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Nobody Knows Anything
Nobody Knows Anything The more I read and observe the clearer the message: Nobody knows anything. And by that I mean nobody truly knows how any of this will turn out and I think this point needs to be driven home more clearly. Tons of projections of this, that and the other. Just stop. I happen […]
Atlas Is Shrugging
Atlas Is Shrugging “Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… The only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” – Ayn Rand Congress has just approved an economically bloated $2.2 trillion spending relief bill, an amount more substantial than the GDP of all […]
Covid-19 Helicopter Money: Go Big Now or Go Home
Covid-19 Helicopter Money: Go Big Now or Go Home This is why it’s imperative to go big now, and make plans to sustain the most vulnerable households and small employers not for two weeks but for six months–or however long proves necessary. That governments around the world will be forced to distribute “helicopter money” to […]
Global Demographic Fact Vs. Central Bank Sorcery
Global Demographic Fact Vs. Central Bank Sorcery Summary The annual growth of the working-age population is the organic baseline for growth in national, regional, and global consumption. However, since World War II, interest rate policy has moved inversely of annual working-age population growth, to incent ever more debt as working-age population growth has decelerated to […]
The Triumph of Madness
The Triumph of Madness Viewing the past through the lens of history is unfair to the participants. Missteps are too obvious. Failures are too abundant. Vanities are too absurd. The benefit of hindsight often renders the participants mere imbeciles on parade. Was George Armstrong Custer really just an arrogant Lieutenant Colonel who led his men […]
Jim Bianco Says This Is QE, Like Y2K
Jim Bianco Says This Is QE, Like Y2K In contrast to Hussman, Jim Bianco, at Bianco Research says the Fed’s repo actions are QE. Earlier today I posted, Hussman Sides with Powell: It’s Not QE4. If Hussman convinced you the Fed was not conducting QE, I will give you a chance to change your mind again. […]
Will Modern Monetary Theory Blow Up the Dollar?
Will Modern Monetary Theory Blow Up the Dollar? The idea of an ‘infinite’ money supply from federal printing presses is gaining ground among the radical left in Washington, D.C. Commentary “As long as the government can print money, we’ll never be broke.” That’s the idea behind modern monetary theory (MMT) in a nutshell. Naturally, many […]
A “Market” That Needs $1 Trillion in Panic-Money-Printing by the Fed to Stave Off Implosion Is Not a Market
A “Market” That Needs $1 Trillion in Panic-Money-Printing by the Fed to Stave Off Implosion Is Not a Market It was all fun and games enriching the super-wealthy but now the karmic cost of the Fed’s manipulation and propaganda is about to come due. A “market” that needs $1 trillion in panic-money-printing by the Fed […]
Every Bubble Eventually Finds its Pin
Every Bubble Eventually Finds its Pin The transfer of wealth from workers and savers to governments and big banks continued this week with Swiss-like precision. The process is both mechanical and subtle. Here in the USA the automated elegance of this ongoing operation receives little attention. NFL football. EBT card acceptance at Del Taco. Adam […]
America’s trade policy will end up destroying the dollar
America’s trade policy will end up destroying the dollar America’s tariffs against China are already showing signs of undermining the global economy and will create a funding crisis for the Federal Government when it leads to foreigners no longer buying US Treasury debt and selling down their existing dollar holdings. A subversive attempt by America […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – Nov 15th 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – Nov 15th 2019 “Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” As it’s a Friday I am contractually entitled to have a rant and whine about whatever I want to write about. Which, today, isn’t really the cut and thrust of markets. To be brutally […]
Swiss National Bank’s Monetary Racket, US Stock Holdings & the Wild Ride of its Own Shares
Swiss National Bank’s Monetary Racket, US Stock Holdings & the Wild Ride of its Own Shares We’ll also look at its garbage pile at the bottom. These folks don’t even pretend to be stock pickers. They buy and let it stick till it falls off on its own. The Swiss National Bank, which filed its […]
The Fed is Lying to Us
The Fed is Lying to Us “When it becomes serious, you have to lie” The recent statements from the Federal Reserve and the other major world central banks (the ECB, BoJ, BoE and PBoC) are alarming because their actions are completely out of alignment with what they’re telling us. Their words seek to soothe us […]
