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The Fed is Going to Cut Rates to Negative 3% If Not 5%
The Fed is Going to Cut Rates to Negative 3% If Not 5% As I warned last week, while most of the investment world has been glued to their trading screens watching the stock market rally.. something nefarious has been unfolding behind the scenes. That “something” is the Fed and other regulators implementing plans that […]
Weekly Commentary: Full Capitulation
Weekly Commentary: Full Capitulation April 16 – Bloomberg (Rich Miller and Craig Torres): “Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues have made an important shift in their strategy for dealing with inflation in a prelude to what could be a more radical change next year. The central bank has backed off the interest-rate hikes […]
China & Buying Gold – Why?
China & Buying Gold – Why? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I believe you said at the WEC in 2017 that central banks will diversify and increase their gold reserves going into the currency crisis coming in 2021. China has continued to increase its gold reserves. You would please update on that development. Thank you PK ANSWER: Central banks […]
No Fix for Recession: Without a Financial Crisis, There’s No Central Bank Policy Fix
No Fix for Recession: Without a Financial Crisis, There’s No Central Bank Policy Fix There are no extreme “fixes” to secular declines in sales, profits, employment, tax revenues and asset prices. The saying “never let a crisis go to waste” embodies several truths worth pondering as the stock market nears new highs. One truth is that […]
The World-Wide Suppression of Interest Rates Has Been Something Very Near to a Crime
The World-Wide Suppression of Interest Rates Has Been Something Very Near to a Crime James Grant, editor of the renowned investment newsletter «Grant’s Interest Rate Observer», warns about the growing herd of corporate «zombies» and other fatal market distortions caused by modern monetary policy. Once again, the expedition to go back to normal has been […]
Combustion
Combustion This is all going to end badly, even some ardent bulls will freely admit this, the question is the how, when and the where. Frankly it’s a tragedy that’s unfolding and discerning eyes can see it. Since the December lows markets have taken the scripted route higher salivating at the prospect of dovish central […]
Can Expansionary Fiscal and Monetary Policies Counter Recessions?
CAN EXPANSIONARY FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICIES COUNTER RECESSIONS? When signs of economic weakness emerge, most economics experts are quick to embrace the ideas of John Maynard Keynes. For most economists the Keynesian remedy is always viewed with positive benefits- if in doubt just push more money and boost government spending to resolve any possible economic […]
Interest Rates, Funny Money, and Economic Malaise
Interest Rates, Funny Money, and Economic Malaise Since the 2007–8 financial crisis, more and more economists have entertained the idea that there might be some connection between artificially low interest rates and business cycles. By “artificially low” I mean interest rates that are pushed below their natural levels by expansionary monetary policy. The relationship between monetary policy […]
David Rosenberg: Fed Will Embrace ‘Helicopter Money’ In The Next Few Years
David Rosenberg: Fed Will Embrace ‘Helicopter Money’ In The Next Few Years Jerome Powell has denounced MMT has “just wrong”, but many Wall Street luminaries have surprisingly communicated an openness to the proposal. Most recently Ray Dalio proposed a marriage of monetary and fiscal policy that sounded suspiciously similar to MMT. Bill Gross, once a vocal critic […]
Utopian Vision
Utopian Vision There is nothing that a human mind can’t conceive. It can shoot for the stars or dive in the ocean which twinkles in the shadows of stars and ascend back with sparkling mind bearing uncanny ambition only to float contended. Today, we live in fear of losing wealth, we worry what economic […]
The Japanification of the World
The Japanification of the World Zombification / Japanification is not success; it is only the last desperate defense of a failing, brittle status quo by doing more of what’s failed. A recent theme in the financial media is the Japanification of Europe.Japanification refers to a set of economic and financial conditions that have come to characterize Japan’s […]
One Reason You Might Have Some Time To Prepare For The Next Economic Recession
One Reason You Might Have Some Time To Prepare For The Next Economic Recession There’s is one big reason why the U.S. will go into another recession eventually, but it’s the same reason you will have some time to prepare for it as well. Making money more expensive to borrow will lead to a recession, […]
Zombified Economy: What Will the Next Recession Look Like?
Zombified Economy: What Will the Next Recession Look Like? The short answer is nothing like the last. If you search for “next recession” numerous ideas pop up. Many believe there will not be a recession soon. Condition Comparison Conditions are radically different than in 2007 and 2000. The Fed re-blew a housing price bubble but […]
Being and Time (And Central Banks)
BEING AND TIME (AND CENTRAL BANKS) People value present goods more highly than future goods. For instance, an apple available today is considered more valuable than the same apple available in, say, one month. This is expressive of time preference — which is an undeniable fact, a category of human action. The sentence “Humans act” is a […]
