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The Return Of Crisis
The Return Of Crisis Suddenly banks everywhere are in deep, deep trouble Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future — one that has possibly started now. Our reason for expecting a market crash is simple: Bubbles always burst. […]
Opinion: The banking system faces an existential threat — and it’s not bitcoin
Opinion: The banking system faces an existential threat — and it’s not bitcoin A movement in Europe would require banks to fully back deposits John Michael WrightIn 1666, King Charles II put control of the money supply into private hands. The privatization of the money-creation process gave birth to the system we use today. Christmas did […]
Will 2016 Bring Another 2008-Type Crash? Pt. 1
Will 2016 Bring Another 2008-Type Crash? Pt. 1 The world is lurching towards another Crash. Japan, which has been ground zero for Keynesian insanity, is back in technical recession. This comes after the Bank of Japan launched the single largest QE program in history: a QE program equal to 25% of GDP launched in April 2013. This […]
Chapter 5: Economists and the Banking System, Part 2: Adam Smith, Some Early Americans, and Friedrich List
Chapter 5: Economists and the Banking System, Part 2: Adam Smith, Some Early Americans, and Friedrich List This chapter is about economics in transition. Economics means literally ‘housekeeping’ and most early writers on economics (roughly speaking before Adam Smith, 1723-90) treated it that way. They worried about a nation’s solvency, whether fairness generally prevailed in […]
Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist
Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist I did not set out to be an economist. In college at the University of Chicago I never took a course in economics or went anywhere near its business school. My interest lay in music and the history of culture. When I left for New York City […]
This Is Actually Going To Happen Next Year
This Is Actually Going To Happen Next Year The intellectual groundwork is being laid for the next stage of the Money Bubble, and it’s going to be epic. Here are excerpts from two articles that appeared over the weekend (and which should be read in their entirety). Both deal with Japan, which went all-in on debt […]
Europe’s Banks – Insolvent Zombies
Europe’s Banks – Insolvent Zombies The Walking Dead Now that Europe’s fractionally reserved banking system has been regulated into complete inertia, it is a good time to assess the current bottom line, so to speak. We should mention here that there are essentially two ways of dealing with the banking system. One is to introduce […]
The Economic Depression In Greece Deepens As Tsipras Prepares To Deliver ‘The Great No’
The Economic Depression In Greece Deepens As Tsipras Prepares To Deliver ‘The Great No’ As Greece plunges even deeper into economic chaos, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says that his government is prepared to respond to the demands of the EU and the IMF with “the great no” and that his party will accept responsibility […]
The Banking System Can’t Lend Out Reserves, But a Bank Can – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada
The Banking System Can’t Lend Out Reserves, But a Bank Can – Ludwig von Mises Institute Canada. This post will seem simple to some, but I want to correct a slight confusion I’ve seen over the last several years in the economics blogosphere. (I was motivated to write because of an exchange with Nick Freiling, who […]
