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Monetary failure is becoming inevitable
Monetary failure is becoming inevitable This article posits that there is an unpleasant conjunction of events beginning to undermine government finances in advanced nations. They combine the arrival of a long-term trend of rising welfare commitments with an increasing certainty of a global-scale credit crisis, in turn the outcome of a combination of the peak […]
More Money Pumping Won’t Make Us Richer
More Money Pumping Won’t Make Us Richer Whenever a central bank introduces easy monetary policy, as a rule this leads to an economic boom — or economic prosperity. At least this is what most commentators hold. If this is however the case then it means that an easy monetary policy can grow an economy. But […]
FIAT CURRENCY ENDGAME: You Will Not Like This ONE BIT!
FIAT CURRENCY ENDGAME: You Will Not Like This ONE BIT! No One Comes Back From This Uninjured. In one word, the devaluation is set to ESCALATE. In fact, I term it Competitive Devaluation. There are several countries that will be the pioneers of it, but it will eventually reach the United States of America. In Europe and in Japan, […]
Suffering the Profanity of Plentiful Cheap Money
Suffering the Profanity of Plentiful Cheap Money What if the savings in your bank account lost 55 percent of its value over the last 12 months? Would you be somewhat peeved? Would you transfer some of your savings to another currency? That was the favored approach in Argentina – where the official inflation rate’s 55 […]
Entering Period of Perpetual Money Printing – John Williams
Entering Period of Perpetual Money Printing – John Williams Economist John Williams says be careful what you wish for when it comes to Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. Williams explains, “Unless you can get a good healthy consumer, you are not going to get a good healthy economy. It’s that simple. I think the Fed […]
Doug Casey: The Deep State Is the Source of Our Economic Problems
Doug Casey: The Deep State Is the Source of Our Economic Problems Justin’s note: As longtime readers know, Doug Casey says we’re well into what he calls the Greater Depression. America is headed for trouble… and it’s critical to know exactly what’s going on. That’s why today’s essay is so important. In it, Doug explains the source […]
The Pivot Point
The Pivot Point The massive economic shock following the banking collapse of 2007–8 is the direct cause of the crisis of confidence which is affecting almost all the institutions of western representative democracy. The banking collapse was not a natural event, like a tsunami. It was a direct result of man-made systems and artifices which […]
The Rich Get Richer when Central Banks Print Money
The Rich Get Richer when Central Banks Print Money The Netherlands Central Bank has just published a fascinating new paper, titled “Monetary policy and the top one percent: Evidence from a century of modern economic history”. Authored by Mehdi El Herradi and Aurélien Leroy, (Working Paper No. 632, De Nederlandsche Bank NV: https://www.dnb.nl/en/binaries/Working%20paper%20No.%20632_tcm47-383633.pdf), the paper “examines […]
Super Mario Draghi’s Day of Reckoning Has Arrived
Super Mario Draghi’s Day of Reckoning Has Arrived “Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.” — MARIO DRAGHI JULY 26TH 2012 No quote better defines Mario Draghi’s seven-plus years as the President of the European Central Bank than that quote. […]
Weekly Commentary: Dudley on Debt and MMT
Weekly Commentary: Dudley on Debt and MMT December’s market instability and resulting Fed capitulation to the marketplace continue to reverberate. At this point, markets basically assume the Fed is well into the process of terminating policy normalization. Only a couple of months since completing its almost $3.0 TN stimulus program, markets now expect the ECB […]
Bill Dudley Slams MMT: “It Failed In Germany, Venezuela And Zimbabwe”
Bill Dudley Slams MMT: “It Failed In Germany, Venezuela And Zimbabwe” While there has been much disagreement among the financial elite about the ultimate consequences of central bank activism and market manipulation, with some – usually those who do not manage money for a living and are not paid by investors – predicting fire and […]
What Happens When More QE Fails to Reverse the Recession?
What Happens When More QE Fails to Reverse the Recession? The smart money is liquidating assets, paying off debt and moving capital into collateral that isn’t impaired by debt or speculative valuations. The Federal Reserve’s sudden return to “accommodative” dovishness in response to the stock market’s swoon telegraphs its intent to fire up QE once […]
‘Modern Monetary Theory’ Is a Joke That’s Not Funny
‘Modern Monetary Theory’ Is a Joke That’s Not Funny Yes, a government that issues its own currency can pay its bills. But piling up debt for no urgent reason is lunacy. There’s a theory behind it. Photographer: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images If you follow the debates over U.S. economic policy, you had probably heard of […]
Drain, drain, drain…
Drain, drain, drain… Money from thin air going back whence it came from – circling the drain of a ‘no reinvestment’ black hole strategically placed in its way by the dollar-sucking vampire bat Ptenochirus Iagori Powelli. Our friend Michael Pollaro recently provided us with an update of outstanding Fed credit as of 26 December 2018. […]
It’s official: the Federal Reserve is insolvent
It’s official: the Federal Reserve is insolvent In the year 1157, the Republic of Venice was in the midst of war and in desperate need of funds. It wasn’t the first time in history that a government needed to borrow money to fight a war. But the Venetians came up with an innovative idea: Every […]
