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Is Quantitative Easing the Same as Printing Money?
Is Quantitative Easing the Same as Printing Money? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Thank you for coming to Athens. After the presentation, there were so many questions that the moderator did not have time for. You answered some for the crowd afterwards that I had never heard anyone ever explain. You said Quantitative Easing was not money printing […]
EU Moloch in a Fresh Bid to Inflate
EU Moloch in a Fresh Bid to Inflate Brussels Alters Capital Requirements to “Spur Lending” Saints preserve us, the central planners in Brussels are giving birth to new inflationist ideas. Apparently the 2008 crisis wasn’t enough of a wake-up call. It should be clear by now even to the densest observers that a fractionally reserved […]
Part Deux ‐ Shorting the Federal Reserve
Part Deux ‐ Shorting the Federal Reserve The sequence of events leading up the French Revolution are likely unfamiliar to most. Yet money printing and a debauched French currency played no small part in those events. As a sequel to “Shorting the Federal Reserve”, 720 Global aims to provide an historical example of excessive money […]
Deflation Warning: The Next Wave
Deflation Warning: The Next Wave The global economic slump is accelerating The signs of deflation are now flashing all over the globe. In our estimation, the possibility of an associated financial crisis is now dangerously high over the next few months. As we’ve been saying for a while, our preferred model for how things are […]
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge Are you prepared for further turmoil? The global deflationary wave we have been tracking since last fall is picking up steam. This is the natural and unavoidable aftereffect of a global liquidity bubble brought to you courtesy of the world’s main central banks. What goes up must come […]
The Federal Reserve is Not Your Friend
The Federal Reserve is Not Your Friend Fed policies disproportionately favor wealth. Imagine that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was a corporation, with its shares owned by the nation’s major pharmaceutical companies. How would you feel about the regulation of medications? Whose interests would this corporation be serving? Or suppose that major oil companies […]
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt. “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” — Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on Meet the Press, August 2011 In a post on “Sovereign […]
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card
Trumping the Federal Debt Without Playing the Default Card “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” — Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan on Meet the Press, August 2011 In a post on “Sovereign Man” dated August 14th, Simon Black […]
Who Runs the Fed?
Who Runs the Fed? Ben Bernanke, 2011. (Shirley Li/Medill DC via Flickr) The 2008 financial crisis challenged many orthodox assumptions in finance and economics, including the proper role and accountability of central banks. The U.S. Federal Reserve, commonly known as the Fed, is the world’s most powerful central bank. One major source of Federal Reserve […]
Who Enables the Man?
Who Enables the Man? “The Man” is Playing with Fire Photo credit: Keystone What is “the man” doing? 1 Printing money… literally. Paused… for now. Still reinvesting principal/proceeds from maturing securities to maintain $4.5 trn. balance sheet size. 2 With that freshly printed money [of which there were never any quantitative limits] “The […]
From Whence Cometh Our Wealth—–The People’s Labor Or The Fed’s Printing Press?
From Whence Cometh Our Wealth—–The People’s Labor Or The Fed’s Printing Press? It is hard to believe that in these allegedly enlightened times this question even needs to be asked. Are there really educated adults who believe that by dropping helicopter money conjured from thin air, the central bank can actually make society wealthier? Well, yes there […]
Something Smells Fishy
SOMETHING SMELLS FISHY It’s always interesting to see a long term chart that reflects your real life experiences. I bought my first home in 1990. It was a small townhouse and I paid $100k, put 10% down, and obtained a 9.875% mortgage. I was thrilled to get under 10%. Those were different times, when you […]
We’re In Uncharted Economic Territory
We’re In Uncharted Economic Territory We’re in uncharted territory … For example, this is the first time in history that most central banks worldwide have printed money during the same time period. And one of America’s leading economists (Nobel-prize winner Robert Shiller) just said that – unlike 1929 – this time, stocks, bonds and housing are ALL overvalued: This […]
“It’s A Coup D’Etat,” David Stockman Warns “Central Banks Are Out Of Control”
“It’s A Coup D’Etat,” David Stockman Warns “Central Banks Are Out Of Control” We’re all about to be taken to the woodshed, warns David Stockman in this excellent interview. The huge wealth disparity is “not because of some flaw in capitalism, or Reagan tax cuts, or even the greed of Wall Street; the problem is central […]
For Heaven’s Sake: Hedge!
For Heaven’s Sake: Hedge! If you’re not positioned defensively by now, you’re nuts Q: How do you make a small fortune on Wall Street? A: Start with a large fortune. ~ old investing adage Last fall, I wrote an article titled Defying Gravity that warned of the absurd price levels that stocks and bonds had risen to. […]
