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Living a Lie
Living a Lie “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” – Fyodor […]
The Fed’s Painted Itself Into The Most Dangerous Corner In History—–Why There Will Soon Be A Riot In The Casino
The Fed’s Painted Itself Into The Most Dangerous Corner In History—–Why There Will Soon Be A Riot In The Casino The chart below crystalizes why the Fed is stranded in a monetary no man’s land. By the time of next week’s meeting the federal funds rate will have been pinned at about 10 bps, or effectively zero, […]
The Fed Induced Farce
The Fed Induced Farce The minutes from the last Fed meeting were released on Wednesday afternoon. The minutes, along with a squadron of jabbering Fed heads lying about the economy doing great, pretty much locked in the most talked about .25% interest rate increase in world history. Evidently the Wall Street titans of greed have […]
The Most Devious Liars in the Room
The Most Devious Liars in the Room There were a few different stories coming out over the last few days that reveal the true nature of government and the apparatchiks who use disinformation, devious machinations, fraudulent accounting, and taxpayer money to cover up their criminality, lies, and the true state of the American economy. The […]
Jeffrey Snider: Kuroda’s Rebuke Came Awfully Swift
Jeffrey Snider: Kuroda’s Rebuke Came Awfully Swift There must be a universal speech template included in the monetary textbook that is shared among the various central banks. On September 28, 2015, Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, delivered a speech that wasn’t just similar to the press conference Janet Yellen had endured only a week […]
Janet Yellen’s clout today is especially hefty: Don Pittis
Janet Yellen’s clout today is especially hefty: Don Pittis The sense that change is afoot lends power to the U.S. central banker’s words If you live in a cave and survive on nuts, berries and the odd roasted squirrel, what U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen says today won’t make much difference to your life. At least not right […]
QE Breeds Instability
QE Breeds Instability Central bankers have promised ad nauseum to keep rates low for long periods of time. And they have delivered. Their claim is that this helps the economy recover, but that is just a silly idea. What it does do is help create the illusion of a recovering economy. But that is mostly […]
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters Contra Corner is not about investment advice, but its unstinting critique of the current malignant monetary regime does not merely imply that the Wall Street casino is a dangerous place for your money. No, it screams get out of harms’ way. Now! Yet I am […]
Central Banks Are Crack Dealers and Faith Healers
Central Banks Are Crack Dealers and Faith Healers The entire formerly rich world is addicted to debt, and it is not capable of shaking that addiction. Not until the whole facade that was built to hide this addiction must and will come crashing down along with the corpus itself. Central banks are a huge part […]
