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Don’t Get Distracted By The Trump/Fed Soap Opera – The Crash Will Continue
Don’t Get Distracted By The Trump/Fed Soap Opera – The Crash Will Continue At the beginning of 2018 I wrote extensively on what was likely to happen under the administration of Jerome Powell, the new Federal Reserve Chairman. In my article ‘New Fed Chairman Will Trigger A Historic Stock Market Crash In 2018‘, published in […]
Central Banks Looking at Creating Their Own Cryptocurrencies
Central Banks Looking at Creating Their Own Cryptocurrencies The IMF has recommended that all Central banks should issue their own cryptocurrencies. Indeed, they are looking at using Block Chain to keep track of taxes and to enforce negative interest rates with cryptocurrencies which would allow them to impose negative interest rates whenever necessary. With adopting cryptocurrencies that governments would […]
QE Created Dangerous Financial Dependence, Italy Hooked, Withdrawal Next, ECB Warns
QE Created Dangerous Financial Dependence, Italy Hooked, Withdrawal Next, ECB Warns “Who will purchase the €275 billion of government debt Italy is to issue in 2019?” The ECB, through its army of official mouthpieces, has begun warning of the potentially calamitous consequences for Italian bonds when its QE program comes to an end, which is […]
The Broken Clocks’ Minute
The Broken Clocks’ Minute Sometimes the reasons you’re wrong turn out to be the reasons you’re right. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Old Wall Street adage Anyone who has consistently sounded cautionary or outright bearish notes during the last nine years of relentlessly rising equity markets has been cast aside. Wall […]
The Primacy Of Income
The Primacy Of Income The Era Of Gains is over Ever since the central banks became serial bubble blowers twenty years ago, household wealth has mostly been driven by asset price inflation: But this has been a quixotic pursuit. Created by pulling tomorrow’s prosperity into today, these asset price bubbles are unsustainable, and invariably suffer […]
Steen Jakobsen: The Four Horsemen Portend A Painful Reckoning
Steen Jakobsen: The Four Horsemen Portend A Painful Reckoning Even the US is now ‘swimming naked’ Steen Jacobsen, Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank sees economic slowdown ahead. Specifically, his “Four Horseman” indicators: the drivers of economic growth, are all flashing red. Jacobsen believes that the central banks will continue their liquidity […]
Understanding the Global Recession of 2019
Understanding the Global Recession of 2019 Isn’t it obvious that repeating the policies of 2009 won’t be enough to save the system from a long-delayed reset? 2019 is shaping up to be the year in which all the policies that worked in the past will no longer work. As we all know, the Global Financial […]
When Fake Money Becomes Scarce
When Fake Money Becomes Scarce Remaining Focused A rousing display of diversions this week assured the American populace was looking every which way but right under its collective nose. Midterm elections. White House spats with purveyors of fake news. The forced resignation of Attorney General Sessions… Old drug warrior (otherwise recused) on his way […]
“How Central Bankers Rigged The World”: An Interview With Nomi Prins
“How Central Bankers Rigged The World”: An Interview With Nomi Prins Former Goldman managing director, Nomi Prins, join Chris Blasi on The Great Reset Opportunity Report to discuss her new release Collusion, as well as current geopolitical and macroeconomic issues. In this interview Nomi makes the case that central bankers have been rigging markets for […]
A Chinese recession is inevitable – don’t think it won’t affect you
A Chinese recession is inevitable – don’t think it won’t affect you A man sits on a rock near demolished in Xiancun, an urban village in Guangzhou, southern China. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images When China finally has its inevitable growth recession – which will almost surely be amplified by a financial crisis, given the economy’s […]
From Economic Crisis to World War III
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images From Economic Crisis to World War III The response to the 2008 economic crisis has relied far too much on monetary stimulus, in the form of quantitative easing and near-zero (or even negative) interest rates, and included far too little structural reform. This means that the next crisis could come […]
Bundesbank warns of Coming Pension Crisis
Bundesbank warns of Coming Pension Crisis The Bundesbank has come out warning that there is a German pension crisis. They have proposed that states raise the pension tax and that they should gradually increase the retirement age because the life expectancy in the future has risen. Central Bank President, Jens Weidmann, has stated that he is generally in […]
Nassim Taleb Explains How The Global Economy Is More Fragile Today Than In 2007
Nassim Taleb Explains How The Global Economy Is More Fragile Today Than In 2007 In what was incredibly appropriate timing given the ‘shocktober’ market blowup, Bloomberg News invited “Black Swan” author Nassim Taleb to its set on Halloween for a discussion about the increasingly fragile market ecosystem in which we all reside, and the mounting […]
Preparing for Turmoil, Central Banks Turn to Gold
Preparing for Turmoil, Central Banks Turn to Gold The trend is your friend and in this case, the trend comes tinged with a yellowish hue. As I have been highlighting recently, Central Banks around the world are finally waking up the the harsh reality that is our current geopolitical and financial situation. On the surface, […]
