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The Fed’s Dollar Distraction
The Fed’s Dollar Distraction In its September policy statement, the US Federal Reserve took into consideration – in a major way – the impact of global economic developments on the United States, and thus on US monetary policy. Indeed, the Fed decided to delay raising interest rates partly because US policymakers expect dollar appreciation, by lowering […]
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot? Remember those old ads showing a senior couple lounging on […]
How Do People Destroy Their Capital?
How Do People Destroy Their Capital? I have written previously about the interest rate, which is falling under the planning of the Federal Reserve. The flip side of falling interest rates is the rising price of bonds. Bonds are in an endless, ferocious bull market. Why do I call it ferocious? Perhaps voracious is a better word, […]
Is This How the Next Global Financial Meltdown Will Unfold?
Is This How the Next Global Financial Meltdown Will Unfold? In effect, a currency crisis is simply the abrupt revaluation of the currency to reflect new realities. I have long maintained that the structural imbalances of debt and risk that triggered the Global Financial Meltdown of 2008-2009 have effectively been transferred to the foreign exchange […]
The Baltic Dry Shipping Index Just Collapsed To An All-Time Record Low
The Baltic Dry Shipping Index Just Collapsed To An All-Time Record Low I was absolutely stunned to learn that the Baltic Dry Shipping Index had plummeted to a new all-time record low of 504 at one point on Thursday. I have written a number of articles lately about the dramatic slowdown in global trade, but I […]
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 Federal Reserve, Interest Rates and Triffin’s Paradox
The Federal Reserve, Interest Rates and Triffin’s Paradox There is no way Fed policy can be win-win-win for all participants. One result of the global dependence on central bank interventions is a unhealthy fixation on the slightest changes in those interventions, oops I meant policies. Since the slightest pull-back in central bank inflation of asset bubbles […]
If The Economy Is Fine, Why Are So Many Hedge Funds, Energy Companies And Large Retailers Imploding?
If The Economy Is Fine, Why Are So Many Hedge Funds, Energy Companies And Large Retailers Imploding? If the U.S. economy really is in “great shape”, then why do all of the numbers keep telling us that we are in a recession? The manufacturing numbers say that we are in a recession, the trade numbers say that […]
Financial Trend Analyst Warns: “This Suicide Move Will Implode The Whole Thing”
Financial Trend Analyst Warns: “This Suicide Move Will Implode The Whole Thing” Job losses across America continue to mount, housing is topping and recent reports from some of the nation’s leading retailers show that there has been no real, sustainable recovery since the crash of 2008. This, according to trend analyst Daniel Ameduri of Future Money […]
The Bubble Finance Cycle: What Our Keynesian School Marm Doesn’t Get, Part 2
The Bubble Finance Cycle: What Our Keynesian School Marm Doesn’t Get, Part 2 In Part 1 of The Bubble Finance Cycle we demonstrated that a main street based wage and price spiral always proceeded recessions during the era of Lite Touch monetary policy (1951 to 1985). That happened because the Fed was perennially “behind the curve” and […]
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created and Distributed, Rising Inequality Will Trigger Social Disorder
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created and Distributed, Rising Inequality Will Trigger Social Disorder Centrally issued money optimizes inequality, monopoly, cronyism, stagnation, low social mobility and systemic instability. If we don’t change the way money is created and distributed, wealth inequality will widen to the point of social disorder. Everyone who wants […]
The Bubble Finance Cycle——What Our Keynesian School Marm Doesn’t Get
The Bubble Finance Cycle——What Our Keynesian School Marm Doesn’t Get The world of Bubble Finance economies created by the Fed and other central banks is fundamentally different than that prevailing under the “Lite Touch” monetary policies which preceded the Greenspan era. Those essentially reactive and minimally invasive central bank intrusions into the money and capital markets prevailed from the time of the Fed’s […]
Is Judgment Day At Hand?
Is Judgment Day At Hand? What is Judgment Day? It is like ancient times that the Feds, under Greenspan, somehow decided that US needed to follow a zero interest rate policy, a policy now known as the ZIRP. It was 2008 when Bernanke gave birth to the term Quantitative Easing, QE. QE was followed by Operation […]
The Leviathan
The Leviathan The economic picture manufactured by the national consensus trance has never been more out of touch with reality in my lifetime. And so the questions as to what anyone might do can hardly be addressed. How can I protect my savings? Who do I vote for? How do I think about where my […]
Does the Bell Toll for the Fed?
Does the Bell Toll for the Fed? Last week Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen hinted that the Federal Reserve Board will increase interest rates at the board’s December meeting. The positive jobs report that was released following Yellen’s remarks caused many observers to say that the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate increase in almost a […]
