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Global Banking Stocks Are Crashing Hard – Just Like They Did In 2008
Global Banking Stocks Are Crashing Hard – Just Like They Did In 2008 Global stocks are falling precipitously once again, and banking stocks are leading the way. If this reminds you of 2008, it should, because that is precisely what we witnessed back then. Banking stocks collapsed as fear gripped the marketplace, and ultimately many […]
More Italians Move Savings To Switzerland As Fears Of Banking “Doom Loop” Intensify
More Italians Move Savings To Switzerland As Fears Of Banking “Doom Loop” Intensify With the euro weakening against the Swiss franc (recently trading at session lows of 1.14) and Italian stocks and bonds tumbling once again on reports that the European Commission is planning to reject the Italian draft budget plan submitted earlier this week […]
Why the Fed Denied the Narrow Bank
WHY THE FED DENIED THE NARROW BANK It’s not every day that a clear example showing the horrors of central planning comes along—the doublethink, the distortions, and the perverse incentives. It’s not every year that such an example occurs for monetary central planning. One came to the national attention this week. A company called TNB […]
John Law and the Mississippi Bubble – 300 Years Later
John Law and the Mississippi Bubble – 300 Years Later Most people are aware that historically there have been speculative bubbles. Some of them can even name a few – the South Sea bubble, tulips, and more recently dot-coms. Some historians can go even further, quoting the famous account by Charles Mackay of the South […]
All Is Not Well In Financial Markets
All Is Not Well In Financial Markets It seems to be a hard time for those expressing concern about the build-up of risks in the economic and financial system: the major economies in the world are expanding at a decent clip, credit default concerns are very low, and stock and housing prices keep going up, […]
Deutsche Bank’s Troubles Raise Worries About the Future of the Euro Zone
DEUTSCHE BANK’S TROUBLES RAISE WORRIES ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE EURO ZONE The euro banking sector is huge: In April 2018, its total balance sheet amounted to 30.9 trillion euro, accounting for 268 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the euro area. Unfortunately, however, many euro banks are in lousy shape. They suffer […]
BIS Confirms Banks Use “Lehman-Style Trick” To Disguise Debt, Engage In “Window Dressing”
BIS Confirms Banks Use “Lehman-Style Trick” To Disguise Debt, Engage In “Window Dressing” Several years ago we showed how the Fed’s then-new Reverse Repo operation had quickly transformed into nothing more than a quarter-end “window dressing” operation for major banks, seeking to make their balance sheets appear healthier and more stable for regulatory purposes. As […]
The Dollar Dilemma: Where to From Here?
The Dollar Dilemma: Where to From Here? Introduction: Where We Are It’s a fallacy to believe the US has a free market economy. The economy is run by a conglomerate of individuals and special interests, in and out of government, including the Deep State, which controls central economic planning. Rigging the economy is required to […]
Next Mortgage Default Tsunami Isn’t Going to Drown Big Banks but “Shadow Banks”
Next Mortgage Default Tsunami Isn’t Going to Drown Big Banks but “Shadow Banks” As banks pull back from mortgage lending amid inflated prices and rising rates, “shadow banks” become very aggressive. In the first quarter 2018, banks and non-bank mortgage lenders – the “shadow banks” – originated 1.81 million loans for residential properties (1 to […]
Nomi Prins: The central banking heist has put the world at risk
Nomi Prins: The central banking heist has put the world at risk “The 2008 financial crisis was the consequence of a loosely regulated banking system in which power was concentrated in the hands of too limited a cast of speculators,” Nomi Prins tell me. “And after the crisis, the way the US government and the […]
The Role of Shadow Banking in the Business Cycle
THE ROLE OF SHADOW BANKING IN THE BUSINESS CYCLE 1The process of lending and the uninterrupted flow of credit to the real economy no longer rely only on banks, but on a process that spans a network of banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, and shadow banks funded through wholesale funding and capital markets globally. – Pozsaret […]
Gold and the Monetary Blockade on Iran
Gold and the Monetary Blockade on Iran This blog post is a guest post on BullionStar’s Blog by the renowned blogger JP Koning who will be writing about monetary economics, central banking and gold. BullionStar does not endorse or oppose the opinions presented but encourage a healthy debate. With Donald Trump close to re-instituting economic sanctions on Iran, it’s […]
The Myth That Central Banks Assure Economic Stability
THE MYTH THAT CENTRAL BANKS ASSURE ECONOMIC STABILITY The world has been plagued with periodic bouts of the economic rollercoaster of booms and busts, inflations and recessions, especially during the last one hundred years. The main culprits responsible for these destabilizing and disruptive episodes have been governments and their central banks. They have monopolized the […]
Austrian Economics Is Essential to Understand Booms, Busts, and Money Itself
Austrian Economics Is Essential to Understand Booms, Busts, and Money Itself The boom-and-bust business cycle is a natural result of free-market capitalism, but rather of government intervention. Looking to the next few years, will America and the world continue to ride a wave of economic growth, improved living standards, and technological changes that raise the […]
How High Is The Risk of a Currency Crisis?
How High Is The Risk of a Currency Crisis? “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”, quipped Mark Twain in response to a newspaper report that said he was on his deathbed. The same could be said about many fiat currencies. Whether we are looking at the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen […]
