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Our Bizarre Economy 2.0 Is A Spending Based Illusion
Our Bizarre Economy 2.0 Is A Spending Based Illusion To say the economy we are seeing during 2020 is a bit bizarre is an understatement. Nobody predicted anything like we are seeing today. As money continues to be created out of thin air we are witnessing bailouts and crony capitalism on full display. Another factor playing […]
What the Great Reset Architects Don’t Want You To Understand About Economics
What the Great Reset Architects Don’t Want You To Understand About Economics It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Vice President of the World Bank Carmen Reinhardt recently warned on October 15 that a new financial disaster looms ominously over the horizon with a vast sovereign default and a corporate debt default. Just in the past […]
Fed Assets Eke Out New Record for First Time Since June 10. But Repos, Dollar Liquidity Swaps, SPVs Mothballed
Fed Assets Eke Out New Record for First Time Since June 10. But Repos, Dollar Liquidity Swaps, SPVs Mothballed Only Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are still active. The Fed has now reduced to zero or to near-zero or essentially mothballed and thrown the towel in on three of its five QE and bailout […]
Fourth Turning Election Year Crisis
FOURTH TURNING ELECTION YEAR CRISIS “The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, […]
The Hazards of 4 More Years of Jerome Powell
The Hazards of 4 More Years of Jerome Powell Whether Trump or Biden is elected in November, they will have to decide whether or not to appoint Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to another term. And if he is appointed again, the way he continues to handle the continuing ripple effects of the COVID-19 “shutdown” […]
The One Assured Outcome of the Election
The One Assured Outcome of the Election Ever since the crash of 2008, a trend has developed in U.S. election debate: the near complete avoidance of serious discussion about the economy. Ron Paul was the last candidate to attack the subject with any energy, and that was quite a while ago now. The economic decline […]
What’s Behind the Fed’s Project to Send Free Money to People Directly?
What’s Behind the Fed’s Project to Send Free Money to People Directly? A lump-sum payment in digital dollars for all Americans during a recession or to raise inflation, as an alternative to QE and negative interest rates, which have failed. By Wolf Richter. This is the transcript of my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT. You […]
The emerging evidence of hyperinflation
The emerging evidence of hyperinflation Note: all references to inflation are of the quantity of money and not to the effect on prices unless otherwise indicated. In last week’s article I showed why empirical evidence of fiat money collapses are relevant to monetary conditions today. In this article I explain why the purchasing power of […]
The Fed Has Given Big Business A Huge Advantage
The Fed Has Given Big Business A Huge Advantage And Its Gone! The last few months have been painful for small businesses across America. These businesses often have a difficult time getting a bank loan. Bubbling up to the surface is the recognition the Fed has played a major role in pushing inequality higher. This was […]
“Panicking” Central Banks to Power Gold Higher
“Panicking” Central Banks to Power Gold Higher This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Institutions will be the drivers of gold demand, Ray Dalio issues warning about the greenback, and silver believers could soon be rewarded. Institutional demand will power gold prices […]
The ‘new normal’ has been postponed (and probably canceled)
The ‘new normal’ has been postponed (and probably canceled) There remains a hope that once we get past the economic and social effects of the pandemic, all of us will be able to return to something resembling normal life before the pandemic—even if it is a “new normal” marked by heightened vigilance and protection against […]
Fed’s GDP and Unemployment Projections: Who Believes Them?
Fed’s GDP and Unemployment Projections: Who Believes Them? In addition to its blather about interest rates, the Fed also made numerous economic projections. Economic Projections Please consider the Economic Projections of FOMC Participants under their individual assumptions of appropriate monetary policy, September 2020. Fed’s GDP, Unemployment, PCE Inflation Projections GDP Projection The Fed believes GDP will only […]
Unspoken Truth
Unspoken Truth We all know it yet the unspoken truth deserves to be said out aloud. You all heard the phrases ‘Don’t fight the Fed’, and ‘ there is no alternative’. Can we be clear what these phrases really mean? They mean people are buying assets at prices they otherwise wouldn’t because a central planning committee is […]
