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103 Years Later, Wall Street Turned Out Just As One Man Predicted
103 Years Later, Wall Street Turned Out Just As One Man Predicted In 1910, three years before the US Federal Reserve was founded, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Frank Vanderlip of National City (Citibank), Henry Davison of Morgan Bank, and Paul Warburg of the Kuhn, Loeb Investment House met secretly at Jekyll Island in Georgia to formulate […]
An Important Economic Indicator – Money Velocity – Crashes Far Worse than During the Great Depression
An Important Economic Indicator – Money Velocity – Crashes Far Worse than During the Great Depression Underneath the Propaganda, the Economy Is In BAD Shape … We noted 3 years ago that the velocity of money – an important economic indicator – is lower than during the Great Depression. Things have gotten even worse since since […]
The “Better Than Cash Alliance” Has an Orwellian Plan
The “Better Than Cash Alliance” Has an Orwellian Plan In the fall of 1910, under the pretense of a duck hunting trip, a group of powerful bankers, political figures, and businessmen met secretly at Jekyll Island, Georgia, to plan the creation of a central bank for the United States. The “game” that this elite group […]
Memo to the Fed and its Media Tool Hilsenrath: We’re Not Here to Enrich Your Corporate Cronies
Memo to the Fed and its Media Tool Hilsenrath: We’re Not Here to Enrich Your Corporate Cronies Memo to the Fed: you are the enemy of the middle class, capitalism and the nation. The Federal Reserve is appalled that we’re not spending enough to further inflate the value of its corporate and banking cronies. In the […]
Why Did These Former Fed Members Admit Mathematically, Logically, & In Reality: “It’s Over”?
Why Did These Former Fed Members Admit Mathematically, Logically, & In Reality: “It’s Over”? In the ironically titled “Paying For The Past” presentation, none other than Dick Fisher, Al Greenspan, and Larry Lindsey appear to have crossed the Rubicon of denial, lies, and deception to the dark-side of accepting reality. As Bill Holter asks, why exactly would these […]
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming”
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming” Ali and Frazier, Laurel and Hardy, Mayweather and Pacquiao, Liesman and Santelli, and now Schiff and Maloney. Peter and Mike join clash of the titan-like to discuss their investment strategies and expose the charts the government doesn’t want you to seeas […]
A Much Bigger Threat Than Our National Debt
A Much Bigger Threat Than Our National Debt The markets are acting as though it was already summer. They are wandering around with little ambition in either direction. Meanwhile, we’ve been wondering about… and trying to explain… what it is we are really doing at the Diary. We expect a violent monetary shock, in which the dollar […]
Last Two Times This Happened, Stocks Crashed
Last Two Times This Happened, Stocks Crashed Global growth is languishing, corporate revenues too, but CEOs are trying to show they can grow their companies the quick and easy way. Cheap debt is sloshing through the system while yield-hungry investors offer their first-born to earn 5%. And this cheap debt along with vertigo-inducing stock valuations […]
A Bubble on Thin Ice
A Bubble on Thin Ice An Inexperienced Herd A recent Bloomberg article discusses the fact that most traders active today have never known anything but the era of easy money, and wonders how they will handle the potential end of that era. To this it should be mentioned that the widely expected rate hike cycle may well […]
Something Smells Fishy
SOMETHING SMELLS FISHY It’s always interesting to see a long term chart that reflects your real life experiences. I bought my first home in 1990. It was a small townhouse and I paid $100k, put 10% down, and obtained a 9.875% mortgage. I was thrilled to get under 10%. Those were different times, when you […]
The Dissident Dad – 10 Things I Had to Unlearn That My Children Won’t
The Dissident Dad – 10 Things I Had to Unlearn That My Children Won’t This list could grow to 1,000 ideas, but I’ve kept it down to ten. In the future, I might update it and add some more. There are a lot of bad ideas that dominate the world we live in today, most of which are […]
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 […]
Global Trade Dives Most since the Financial Crisis
Global Trade Dives Most since the Financial Crisis How great was the global economy in the first quarter? We know the US economy was crummy. The revised GDP estimate will likely sink into red mire. Hence the heated proposals these days, including at the Fed, to apply “a second round of seasonal adjustment” that would “correct” […]
“It’s A Coup D’Etat,” David Stockman Warns “Central Banks Are Out Of Control”
“It’s A Coup D’Etat,” David Stockman Warns “Central Banks Are Out Of Control” We’re all about to be taken to the woodshed, warns David Stockman in this excellent interview. The huge wealth disparity is “not because of some flaw in capitalism, or Reagan tax cuts, or even the greed of Wall Street; the problem is central […]
Today’s CPI Lesson: The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target Is Completely Stupid
Today’s CPI Lesson: The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target Is Completely Stupid The madness of the Fed’s pending 81 month run of zero interest rates comes down to an inflation subterfuge that has no logical or empirical grounding in real world economics. Essentially, the Keynesians who currently inhabit the Eccles Building have turned all of central banking’s anti-inflation history on its head, saying, […]
