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Silver Linings: Keynesian Central Banking Is Heading For A Massive Repudiation
Silver Linings: Keynesian Central Banking Is Heading For A Massive Repudiation For several years now the small coterie of Keynesian academics and apparatchiks who have seized nearly absolute financial power through the Fed’s printing presses have justified the lunacy of unending ZIRP and massive QE on the grounds that there is too little inflation. The bureaucrats at the IMF […]
The Inevitability of Dramatic Inflation
The Inevitability of Dramatic Inflation No one is very concerned about inflation right now and that’s understandable. Although inflation exists in some sectors of the economy, the present subject of discussion is deflation. Any depression is inherently deflationary since spending is curtailed, which drives prices down. Since 2008, despite all the fudged reports emanating from governments, […]
The Return Of Crisis
The Return Of Crisis Suddenly banks everywhere are in deep, deep trouble Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future — one that has possibly started now. Our reason for expecting a market crash is simple: Bubbles always burst. […]
Alberta Loses Most Jobs In 34 Years As Oil Crunch Cripples Labor Market
Alberta Loses Most Jobs In 34 Years As Oil Crunch Cripples Labor Market Times are tough in Alberta and to be sure, we’ve piled it on heavy when it comes to cataloguing the long list of pitiable outcomes that have accompanied crude’s steep slide. The province is at the center of Canada’s dying oil patch […]
Inflation in Canada ticks up to 1.6% in December on higher food prices
Inflation in Canada ticks up to 1.6% in December on higher food prices Food prices are increasing at more than twice the overall inflation rate, Statistics Canada says. (Shutterstock ) The cost of living in Canada went up by 1.6 per cent in December due to higher prices for food, shelter and transportation. Statistics Canada reported […]
Central Banks Are Out of Tricks
Central Banks Are Out of Tricks Once the power to manage expectations has been lost, the central bank bag of tricks is empty. No one knows precisely how and when the global unraveling will impact their corner of the planet, but we do know one thing with absolute certainty: central banks are out of tricks. […]
Canadians Are Panicking Over Food Costs After Currency Collapse
Canadians Are Panicking Over Food Costs After Currency Collapse It’s no secret that America has a serious inflation problem. Though the Federal Reserve insists that our inflation rate is only at around .5%, we’ve all seen the price of food, rent, healthcare, and energy skyrocket over the past 10-20 years. However, this has been a […]
Canadians Panic As Food Prices Soar On Collapsing Currency
Canadians Panic As Food Prices Soar On Collapsing Currency It was just yesterday when we documented the continuing slide in the loonie, which is suffering mightily in the face of oil’s inexorable decline. As regular readers are no doubt acutely aware, Canada is struggling through a dramatic economic adjustment, especially in Alberta, the heart of the country’s oil patch. […]
Stephen Poloz discusses impact of opposing U.S., Canadian monetary policies
Stephen Poloz discusses impact of opposing U.S., Canadian monetary policies Central bank will ‘continue to run an independent monetary policy, anchored by our inflation target of 2%’ Stephen Poloz cut the Bank of Canada’s benchmark interest rate twice last year. The Bank of Canada sent a strong signal today that it is content to allow […]
Yes, The ECB Chief Economist Really Said It: “If You Print Enough Money, You Always Get Inflation. Always.”
Yes, The ECB Chief Economist Really Said It: “If You Print Enough Money, You Always Get Inflation. Always.” Once upon a time there was a cute, if amusing and terribly disingenuous debate among those who have never actually traded but pretend to know finance, about what QE and “unconventional policy” actually was. “It’s an asset […]
This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition
This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Canadian Edition Along with the currencies of most other commodity-exporting countries, the Canadian dollar has been in near-freefall lately. Gold, meanwhile, has been sucked down with the rest of the commodities complex, falling hard since 2013. But only in US dollars. For Canadians, with their weak domestic currency, […]
I was asked: Whatever Happened to Inflation after all this Money-Printing?
I was asked: Whatever Happened to Inflation after all this Money-Printing? So where’s my free lunch? I was asked once again why all this central-bank “money-printing” along with global zero-interest-rate or even negative-interest-rate policies haven’t caused a big bout of inflation, considering how currencies are getting watered down. It’s a crucial question that baffled many […]
Halifax Superstores warn of short supply due to weather, dollar
Halifax Superstores warn of short supply due to weather, dollar Grocery bills likely will go up in 2016 due to vegetable and fruit prices, a report says Inflation is modest at 1 per cent, but the price of fresh vegetables was up 11.5 per cent in September, Statistics Canada said. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian) Some grocery stores […]
