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When Authorities “Own” the Market, The System Breaks Down: Here’s Why
When Authorities “Own” the Market, The System Breaks Down: Here’s Why Central planning asset purchases aimed at propping up prices destroy the essential price discovery needed by private investors. Panicked by the possibility of declines that undermine the official narrative that all is well, authorities the world over are purchasing assets like stocks, bonds and […]
Deflation Is Winning – Beware!
Deflation Is Winning – Beware! Expect the ride to get even rougher Deflation is back on the front burner and it’s going to destroy all of the careful central planning and related market manipulation of the past 6 years. Clear signs from the periphery indicate that a destructive deflationary pulse has been unleashed. Tanking commodity […]
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: When Authorities Buy Assets to Prop Up Markets
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: When Authorities Buy Assets to Prop Up Markets The Central Planners who thought that buying shares to prop up the stock bubble was an excellent fix are about to find out the true meaning of toil and trouble. The actual line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth is double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn, and […]
China is trying to centrally plan its way out of a black hole
China is trying to centrally plan its way out of a black hole It’s here in southwestern China’s postcard-perfect Yunnan province that the mighty Mekong River rises. From its source in a nearby mountain range, the river proceeds south, cutting its way across Southeast Asia’s fertile lands through Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The […]
Diminishing Returns on Central-Planning Policy Extremes = 2016 Crash
Diminishing Returns on Central-Planning Policy Extremes = 2016 Crash The problem with these policy extremes is that they are so painfully visibly acts of central-planning desperation. It is perhaps fitting that I am posting a call for a financial crisis that fails to respond to the usual central-planning manipulations on Bastille Day. There are two main lessons […]
Maintaining the Illusion of Stability Now Requires Ever-Greater Extremes
Maintaining the Illusion of Stability Now Requires Ever-Greater Extremes This much-needed re-set to an economy that serves the many rather than the few is what the Powers That Be are so fearful of. On the surface, everything still looks remarkably stable in the core industrial economies. The stock markets in Japan, Germany and the U.S. are […]
Welcome to Blackswansville
Welcome to Blackswansville While the folks clogging the US tattoo parlors may not have noticed, things are beginning to look a little World War one-ish out there. Except the current blossoming world conflict is being fought not with massed troops and tanks but with interest rates and repayment schedules. Germany now dawdles in reply to […]
How Could the Fed Protect Us from Economic Waves?
How Could the Fed Protect Us from Economic Waves? Making Waves Mainstream economists tell us that the Federal Reserve protects us from economic waves, indeed from the business cycle itself. In their view, people naturally tend to go overboard and cause wild swings in both directions. Thus, we need an economic central planner to alternatively stimulate us […]
Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash
Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash At this point, anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention to the central planning economic totalitarians running the fraudulent global financial system is aware of the blatant push in the media to acclimate the masses to accepting a “cashless society.” In the mind […]
Leading German Keynesian Economist Calls For Cash Ban
Leading German Keynesian Economist Calls For Cash Ban It’s official: the world has gone central-planner crazy. Monetary policy, whether in the form of “conventional” methods such as the micromanagement of policy rates or so-called “unconventional” measures such as QE, has proven utterly ineffective when it comes to both “smoothing out” the business cycle and reigniting […]
In September, The UN Launches A Major Sustainable Development Agenda For The Entire Planet
In September, The UN Launches A Major Sustainable Development Agenda For The Entire Planet The UN plans to launch a brand new plan for managing the entire globe at the Sustainable Development Summit that it will be hosting from September 25th to September 27th. Some of the biggest names on the planet, including Pope Francis, […]
Economist on Gold – A Dissection
Economist on Gold – A Dissection A Proven Contrary Indicator In early May, the Economist has published an editorial on gold, ominously entitled “Buried”. We wanted to comment on it earlier already, but never seemed to get around to it. It is still worth doing so for a number of reasons. The Economist is a quintessential […]
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 […]
Central Planners Are In A State of Panic – Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity
Central Planners Are In A State of Panic – Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity. The central planners are in a state of fear and panic. They are trying everything and anything to create market validation for their policies, watching with trepidation as their favored economic metrics fail to respond to all of their frenzied efforts. […]
According To Russell Napier Which World Has No Volume, No Volatility And Rising Prices? The USSR | Zero Hedge
According To Russell Napier Which World Has No Volume, No Volatility And Rising Prices? The USSR | Zero Hedge. Great Expectations, Pregnant Pandas and Last Wednesday’s Treasury Market “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” – […]
