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Will the Chinese Yuan Now Demolish the “Dollar Hegemony?”
Will the Chinese Yuan Now Demolish the “Dollar Hegemony?” IMF boss Christine Lagarde is gung-ho about it. IMF staff is too. The Executive Board will consider it on November 30 and in all likelihood approve it. It will take effect in October 2016. Then it’s a done deal: the Chinese yuan will be added to […]
Barcelona Threatens to Print Parrallel Currency, Madrid Seethes
Barcelona Threatens to Print Parrallel Currency, Madrid Seethes Over the next six months, Barcelona’s left-wing city council plans to roll out a cash-less local currency that has the potential to become the largest of its kind in the world. The main goal of the project, according to a council spokesperson, is to boost economic opportunities for […]
Is Quantitative Easing the Same as Printing Money?
Is Quantitative Easing the Same as Printing Money? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Thank you for coming to Athens. After the presentation, there were so many questions that the moderator did not have time for. You answered some for the crowd afterwards that I had never heard anyone ever explain. You said Quantitative Easing was not money printing […]
Gold & War
Gold & War QUESTION: Does war boost gold prices? MM ANSWER: No. The only impact that war will have on gold is confined to either prolonged inflation or the uncertainty of the victor — the hedge against government survival. War by itself is a non-event. Gold will rise ONLY when there is uncertainty because the currency of the government will […]
A Hapless Brazil Incurs Massive Losses On FX Swaps Amid Currency Carnage
A Hapless Brazil Incurs Massive Losses On FX Swaps Amid Currency Carnage As we’ve documented extensively of late, a host of idiosyncratic political factors have served to exacerbate what was already a very, very bad situation for emerging markets. This dynamic is most readily apparent in Brazil and Turkey, and although Ankara probably has a […]
Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist
Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist I did not set out to be an economist. In college at the University of Chicago I never took a course in economics or went anywhere near its business school. My interest lay in music and the history of culture. When I left for New York City […]
3 Means of Waging Personal Financial Revolution Against the Banksters
3 Means of Waging Personal Financial Revolution Against the Banksters The world is enslaved to an economic system designed to create tremendous power and wealth for those who own the system, while forcing the rest of us into mathematically insurmountable debt and the stagnation, austerity and poverty that comes with it. Corrupt and patently unsustainable, the […]
Mede-Jean, Not Medellin
Mede-Jean, Not Medellin Driving the back streets of Medellin a few weeks ago I found it interesting to see the various little pockets to the city. In the poor parts of town I noticed on a couple of occasions taxi drives running their vehicles on empty. I’ve seen this before in countries where there is […]
Stock market confessions, chaos, complexity and the illusion of control
Stock market confessions, chaos, complexity and the illusion of control In the old days of the Chinese Cultural Revolution those who said or did something perceived by the Chinese authorities to be counter-revolutionary were forced into public confessions–and then humiliated, imprisoned or even put to death. It seems that old ways die hard. Last week the new […]
Don’t Forget China’s “Other” Spinning Plate: Trillions In Hidden Bad Debt
Don’t Forget China’s “Other” Spinning Plate: Trillions In Hidden Bad Debt To be sure, there’s every reason to devote nearly incessant media coverage to China’s bursting stock market bubble and currency devaluation. The collapse of the margin fueled equity mania is truly a sight to behold and it’s made all the more entertaining (and tragic) […]
Exorbitant Privilege: “The Dollar is Our Currency but Your Problem”
Exorbitant Privilege: “The Dollar is Our Currency but Your Problem” The Global Monetary Architecture: Change is on the Horizon There is no better way to descibe the international monetary system today than through the statement made in 1971 by U.S. Treasury Secretary, John Connally. He said to his counterparts during a Rome G-10 meeting in […]
The “Great Accumulation” Is Over: The Biggest Risk Facing The World’s Central Banks Has Arrived
The “Great Accumulation” Is Over: The Biggest Risk Facing The World’s Central Banks Has Arrived To be sure, there’s been no shortage of media coverage regarding the collapse in crude prices that’s unfolded over the course of the past year. Similarly, it’s no secret that commodity prices in general are sitting near their lowest levels […]
Why The Great Petrodollar Unwind Could Be $2.5 Trillion Larger Than Anyone Thinks
Why The Great Petrodollar Unwind Could Be $2.5 Trillion Larger Than Anyone Thinks Last weekend, we explained why it really all comes down to the death of the petrodollar. China’s transition to a new currency regime was supposed to represent a move towards a greater role for the market in determining the exchange rate for the yuan. […]
