Shanghai at the end of last month. The International Monetary Fund, having just downgraded its forecast for global growth, […]

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Lagarde – Wants to Raise Retirement Age & Taxes

Lagarde – Wants to Raise Retirement Age & Taxes Christine Lagarde remained at the IMF and one of three Troika members because she is a Socialist and on board with both raising retirement ages to cheat people out of what they planned and to raise taxes while closing all borders to the movement of capital. She […]

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The FX Mexican Standoff

The FX Mexican Standoff Theodor Horydczak Lincoln Memorial 1925 There has been quite a bit of talk lately over the need for a new Plaza Accord, something several parties saw happening during this weekend’s G20 summit in Shanghai -hence the term ‘Shanghai Accord’-. (On September 22, 1985 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, France, West […]

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Here Comes The Red Swan And Other Reasons To Be Very Afraid

Here Comes The Red Swan And Other Reasons To Be Very Afraid The Red Chip casino took another one of its patented 6.5% belly flops last night. In fact, more than 1,300 stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen fell by 10%—the maximum drop permitted by regulators in one day—–implying that the real decline was far deeper. This renewed carnage was the […]

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Why did Lagarde Stay at the IMF? To Increase its Global Power.

Why did Lagarde Stay at the IMF? To Increase its Global Power.  Christine Lagarde Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund spoke at the IMF Arab Fiscal Forum: Fiscal Policy and Growth in Abu Dhabi on February 22, 2016. Her message was clear – forget downsizing government or reforming anything, just raise taxes.  She opened the conference saying: “This […]

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The Evil Empire Has The World In A Death Grip

The Evil Empire Has The World In A Death Grip In my archives there is a column or two that introduces the reader to John Perkins’ important book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. An EHM is an operative who sells the leadership of a developing country on an economic plan or massive development project. The […]

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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 […]

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The New Global Financial Cold War

The New Global Financial Cold War The Guns and Butter Interview Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not going […]

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Italy’s Banking Crisis Spirals Elegantly out of Control

Italy’s Banking Crisis Spirals Elegantly out of Control How to dump toxic waste on the public through the backdoor. Back during the euro debt crisis, while the ECB was buying government debt from Member States to keep Italian and Spanish government debt from imploding, German politicians fretted out loud about what exactly the ECB was buying. […]

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Central Banks Are Trojan Horses, Looting Their Host Nations

Central Banks Are Trojan Horses, Looting Their Host Nations A Nobel prize winning economist, former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, and chairman of the President’s council of economic advisers (Joseph Stiglitz) says that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank loan money to third world countries as a way to force […]

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Why Markets Are Crashing: “Faith In Central Banks Fails”

Why Markets Are Crashing: “Faith In Central Banks Fails” While Citigroup’s Eric Lee thinks its “ridiculous” to talk fo a US recession, it appears the macro data and markets would strongly disagree: as Bloomberg reports: Signals by central banks from Europe to Japan that additional stimulus is at the ready are failing to ease investor […]

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“It’s Worse Than 2008”: CEO Of World’s Largest Shipping Company Delivers Dire Assessment Of Global Economy

“It’s Worse Than 2008”: CEO Of World’s Largest Shipping Company Delivers Dire Assessment Of Global Economy Earlier today, we highlighted the rather abysmal results reported by Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company. To the extent the conglomerate is a bellwether for global growth and trade, things are looking pretty grim. Maersk Line – the company’s […]

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