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The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture
The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture This interview with Michael Hudson was conducted by Finnish journalist Antti J. Ronkainen. Antti J. Ronkainen: The Federal Reserve is the most significant central bank in the world. How does it contribute to the domestic policy of the United States? Michael Hudson: The Federal Reserve supports the status […]
Mutual Funds, ETFs at Risk of a Run Warns Stockman
Mutual Funds, ETFs at Risk of a Run Warns Stockman In one of his starkest warnings yet, Former White House Budget Director (Office of Management and Budget, OMB), David Stockman has warned that banks and the global financial system remain vulnerable and there is likely to be another global financial crisis which will be worse than the […]
Global Stocks Continue To Crash As Oil Plummets And Gold Skyrockets
Global Stocks Continue To Crash As Oil Plummets And Gold Skyrockets Stock markets around the world continue to collapse as this new global financial crisis picks up more steam. In the U.S., the Dow lost 254 more points on Thursday, and it has now fallen for five days in a row. European stocks continued to get […]
This is Why Junk Bonds Will Sink Stocks: Moody’s
This is Why Junk Bonds Will Sink Stocks: Moody’s “Some very critical things are hidden.” After the white-knuckle sell-off of global equities that was finally punctuated by a rally late last week, everyone wants to know: Was this the bottom for stocks? And now Moody’s weighs in with an unwelcome warning. If you want to […]
Weekly Commentary: Draghi Ready to Fight
Weekly Commentary: Draghi Ready to Fight A few Friday Bloomberg headlines: “Asian Stocks Jump by Most in Four Months on Stimulus Speculation;” “Japanese Stocks Surge by Most in Four Months as Bears Retreat;” “Hong Kong Dollar Jumps Most in 12 Years as Global Stocks Rally.” It was quite a week. Back in early December I […]
The Oil Crash Of 2016 Has The Big Banks Running Scared
The Oil Crash Of 2016 Has The Big Banks Running Scared Last time around it was subprime mortgages, but this time it is oil that is playing a starring role in a global financial crisis. Since the start of 2015, 42 North American oil companies have filed for bankruptcy, 130,000 good paying energy jobs have been lost in the […]
The Deflation Monster Has Arrived
Lukiyanova Natalia / frenta/Shutterstock The Deflation Monster Has Arrived And it sure looks angry As we’ve been warning for quite a while (too long for my taste): the world’s grand experiment with debt has come to an end. And it’s now unraveling. Just in the two weeks since the start of 2016, the US equity markets are […]
Welcome To The New Normal: The Dow Crashes Another 390 Points And Wal-Mart Closes 269 Stores
Welcome To The New Normal: The Dow Crashes Another 390 Points And Wal-Mart Closes 269 Stores Did you know that 15 trillion dollars of global stock market wealth has been wiped out since last June? The worldwide financial crisis that began in the middle of last year is starting to spin wildly out of control. On Friday, […]
The Dow Falls Another 364 Points And We Are Now Down 2200 Points From The Peak Of The Market
The Dow Falls Another 364 Points And We Are Now Down 2200 Points From The Peak Of The Market It was another day of utter carnage on Wall Street. The Dow was down another 364 points, the S&P 500 broke below 1900, and the Nasdaq had a much larger percentage loss than either of them. […]
2016 Will Be A ‘Cataclysmic Year’ And ‘Investors Should Be Afraid’
2016 Will Be A ‘Cataclysmic Year’ And ‘Investors Should Be Afraid’ The Royal Bank of Scotland is telling clients that 2016 is going to be a “cataclysmic year” and that they should “sell everything”. This sounds like something that you might hear from The Economic Collapse Blog, but up until just recently you would have never […]
What’s the last dollar they can print before financial crisis?
What’s the last dollar they can print before financial crisis? In the field of mathematics, chaos theory studies the behavior of systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. The idea in chaos is that, like life itself, where you start today has tremendous influence on what happens next. In chaos, even very tiny changes […]
Perfect Storm!
Perfect Storm! One of the (many) fascinating things about this latest global financial crisis is that there’s no single catalyst. Unlike 2008 when the carnage could be traced back to US subprime housing, or 2000 when tech stocks crashed and pulled down everything else, this time around a whole bunch of seemingly-unrelated things are unraveling […]
How Iceland Escaped From The One Bank
How Iceland Escaped From The One Bank What have the governments of the corrupt Western bloc spent most of their time doing since the Crash of ’08? We can answer this question in three parts: 1) Creating increasingly falsified “statistics” to fabricate the illusion that their economies were not on the verge of all-out economic collapse; 2) Hacking and slashing every […]
Opinion: The banking system faces an existential threat — and it’s not bitcoin
Opinion: The banking system faces an existential threat — and it’s not bitcoin A movement in Europe would require banks to fully back deposits John Michael WrightIn 1666, King Charles II put control of the money supply into private hands. The privatization of the money-creation process gave birth to the system we use today. Christmas did […]
