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A Powerful Ally to the Fed Just Boosted the Prospects for Inflation
A Powerful Ally to the Fed Just Boosted the Prospects for Inflation This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: ECB could follow the Fed’s pro-inflation policy, precious metals in a pandemic, and legendary silver coin to be sold for more than $10 […]
Inflation, deflation and other fallacies
Inflation, deflation and other fallacies There can be little doubt that macroeconomic policies are failing around the world. The fallacies being exposed are so entrenched that there are bound to be twists and turns yet to come. This article explains the fallacies behind inflation, deflation, economic performance and interest rates. They arise from the modern […]
Market Update: The Fed’s Big Lie
Market Update: The Fed’s Big Lie Ignore Powell’s happy talk. The Fed is desperate and merely playing for time. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced on Thursday that the Fed will now shift its focus from hitting inflation targets and instead […]
What Are You Going To Do As Our Money Dies?
What Are You Going To Do As Our Money Dies? Central banks are killing our currency to protect the already-rich In our recent article It’s Time To Position For The Endgame, Chris Martenson explained how the US Federal Reserve and its sister central banks around the world have been engaged in the largest and most egregious […]
Is High Inflation Now A Bigger Danger Than A Deflationary Crash?
Is High Inflation Now A Bigger Danger Than A Deflationary Crash? What’s the more likely event at this point: a deflationary crash or runaway inflation? For a long time, Peak Prosperity co-founder Adam Taggart and I have hewed to the “Ka-POOM!” theory, which states that a major deflation will scare the central banks so badly […]
On Inflation (& How It’s Not What Happens Next)
On Inflation (& How It’s Not What Happens Next) Everyone is convinced the dollar is going to inflate because more dollars are entering the system. But are they really? That is the question that sparked a succinct Twitter thread by Travis K (@ColoradoTravis) explaining why inflation is not what happens next (emphasis ours): Let’s take a […]
Got Wood? Lumber Prices Explode To Record Highs Amid “Supply Chain Screw Ups”
Got Wood? Lumber Prices Explode To Record Highs Amid “Supply Chain Screw Ups” When builders go to the lumberyard, they expect two-by-fours in ample supply. As Galvnews.com reports, it’s like expecting to find milk at the supermarket. But, in recent months, something has changed… dramatically… Since the lows in early April, the price of Lumber […]
Venezuela Has Gone Cashless (And That’s Not All)
Venezuela Has Gone Cashless (And That’s Not All) Writing about the current situation in my country is becoming increasingly difficult. Just checking my personal chats with all the information I receive is heartbreaking. People I have known my entire life are having a very hard time and are being harassed. Collecting information from friends and […]
Dollar’s Purchasing Power Drops to Lowest Ever. Inflation Heats Up, as Fed Wants, After Simultaneous Supply & Demand Shocks
Dollar’s Purchasing Power Drops to Lowest Ever. Inflation Heats Up, as Fed Wants, After Simultaneous Supply & Demand Shocks “We’re not even thinking about thinking about” slowing the decline of the dollar’s purchasing power — and thereby labor’s purchasing power. A supply shock and a demand shock came together during the Pandemic, and it produced […]
Did the Fed Just Unwittingly Light the Spark Towards 13% Inflation?
Did the Fed Just Unwittingly Light the Spark Towards 13% Inflation? The Fed just announced a major shift in its approach to inflation, and the move is not getting nearly the attention that it deserves. That is, of course, unless you don’t mind inflation moving higher than any other time in recent memory. Writing for […]
Inflation
Inflation Remember all those “green shoots?” That was the ubiquitous phrase used by White House officials and TV talking heads in 2009 to describe how the U.S. economy was coming back to life after the 2008 global financial crisis. The problem was we did not get green shoots, we got more like brown weeds. The […]
Money Supply Growth in May Again Surges to an All-Time High
MONEY SUPPLY GROWTH IN MAY AGAIN SURGES TO AN ALL-TIME HIGH Money supply growth surged to another all-time high in May, following April’s all-time high that came in the wake of unprecedented quantitative easing, central bank asset purchases, and various stimulus packages. The growth rate has never been higher, with the 1970s the only period […]
Consumer Prices Soar By Most In 11 Years In June On Rebound In Fuel Costs
Consumer Prices Soar By Most In 11 Years In June On Rebound In Fuel Costs After three months of ‘deflation’, consumer prices were expected to rebound strongly in June and it did, with headline CPI beating expectations (+0.6% MoM vs 0.5% exp). That is the biggest monthly jump since June 2019… Both Goods (Ex-Energy) and Services […]
Socrates & its Forecast of Shortages in Food for this 8.6-Year Wave
Socrates & its Forecast of Shortages in Food for this 8.6-Year Wave COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; I am beyond impressed with the forecast your computer puts out. More than a year in advance you forecast that this wave would be inflationary but due to shortages in food. I do not know how it makes such an interesting […]
Seems Counter-Intuitive in This Crisis: Inflation Heats Up for Services Firms, and They’re Able to Pass it on via Higher Prices
Seems Counter-Intuitive in This Crisis: Inflation Heats Up for Services Firms, and They’re Able to Pass it on via Higher Prices Even manufacturers, after months of crushed commodities prices, experience inflation and are able to pass it on. Stimulus money the government and the Fed have thrown around by the trillions. It seems somewhat counter-intuitive […]
