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Forget The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin–Here’s the $10 Trillion Stone Coin
Forget The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin–Here’s the $10 Trillion Stone Coin The point I’m making with the $10 trillion stone coin is that if money is a social contrivance, then it should be distributed to those creating goods and services. You’ve probably heard of the $1 trillion platinum coin proposal: the basic idea is the U.S. Mint issues […]
Federal Reserve Insider Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event… Something Big Is Going To Happen”
Federal Reserve Insider Alan Greenspan Warns: There Will Be a “Significant Market Event… Something Big Is Going To Happen” With the Federal Reserve printing trillions upon trillions of dollars to keep the economic system afloat, many investors and financial pundits have surmised that the fundamental economic problems facing the United States during the crash of […]
Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World
Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World With the world’s oldest central bank – Sweden’s Riksbank – taking the plunge into negative rates, there have been 19 ‘eases’ by central banks this year, Morgan Stanley warns of “ghosts of the 1930s.” With competitive ‘easing’ stoking fears of international currency wars,The Telegraph notes however that looser monetary policy is […]
Reckless Stock-Market Leverage Intoxicates Politicians
Reckless Stock-Market Leverage Intoxicates Politicians The sudden bloodletting that leveraged currency speculators experienced when the Swiss National Bank yanked the cap on the franc should have been a warning: central-bank promises that everything is under control are meaningless. And because of leverage, innumerable trading accounts blew up in a matter of moments. Leverage acts like […]
David Stockman Interview: The Global Economy Has Entered The Crack-Up Phase
David Stockman Interview: The Global Economy Has Entered The Crack-Up Phase Transcript of David Stockman’s Interview By Chris Martenson at Peak Prosperity Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity podcast. I am your host, Chris Martenson. It’s a central banker world and that world is increasingly volatile, deformed, and full of risks. Today, we’re speaking with […]
West Coast Ports Shut Down For Holiday Weekend: Supply Chain Halt Threatens Havoc On Reeling Economy
West Coast Ports Shut Down For Holiday Weekend: Supply Chain Halt Threatens Havoc On Reeling Economy A week ago, when we wrote “Catastrophic Shutdown Of America’s Supply Chain Looms” As West Coast Port Worker Talks Break Down“, few people noticed… as was to be expected: after all with January’s retails sales just around the corner, […]
Second Thoughts On US Official Gold Reserves Audits
Second Thoughts On US Official Gold Reserves Audits What is not often covered in the media or blogosphere are the audits of the US official gold reserves stored at the US Mint, which is the custodian for 95 % (7716 tonnes) of the stash – nowadays also referred to as custodial deep storage, and at the Federal […]
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question (Bloomberg) — When Group of 20 finance ministers this week urged the Federal Reserve to “minimize negative spillovers” from potential interest-rate increases, they omitted a key figure: $9 trillion. That’s the amount owed in dollars by non-bank borrowers outside the U.S., up 50 percent since the financial crisis, according to […]
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 […]
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question
Here’s a $9 Trillion Question (Bloomberg) — When Group of 20 finance ministers this week urged the Federal Reserve to “minimize negative spillovers” from potential interest-rate increases, they omitted a key figure: $9 trillion. That’s the amount owed in dollars by non-bank borrowers outside the U.S., up 50 percent since the financial crisis, according to […]
Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island
Financial Markets: Pinocchio’s Enchanted Island The control of the commercials and the COMEX manipulators have is very depressing for the gold market investor. As soon as gold and the miners are about to get on another bullish leg, that the moving averages are positively aligned and re-crossing the 200-day MA, that the traders are standing […]
Audit The Fed——And Shackle It, Too
Audit The Fed——And Shackle It, Too The reason to be fearful about the economic and financial future is that we are in the thrall of a mainstream consensus that is downright meretricious. In attacking Rand Paul’s audit legislation, for instance, one of the time-servers on the Fed Board of Governors, Jerome H. Powell, let loose the following gem: […]
Rates Don’t Matter–Liquidity Matters
Rates Don’t Matter–Liquidity Matters The cure for systemic fragility is not low interest rates forever–it’s a market that transparently prices credit and risk for lenders and borrowers, qualified and marginal alike. One of the most unquestioned narratives out there is that the Federal Reserve raising interest rates from 0% to .25% (or .50%) will crush […]
Nomi Prins: The Sinister Evolution Of Our Modern Banking System Because we’re all about those banks, ’bout those banks…
Nomi Prins: The Sinister Evolution Of Our Modern Banking System Because we’re all about those banks, ’bout those banks… I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous. ~ Nomi […]
Another step down the long, slow road to IRA nationalization
Another step down the long, slow road to IRA nationalization Let’s take a brief walk into financial reality for a moment. At the time of this writing, the United States government’s official debt is nearly $18.1 trillion. Now, let’s look at who the biggest owners of that debt are: 1) Taxpayers of the United States. […]
