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Never before has drilling for oil collapsed this far this fast.
Never before has drilling for oil collapsed this far this fast. The word “boom” can never be thought of as a stand-alone concept that everyone loves, particularly governments because they get to rake in the big bucks. It’s always attached to its miserable twin that no one wants to see, the “bust.” They come invariably in […]
What ‘Escape Velocity’? December Business Sales And Inventories Repudiate The Money Printers’ Myth
What ‘Escape Velocity’? December Business Sales And Inventories Repudiate The Money Printers’ Myth It is plain as day that massive central bank money printing and perpetual ZIRP do not rejuvenate the main street economy under conditions of “peak debt”. And the reason is so obvious that only Keynesian economists can’t grasp it. To wit, if the balance […]
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question (Bloomberg) — When Group of 20 finance ministers this week urged the Federal Reserve to “minimize negative spillovers” from potential interest-rate increases, they omitted a key figure: $9 trillion. That’s the amount owed in dollars by non-bank borrowers outside the U.S., up 50 percent since the financial crisis, according to […]
Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island
Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island The control of the commercials and the COMEX manipulators have is very depressing for the gold market investor. As soon as gold and the miners are about to get on another bullish leg, that the moving averages are positively aligned and re-crossing the 200-day MA, that the traders are standing […]
Audit The Fed——And Shackle It, Too
Audit The Fed——And Shackle It, Too The reason to be fearful about the economic and financial future is that we are in the thrall of a mainstream consensus that is downright meretricious. In attacking Rand Paul’s audit legislation, for instance, one of the time-servers on the Fed Board of Governors, Jerome H. Powell, let loose the following gem: […]
Nomi Prins: The Sinister Evolution Of Our Modern Banking System Because we’re all about those banks, ’bout those banks…
Nomi Prins: The Sinister Evolution Of Our Modern Banking System Because we’re all about those banks, ’bout those banks… I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous. ~ Nomi […]
Another step down the long, slow road to IRA nationalization
Another step down the long, slow road to IRA nationalization Let’s take a brief walk into financial reality for a moment. At the time of this writing, the United States government’s official debt is nearly $18.1 trillion. Now, let’s look at who the biggest owners of that debt are: 1) Taxpayers of the United States. […]
The Wreck Of The Monetary Hesperus
The Wreck Of The Monetary Hesperus For 73 months running the Fed has lashed the money markets to the gross financial anomaly of ZIRP. Never before in the history of the world has any central bank or other monetary authority decreed that overnight money shall be indefinitely free to gamblers or that liquid savers should have their […]
Could the U.S. Become the Unrivaled Superpower Again?
Could the U.S. Become the Unrivaled Superpower Again? That Grand Narratives based on short-term trends are often wrong should not surprise us. Two of the most durable and least-questioned narratives of the past 15 years are: 1. The world is becoming multipolar, meaning that rising power centers such as the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India […]
Occupied by Wall Street – The Latest TARP Taxpayer Screw-Job is Revealed
Occupied by Wall Street – The Latest TARP Taxpayer Screw-Job is Revealed The Treasury-created market has benefited a few savvy investors, while saddling taxpayers with a loss. Three private funds, which the report didn’t name, have won almost half the shares available at auction, often netting either a profit on paper or on the resale, according […]
The Lemmings of QE
The Lemmings of QE NEW HAVEN – Predictably, the European Central Bank has joined the world’s other major monetary authorities in the greatest experiment in the history of central banking. By now, the pattern is all too familiar. First, central banks take the conventional policy rate down to the dreaded “zero bound.” Facing continued economic […]
‘Two Percent Inflation’ and The Fed’s Current Mandate
‘Two Percent Inflation’ and The Fed’s Current Mandate Over the last 100 years the Fed has had many mandates and policy changes in its pursuit of becoming the chief central economic planner for the United States. Not only has it pursued this utopian dream of planning the US economy and financing every boondoggle conceivable in […]
Freedom, Where Are You? Not in America or Europe
Freedom, Where Are You? Not in America or Europe When the former Goldman Sachs executive who runs the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that he was going to print 720 billion euros annually with which to purchase bad debts from the politically connected big banks, the euro sank and the stock market and Swiss france shot […]
The Federal Reserve Has Declared the Winner in the Generational Financial War
The Federal Reserve Has Declared the Winner in the Generational Financial War The policy of safeguarding Boomer benefits with asset bubbles will lead to the destruction of the unprepared, the unwary and those who foolishly trusted our “leadership” and central bank to tell them the truth. Though it is exceedingly politically incorrect to mention it […]
All eyes on Fed, Greece after ECB fires bazooka
All eyes on Fed, Greece after ECB fires bazooka PARIS (Reuters) – After the surprises from central banks which rocked markets at the start of the year, the U.S. Federal Reserve will be watched as closely as ever this week to see that it doesn’t stray from its own policy path. The atmosphere will already be […]
