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One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 4
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 4 In the first three installments of this series, we examined the realities behind supply and demand, unemployment and personal debt, and national debt. As has been proven in each consecutive article with ample evidence, mainstream establishment numbers are, for the most part, […]
An Insider’s Take: How the Fed Ruined the Economy
An Insider’s Take: How the Fed Ruined the Economy Let’s start this off with a quote by Ben Bernanke to get your blood boiling: When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve, policymakers and staff alike, mustered the moral courage to do what was […]
Keep Pushing Until Something Really BIG Breaks?
Keep Pushing Until Something Really BIG Breaks? The minutes of the FOMC’s March meeting make clear just how hard it is for the Fed to even think about the possibility of unwinding what they’ve wrought. After six-plus years of interest-rate repression, absurdity has become the established norm. Now they can’t even figure out how to get out of it […]
Eating The Seed Corn—–The Fed’s Horrid Corruption Of Corporate Finance
Eating The Seed Corn—–The Fed’s Horrid Corruption Of Corporate Finance Central bank financial repression results in the systematic and severe mispricing of financial assets. And that has sweeping consequences far beyond the munificent windfalls it bestows on the thin slice of mankind that frequents the casinos of Wall Street, London, Tokyo and Shanghai. The fact is, the […]
Russia’s Central Bank Governor Is Way Smarter Than Ours
Russia’s Central Bank Governor Is Way Smarter Than Ours It wouldn’t be a first, but it would certainly be a – bigger – shock. That is to say, the Bank of England hijacked the head of Canada’s central bank some time ago, but, while unexpected enough, that would pale in comparison to the US hiring […]
The Ghost of ’37
The Ghost of ’37 With the Fed supposedly steeling itself at last to remove a little of its emergency ‘accommodation’, it has suddenly become fashionable to warn of the awful parallels with 1937, as the highly-respected Ray Dalio of Bridgewater has notably done. That year, the story goes, the nation’s ascent from the depths of […]
The Inevitable Failure of Mechanistic Monetary Policy
The Inevitable Failure of Mechanistic Monetary Policy Our current faith in central banks’ ability to “make the economy all better, all the time” is horrendously misplaced. We are living in the Cargo Cult Era of Central Bankers. The era began in earnest on December 5, 1996, when Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan cautiously wondered aloud if […]
The Fed Has Failed the Nation, in One Chart
The Fed Has Failed the Nation, in One Chart There is only one way to end the financial tyranny of the Federal Reserve–abolish it, and put an end to the predatory pathologies of its policies. The Federal Reserve has failed not just the nation and the U.S. economy, but more importantly, the American people that […]
The Way Out
The Way Out It’s not what most people think: a return to some hypothetical “normality,” with the ghost of Ronnie Reagan beaming down like a sun-god under his lopsided pompadour, and all the happy self-driving GM cars toodling back and forth from WalMart-to-home loaded to the scuppers with new electric pop-tart warmers and 3-D underwear […]
Why The Mania Is Getting Scary—-Central Bankers Are Running A Doomsday Machine
Why The Mania Is Getting Scary—-Central Bankers Are Running A Doomsday Machine If you need evidence that we are in the midst of a lunatic financial mania, just consider this summary from a Marketwatch commentator as to why markets are ripping higher this morning: “The dovish comments from both Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen and People’s Bank of China […]
Steve Keen: The Deliberate Blindness Of Our Central Planners
Steve Keen: The Deliberate Blindness Of Our Central Planners Choosing to ignore the largest risks The models we use for decision making determine the outcomes we experience. So, if our models are faulty or flawed, we make bad decisions and suffer bad outcomes. Professor, author and deflationist Steve Keen joins us this week to discuss […]
Did The Fed. Just Whisper “Fire” In A Crowded Market?
Did The Fed. Just Whisper “Fire” In A Crowded Market? This past Friday saw what many like myself can only describe as a blatant example of just what’s wrong with both the economy – as well as the markets. At precisely 15 minutes before the closing bell on Wall Street the now Chair of the Federal […]
The Fed Has Not Learnt From The Crisis
The Fed Has Not Learnt From The Crisis The Financial Crisis of 2007 was the nearest thing to a “Near Death Experience” that the Federal Reserve could have had. One ordinarily expects someone who has such an experience—exuberance behind the wheel that causes an almost fatal crash, a binge drinking escapade that ends up in the […]
Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds
Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds Companies are selling bonds like madmen. This year through Tuesday, investment-grade and junk-rated companies have sold $438 billion in new bonds, up 14% from the prior record for this time of the year, set in 2013, according to Dealogic. This quarter is already in […]
