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The Federal Reserve Is About to Go Full Banana Republic
The Federal Reserve Is About to Go Full Banana Republic Peeling back the truth, one banana at a time. According to an article on Yahoo! today, the top banana in finance, J. Powell, has already decided to go full bananatard. It is the financial hallmark of banana republics to print money in order to finance […]
Central Banks Are Wrong about Rate Cuts
Central Banks Are Wrong about Rate Cuts When we talk about monetary policy, people do not understand the importance of interest rates reflecting the reality of inflation and risk. Interest rates are the price of risk and manipulating them down leads to bubbles that end in financial crises, while imposing too high rates can penalize the […]
Markets Are Biting Their Lips over Global Chaos
Markets Are Biting Their Lips over Global Chaos And Fed Chair Powell is joining them because suddenly nothing is going right for his soft-landing plans! Rising Middle-East tensions are driving up the price of crude oil and driving down the price of stocks and value of bonds. Analysts are saying oil could go to $100/bbl […]
Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us
Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us There is certainly more coming to eat away at your finances as infamous bankster Jamie Dimon laid out quite broadly and plainly this week. Photo by Abhishek Singh on Unsplash Jamie Dimon never saw a dying bank he didn’t want to eat. Yet, […]
The Meltdown of Commercial Real Estate
The Meltdown of Commercial Real Estate Commentary In case you’ve still got money in a bank, Bloomberg is warning that defaults in commercial real estate loans could “topple” hundreds of U.S. banks. Leaving taxpayers on the hook for trillions in losses. The note, by senior editor James Crombie, walks us through the festering hellscape that is […]
The Fed’s Dovish Twist – Only Surprising on the Surface
The Fed’s Dovish Twist – Only Surprising on the Surface Rate Cuts, Money Printer Go Brrr, and Biden “The Federal Reserve is not only too big to fail, it’s too big to be held accountable.” ~ Thomas Massie Last week at its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the Fed made it clear that it […]
“We Will Have A Hard Landing At Some Point. I Guarantee You That.”
“We Will Have A Hard Landing At Some Point. I Guarantee You That.” Can you guess who the quote in the article title is from? I will give you a hint. It wasn’t me. I know that it sounds like it could have come from me, but it actually comes from a very big name […]
In Brief: The energy death spiral grows; Another bad omen; Hobsons choice
In Brief: The energy death spiral grows; Another bad omen; Hobsons choice The energy death spiral grows Although it is far from obvious, Ofgem – Britain’s energy regulator is supposed to act in the interest of energy consumers. As the UK government explains: “The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) regulates the monopoly companies which run […]
Irony Alert: “Outlawing” Recession Has Made a Monster Recession Inevitable
Irony Alert: “Outlawing” Recession Has Made a Monster Recession Inevitable Those who came of age after 1982 have never experienced a real recession, and so they’re unprepared for anything other than guarantees of rescue and permanent expansion. The mainstream view is that recession is caused by economic-financial factors. The mainstream view is wrong, for recession […]
The Era of Easy Money Ruined Us
The Era of Easy Money Ruined Us The rot caused by easy money will only become fully visible when the hollowed out institutions start collapsing under the weight of incompetence, debt and hubris. We have yet to reach a full reckoning of the consequences of the era of easy money, but it’s abundantly clear that […]
The World Is Sitting on a Powder Keg of Debt
The World Is Sitting on a Powder Keg of Debt The Federal Reserve recently surrendered in its inflation fight. But price inflation is nowhere near the 2% target. Why did the Fed raise the white flag prematurely? One of the major reasons is debt. The world is buried under record debt levels and the global economy can’t […]
Insanity: Celebrating Rate Cuts At A Shiller PE Of 31x
Insanity: Celebrating Rate Cuts At A Shiller PE Of 31x Last week ended the way all weeks have been ending: with the stock market raging higher based on future expectations of rate cuts that (1) have not happened yet (2) probably won’t happen until next year, unless a market crash happens first and (3) won’t make […]
