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The U.S. Dollar Collapse Is Greatly Exaggerated
The U.S. Dollar Collapse Is Greatly Exaggerated The US Dollar Index has lost 10% from its March highs and many press comments have started to speculate about the likely collapse of the US Dollar as world reserve currency due to this weakness. These wild speculations need to be debunked. The US Dollar year-to-date (August 2020) has strengthened […]
Bank Of Ireland Is Now Imposing Negative Rates On Cash Held In Pensions
Bank Of Ireland Is Now Imposing Negative Rates On Cash Held In Pensions If you’re holding your pension with the Bank of Ireland, you are now officially being charged to do so. In a move that we’re sure is going to have absolutely no consequences, the bank is starting to impose negative interest rates on cash held […]
Can Too Big For Fed & ECB
CAN TOO BIG FOR FED & ECB There are lies, damned lies, and economists. Whether these economists work for the government or a bank, they spend all their time on the computer extrapolating current trends with minor adjustments. If you want to understand the future, don’t spend your life preparing and constantly revising an Excel […]
“A Legal Nightmare”: In Latest European “Freakshow”, EU Threatens To Sue Germany Over QE Ruling
“A Legal Nightmare”: In Latest European “Freakshow”, EU Threatens To Sue Germany Over QE Ruling In the latest European farce, the European Commission threatened to sue Germany after the country’s top court questioned the legality of the ECB’s bond-buying program, Bloomberg reported over the weekend. In what Nordea’s Andrewas Steno Larsen dubbed the “ongoing freakshow in the Euroarea”, the […]
Central Bankers Are Quietly Freaking Out About How To Fight The Next Recession
Central Bankers Are Quietly Freaking Out About How To Fight The Next Recession The world’s top central bank officials are rightly concerned that politicians in rich economies missed one key lesson of the last recession: Interest rate cuts can help to moderate a downturn, but aggressive fiscal policy is key to a healthy recovery. It […]
Central Banks Alarming Move Towards Social Engineering
Central Banks Alarming Move Towards Social Engineering Recently the central banks have found themselves grasping at straws when it comes to moving the economy forward. Signs have begun to appear on the horizon that in the future they will attempt to expand their power by increasing their role in social engineering. This is a term […]
Analysts Stunned After Lagarde Demands “Key Role” For The ECB In Climate Change
Analysts Stunned After Lagarde Demands “Key Role” For The ECB In Climate Change Having failed miserably to “trickle down” stock market wealth for a decade as was their intention, something Ben Bernanke made clear in his Nov 4, 2010 WaPo op-ed, central banks have moved on to more noble causes. Over the weekend Minneapolis Fed chair […]
ECB Official: Can Use Portfolio To Combat Climate Change
ECB Official: Can Use Portfolio To Combat Climate Change Central banks have been making all kinds of ridiculous climate change statements in the last several quarters. Some monetary authorities have even said, they could also expand balance sheets to purchase climate-related financial investments. Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board and Governing Council of the […]
Weekly Commentary: Whatever It Takes to Never Give Up
Weekly Commentary: Whatever It Takes to Never Give Up Any central bank head that passes through an eight-year term without once raising rates has some explaining to do. To leave monetary policy extremely loose for such an extended period comes with major consequences (can we at least agree on that?). So, what went wrong? How […]
The Fed is Lying to Us
The Fed is Lying to Us “When it becomes serious, you have to lie” The recent statements from the Federal Reserve and the other major world central banks (the ECB, BoJ, BoE and PBoC) are alarming because their actions are completely out of alignment with what they’re telling us. Their words seek to soothe us […]
Central Banks Are Just Getting Warmed Up
Central Banks Are Just Getting Warmed Up According to all central banks, one of the main problems they are called to solve is that countries cannot reach their inflation target of (close to but below) 2 percent. Even their religious trust in the long-discredited Phillips curve cannot explain why price inflation is low in many countries despite […]
“Money’s Not Worth Anything Anymore” – Ex-Credit Suisse CEO Blasts “Crazy” Negative Rates
“Money’s Not Worth Anything Anymore” – Ex-Credit Suisse CEO Blasts “Crazy” Negative Rates Oswald Gruebel, who served as Credit Suisse CEO from 2004 to 2007 and as UBS Group AG’s top executive from 2009 to 2011, has slammed ECB policy in an interview with Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. “Negative interest rates are crazy. That means […]
Stunning Consensus Emerges: Fed May Announce Launch Of QE In Just A Few Hours
Stunning Consensus Emerges: Fed May Announce Launch Of QE In Just A Few Hours It was back on August 6, in an article titled “Forget China, The Fed Has A Much Bigger Problem On Its Hands“, where we explained why in response to the coming dollar funding shortage and liquidity crunch (we warned about this […]
US Equity Futures Trade Near All Time High After ECB Goes All In
US Equity Futures Trade Near All Time High After ECB Goes All In If it was Powell’s intention to have the S&P trade at an all time when he cuts rates by another 25bps next Wednesday, he achieved it. S&P futures rose alongside Asian and European stocks as shares globally headed for a third weekly […]