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All Is Not Well In Financial Markets
All Is Not Well In Financial Markets It seems to be a hard time for those expressing concern about the build-up of risks in the economic and financial system: the major economies in the world are expanding at a decent clip, credit default concerns are very low, and stock and housing prices keep going up, […]
The Trade War Is Already Having A Huge Impact On The U.S. Economy
The Trade War Is Already Having A Huge Impact On The U.S. Economy The trade war has barely just begun, and yet significant ripple effects are already being felt all across the U.S. economy. Once thriving businesses are on the verge of failure, workers are being laid off, and some sectors of the economy are […]
Are You Prepared for the End of Fake Money?
Are You Prepared for the End of Fake Money? What Is Money? Today we begin with a fundamental question: What is money? This, no doubt, is an important question. And we ask it with clear intent and purpose. Namely, we want to better understand how it’s possible for America to rack up such a massive […]
Experts Warn Of Chaos For The U.S. Economy As China Declares That “The Biggest Trade War In Economic History” Has Begun
Experts Warn Of Chaos For The U.S. Economy As China Declares That “The Biggest Trade War In Economic History” Has Begun Nothing is going to be the same after this. On Friday, the United States hit China with 34 billion dollars in tariffs, and China immediately responded with similar tariffs. If it stopped there, this […]
Were the Crusades just for Plunder & Money?
Were the Crusades just for Plunder & Money? QUESTION: Were the Crusades inspired by economics? You mentioned how Venice looted Constantinople. Thank you for making history interesting KR ANSWER: To understand the Crusades, we have to first look at what was the original justification. The Catholic Church encouraged pilgrimages from the 4th century, but they began […]
Update on the Fed’s QE Unwind
Update on the Fed’s QE Unwind With QE, the Fed created money to buy securities and pump up asset prices; now it sheds securities to destroy this money. Here’s what the Fed’s QE unwind – or the balance sheet normalization, as it calls it – is all about: it reverses over an unknown span of […]
Inflation Rearing Its Ugly Head
Inflation Rearing Its Ugly Head The world of finance and investment, as always, faces many uncertainties. The US economy is booming, say some, and others warn that money supply growth has slowed, raising fears of impending deflation. We fret about the banks, with a well-known systemically-important European name in difficulties. We worry about the disintegration […]
Keynesian Economics Is an Artifact of Cheap Energy
Keynesian Economics Is an Artifact of Cheap Energy Printing / borrowing money to generate the unsustainable illusion of “growth” sets up the collapse of the entire Keynesian edifice. Of the many delusions of modern economics, perhaps the greatest is that the dominant Keynesian model reflects permanent dynamics of advanced economies. Economics, along with other social sciences, […]
What Life Is Like for Venezuelan Refugees: The Crisis Isn’t Over When You Escape the Collapse
What Life Is Like for Venezuelan Refugees: The Crisis Isn’t Over When You Escape the Collapse I find the most difficult aspect of survival is to keep a positive mindset. Definitely, it is. The crisis is not over when you escape the collapse. While I expected when I got my family out, our struggles were […]
The Growing Pool of Real Savings Permits the Illusion That Central Bank Can Cause Economic Growth
THE GROWING POOL OF REAL SAVINGS PERMITS THE ILLUSION THAT CENTRAL BANK CAN CAUSE ECONOMIC GROWTH Many commentators are of the view that the US central bank should pursue policies that will prevent the possible decline of the economy into a liquidity trap hole. What is this all about? In the popular framework of thinking […]
The Dollar Dilemma: Where to From Here?
The Dollar Dilemma: Where to From Here? Introduction: Where We Are It’s a fallacy to believe the US has a free market economy. The economy is run by a conglomerate of individuals and special interests, in and out of government, including the Deep State, which controls central economic planning. Rigging the economy is required to […]
How Much Money Do You Save by Cooking at Home?
How Much Money Do You Save by Cooking at Home? This post is adapted from the blog of wellio, a Priceonomics Data Studio customer. Does your company have interesting data? Become a Priceonomics customer. *** Intuitively, we all know there are benefits to cooking at home. You can use healthier ingredients, set portions to a reasonable size, avoid […]
Confronting the money-power elite
Confronting the money-power elite Those who control the creation and allocation of money are able to control every other aspect of society. Shouldn’t that be us? Credit: Flickr/Liz West. CC BY 2.0. The world today is controlled by a small elite group that has been increasingly concentrating power and wealth in their own hands. There […]
The Federal Reserve: Public Enemy Number One
The Federal Reserve: Public Enemy Number One When currency was backed by gold, a central bank’s main function was to maintain the value of the issued currency in terms of gold. For example, if a central bank created too much money against the gold reserves in the banking system, an increasing number of people would […]
The Real Economic Numbers: 21.5 Percent Unemployment, 10 Percent Inflation And Negative Economic Growth
The Real Economic Numbers: 21.5 Percent Unemployment, 10 Percent Inflation And Negative Economic Growth Every time the mainstream media touts some “wonderful new economic numbers” I just want to cringe. Yes, it is true that the economic numbers have gotten slightly better since Donald Trump entered the White House, but the rosy economic picture that […]
