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“The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped”: Lawrence Lepard
“The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped”: Lawrence Lepard Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. He gets little coverage in the mainstream media, which, in my opinion, makes him someone worth listening to twice as closely. […]
What About Prices?
What About Prices? Chapter 8 from my forthcoming book Rebuilding Economics from the Top Down Inflation, having been quiescent for decades, became a serious issue once more with the bout of inflation that occurred after the peak of the government reaction to the Covid crisis. Though it did not reach the 12-15% levels of the […]
The “Business” of Central Banking—Usury and Tax Farming
The “Business” of Central Banking—Usury and Tax Farming Central banking is “a great business to be in, where you print money, and people believe it.” That’s what the head of New Zealand’s central bank said recently in an unscripted moment of candor. It led me to wonder about the nature of this strange “business.” Let […]
This Double Whammy Will Unleash Unprecedented Money Printing… or Break the U.S. Economy
This Double Whammy Will Unleash Unprecedented Money Printing… or Break the U.S. Economy Deficits, Deficits, and More Deficits, Unravelling Social Security, Money Printer Going Brrr “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” ~ Gerald Ford The Federal Reserve is gearing […]
Global ‘Game Of Chicken’ Continues – MOAB >> NFP
Global ‘Game Of Chicken’ Continues – MOAB >> NFP Today we will hit two topics, NPF and MOAB. Let’s Start with NFP About as good as it gets for the economy, not so good for Fed cuts. Not only were the headline jobs better than the top estimates on Bloomberg (303k jobs). We also revised […]
The Fraud Inherent in Fractional Reserve Banking
The Fraud Inherent in Fractional Reserve Banking “Our current banking system is not free market capitalism.” Suppose you bring a fur coat to a dry cleaner and later discover that the owner allowed his wife to wear it before cleaning it (an episode from Seinfeld). Or suppose you gave your car keys to a hotel valet […]
The Meltdown of Commercial Real Estate
The Meltdown of Commercial Real Estate Commentary In case you’ve still got money in a bank, Bloomberg is warning that defaults in commercial real estate loans could “topple” hundreds of U.S. banks. Leaving taxpayers on the hook for trillions in losses. The note, by senior editor James Crombie, walks us through the festering hellscape that is […]
Wealth Gap And The Road To Serfdom
Wealth Gap And The Road To Serfdom One of the most interesting conundrums is the surging wealth gap in America. Despite two of the largest bull markets in history since 1980, most Americans struggle with making ends meet and are unprepared for retirement. Such a reality starkly differs from the belief that rising asset prices […]
The Fed’s Dovish Twist – Only Surprising on the Surface
The Fed’s Dovish Twist – Only Surprising on the Surface Rate Cuts, Money Printer Go Brrr, and Biden “The Federal Reserve is not only too big to fail, it’s too big to be held accountable.” ~ Thomas Massie Last week at its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the Fed made it clear that it […]
Mark Jeftovic: The Fed is Afraid… of Something
Mark Jeftovic: The Fed is Afraid… of Something In the last issue we covered how Ecoinmetrics posited that the Bitcoin rally wasn’t being confirmed on-chain and that there was a chance of a 10% pullback in the month following his analysis, which was published November 22. We did get a pullback, from $44K, which touched bottom around […]
“This Is Off The Charts”: Economist Claims 2024 Will Bring ‘Biggest Crash Of Our Lifetime’ In US
“This Is Off The Charts”: Economist Claims 2024 Will Bring ‘Biggest Crash Of Our Lifetime’ In US An economist who focuses on consumer spending has issued a dire warning about the U.S. economy in the coming year. “Since 2009, this has been 100 percent artificial, unprecedented money printing and deficits: $27 trillion over 15 years, […]
The Fed’s Empire of Speculation and the Echoes of 1929
The Fed’s Empire of Speculation and the Echoes of 1929 Speculation has its own expiration dynamics, and they don’t depend on us recognizing speculative excess for what it is. They will unravel the excesses regardless of what we think, hope or deny. The Federal Reserve has so completely normalized speculative excess that these extremes are […]
The World Is Sitting on a Powder Keg of Debt
The World Is Sitting on a Powder Keg of Debt The Federal Reserve recently surrendered in its inflation fight. But price inflation is nowhere near the 2% target. Why did the Fed raise the white flag prematurely? One of the major reasons is debt. The world is buried under record debt levels and the global economy can’t […]
