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Is The Pending Euro Collapse on Target From Our 2011 Forecast of 2016.202?
Is The Pending Euro Collapse on Target From Our 2011 Forecast of 2016.202? The euro crisis appears to be unfolding right on target rather amazingly. Our target was published in “The Rise and Fall of the Euro” back in 2011. The target for the collapse in confidence was 2016.202. This comes into play March 13/14, 2016. It […]
We Know How This Ends, Part 2
We Know How This Ends, Part 2 In March 1969, while Buba was busy in the quicksand of its swaps and forward dollar interventions, Netherlands Bank (the Dutch central bank) had instructed commercial banks in Holland to pull back funds from the eurodollar market in order to bring up their liquidity positions which had dwindled […]
We Know How This Ends, Part 1
We Know How This Ends, Part 1 The finance ministers and representatives of central banks from the world’s ten largest “capitalist” economies gathered in Bonn, West Germany on November 20, 1968. The global financial system was then enthralled by a third major currency crisis of the past year or so and there was great angst […]
Oil Bust Could End Dollar Domination
Oil Bust Could End Dollar Domination The US dollar survived the collapse of Bretton Woods in the ‘70s because its use in crude oil transactions made it the king of reserve currencies, but can it survive a collapse of petro dollars? Can the world survive the catastrophic geopolitical consquences that would follow? There is an […]
Sell The Bonds, Sell The Stocks, Sell The House —–Dread The Fed!
Sell The Bonds, Sell The Stocks, Sell The House —–Dread The Fed! There is going to be carnage in the casino, and the proof lies in the transcript of Janet Yellen’s press conference. She did not say one word about the real world; it was all about the hypothecated world embedded in the Fed’s tinker toy […]
Market Manipulation Confusion
Market Manipulation Confusion QUESTION: You say that long-term manipulations are impossible while short-term manipulations have been the focus of the bankers. Do you mean to say that not even governments can manipulate the economy perpetually? Are central banks buying US equities to manipulate the US stock market higher? It would seem that the Fed would then […]
Exorbitant Privilege: “The Dollar is Our Currency but Your Problem”
Exorbitant Privilege: “The Dollar is Our Currency but Your Problem” The Global Monetary Architecture: Change is on the Horizon There is no better way to descibe the international monetary system today than through the statement made in 1971 by U.S. Treasury Secretary, John Connally. He said to his counterparts during a Rome G-10 meeting in […]
That 70s show – episode 4
That 70s show – episode 4 We have shown in the previous three episodes (episode 1, 2 and 3) how the US economy structurally changed after Nixon took the US off gold, letting the Federal Reserve do what it does best. Obviously, with the “hard” anchor of the US dollar cut loose, the rest followed suit. It is telling […]
“If It Looks Like A Duck” – The Man In The Moon: Part 2
“If It Looks Like A Duck” – The Man In The Moon: Part 2 In part 2 of the “Man in the Moon” series we look at Paul Volcker’s roundtrip – monetary policies and their impacts from 1971 through the Great Leveraging to today. Part 1 can be found here. If it Looks Like a Duck… […]
George Soros Warns “No Exaggeration” That China-US On “Threshold Of World War 3”
George Soros Warns “No Exaggeration” That China-US On “Threshold Of World War 3” While admitting that reaching agreement between the two countries will be difficult to achieve, George Soros –speaking at The World Bank’s Bretton Woods conference this week – warned that unless the U.S. makes ‘major concessions’ and allows China’s currency to join the IMF’s basket […]
David Stockman Interview——-Kick-The-Can Economics Is Entering The End Game
David Stockman Interview——-Kick-The-Can Economics Is Entering The End Game Today David Stockman, the man President Ronald Reagan called upon along with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts to help save the United States from disaster in 1981, warned King World News that we are now entering the “terminal phase” of the global financial system that will end in total collapse. Eric […]
Richard Duncan: The Real Risk Of A Coming Multi-Decade Global Depression
Richard Duncan: The Real Risk Of A Coming Multi-Decade Global Depression One that unwinds the past 50 years of globalization Richard Duncan, author of The Dollar Crisis and The New Depression: The Breakdown Of The Paper Money Economy, isn’t mincing words about the risks he sees ahead for the world economy. Essentially, he sees the past 50 years […]
The “Deep State” Is Now in Charge
The “Deep State” Is Now in Charge The Most Important Change But when he is disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. – Plato on tyrants, The Republic […]
We Now Live in a “Pimpocracy”
We Now Live in a “Pimpocracy” Shabby Immensity Today, we continue mouth wide open … staggered by the shabby immensity of it … a tear forming in the corner of our eye. Yes, we are looking at how the US economy, money and government have changed since President Nixon ended the gold-backed monetary system in […]
