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Larry Summers Launches The War On Paper Money: “It’s Time To Kill The $100 Bill”
Larry Summers Launches The War On Paper Money: “It’s Time To Kill The $100 Bill” Yesterday we reported that the ECB has begun contemplating the death of the €500 EURO note, a fate which is now virtually assured for the one banknote which not only makes up 30% of the total European paper currency in circulation by […]
637 Rate Cuts And $12.3 Trillion In Global QE Later, World Shocked To Find “Quantitative Failure”
637 Rate Cuts And $12.3 Trillion In Global QE Later, World Shocked To Find “Quantitative Failure” 2016 is shaping up to be the year that everyone finally comes to terms with the fact that the monetary emperors truly have no clothes. To be sure, it’s been a long time coming. For nearly 8 years, market […]
This Is The NIRP “Doom Loop” That Threatens To Wipeout Banks And The Global Economy
This Is The NIRP “Doom Loop” That Threatens To Wipeout Banks And The Global Economy Remember the vicious cycle that threatened the entire European banking sector in 2012? It went something like this: over indebted sovereigns depended on domestic banks to buy their debt, but when yields on that debt spiked, the banks took a […]
Negative Interest Rates Already In Fed’s Official Scenario
Negative Interest Rates Already In Fed’s Official Scenario Over the past year, and certainly in the aftermath of the BOJ’s both perplexing and stunning announcement (as it revealed the central banks’ level of sheer desperation), we have warned (most recently “Negative Rates In The U.S. Are Next: Here’s Why In One Chart”) that next in […]
Interview With Dr. Emma Dawnay on the Swiss Referendum on Monetary Reform
INTERVIEW WITH DR EMMA DAWNAY ON THE SWISS REFERENDUM ON MONETARY REFORM The following questions have been answered by Dr Emma Dawnay, on behalf of Monetäre Modernisierung, the organisation bringing the Swiss Sovereign Money Initiative (or Vollgeld-Initiative in German). The interviewer is The Cobden Centre Editor, Max Rangeley. How does the current monetary system affect […]
Who Warned “Be Careful What You Wish For… If Interest Rates Go Negative”
Who Warned “Be Careful What You Wish For… If Interest Rates Go Negative” Now that the Bank of Japan has joined other central banks such as Denmark, Sweden, the ECB, and Switzerland into pushing its rates into what until just two years ago was considered the monetary twilight zone below the zero bound, and in […]
Negative Interest Rates Show Desperation of Central Banks
Negative Interest Rates Show Desperation of Central Banks Image: MarketWatch Japan has joined the EU, Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden in imposing negative interest rates. Indeed, more than a fifth of the world’s GDP is now covered by a central bank with negative interest rates. The Wall Street Journal notes: TOKYO—Japan’s central bank stunned the markets Friday by setting the […]
The Disturbing Reasons Why The Bank Of Japan Stunned Everyone With Negative Rates
The Disturbing Reasons Why The Bank Of Japan Stunned Everyone With Negative Rates As we noted earlier, in a paradoxical U-turn, one which caught everyone by surprise as a result of Kuroda’s own promise just one week ago not to engage in NIRP… … and two months after the ECB’s December 3 disappointing announcement led to a historic surge in the […]
Helicopter Money Arrives: Switzerland To Hand Out $2500 Monthly To All Citizens
Helicopter Money Arrives: Switzerland To Hand Out $2500 Monthly To All Citizens With Citi’s chief economist proclaiming “only helicopter money can save the world now,” and the Bank of England pre-empting paradropping money concerns, it appears that Australia’s largest investment bank’s forecast that money-drops were 12-18 months away was too conservative. While The Finns consider a “basic monthly income” for the entire […]
“The Level Of Alarm Is Extremely High” As Zika “Spreading Explosively” WHO Warns
“The Level Of Alarm Is Extremely High” As Zika “Spreading Explosively” WHO Warns Meet the new Ebola. Well over a year since the global fears over the Ebola epidemic sent US stocks reeling in late 2014 ahead of an even sharper rebound, today the head of the World Health Organization delivered a very stern warning […]
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard Back in September 2012 we first presented “the world’s biggest hedge fund nobody had ever heard of”: a small, previously unknown company called Braeburn Capital which, however, managed more cash than even Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund. How had the little firm operating out […]
How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning
How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning Photo: ProtonMail A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June. “This law was approved in September, and […]
Chasing the Wild Goose in Davos
Chasing the Wild Goose in Davos Despite the reformers endless efforts to encircle mankind, some persist beyond the broad extent of their casted net. In the backwaters of the new Republic, for instance, the distant rumble and flicker of Saturday night hootenannies still befall yonder the mighty oak groves. In defiance of all things good […]
We Know How This Ends, Part 2
We Know How This Ends, Part 2 In March 1969, while Buba was busy in the quicksand of its swaps and forward dollar interventions, Netherlands Bank (the Dutch central bank) had instructed commercial banks in Holland to pull back funds from the eurodollar market in order to bring up their liquidity positions which had dwindled […]
