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Who Runs the Fed?
Who Runs the Fed? Ben Bernanke, 2011. (Shirley Li/Medill DC via Flickr) The 2008 financial crisis challenged many orthodox assumptions in finance and economics, including the proper role and accountability of central banks. The U.S. Federal Reserve, commonly known as the Fed, is the world’s most powerful central bank. One major source of Federal Reserve […]
Canadian dollar dips below 77 cents with more pain to come
Canadian dollar dips below 77 cents with more pain to come TD Bank predicts 73-cent loonie as effects of low oil linger The Canadian dollar is nearing its low for the year Friday, after news that the economy contracted for a fifth straight month in May. The loonie closed at 76.45 US cents, down half a cent from […]
Mexican Peso Dives, Fretting Begins About Peso Crisis
Mexican Peso Dives, Fretting Begins About Peso Crisis “Everyone got used to playing with free, easy money. Now it’s going to cost us.” On July 1, the Financial Times wondered just how low the Mexican peso could go, likening the ill-fated currency to a limbo dance: “Every month, it gets just that little bit lower.” In […]
The Rise Of The Yuan Continues: LME To Accept Renminbi As Collateral
The Rise Of The Yuan Continues: LME To Accept Renminbi As Collateral As far-fetched as the notion may be to those who are wedded – by choice, by misguided beliefs, or by virtue of being completely beholden to the perpetuation of the status quo – to idea that the dollar will forever retain its status […]
Canadian dollar dips below 77 cents for first time since 2009
Canadian dollar dips below 77 cents for first time since 2009 As strong U.S. dollar helps push loonie to 6-year low, analyst sees possible drop to 73 cents The Canadian dollar fell below 77 cents against the U.S. dollar on July 17, 2015. (Mark Blinch/Reuters) The Canadian dollar dropped to below 77 cents against the U.S. […]
Will Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline?
Will Seizure of Russian Assets Hasten Dollar Decline? While much of the world focused last week on whether or not the Federal Reserve was going to raise interest rates, or whether the Greek debt crisis would bring Europe to a crisis, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague awarded a $50 billion judgment to […]
Jim Rogers: Turmoil Is Coming
Jim Rogers: Turmoil Is Coming Predictions on the markets, gold, Greece & more Two years since his last interview with us, investor Jim Rogers returns and notes that the risks he warned of last time have only gotten worse. In this week’s podcast, Jim shares his rational for predicting: increased wealth confiscation by the central […]
A Recession Within A Recession
A Recession Within A Recession On Friday, the federal government announced that the U.S. economy contracted at a 0.7 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2015. This unexpected shrinking of the economy is being primarily blamed on “harsh” weather during the first three months of this year and on the strengthening of the […]
China Nears Global Reserve Status: “There Will Be a Reset of the Financial Industry”
China Nears Global Reserve Status: “There Will Be a Reset of the Financial Industry” The world is anticipating a new global reality with huge implications: China’s yuan is poised to get recognized as a global reserve currency. In a sign of the times, the IMF has essentially rebuffed U.S. claims of currency manipulation, to instead […]
Free Financial Markets Are A Hoax
Free Financial Markets Are A Hoax There are no free financial markets in America, or for that matter anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind. The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of […]
Steen’s Chronicle: The best of times, the worst of times
Steen’s Chronicle: The best of times, the worst of times Significant changes to our JABA model’s long-term outlook Inopportune rise in gold and energy prices expected Commodities will outperform and yields will add another 100 bps Europe will suffer downturn and the US will flirt with recession in 2016 Gold is one of those items that […]
China and the Gold Bugs
China and the Gold Bugs A Popular Myth One of the most persistent story lines among gold bugs and market participants who foresee the collapse of the dollar goes something like this: China and many emerging markets including the other BRICS are looking for a way out of the global fiat currency system. That system […]
Gold, the SDR and BRICS
Gold, the SDR and BRICS Last Monday there was a meeting in Washington hosted by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) to discuss the future relationship, if any, of gold with the Special Drawing Rights1 (SDR). Also on the agenda was the inclusion of the Chinese renminbi, which seems certain to be included in […]
Wedges and Triangles: Big Move Ahead?
Wedges and Triangles: Big Move Ahead? The central bank high is euphoric, the crash and burn equally epic. Just out of curiosity, I called up a few charts of key markets: stocks (the S&P 500), volatility (VIX), gold and the U.S. dollar (UUP, an exchange-traded fund for the dollar). Interestingly, all of these charts displayed some […]
The Collapse Of The Petrodollar: Oil Exporters Are Dumping US Assets At A Record Pace
The Collapse Of The Petrodollar: Oil Exporters Are Dumping US Assets At A Record Pace Back in November we chronicled the (quiet) death of the Petrodollar, the system that has buttressed USD hegemony for decades by ensuring that oil producers recycled their dollar proceeds into still more USD assets creating a very convenient (if your printing press […]
