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The Great Retirement Con
Shutterstock The Great Retirement Con Frankly put: retirement is now a myth for the majority The Origins Of The Retirement Plan Back during the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress promised a monthly lifetime income to soldiers who fought and survived the conflict. This guaranteed income stream, called a “pension”, was again offered to soldiers in […]
Is Funding About Money?
IS FUNDING ABOUT MONEY? A key factor that constrains people’s ability to generate goods and services is the scarcity of funding. Contrary to popular thinking, funding is not about money as such but about real savings. Note that various tools and machinery or the infrastructure that people have created is for only one purpose and […]
Stagnation Nation: Middle Class Wealth Is Locked Up in Housing and Retirement Funds
Stagnation Nation: Middle Class Wealth Is Locked Up in Housing and Retirement Funds The majority of middle class wealth is locked up in unproductive assets or assets that only become available upon retirement or death. One of my points in Why Governments Will Not Ban Bitcoin was to highlight how few families had the financial […]
You are currently living through the dumbest monetary experimental end game in history (including Havenstein and Gono’s)
You are currently living through the dumbest monetary experimental end game in history (including Havenstein and Gono’s) We have seen several explanations for the financial crisis and its lingering effects depressing our global economy in its aftermath. Some are plain stupid, such as greed for some reason suddenly overwhelmed people working within finance, as if […]
The Central Bank War On Savers—–The Big Lie Beneath
The Central Bank War On Savers—–The Big Lie Beneath The central bank war on savers is rooted in a monumental case of the Big Lie. Here is what a retired worker who managed to save $5,000 per year over a 40 year’s lifetime of toil and sweat in a steel factory now earns in daily interest on […]
Draghi espouses the old “excess savings” nonsense
Draghi espouses the old “excess savings” nonsense From today’s Open Europe news summary: DRAGHI REBUKES ECB GERMAN CRITICS In a speech on Monday, the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, delivered a blunt rebuke to German criticism of the ECB’s low interest rate policy saying “There is a temptation to conclude that…very low […]
We Need the Pain that Comes with More Saving
We Need the Pain that Comes with More Saving The endgame of monetary side manipulations is upon us. Since 2008, central banks have done what they thought was needed to bring the markets back from the pain they experienced during the crash. The problem, of course, is that these Keynesians and Monetarists placed the high […]
Deutsche Bank Discovers Kuroda’s NIRP Paradox
Deutsche Bank Discovers Kuroda’s NIRP Paradox Last October, BofA looked at Europe’s €2.6 trillion in negative-yielding debt and discovered something “stunning”: Savings rates were going up not down. Don’t believe us, just have a look at these three charts: But how could that be? By all accounts – or, should we say, by all conventional Keynesian/ textbook accounts – […]
The West Is Traveling The Road To Economic Ruin
The West Is Traveling The Road To Economic Ruin Michael Hudson is the best economist in the world. Indeed, I could almost say that he is the only economist in the world. Almost all of the rest are neoliberals, who are not economists but shills for financial interests. If you have not heard of Michael […]
Australia Cannibalizing its own Economy
Australia Cannibalizing its own Economy The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has applied to access to everything to hunt for money. They want access to phone calls, emails, posts, and SMS text messages. We have verified this with several sources. Like Rome, Australia is cannibalizing its own economy. They will succeed in destroying Western civilization and when […]
How Money Disappears in a Fractional-Reserve Money System
HOW MONEY DISAPPEARS IN A FRACTIONAL-RESERVE MONEY SYSTEM Most experts are of the view that the massive monetary pumping by the US central bank during the 2008 financial crisis saved the US and the world from another Great Depression. On this the Federal Reserve Chairman at the time Ben Bernanke is considered the man that […]