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Germany Also Engages in Political Prosecution
Germany Also Engages in Political Prosecution The Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in Germany has asked the Federal Government to file a lawsuit against all decisions of European Central Bank (ECB) regarding the purchase of government bonds and corporate bonds as well as derivatives since 2015. They are petitioning to file in the European Court of […]
“This Is Where The Next Financial Crisis Will Come From”
“This Is Where The Next Financial Crisis Will Come From” In an extensive, must-read report published on Monday by Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid, the credit strategist unveiled an extensive analysis of the “Next Financial Crisis”, and specifically what may cause it, when it may happen, and how the world could respond assuming it still has […]
“Trickle Down” Has Failed; Wealth and Income Have “Trickled Up” to the Top .5%
“Trickle Down” Has Failed; Wealth and Income Have “Trickled Up” to the Top .5% Central bank policies have generated a truly unprecedented “trickle-up” of wealth and income to the top .5%. Over the past 20 years, central banks have run a gigantic real-world experiment called “trickle-down.” The basic idea is Keynesian (i.e. the mystical and comically […]
Doomed to Failure
Doomed to Failure Larded Up and Larded Over We’ve been waiting for the U.S. economy to reach escape velocity for the last six years. What we mean is we’ve been waiting for the economy to finally become self-stimulating and no longer require monetary or fiscal stimulus to keep it from stalling out. Unfortunately, this may […]
China’s Rolling Boom-Bust Cycle
China’s Rolling Boom-Bust Cycle Sweet Authoritative Nothings There is a mysterious figure making regular appearances in China’s government mouthpiece “People’s Daily”, which simply goes by the name “authoritative person” (AP). This unnamed entity always tends to show up with bad news for assorted speculators, by suggesting that various scenarios associated with monetary and/ or fiscal […]
ECB & The Failed QE Stimulus
ECB & The Failed QE Stimulus The central banks are simply trapped. They have bought in bonds under the theory that this will stimulate the economy by injecting cash. But there are several problems with this entire concept. This is an elitist view to say the least for the money injected does not stimulate the […]
Where Is the First Helicopter Drop of Money Likely to Land?
Where Is the First Helicopter Drop of Money Likely to Land? So what’s left in the toolbag of central banks and states to stimulate recessionary economies if QE has been discredited? The answer: Helicopter Money. We all know helicopter money of some kind is coming as the global economy spirals into recession. Quantitative Easing (QE)–the monetary stimulus of […]
Now What?
Now What? September 18 – Reuters: “The world’s leading central banks are facing the risk that their massive efforts to revive economic growth could be dragged down again, with some officials arguing for bold new ideas to counter the threat of slow growth for years to come. A day after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept […]
What ‘Escape Velocity’? December Business Sales And Inventories Repudiate The Money Printers’ Myth
What ‘Escape Velocity’? December Business Sales And Inventories Repudiate The Money Printers’ Myth It is plain as day that massive central bank money printing and perpetual ZIRP do not rejuvenate the main street economy under conditions of “peak debt”. And the reason is so obvious that only Keynesian economists can’t grasp it. To wit, if the balance […]
The Truth About The Monetary Stimulus Illusion
The Truth About The Monetary Stimulus Illusion Perhaps economic policymakers, including Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the Bank for International Settlements, should take a closer look at Japan, China, and yes, the United States, when debating the limits of monetary stimulus and the dangerous nature of financial bubbles. The discussion is happening too late to […]
Kuroda Says BOJ to Mull Fresh Options in Case of More Easing
Kuroda Says BOJ to Mull Fresh Options in Case of More Easing Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda signaled the central bank may need to look at fresh options if more stimulus is needed to propel inflation to levels unseen since stagnation set in two decades ago. “If, really, our possible path to 2 percent inflation […]
How China Deals With Deflation: A 60% Pay Raise For 39 Million Public Workers
How China Deals With Deflation: A 60% Pay Raise For 39 Million Public Workers While the rest of the developed world, flooded with re-exported deflation as a result of now ubiquitous money printing, scrambles to print even more money in hopes of stimulating the economy when all it is doing is accelerating a closed deflationary loop (at […]
Mario Draghi: Charlatan Of The Apparatchiks
Mario Draghi: Charlatan Of The Apparatchiks Well, he finally launched “whatever it takes” and that marks an inflection point. Mario Draghi has just proved that the servile apparatchiks who run the world’s major central banks will stop at nothing to appease the truculent gamblers they have unleashed in the casino. And that means there will eventually be […]
Even Central Bankers Now Admit QE Doesn’t Work
Even Central Bankers Now Admit QE Doesn’t Work Even As European Central Bank Is Set to Unleash a Massive Round of Quantitative Easing, Central Bank Heads Admit QE Doesn’t Work The former head of the Bank of England – Mervyn King – said today that more QE will not help the economy: We have had the biggest […]
The Stimulus Monkeys Are Screeching And The Central Banks Are Pushing On A String
The Stimulus Monkeys Are Screeching And The Central Banks Are Pushing On A String Have you been at the zoo when the monkeys start rattling their cages and screeching in unison? That about sums up the last 24 hours since the euro zone’s December CPI printed at negative 0.2% versus prior year. Within minutes of the release, brokerage […]
