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Unintended Consequences of Monetary Inflation
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF MONETARY INFLATION “In short, the Fed is committed to rescue businesses from the greatest economic catastrophe since the great depression and probably even greater than that, to fund the US Government’s rocketing budget deficits, fund the maintenance of domestic consumption directly or indirectly through the US Treasury, while pumping up financial markets […]
This Time, the Fed Can’t Avoid Inflation, Says Expert
This Time, the Fed Can’t Avoid Inflation, Says Expert This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Is the latest QE program finally going to spike prices, gold cannot be printed by central banks, and virus intensifies the flow of gold to U.S. […]
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 […]
Weekly Commentary: Global Bubbles are Deflating
Weekly Commentary: Global Bubbles are Deflating “Bubble” is commonly understood to describe a divergence between overvalued market prices and underlying asset values. And while price anomalies are a typical consequence, they are generally not among the critical aspects of Bubbles. I’ll start with my basic definition: A Bubble is a self-reinforcing but inevitably unsustainable inflation. […]
No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb
No Stimulus for the Weary: The US is Now Sitting on an Inflation Time Bomb The White House budget office doesn’t know if the $2.2 Trillion-dollar stimulus package and Trump’s $1,200 stimulus checks might cause an inflationary spiral. But many economists have no doubt it will. The consequences of the $2.2 trillion stimulus package are […]
A Taste Of What Is Coming – Food Prices Just Increased By The Most That We Have Seen Since 1974
A Taste Of What Is Coming – Food Prices Just Increased By The Most That We Have Seen Since 1974 Get ready to pay much more for groceries. I have been warning that the flood of new money that the Federal Reserve and Congress have been pumping into the system would have very serious consequences, […]
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 Problem is Not Deflation, It’s Attempts to Prevent It
The Problem is Not Deflation, It’s Attempts to Prevent It Let’s investigate the Fed’s effort to prevent price deflation. Here’s a Tweet that caught my eye. Real Vision✔@RealVision · May 1, 2020 “We’re about to have deflation and the market hasn’t figure it out yet… when it does, the Fed is going to shit itself.” @hendry_hugh @raoulGMIhttps://rvtv.io/3aWzxf4 […]
“The Dam Has Burst”: Why David Einhorn Thinks The Coronavirus Shock Will Lead To Soaring Inflation
“The Dam Has Burst”: Why David Einhorn Thinks The Coronavirus Shock Will Lead To Soaring Inflation One of the bizarre aspects of the global depression resulting from the coordinated shutdown of most world economies due to the coronavius pandemic, is that we have experience a collapse in both aggregate supply and demand which, almost absurdly, […]
Gold Is Set to Crash? No Way!
Gold Is Set to Crash? No Way! The mainstream is a fickle place. On the one hand, we had Bank of America raising its 18-month price projection for gold to $3,000. On the other hand, some people argue the price of gold could crash later in the year. Gold is up over 13% on the year, but […]
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 […]
Anatomy of a fiat currency collapse
Anatomy of a fiat currency collapse This article asserts that infinite money-printing is set to destroy fiat currencies far quicker than might be generally thought. This final act of monetary destruction follows a 98% loss of purchasing power for dollars since the London gold pool failed. And now the Fed and other major central banks […]
How Far Will the U.S. Economy Plunge During Lockdown?
How Far Will the U.S. Economy Plunge During Lockdown? “Three times deeper than the Great Recession?” No one has ever been through an economy where enormous shifts have occurred, from one day to the next, shutting down part of the economy but also generating sectors that are vastly more vibrant than ever before. Monthly or […]
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 […]
