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Crash-O-Matic Finance | KUNSTLER
Crash-O-Matic Finance | KUNSTLER. “Oil prices have dropped $50 a barrel. That may not sound like much. But when you take $107 and you take $57, that’s almost a 47 percent decline…!” –James Puplava, The Financial Sense News Network May not sound like much? I guess when you hunker down in the lab with the […]
Jim Grant Sums It All Up In 2 Stunning Paragraphs | Zero Hedge
Jim Grant Sums It All Up In 2 Stunning Paragraphs | Zero Hedge. What will futurity make of the [so-called] Ph.D. standard [that runs our world]? Likely it will be even more baffled than we are. Imagine trying to explain the present-day arrangements to your 20-something grandchild a couple of decades hence – after the […]
B-Dud Explains The Fed’s Economic Coup—-Or Why Every Asset Price Is Manipulated | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
B-Dud Explains The Fed’s Economic Coup—-Or Why Every Asset Price Is Manipulated | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. Keynesian economists are annoying enough when they are pitching inflated financial assets on Wall Street or the supposed curative powers of fiscal deficits on Capitol Hill. But they become positively dangerous when they populate the Eccles Building and […]
charles hugh smith-The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns
charles hugh smith-The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns. It is these unforeseeable and uncontrollable consequences that are poised to wreak havoc on the global financial system. Here’s the thing about risk: it bursts out of whatever is deemed “safe.” It wasn’t accidental that the Global Financial Meltdown originated in home mortgages; it […]
Fed rattled by elusive inflation, but loath to sound alarm yet | Reuters
Fed rattled by elusive inflation, but loath to sound alarm yet | Reuters. (Reuters) – With the U.S. economy humming along at its fastest clip in more than a decade, the Federal Reserve should be confident about its ability to weather a global slowdown and start lifting interest rates around the middle of next year. But then […]
Epsilon Theory – Salient Partners | The Unbearable Over-Determination of Oil
Epsilon Theory – Salient Partners | The Unbearable Over-Determination of Oil. You know you’re in trouble when the Fed’s Narrative dominance of all things market-related shows up in the New York Times crossword puzzle, the Saturday uber-hard edition no less. It’s kinda funny, but then again it’s more sad than funny. Not a sign of a market […]
The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of The Debt Enslavement System That Dominates Our Lives
The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of The Debt Enslavement System That Dominates Our Lives. From the dawn of history, elites have always attempted to enslave humanity. Yes, there have certainly been times when those in power have slaughtered vast numbers of people, but normally those in power find it much more beneficial to […]
GDP Headed to Permanent Contraction by 2023 – Here’s Why | First Rebuttal
GDP Headed to Permanent Contraction by 2023 – Here’s Why | First Rebuttal. November 18, 2014—I’d like to carry on the theme from my recent article “Interest Rates Cannot Rise – Here’s Why” that garnered some discussion after being posted on Zerohedge. I’m going to show that GDP is also in a trap of decelerating […]
Fed focused on sunny side, downplayed global woes in October | Reuters
Fed focused on sunny side, downplayed global woes in October | Reuters. (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve wrestled with whether to nod to financial market volatility and a weakening globaleconomy in its policy statement last month, but opted not to out of worry it could send an unwarranted signal of pessimism. Minutes of the U.S. […]
New Scrutiny of Goldman’s Ties to the New York Fed After a Leak – NYTimes.com
New Scrutiny of Goldman’s Ties to the New York Fed After a Leak – NYTimes.com. From his desk in Lower Manhattan, a banker at Goldman Sachs thumbed through confidential documents — courtesy of a source inside the United States government. The banker came to Goldman through the so-called revolving door, the symbolic portal that connects […]
Consumers Simply Never Showed Up | Alhambra Investment Partners – We Are Different.
Consumers Simply Never Showed Up | Alhambra Investment Partners – We Are Different.. The largest calendar segments of the retail universe are back-to-school followed closely by Christmas. The peak month for back-to-school is August which is usually the third or fourth biggest month of the year in terms of raw retail sales; with October right […]
The Real Reason Why Germany Halted Its Gold Repatriation From The NY Fed | Zero Hedge
The Real Reason Why Germany Halted Its Gold Repatriation From The NY Fed | Zero Hedge. Following the stunning announcement in January 2013 that the Bundesbank would repatriate 674 tons of gold from the NY Fed and the French Central Bank, a year later the Bundesbank followed up with a just as stunning revelation that of the 84 tons […]
Why the Reserve Currency Status is America’s “Achilles Heel”
Why the Reserve Currency Status is America’s “Achilles Heel”. Ned Goodman (born in 1937) is a successful entrepreneur (by background a geologist) and a philanthropist who also happens to be a billionaire, thanks to his Dundee Group of Financial, Resource and Real Estate Investments, which he founded in 1991. He is also a deep thinker, […]
Activists ‘Fed Up’ With Rate Rise Talk Offer Plosser a City Tour – Bloomberg
Activists ‘Fed Up’ With Rate Rise Talk Offer Plosser a City Tour – Bloomberg. Labor and community organizers meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen challenged officials who are ready to raise interest rates to first come visit the poorest neighborhoods with them before saying that the economy has recovered. Kati Sipp, one of about two dozen […]
QE isn’t dying, it’s morphing – Thoughts – Nomi Prins
QE isn’t dying, it’s morphing – Thoughts – Nomi Prins. A funny thing happened on the way to the ‘end’ of the multi-trillion dollar bond buying program known as QE – the Fed chronicles. Aside from the shift to a globalization of QE via the European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan (BOJ) as I wrote […]
