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Foreigners Are Dumping U.S. Debt At A Record Pace And Our $20 Trillion National Debt Is Poised To Become A Major Crisis
Foreigners Are Dumping U.S. Debt At A Record Pace And Our $20 Trillion National Debt Is Poised To Become A Major Crisis While most of the country has been focused on the inauguration of Donald Trump, a very real crisis has been brewing behind the scenes. Foreigners are dumping U.S. debt at a faster rate than […]
German bank that almost failed now being paid to borrow money
German bank that almost failed now being paid to borrow money The 12.5 hours spent crossing the Pacific on Qantas flight 27 feels like going through a wormhole. The flight departs Sydney, Australia at 12:50pm and arrives to Santiago, Chile the same day at 11:20am. In other words, the plane lands 90 minutes before it […]
If Zero Interest Rates Fixed What’s Broken, We’d Be in Paradise
If Zero Interest Rates Fixed What’s Broken, We’d Be in Paradise Rather than fix what’s broken with the real economy, ZIRP/NIRP has added problems that only collapse can solve. The fundamental premise of global central bank policy is simple: whatever’s broken in the economy can be fixed with zero interest rates (ZIRP). And the linear extension […]
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe”
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe” Trying to simply hold onto the standard that you’ve got has become a new normal for financial challenges. Equity erodes away when interest rates go negative… then everything starts to sour. China’s economy and stock market are effectively in the toilet, or poised […]
The Wall Street Ponzi At Work——The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies
The Wall Street Ponzi At Work——The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies In the nearby column Jim Quinn debunks Wall Street’s latest claim that the American consumer is bounding back. He points out that on an inflation-adjusted basis retail sales are barely higher than they were a year ago, and, for that matter, are still only 4% greater in real terms […]
When Exactly Will the Fed Launch QE4?
When Exactly Will the Fed Launch QE4? Money From Nowhere On Friday, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed at record highs. It’s the first time both indexes have done so since December 31, 1999. Why such optimism? High profits, you say. But where do profits come from? Households have less money to spend than […]
Ten Wonderful Things I’m Grateful For (Irony Alert)
Ten Wonderful Things I’m Grateful For (Irony Alert) Being grateful boosts your happiness. Ten wonderful things I’m grateful for. Since every volume on the nearly endless shelf of pop psychology self-help books recommends working up some gratitude as the key to happiness, I’ve conjured up a list of what I’m grateful for. (Please turn your irony […]
Paul Krugman is wrong about the UK and borrowing
Paul Krugman is wrong about the UK and borrowing Paul Krugman once did something or other quite good on the economics of trade, winning him the Nobel Prize. He also wrote some rather good stuff in the 1990s about the euro and about how Japan might escape its then-malaise. Quite a lot of orthodox economists […]
