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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 […]
Central banks paralysed at the zero bound
Central banks paralysed at the zero bound Though the Fed would deny it, it is clear from the minutes of the last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting that a rise in interest rates has been put off indefinitely. The subsequent rally in the price of gold and the sudden fall in the dollar tend […]
Some Folks At The Fed Are Lost——No Juice To The Macros, Part 1
Some Folks At The Fed Are Lost——No Juice To The Macros, Part 1 Yesterday we demonstrated that stock market valuations are not merely “on the high side” as Janet Yellen averred last week. Instead, they are positively in the nose-bleed section of history. You don’t get the Russell 2000 trading at 90X honest-to-goodness GAAP earnings […]
Does Washington Intend War With Russia–PCR Interviewed by The Saker
Does Washington Intend War With Russia–PCR Interviewed by The Saker http://thesaker.is/the-saker-interviews-paul-craig-roberts/ The Saker interviews Paul Craig Roberts I had been wanting to interview Paul Craig Roberts for a long time already. For many years I have been following his writings and interviews and every time I read what he had to say I was hoping […]
The Moment When The San Francisco Fed Finally Figures Out What “Debt” Is
The Moment When The San Francisco Fed Finally Figures Out What “Debt” Is The San Fran Fed, in addition to being the lair that hatched the current Fed chairmanwoman, is best know for spending millions in taxpayer funds to “contemplate” such profound topics as: “Is It Still Worth Going To College?” “How Important Are Hedge […]
Is The Fed Still Fabricating Loan Creation Data? Bank Of America Would Like To Know
Is The Fed Still Fabricating Loan Creation Data? Bank Of America Would Like To Know Just under a year ago, when looking at aggregate loan creation by America’s banks, we stumbled upon something strange: there was a massive discrepancy between what the Fed, in its weekly call reports, said was weekly US loan issuance – which the […]
The Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed!
The Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed! “Delanda est in Susidium Foederatum Bank” (The Federal Reserve Bank Must be Destroyed) During the years of the Roman Republic, Cato the Elder ended every speech with the phrase “Delanda est Carthago” (Carthage must be destroyed). Rome had fought two wars with Carthage, yet the threat to the […]
10 Charts Which Show We Are Much Worse Off Than Just Before The Last Economic Crisis
10 Charts Which Show We Are Much Worse Off Than Just Before The Last Economic Crisis If you believe that ignorance is bliss, you might not want to read this article. I am going to dispel the notion that there has been any sort of “economic recovery”, and I am going to show that we […]
Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up
Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up The Fed speaks, the dollar crashes. The dollar was ripe. The entire world had been bullish on it. Down nearly 3% against the euro, before recovering some. The biggest drop since March 2009. Everything else jumped. Stocks, Treasuries, gold, even oil. West Texas Intermediate had been […]
The Unraveling Is Gathering Speed
The Unraveling Is Gathering Speed Debt saturation and debt fatigue = diminishing returns on central bank tricks. Does anyone else have the feeling that things are not just unraveling, but that the unraveling is gathering speed? Though quantifying this perception is more interpretative than statistical, I think we can look at the ongoing debt crisis […]
Lenin Was Right …
Lenin Was Right … Bear Markets Do Happen Today… the second of the speech about the end of the world we recently gave at Doug Casey’s La Estancia de Cafayate. (You can catch up on the first part here.) As Yogi Berra would say, America is going to come to a fork in the road… and […]
Are Greek Capital Controls Now Inevitable?
Are Greek Capital Controls Now Inevitable? While the trading algos are blissfully honing their headline-scanning skills (it should take no longer than a few nanoseconds to find whether “patient” and “international” are in the FOMC statement) ahead of tomorrow’s Fed announcement and avoiding any macro developments from around the globe, the biggest international news hit […]
Dollar Demand = Global Economy Has Skidded Over the Cliff (March 18, 2015)
Dollar Demand = Global Economy Has Skidded Over the Cliff Borrowing in USD was risk-on; buying USD is risk-off. There is a lively debate about the global demand for U.S. dollars: Global finance faces $9 trillion stress test as dollar soars (Telegraph.co.uk) Is There a US$ Shortage? Will it Sink the Global Economy? Again? (Mish) The Dollar […]
American Amoeba
American Amoeba The money-moving world waits on tenterhooks for the Wednesday appearance of America’s oracle, Janet Yellen, to step out of her grotto and state whether or not she feels twinges ofpatience. Wikipedia notes that Pythia, the original priestess of Delphi “…delivered oracles in a frenzied state induced by vapors rising from a chasm […]
Inside The Federal Reserve: “Money For Nothing” – The Full Movie
Inside The Federal Reserve: “Money For Nothing” – The Full Movie Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chair’s every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful […]
