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Why US Price Inflation Remains Relatively Subdued?
WHY US PRICE INFLATION REMAINS RELATIVELY SUBDUED? The yearly growth rate of the US consumer price index stood at 1.9% in August against 1.7% in July, while the growth rate of the price index less food and energy stood at 1.7% in August against a similar figure in July and 2.3% in August last year. […]
Gold Price Will Explode When System Breaks – Gordon Long
Gold Price Will Explode When System Breaks – Gordon Long Private investor Gordon Long contends the price of gold will shock the world when it revalues to reflect the massive amount of currency that has been printed globally. Long explains, “That is correct, and it won’t be something that is gradual, it will be very […]
When This Debt Bubble Bursts, Central Banks Will Turn to Money Printing… Again
When This Debt Bubble Bursts, Central Banks Will Turn to Money Printing… Again Let’s face the facts. The only reason the financial system has held together so well since 2008 is because Central Banks have created a bubble in bonds via massive QE programs and seven years of ZIRP/NIRP. As a result of this, the […]
Just a quick reminder of who’s really in charge
Just a quick reminder of who’s really in charge Today the world of banking and finance waited with baited breath for the Federal Reserve in the United States to hike… or not to hike… interest rates. This happens several times each year as the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee gathers to set monetary policy […]
Venezuela’s Money Supply Soars By A Record 200%
Venezuela’s Money Supply Soars By A Record 200% Two weeks ago, Reuters reported that due to “unexplained” reasons, the Venezuela central bank had stopped publishing its M2, or money supply, data. The M2 money supply was up by nearly 180% in mid-February from a year earlier, according to the central bank before it halted the […]
Why This Market Needs To Crash
bofotolux/Shutterstock Why This Market Needs To Crash And likely will Like an old vinyl record with a well-worn groove, the needle skipping merrily back to the same track over and over again, we repeat: Today’s markets are dangerously overpriced. Being market fundamentalists who don’t believe it’s possible to simply print prosperity out of thin air, we’ve […]
Banks Are Evil
Barandash Karandashich/Shutterstock Banks Are Evil It’s time to get painfully honest about this I don’t talk to my classmates from business school anymore, many of whom went to work in the financial industry. Why? Because, through the lens we use here at PeakProsperity.com to look at the world, I’ve increasingly come to see the financial […]
When This All Blows Up…
Shutterstock When This All Blows Up… Understanding the how & when of the next economic crash This report marks the end of a series of three big trains of thought. The first explained how we’re living through the Mother Of All Financial Bubbles. The next detailed the Great Wealth Transfer that is now underway, siphoning our wealth into […]
Whatever Happened to Inflation after All This Money Printing? It Has Arrived!
Whatever Happened to Inflation after All This Money Printing? It Has Arrived! Workers, bondholders, savers get sacked. So what would Yellen do? Consumer prices surged 0.6% in January from December, double the consensus forecast of a 0.3% rise. The sharpest monthly increase since February 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Energy prices jumped 4% […]
Our uncomfortable ride with central bankers who can’t take us home again: Neil Macdonald
Our uncomfortable ride with central bankers who can’t take us home again: Neil Macdonald The great post-Great Recession money-printing bonanza was supposed to be temporary Chair Janet Yellen decided this week to keep the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate where it is, saying the U.S. economy isn’t yet ready to withstand a modest increase. (Gary […]
Will Japan Be the First to Test the Limits of Quantitative Easing?
WILL JAPAN BE THE FIRST TO TEST THE LIMITS OF QUANTITATIVE EASING? The Japanese stock market peaked in December 1989, marking the end of a period of economic expansion which briefly saw Japan eclipse the USA to become the world’s largest economy. Since its zenith, Japan has struggled. I wrote about this topic, in relation […]
The Fed’s Doomsday Device
The Fed’s Doomsday Device Bezzle BALTIMORE – Barron’s, in a lather, says the market is facing the “Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” Huh? Only two? There were four last time! Supposedly, the so-called Brexit – the vote in Britain this Thursday on whether to leave or remain in the European Union (EU) – and uncertainty […]
“Print the Money”: Trump’s “Reckless” Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln
“Print the Money”: Trump’s “Reckless” Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln “Print the money” has been called crazy talk, but it may be the only sane solution to a $19 trillion federal debt that has doubled in the last 10 years. The solution of Abraham Lincoln and the American colonists can still work today. “Reckless,” “alarming,” “disastrous,” […]
In 20 Words The ECB Explains The Business Model Of Every Central Bank
In 20 Words The ECB Explains The Business Model Of Every Central Bank There were two notable things about a report released by the ECB this morning as part of its Occasional Paper Series titled “Profit distribution and loss coverage rules for central banks“, which purportedly analyzes “how profit distribution rules can affect the amounts distributed […]
New Rules for the Monetary Game
New Rules for the Monetary Game NEW DELHI – Our world is facing an increasingly dangerous situation. Both advanced and emerging economies need to grow in order to ease domestic political tensions. And yet few are. If governments respond by enacting policies that divert growth from other countries, this “beggar my neighbor” tactic will simply […]
