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Mike Pento Warns Global Central Banks Are Entering The Danger Zone
Mike Pento Warns Global Central Banks Are Entering The Danger Zone Authored by Michael Pento via PentoPort.com, Investors are experiencing huge moves in commodities, currencies, equities and in sovereign debt across the globe. And now the fall has arrived. Expect the volatility currently witnessed in markets to only surge. This is because global central banks […]
Druckenmiller: We’re At The Point In The Rate-Hike Cyle Where ‘Bombs Are Going Off’
Druckenmiller: We’re At The Point In The Rate-Hike Cyle Where ‘Bombs Are Going Off’ Despite the consensus view heading into 2018 that the Treasury yield curve would finally steepen as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates 4 times in 2018 (and possibly again in 2019), driving US stocks lower as higher interest rates brought the […]
One Step Closer to Recession
One Step Closer to Recession As you know by now, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates again yesterday, its eighth increase since the rate hike cycle began in 2015. In his post-announcement press conference, Jerome Powell cited a strong economy, low unemployment, solid growth, etc. He said that “It’s a particularly bright moment” for the […]
Things Have Changed…
THINGS HAVE CHANGED… Today’s post is sure to anger a bunch of you. My libertarian friends (you know who you are) will probably be the most outraged, but I suspect many will misinterpret my observations about society’s most likely path as my belief regarding the proper course. So let me try to be clear. I […]
BCA: The “Bubble In Everything” Threatens $400 Trillion In Assets
BCA: The “Bubble In Everything” Threatens $400 Trillion In Assets By now, it’s a very familiar question: how high can the Fed hike rates before it causes a major market “event.” Two weeks ago, Stifel analyst Barry Banister became the latest to issue a timeline on how many more rate hikes the Fed can push […]
Honest Work for Dishonest Pay
Honest Work for Dishonest Pay Misadventures and Mishaps Over the past decade, in the wake of the 2008-09 debt crisis, the impossible has happened. The sickness of too much debt has been seemingly cured with massive dosages of even more debt. This, no doubt, is evidence that there are wonders and miracles above and beyond […]
Fed Staff Delivers Intellectual Ammo for Hawkish Approach to Inflation
Fed Staff Delivers Intellectual Ammo for Hawkish Approach to Inflation “Because monetary policy acts with a lag, waiting for inflation to materialize before reacting is undesirable, particularly when economic conditions are such that outsized deviations of inflation from its target are a plausible outcome.” Let’s break the above quote apart and put it in perspective: […]
India Central Bank Intervenes As Rupee Crashes To Record Low
India Central Bank Intervenes As Rupee Crashes To Record Low Just weeks after Urjit Patel, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, wrote an op-ed in the FT warning that should the US maintain its current pace of monetary policy tightening, it could have serious repercussions for the global economy, it is… It was the […]
Make Capital Cheap and Labor Costly, and Guess What Happens?
Make Capital Cheap and Labor Costly, and Guess What Happens? Employment expands in the Protected cartel-dominated sectors, and declines in every sector exposed to globalization, domestic competition and cheap capital. If you want to understand why the global economy is failing the many while enriching the few, start with the basics: capital, labor and resources. […]
How Long Can The Federal Reserve Stave Off the Inevitable?
How Long Can The Federal Reserve Stave Off the Inevitable? When are America’s global corporations and Wall Street going to sit down with President Trump and explain to him that his trade war is not with China but with them. The biggest chunk of America’s trade deficit with China is the offshored production of America’s […]
Trade Tariffs Won’t Crash the World Economy, Monetary Policy Will
Trade Tariffs Won’t Crash the World Economy, Monetary Policy Will As the Trump administration announces 25% tariffs on over $50bn of Chinese goods, and Europe and China prepare retaliation measures, The Economist concludes that “Rising tariffs are the worst of many threats to the world economy”, because, among other things, “Tariffs temporarily push up inflation, […]
Living Dangerously
LIVING DANGEROUSLY Regular readers of Goldmoney’s Insights should be aware by now that the cycle of business activity is fuelled by monetary policy, and that the periodic booms and slumps experienced since monetary policy has been used in an attempt to manage economic outcomes are the result of monetary policy itself. The link between interest rate suppression […]
America’s Greatest Crisis Upon Us…Debt to GDP Makes It Clear
America’s Greatest Crisis Upon Us…Debt to GDP Makes It Clear America in the midst of its greatest crisis in its 242 years of existence. I say this based upon the US federal debt to GDP (gross domestic product) ratio. In the history of the US, at the onset of every war or crisis, a period of federal […]
Weekly Commentary: The Great Fallacy
Weekly Commentary: The Great Fallacy A big week in the world of monetary management: The Federal Reserve raised rates 25 bps, the ECB announced plans to wind down its historic QE program, and the Bank of Japan clung to its “powerful monetary easing” inflationist scheme. A tense People’s Bank of China left rate policy unchanged, […]
NY Fed President Dudley Complains Unemployment is Too Low, Rate Hikes Needed
NY Fed President Dudley Complains Unemployment is Too Low, Rate Hikes Needed NY Fed President William Dudley is worried about the low unemployment rate. He thinks the Fed needs to be above neutral. New York Fed President William Dudley will retire Monday. Current San Francisco Fed chief John Williams will take over. He departs with […]
