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Interest Rate Hike Hits Oil Hard
Interest Rate Hike Hits Oil Hard Oil prices have been slammed over the past week, dragged down by a variety of forces, including soaring U.S. shale production, higher-than-expected output from Russia, and worries about global demand. On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to pile on. The central bank hiked interest rates by a quarter-point […]
The Psychological Warfare Behind Economic Collapse
The Psychological Warfare Behind Economic Collapse The concept of using the economy as a weapon is not an alien one to most people. Generally, we understand the nature of feudalism and how various groups can be herded onto centralized plantations to be exploited for their labor. Some people see this as a consequence of “capitalism,” […]
The Central Bank War – Nobody Notices
The Central Bank War – Nobody Notices QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong: I have watched in amazement how you connect all these elements. Everyone I spoke to agreed this was your best WEC ever. You have said the Fed needed to raise rates because of the pension crisis and it would have nothing to do with inflation but […]
Hidden Amongst the Furore: Synchronised Warnings From the BIS and the IMF
Hidden Amongst the Furore: Synchronised Warnings From the BIS and the IMF It has become a disconcerting trend that as geopolitical events intensify and keep a majority of people engaged in the latest outbreak of political theatre, the words of central bankers fall on increasingly deaf ears. At a seminar of the European Stability Mechanism this […]
The path to the Global Depression
The path to the Global Depression The world economy has never faced a more perilous situation. While many have just started to debate whether a recession will start in 2019 or 2020, very few perceive the ’black hole’ the global economy is about to get sucked into. The hole has two main “gravitational forces”: the […]
The Bubble’s Losing Air. Get Ready for a Crisis
The Bubble’s Losing Air. Get Ready for a Crisis Investors need to focus on their response to financial stresses in an era in which policymakers will be constrained. Not much to do once it pops. Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Satyajit Das is a former banker, whom Bloomberg named one of the world’s 50 most influential financial […]
Weekly Commentary: The Perils of Inflationism
Weekly Commentary: The Perils of Inflationism December 13 – Financial Times (Chris Giles and Claire Jones): “When the European Central Bank switches off its money-printing press at the turn of this year and stops buying fresh assets, it will mark the end of a decade-long global experiment in how to stave off economic meltdowns. Quantitative […]
Gold – A Perfect Storm For 2019
Gold – A Perfect Storm For 2019 This article is an overview of the principal factors likely to drive the gold price in 2019. It looks at the global factors that have developed in 2018 for both gold and the dollar, how geopolitics are likely to evolve, the economic outlook and how it is worsened […]
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, A World That Is the Property of the 1%
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, A World That Is the Property of the 1% This year, I simply couldn’t get one fact out of my head: according to a 2017 report from the Institute for Policy Studies, three billionaires — Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, and Bill Gates — have amassed as much wealth as the bottom half […]
The Neutral Interest Rate Myth
THE NEUTRAL INTEREST RATE MYTH In his speech to the Economic Club of New York on November 28 2018, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell said that the US central bank’s policy interest rate is just below the neutral rate. This prompted many commentators to suggest that a tighter interest rate stance of the […]
Every Bubble Is In Search Of A Pin
Every Bubble Is In Search Of A Pin The ‘Everything Bubble’ has popped Now that the world’s central banking cartel is taking a long-overdue pause from printing money and handing it to the wealthy elite, the collection of asset price bubbles nested within the Everything Bubble are starting to burst. The cartel (especially the ECB […]
A Global Dearth of Liquidity
A Global Dearth of Liquidity Worldwide Liquidity Drought – Money Supply Growth Slows Everywhere This is a brief update on money supply growth trends in the most important currency areas outside the US (namely the euro area, Japan and China) as announced in in our recent update on US money supply growth (see “Federal Punch […]
Charles Hugh Smith: Preventing The Final Fall Of Our Democratic Republic
Charles Hugh Smith: Preventing The Final Fall Of Our Democratic Republic Fighting against the obscene concentration of wealth & power There’s mounting evidence that the Age of American Exceptionalism is grinding to an end. Demographically, in the U.S. (as well as many other developed nations), the prospects of the younger generations are substantially less than […]
