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Shuffling The Deckchairs On The USS Perpetual Growth
Shuffling The Deckchairs On The USS Perpetual Growth The USS Perpetual Growth was picking up speed, steaming over calm seas despite a growing chorus of capital market Cassandras fearing trouble under the surface and further out at sea. “Full speed ahead” Skipper Yellen barked to her economates, unperturbed by ominous radar images or the uselessness of econometric […]
The Path to the Final Crisis
The Path to the Final Crisis Reader Questions on Negative Interest Rates Our reader L from Mumbai has mailed us a number of questions about the negative interest rate regime and its possible consequences. Since these questions are probably of general interest, we have decided to reply to them in this post. The NIRP club […]
Unconventional Monetary Policy on Stilts
Unconventional Monetary Policy on Stilts NEW YORK – With most advanced economies experiencing anemic recoveries from the 2008 financial crisis, their central banks have been forced to move from conventional monetary policy – reducing policy rates via open-market purchases of short-term government bonds – to a range of unconventional policies. Although the zero nominal bound […]
Fed Admits it is the World’s Central Bank – not just the USA Central Bank
Fed Admits it is the World’s Central Bank – not just the USA Central Bank Janet Yellen signaled that the Fed is grappling with the problem I have been warning about: the dollar has become the de facto currency and the Fed is indeed becoming the world’s central bank. Yellen has admitted that everyone is […]
World watching as Canada casts aside austerity and gambles on a fiscal surge
World watching as Canada casts aside austerity and gambles on a fiscal surge A global economic debate plays out in Canada as our government goes from miser to spendthrift Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are taking Canada into unknown waters, betting that spending will do what austerity has not. (Reuters) […]
I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Market
I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MARKET That usually perceptive and always interesting observer of the financial Zeitgeist, Bloomberg’s estimable Mark Gilbert, has just penned an article entitled: “Milton Friedman’s ‘Helicopter Money’ Is Looking Less Crazy” After running through the standard complaints of the serial interventionists about how ineffective monetary policy has become (read: how […]
Helicopter Money: Global Central Banks Consider Distributing Money Directly To The People
Helicopter Money: Global Central Banks Consider Distributing Money Directly To The People Should central banks create money out of thin air and give it directly to governments and average citizens? If you can believe it, this is now under serious consideration. Since 2008, global central banks have cut interest rates 637 times, they have injected […]
Interest Rates Are Never Going Back to Normal
Interest Rates Are Never Going Back to Normal Grotesque Mutants BALTIMORE – Let’s see… U.S. corporate earnings have been going down for three quarters in a row. The median household income is lower than it was 10 years ago. And now JPMorgan Chase has increased its estimated risk of a recession to about one in […]
Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop?
Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop? Booming auto sales have more to do with low rates and easy financing than they do with the urge to buy a new vehicle. In the last few years, car buyers have borrowed nearly $1 trillion to finance new and used autos. Unfortunately, much of that money was lent to borrowers who have less-than-perfect credit and […]
Draghobert the Terrible Strikes Again
Draghobert the Terrible Strikes Again A Whiff of Panic Ahead of Thursday’s ECB meeting, there was a widespread consensus that Europe’s chief printing press supervisor would make up for the alleged “mistake” of under-delivering on monetary lunacy last time around. Therefore, a sizable dose of fresh absurdities had to be expected, with only small disagreements on […]
Eugen Bohm Von Bawerk: Greenspan, The Sheepherder
EUGEN BÖHM VON BAWERK: GREENSPAN, THE SHEEPHERDER It is common knowledge by now that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan oversaw, enabled and approved of, a major transition in the US economy. His infamous “Greenspan-put” in which his actions at the central bank would be driven, if not dictated, by the whims of financial markets, clearly […]
Interest on Gold Is the New Tempest in a Teapot
Interest on Gold Is the New Tempest in a Teapot Accustomed to Speculation Zero Hedge published an article on Canadian Bullion Services (CBS) last week. Other sites ran similar articles. The common thread through these articles, and in the user comments section, is that CBS is committing criminal fraud. Or, if not, then it’s a conspiracy by […]
Safes Sell Out In Japan, 1,000 Franc Note Demand Soars As NIRP Triggers Cash Hoarding
Safes Sell Out In Japan, 1,000 Franc Note Demand Soars As NIRP Triggers Cash Hoarding Negative rates may not have found their way to bank deposits in most locales (yet), but that doesn’t mean the public isn’t starting to see the writing on the wall. At first, NIRP was an anomaly. An obscure policy tool […]
Why The Keynesian Market Wreckers Are Now Coming For Even Your Ben Franklins
Why The Keynesian Market Wreckers Are Now Coming For Even Your Ben Franklins Larry Summers is a pretentious Keynesian fool, but I refer to him as the Great Thinker’s Vicar on Earth for a reason. To wit, every time the latest experiment in Keynesian intervention fails——as 84 months of ZIRP and massive QE clearly have—–he can be counted on to trot out […]
