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The Way Out
The Way Out It’s not what most people think: a return to some hypothetical “normality,” with the ghost of Ronnie Reagan beaming down like a sun-god under his lopsided pompadour, and all the happy self-driving GM cars toodling back and forth from WalMart-to-home loaded to the scuppers with new electric pop-tart warmers and 3-D underwear […]
Why The Mania Is Getting Scary—-Central Bankers Are Running A Doomsday Machine
Why The Mania Is Getting Scary—-Central Bankers Are Running A Doomsday Machine If you need evidence that we are in the midst of a lunatic financial mania, just consider this summary from a Marketwatch commentator as to why markets are ripping higher this morning: “The dovish comments from both Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen and People’s Bank of China […]
Steve Keen: The Deliberate Blindness Of Our Central Planners
Steve Keen: The Deliberate Blindness Of Our Central Planners Choosing to ignore the largest risks The models we use for decision making determine the outcomes we experience. So, if our models are faulty or flawed, we make bad decisions and suffer bad outcomes. Professor, author and deflationist Steve Keen joins us this week to discuss […]
Did The Fed. Just Whisper “Fire” In A Crowded Market?
Did The Fed. Just Whisper “Fire” In A Crowded Market? This past Friday saw what many like myself can only describe as a blatant example of just what’s wrong with both the economy – as well as the markets. At precisely 15 minutes before the closing bell on Wall Street the now Chair of the Federal […]
The Fed Has Not Learnt From The Crisis
The Fed Has Not Learnt From The Crisis The Financial Crisis of 2007 was the nearest thing to a “Near Death Experience” that the Federal Reserve could have had. One ordinarily expects someone who has such an experience—exuberance behind the wheel that causes an almost fatal crash, a binge drinking escapade that ends up in the […]
Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds
Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds Companies are selling bonds like madmen. This year through Tuesday, investment-grade and junk-rated companies have sold $438 billion in new bonds, up 14% from the prior record for this time of the year, set in 2013, according to Dealogic. This quarter is already in […]
Santelli Stunned As Janet Yellen Admits “Cash Is Not A Store Of Value”
Santelli Stunned As Janet Yellen Admits “Cash Is Not A Store Of Value” Intended warning or unintended slip? After Alan Greenspan’s confessional admission that “Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it,” we found it remarkable that during the Q&A after her speech […]
Central banks paralysed at the zero bound
Central banks paralysed at the zero bound Though the Fed would deny it, it is clear from the minutes of the last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting that a rise in interest rates has been put off indefinitely. The subsequent rally in the price of gold and the sudden fall in the dollar tend […]
Some Folks At The Fed Are Lost——No Juice To The Macros, Part 1
Some Folks At The Fed Are Lost——No Juice To The Macros, Part 1 Yesterday we demonstrated that stock market valuations are not merely “on the high side” as Janet Yellen averred last week. Instead, they are positively in the nose-bleed section of history. You don’t get the Russell 2000 trading at 90X honest-to-goodness GAAP earnings […]
Does Washington Intend War With Russia–PCR Interviewed by The Saker
Does Washington Intend War With Russia–PCR Interviewed by The Saker http://thesaker.is/the-saker-interviews-paul-craig-roberts/ The Saker interviews Paul Craig Roberts I had been wanting to interview Paul Craig Roberts for a long time already. For many years I have been following his writings and interviews and every time I read what he had to say I was hoping […]
Is The Fed Still Fabricating Loan Creation Data? Bank Of America Would Like To Know
Is The Fed Still Fabricating Loan Creation Data? Bank Of America Would Like To Know Just under a year ago, when looking at aggregate loan creation by America’s banks, we stumbled upon something strange: there was a massive discrepancy between what the Fed, in its weekly call reports, said was weekly US loan issuance – which the […]
The Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed!
The Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed! “Delanda est in Susidium Foederatum Bank” (The Federal Reserve Bank Must be Destroyed) During the years of the Roman Republic, Cato the Elder ended every speech with the phrase “Delanda est Carthago” (Carthage must be destroyed). Rome had fought two wars with Carthage, yet the threat to the […]
10 Charts Which Show We Are Much Worse Off Than Just Before The Last Economic Crisis
10 Charts Which Show We Are Much Worse Off Than Just Before The Last Economic Crisis If you believe that ignorance is bliss, you might not want to read this article. I am going to dispel the notion that there has been any sort of “economic recovery”, and I am going to show that we […]
Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up
Investors Crushed as US Natural Gas Drillers Blow Up The Fed speaks, the dollar crashes. The dollar was ripe. The entire world had been bullish on it. Down nearly 3% against the euro, before recovering some. The biggest drop since March 2009. Everything else jumped. Stocks, Treasuries, gold, even oil. West Texas Intermediate had been […]
The Unraveling Is Gathering Speed
The Unraveling Is Gathering Speed Debt saturation and debt fatigue = diminishing returns on central bank tricks. Does anyone else have the feeling that things are not just unraveling, but that the unraveling is gathering speed? Though quantifying this perception is more interpretative than statistical, I think we can look at the ongoing debt crisis […]
