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Janet Yellen’s clout today is especially hefty: Don Pittis
Janet Yellen’s clout today is especially hefty: Don Pittis The sense that change is afoot lends power to the U.S. central banker’s words If you live in a cave and survive on nuts, berries and the odd roasted squirrel, what U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen says today won’t make much difference to your life. At least not right […]
The Futility of Our Global Monetary Experiment
The Futility of Our Global Monetary Experiment Jeff Deist: The Fed recently announced just this past week that it would not use specific dates for targeting higher Fed funds rate this year and you almost get the sense that poor Janet Yellen is at the end of this Greenspan-Bernanke experiment and there’s not much left […]
Macedonia Central Bank Blocks Greek Bank Withdrawals “In Case Of Grexit”
Macedonia Central Bank Blocks Greek Bank Withdrawals “In Case Of Grexit” The bank runs (and capital controls) begin. Macedonia Central Bank Governor Bogov states: *GREEK BANKS IN MACEDONIA CAN’T WITHDRAW CASH: BOGOV *MACEDONIAN BANKS PROTECTED IN CASE OF GREXIT: BOGOV How long before the rest of Europe follows suit and a bank holiday is declared […]
Guess How Many Nations In The World Do Not Have A Central Bank?
Guess How Many Nations In The World Do Not Have A Central Bank? Central banking has truly taken over the entire planet. At this point, the only major nation on the globe that does not have a central bank is North Korea. Yes, there are some small island countries such as the Federated States of Micronesia that […]
103 Years Later, Wall Street Turned Out Just As One Man Predicted
103 Years Later, Wall Street Turned Out Just As One Man Predicted In 1910, three years before the US Federal Reserve was founded, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Frank Vanderlip of National City (Citibank), Henry Davison of Morgan Bank, and Paul Warburg of the Kuhn, Loeb Investment House met secretly at Jekyll Island in Georgia to formulate […]
The “Better Than Cash Alliance” Has an Orwellian Plan
The “Better Than Cash Alliance” Has an Orwellian Plan In the fall of 1910, under the pretense of a duck hunting trip, a group of powerful bankers, political figures, and businessmen met secretly at Jekyll Island, Georgia, to plan the creation of a central bank for the United States. The “game” that this elite group […]
The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets
The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets Every great con game eventually comes to an end. For years, global central banks have been manipulating the financial marketplace with their monetary voodoo. Somehow, they have convinced investors around the world to invest tens of trillions of dollars into bonds that provide a return that […]
How To Spot A Bubble
How To Spot A Bubble We’ve been entertaining ourselves to no end the past couple days with a ‘vast array’ of articles that purport to provide us with ‘expert’ opinion on the question of whether we are witnessing a bubble or not. Got the views of Goldman’s David Kostin, Robert Shiller, Jeremy Grantham, Jeremy Siegel, […]
Mario Draghi’s Slippery Downward Slope
Mario Draghi’s Slippery Downward Slope Mario Draghi made another huge faux pas Thursday, but it looks like the entire world press has become immune to them, because it happens all the time, because they don’t realize what it means, and because they have a message if not a mission to sell. But still, none of […]
Stephen Poloz may let inflation creep higher: Don Pittis
Stephen Poloz may let inflation creep higher: Don Pittis Bank of Canada governor may prefer an inflation bump to the damaging impact of higher interest rates Which would you prefer, higher interest rates or higher inflation? If you are someone who actually watches what the Bank of Canada does month to month, its two per […]
Stunned Greeks React To Initial Capital Controls And The “Decree To Confiscate Reserves”, And They Are Not Happy
Stunned Greeks React To Initial Capital Controls And The “Decree To Confiscate Reserves”, And They Are Not Happy Earlier today, following weeks of speculation, Greece finally launched the first shot across the bow of capital controls, when it decreed that due to an “extremely urgent and unforeseen need” (ironically the need was quite foreseen since about 2010, […]
Iceland To Take Back The Power To Create Money
Iceland To Take Back The Power To Create Money Who knew that the revolution would start with those radical Icelanders? It does, though. One Frosti Sigurjonsson, a lawmaker from the ruling Progress Party, issued a report today that suggests taking the power to create money away from commercial banks, and hand it to the central […]
RED ALERT – IBM Moves to Create a Centralized, Central Bank Controlled Blockchain for Currency Control
RED ALERT – IBM Moves to Create a Centralized, Central Bank Controlled Blockchain for Currency Control International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the “blockchain,” to create a digital cash and payment system for major currencies, according to a person familiar with the matter. Unlike bitcoin, where the network […]
QE Inventor: It’s EASY to Create a Full-Blown Recovery, But Central Banks Chose to Make Banksters Rich Instead of Helping Main Street
QE Inventor: It’s EASY to Create a Full-Blown Recovery, But Central Banks Chose to Make Banksters Rich Instead of Helping Main Street QE Is a Sham Richard Werner (economics professor at University of Southampton) is the inventor of quantitative easing (QE). Werner previously said that QE has failed to help the economy. (Former long-time Fed chair Alan Greenspan agrees. Numerous academic studies confirm […]
