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Why the Fed Will Fail Once Again
Why the Fed Will Fail Once Again [Ed. Note: Jim Rickards’ latest New York Times bestseller, The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites’ Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis, is out now. Learn how to get your free copy – HERE. This vital book transcends rhetoric from the Federal Reserve to prepare you for what […]
Why The Markets Are Overdue For A Gigantic Bust
r.classen/Shutterstock Why The Markets Are Overdue For A Gigantic Bust It’s just not possible to print our way to prosperity Let me begin with a caveat: confirmation bias is an ever-present risk for an analyst such as myself. If you’re not familiar with the term, ‘confirmation bias’ suggests that once we’ve invested time and emotional […]
Hell To Pay
Hell To Pay Behind the Curve Economic nonsense comes a dime a dozen. For example, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen “think(s) we have a healthy economy now.” She even told the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy so earlier this week. Does she know what she’s talking about? Somehow, this cartoon never gets old… If […]
Pulling Levers to Steer the Machine
Pulling Levers to Steer the Machine Ticks on a Dog A brief comment on Fed chief Janet Yellen’s revealing speech at the University of Michigan. Bloomberg: “Before, we had to press down on the gas pedal trying to give the economy all of the oomph that we possibly could,” Yellen said Monday in Ann Arbor, […]
Yellen’s Balance Sheet Baloney
YELLEN’S BALANCE SHEET BALONEY Of the many questions reporters asked Janet Yellen on Wednesday, at her press conference following the FOMC’s decision to raise the Fed’s policy rates, my favorite was the very first, posed by the Financial Times‘ U.S. Economics Editor, Sam Fleming. Here is Mr. Fleming’s question: [You’ve stated that the Fed wants to […]
Why This Market Needs To Crash
bofotolux/Shutterstock Why This Market Needs To Crash And likely will Like an old vinyl record with a well-worn groove, the needle skipping merrily back to the same track over and over again, we repeat: Today’s markets are dangerously overpriced. Being market fundamentalists who don’t believe it’s possible to simply print prosperity out of thin air, we’ve […]
Banks Are Evil
Barandash Karandashich/Shutterstock Banks Are Evil It’s time to get painfully honest about this I don’t talk to my classmates from business school anymore, many of whom went to work in the financial industry. Why? Because, through the lens we use here at PeakProsperity.com to look at the world, I’ve increasingly come to see the financial […]
Can Yellen Keep the Boom Going?
CAN YELLEN KEEP THE BOOM GOING? Yellen, like notorious previous Fed chiefs including Strong, Martin, and Greenspan, can now claim success in having prolonged and strengthened an asset price inflation which otherwise may well have been about to enter its severe end phase. If history is any guide, the result of that success is to […]
The Coming Great Wealth Transfer
WakingTimes.com The Coming Great Wealth Transfer Spoiler alert! It’s already here. In the past, I’ve warned about the coming Great Wealth Transfer. But now we need to talk about it in the present tense, because it’s here. And it will only accelerate from here on out. The Rich will get richer at the expense of everybody else. This […]
Why the Fed Needs to Raise Rates
Why the Fed Needs to Raise Rates I have warned that rates will rise BECAUSE the Federal Reserve will be criticized if they fail to do so when they are faced with a stock market that is rising. However, while one by one, several Fed officials have all signaled in recent days that the Fed is ready […]
Fake Risk, Fake Return?
Fake Risk, Fake Return? With seemingly everyone from the blogosphere to the Tweeter-in-chief chiming in on fake news, have investors considered their risk/return profile may also be “fake”? When it comes to investing, who or what can we trust, is the market rigged, and why does it matter? For eight years in a row now, […]
The Art and Pseudoscience of Monetary Policy
The Art and Pseudoscience of Monetary Policy Definitely Maybe Everyone’s got a plan for sale these days. In fact, there are so many plans out there we cannot keep up with them all. Eat celery sticks and lose weight. Think and grow rich. Stocks for the long run. Naturally, plans like these run a dime […]
Did the Fed Really Say they Could Buy Stocks?
Did the Fed Really Say they Could Buy Stocks? The Fed told Congress it would buy stocks if Congress allowed it. This statement has caused a lot of people to scratch their heads. Will this cause all the stock bears to rethink their prognostications of a major stock market crash? This was not even on […]
Stanley Fischer’s Novel Idea: “We’d Be Better Off With A Price For Using Money”
Stanley Fischer’s Novel Idea: “We’d Be Better Off With A Price For Using Money” The end game of central bank lunacy is surely near. Even the Fed heads appear to be mumbling bits and pieces of truth in public. Former Philly Fed President Charles Plosser, for example, told Bloomberg TV this morning that central bankers “wring their hands all the […]
Our uncomfortable ride with central bankers who can’t take us home again: Neil Macdonald
Our uncomfortable ride with central bankers who can’t take us home again: Neil Macdonald The great post-Great Recession money-printing bonanza was supposed to be temporary Chair Janet Yellen decided this week to keep the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate where it is, saying the U.S. economy isn’t yet ready to withstand a modest increase. (Gary […]
