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Global Debt & Death Spiral – John Rubino
Global Debt & Death Spiral – John Rubino Analyst and financial writer John Rubino says we’re are in a “debt and death spiral” that will force dramatic changes on the world. Rubino explains, “The debt spiral part of this means things from here continue to get worse and worse for the big currencies of the […]
A tale of two worlds
A tale of two worlds In the war between the western alliance and the Asian axis, the media focus is on the Ukrainian battlefield. The real war is in currencies, with Russia capable of destroying the dollar. So far, Putin’s actions have been relatively passive. But already, both Russia and China have accumulated enough gold […]
Companies in UK Are Hitting the Wall at Fastest Rate Since Global Financial Crisis
Companies in UK Are Hitting the Wall at Fastest Rate Since Global Financial Crisis As the price of everything, including debt, continues to soar, life is getting harder and harder for the UK’s heavily indebted businesses. Business insolvencies in the UK surged by 57% in 2022, to 22,109, according to the latest data from the Insolvency Service, […]
You Think the Global Economy Is Brightening? Beware: The Big Hit Is Yet to Come
You Think the Global Economy Is Brightening? Beware: The Big Hit Is Yet to Come Relief is spreading among economic analysts and stock market experts. Energy prices are decreasing noticeably. The energy supply this winter seems secure; in Europe, government support for consumers and producers is available if needed. China is turning away from its […]
Why Recession Is Imminent, In Three Charts
Why Recession Is Imminent, In Three Charts Any one of these would be enough to make the case The idea that the world’s central banks can inflate the biggest financial bubble in human history — appropriately called the everything bubble — and then deflate it gently into a soft landing is mathematically and philosophically impossible. […]
Monetary Policy. Is The Fed Trying To Wean Markets Off Of It?
Monetary Policy. Is The Fed Trying To Wean Markets Off Of It? Is the Fed trying to wean the markets off monetary policy? Such was an interesting premise from Alastair Crooke via the Strategic Culture Foundation. To wit: “The Fed however, may be attempting to implement a contrarian, controlled demolition of the U.S. bubble-economy through interest rate […]
2023: Expect a financial crash followed by major energy-related changes
2023: Expect a financial crash followed by major energy-related changes Why is the economy headed for a financial crash? It appears to me that the world economy hit Limits to Growth about 2018 because of a combination of diminishing returns in resource extraction together with rising population. The Covid-19 pandemic and the accompanying financial manipulations hid these […]
It’s Wholesale Robbery!
It’s Wholesale Robbery! The latest inflation news was glorious, they said. The whole media told us so! It’s easing, improving, better than it has been and headed in the right direction. So stop your kvetching and get out there and make (and spend) money. For that matter, throw around the credit card a bit and […]
Global Rate Hikes Hit the Wall of Debt Maturity
Global Rate Hikes Hit the Wall of Debt Maturity More than ninety central banks worldwide are increasing interest rates. Bloomberg predicts that by mid-2023, the global policy rate, calculated as the average of major central banks’ reference rates weighted by GDP, will reach 5.5%. Next year, the federal funds rate is projected to reach 5.15 percent. Raising […]
The Mother of all Economic Crises
The Mother of all Economic Crises Nouriel Roubini, a former advisor to the International Monetary Fund and member of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, was one of the few “mainstream” economists to predict the collapse of the housing bubble. Now Roubini is warning that the staggering amounts of debt held by individuals, businesses, and […]
What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve?
What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve? The Real Goal of Fed Policy: Breaking Inflation, the Middle Class or the Bubble Economy? “There is no sense that inflation is coming down,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a November 2 press conference, — this despite eight months of aggressive interest rate hikes and “quantitative […]
Peter Schiff: You Think Inflation Is Bad Now? Wait Until Next Year!
Peter Schiff: You Think Inflation Is Bad Now? Wait Until Next Year! Peter Schiff recently appeared on Real America with Dan Ball to talk about the economy, energy prices, and inflation. Peter said if you think inflation was bad this year, wait until next year with a much weaker dollar. Dan set the interview up with a […]
Winter in Central Europe and for the dollar
Winter in Central Europe and for the dollar In this article I examine the current state of the fight for hegemonic control between America on the one side, and Russia and China on the other. It is being fought on two fronts. Ukraine, the one in plain sight, is about to endure a winter without […]
The Unavoidable Crash
Spencer Platt/Getty Images The Unavoidable Crash After years of ultra-loose fiscal, monetary, and credit policies and the onset of major negative supply shocks, stagflationary pressures are now putting the squeeze on a massive mountain of public- and private-sector debt. The mother of all economic crises looms, and there will be little that policymakers can do […]
Why Economic Models Neglect Energy, and Why That’s a Problem
Why Economic Models Neglect Energy, and Why That’s a Problem As the Fed raises interest rates to fight inflation, the economic models they use include energy as a small part of the overall picture. Is that model flawed? Jed Dorsheimer, head of Group Head of Energy & Sustainability at William Blair and former advisor on […]
