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The ECB Will Fail Given The “History Lessons Of US And Japan”, Warns Deutsche Bank
The ECB Will Fail Given The “History Lessons Of US And Japan”, Warns Deutsche Bank Recall that the stated purpose behind the reason why Mario Draghi’s ECB is about to launch a European government debt monetization program ranging between EUR500 and 1000 billion is to halt deflation, spark credit creation and rekindle inflation. Alas, if […]
The Fed and the Price of Oil
The Fed and the Price of Oil Given the potential for financial losses triggered by oil’s price collapse to cascade into the financial sector at large, the Fed may well be forced to intervene either directly or indirectly. An email dialog with correspondent Mark G. last month alerted me to the key role the Federal […]
World in a Box
World in a Box. Of all the problems with fiat currency, the most basic is that it empowers the dark side of human nature. We’re potentially good but infinitely corruptible, and giving an unlimited monetary printing press to a government or group of banks is guaranteed to produce a dystopia of ever-greater debt and more […]
The Most Elementary Question Must Not Be Asked – The Automatic Earth
The Most Elementary Question Must Not Be Asked – The Automatic Earth. We’re in dire need of fresh blood and smart new ideas to clean up the mess the present ideologies and their puppets and puppetmasters have created. The present crew has made a neverending series of ‘mistakes’, intentional or not, and they are dead […]
It’s Official: Party Now, Apocalypse Later | Wolf Street
It’s Official: Party Now, Apocalypse Later | Wolf Street. The signs are everywhere, after years of central-bank collusion to douse the world with free money: historically low yields even on the riskiest cov-lite junk bonds; corporate profit margins at the upper extreme of the range; record valuations of stocks and other assets…. Heck, even startups: […]
Does money grow on trees? | openDemocracy
Does money grow on trees? | openDemocracy. The debate about the banks’ power to create money is becoming much more mainstream. After the recent event, Does Money Grow on Trees?, parliament is scheduled to debate the issue for the first time in 170 years. This was a question posed by Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator […]
Hato No Naka No Neko (ハトの中の猫) | Things That Make You Go Hmmm… Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics
Hato No Naka No Neko (ハトの中の猫) | Things That Make You Go Hmmm… Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics. Last week, appropriately enough on Halloween, the Bank of Japan did something truly scary. As shocks go, this one — though it had been fairly well-telegraphed to the markets that something wicked this way might be coming — was […]
QE Is Dead… Long Live QE! « The Burning Platform
QE Is Dead… Long Live QE! « The Burning Platform. [N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or […]
Complexity: The Hidden Cost of Central Bank Actions | Enterprising Investor
Complexity: The Hidden Cost of Central Bank Actions | Enterprising Investor. Central banks are printing rules almost as fast as they’re printing money. The consequences of these fast-multiplying directives — complicated, long-winded, and sometimes self-contradictory — is one topic at hand. Manipulated interest rates is a second. Distortion and mispricing of stocks, bonds, and currencies […]
