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What A Cashless Society Would Look Like
What A Cashless Society Would Look Like Calls by various mainstream economists to ban cash transactions seem to be getting ever louder, while central bankers have unleashed negative interest rates on economies accounting for 25% of global GDP, with $5.5 trillion in government bonds yielding less than zero. The two policies are rapidly converging. Bills and coins account for […]
Death Throes Of The Bull
Death Throes Of The Bull The fast money and robo-machines keep trying to ignite stock rallies, but they all fizzle because bad karma is beginning to infect the casino. That is, apprehension is growing among whatever adults are left on Wall Street that 84 months of ZIRP and $3.5 trillion of Fed balance sheet expansion, aka money printing, […]
The FOMC Decision: The Boxed in Fed
The FOMC Decision: The Boxed in Fed An Imaginary Bogeyman What’s a Keynesian monetary quack to do when the economy and markets fail to remain “on message” within a few weeks of grandiose declarations that this time, printing truckloads of money has somehow “worked”, in defiance of centuries of experience, and in blatant violation of sound theory? […]
Dallas Fed “Responds” To Zero Hedge FOIA Request
Dallas Fed “Responds” To Zero Hedge FOIA Request Two weeks ago, Zero Hedge reported an exclusive story corroborated by at least two independent sources, in which we informed our readers that members of the Dallas Federal Reserve had met with bank lenders with distressed loan exposure to the US oil and gas sector and, after parsing through […]
Why A Former Fed Official Fears A Global Meltdown
Why A Former Fed Official Fears A Global Meltdown Authored by Gerald O’Driscoll, former vice president at The Dallas Fed, posteed op-ed at The Wall Street Journal, Are we headed for another global financial crisis? The market convulsions of the past week reflected a continuation of a market selloff that began on the first trading day […]
Elastic Money
Elastic Money QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I have not read anywhere else how the money created by the Fed you call elastic will evaporate when the bonds they bought mature. You seem to do much more in-depth research than anyone else who just spins conspiracy theories leaving one question what is real or not. Can you elaborate […]
Why Dip Buyers Will Get Clobbered: The US Economy Isn’t Doing “Just Fine”
Why Dip Buyers Will Get Clobbered: The US Economy Isn’t Doing “Just Fine” As of June 2008 no Wall Street banking house was predicting a recession, yet by then the Great Recession—–the worst economic downturn since the 1930s—– was already six months old, as per the NBER’s subsequent official reckoning. Actually, it was already several years old if you concede that […]
Volatility, oil and stock markets
Volatility, oil and stock markets “Down” is such a downer word. That’s why when prices fall for practically anything Wall Street wants to sell you, Wall Streeters talk about volatility instead. Volatility allows for the possibility that prices will recover soon and go to new highs. Any setback is just temporary. The market turbulence, it […]
Why the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After Central Banks Have Pumped Trillions Into the Economy
Why the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After Central Banks Have Pumped Trillions Into the Economy Deflation Threatens to Swallow the World Many high-powered people and institutions say that deflation is threatening much of the world’s economy … China may export deflation to the rest of the world. Japan is mired in […]
Betting on the Wall Street Crash
Betting on the Wall Street Crash Exclusive: The 2008 Wall Street crash resulted from a combination of unrestrained greed and political contempt for government regulators who might have prevented the devastation. In The Big Short, the tale is told from the perspective of a few players who saw the inevitable and made money on the crash, […]
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way Preserving your financial capital Given the brutal start to the markets in the first three weeks of 2016, we thought it a good time to check in with the team at New Harbor Financial. We have had them on our podcast periodically over the past […]
Central Banks Are Out of Tricks
Central Banks Are Out of Tricks Once the power to manage expectations has been lost, the central bank bag of tricks is empty. No one knows precisely how and when the global unraveling will impact their corner of the planet, but we do know one thing with absolute certainty: central banks are out of tricks. […]
Like sheep to slaughter: You still aren’t grasping the systemic risk in the stock market (or else you would have sold everything already)
Like sheep to slaughter: You still aren’t grasping the systemic risk in the stock market (or else you would have sold everything already) (NaturalNews) If you still own stocks and mutual fund shares, you still aren’t grasping the systemic risk in the stock market. No matter what you claim to BELIEVE, it is your ACTIONS […]
Central Banks Are Out of Tricks
Central Banks Are Out of Tricks Once the power to manage expectations has been lost, the central bank bag of tricks is empty. No one knows precisely how and when the global unraveling will impact their corner of the planet, but we do know one thing with absolute certainty: central banks are out of tricks. […]
