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Here Is The Stunning Chart That Blows Up All Of Modern Central Banking
Here Is The Stunning Chart That Blows Up All Of Modern Central Banking Several years ago, when conventional wisdom dictated that to push inflation higher and jumpstart lethargic economies, central banks have to push rates so low as to make saving punitive and force consumers to go out and spend their hard earned savings, several […]
First the Deflationary Deluge of Assets Crashing, Then the Tsunami of Inflation
First the Deflationary Deluge of Assets Crashing, Then the Tsunami of Inflation Once the pool of greater fools dries up, stocks crash regardless of what the Fed does or bleats. The conventional view is the Federal Reserve creating trillions of dollars out of thin air will trigger inflation. Not so fast. Yes, creating trillions of dollars out of […]
Globalization and Financialization Are Dead, and so Is Everything That Depended on Them
Globalization and Financialization Are Dead, and so Is Everything That Depended on Them Financialization was never sustainable, and neither was the destructive globalization it enabled. All the happy-story analogies to past pandemics being mere bumps in the road miss the mark. A popular claim is that the 1918-1919 flu pandemic killed millions but no biggie, the […]
The Enslavement of Infinite Money
The Enslavement of Infinite Money The phrase “don’t fight the Fed” is an unfortunate but popular delusion. It presupposes that the central bank has limitless power to direct the economy because it can print limitless money. I’m not sure where this idea comes from, but consider the fact that anyone today who is under 30 […]
Time to learn about money
Time to learn about money An unexpected destruction of fiat currency has been advanced by the monetary and fiscal response to the coronavirus. Financial markets have yet to discount the possibility of such an outcome, but in the coming months they are likely to awaken to this danger. The question arises as to what will […]
The Outlines of a Better World Are Emerging
The Outlines of a Better World Are Emerging Once the government’s ability to sustain its enforcement with money created out of thin air vanishes, the entire order vanishes along with it. The era of waste, greed, fraud and living on borrowed money is dying, and those who’ve known no other way of living are mourning […]
U.S. Public Debt Increases More In April Than During Entire 2019
U.S. Public Debt Increases More In April Than During Entire 2019 The U.S. public debt increased at the fastest rate ever during April. Due to the negative economic impacts stemming from the global contagion, the U.S. Treasury increased the federal debt by a whopping $1.3 trillion in a single month. The additional $1.3 trillion of […]
Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March
Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March Fed shed MBS. Loans to “SPVs” flat for fifth week. Repos in disuse. Fed still hasn’t bought junk bonds, stocks, or ETFs. But it sure sent Wall Street dreaming. Total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet rose by only $83 billion […]
Inflation or Deflation? Collapse in Demand Trumps Supply Shocks
Inflation or Deflation? Collapse in Demand Trumps Supply Shocks The inflationists are coming out of the woodwork, but they are wrong. Get Ready for the Return of Inflation, says Tim Congdon, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The economists Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz demonstrated in “A Monetary History of the United States” that a collapse […]
Capitalism on Life Support… Time for a Cure
Capitalism on Life Support… Time for a Cure The Covid-19 pandemic is unleashing obscene bailouts of Western industries and companies, as well as lifelines for billionaire business magnates. It is grotesque that millions of workers are being laid off by corporations which are in turn receiving taxpayer funds. Many of these corporations have stashed trillions […]
Weekly Commentary: Fault Lines
Weekly Commentary: Fault Lines Now on a weekly basis, we’re witnessing things that couldn’t happen – actually happen. April 20 – Bloomberg (Catherine Ngai, Olivia Raimonde, and Alex Longley): “Of all the wild, unprecedented swings in financial markets since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, none has been more jaw-dropping than Monday’s collapse in a key […]
The destructive force of bank credit
The destructive force of bank credit Commentators routinely confuse the deflationary effects of a contraction of bank credit with the inflationary effects of central bank policies designed to offset it. Central banks always ensure their stimulus is greater, so inflation, not deflation, is always the outcome. In order to understand bank credit, we must enter […]
#MacroView: Is The “Debt Chasm” Too Big For The Fed To Fill?
#MacroView: Is The “Debt Chasm” Too Big For The Fed To Fill? Over the last month, the Federal Reserve, and the Government, have unleashed a torrent of liquidity into the U.S. markets to offset a credit crisis of historic proportions. Here is a list of programs already implemented which have already surpassed all programs during […]
Bankrupting America
Bankrupting America Source: AP Photo/Alex Brandon Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed the largest stimulus bill in U.S. history: more than $2 trillion. For once, both Republicans and Democrats agreed. The Senate voted 96-0. The House didn’t even bother with a formal vote. At the White House, a reporter asked the president, pointing out […]
