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Lord Rothschild: “This Is The Greatest Experiment In Monetary Policy In The History Of The World”
Lord Rothschild: “This Is The Greatest Experiment In Monetary Policy In The History Of The World” Two months ago, the bond manager of what was once the world’s biggest bond fund had a dire prediction about how “all of this” will end (spoiler: not well). Janus Capital @JanusCapital Gross: Global yields lowest in 500 years of […]
Helicopter Money——The Biggest Fed Power Grab Yet
Helicopter Money——The Biggest Fed Power Grab Yet The Cleveland Fed’s Loretta Mester is a clueless apparatchik and Fed lifer, who joined the system in 1985 fresh out of Barnard and Princeton and has imbibed in its Keynesian groupthink and institutional arrogance ever since. So it’s not surprising that she was out flogging—-albeit downunder in Australia—- the next step in the Fed’s rolling coup […]
A Look Inside Europe’s Next Crisis: Why Everyone Is Finally Panicking About Italian Banks
A Look Inside Europe’s Next Crisis: Why Everyone Is Finally Panicking About Italian Banks Back in May 2013, we wrote an article titled “Europe’s EUR 500 Billion Ticking NPL Time Bomb” in which we laid out very simply what the biggest danger facing European banks was: non-performing, or bad, loans. We further said, that “Europe’s non-performing […]
Without Recovery There Is Every Need To Examine The Worst Case
Without Recovery There Is Every Need To Examine The Worst Case There is a great deal that is wrong with mainstream economic commentary, starting with its unwavering devotion to orthodox economics and unshakable faith in their “stimulus.” No matter how little is actually stimulated there is never any doubt that the media will simultaneously forget […]
Mutiny Among The “Magic People” – India Central Banker Admits “The Ammo Is Almost Gone”
Mutiny Among The “Magic People” – India Central Banker Admits “The Ammo Is Almost Gone” The self-described “magic people” who “give to the markets” are facing a mutiny this morning as Raghuram Rajan, the head of the Indian central bank, admits central banks and governments of rich countries are running out of ammunition for stimulating their economies… […]
According To Deutsche Bank, The “Worst Kind Of Recession” May Have Already Started
According To Deutsche Bank, The “Worst Kind Of Recession” May Have Already Started One week ago, Deutsche Bank’s Dominic Konstam unveiled, whether he likes it or not, what the next all too likely step will be as central bankers scramble to preserve order in a world in which monetary policy has all but lost effectiveness: “It […]
Jim Grant Asks When The World Will Realize “That Central Bankers Have Lost Their Marbles”
Jim Grant Asks When The World Will Realize “That Central Bankers Have Lost Their Marbles” April 15 comes and goes but the federal debt stays and grows. The secrets of its life force are the topics at hand— that and some guesswork about how the upsurge in financial leverage, private and public alike, may bear on […]
Saudi Foreign Minister Repeats Warning To US Over Sept 11 Law
Saudi Foreign Minister Repeats Warning To US Over Sept 11 Law The biggest financial and geopolitical story from mid-April was Saudi Arabia’s threat that should the US pass a bipartisan law which would take away immunity from foreign governments in cases arising from a “terrorist attack that kills an American on American soil” and specifically could hold […]
Bank of Japan: The Limits of Monetary Tinkering
Bank of Japan: The Limits of Monetary Tinkering Damned If You Do… After waking up on Thursday, we quickly glanced at the overnight market action in Asia and noticed that the Nikkei had tanked rather noticeably. Our first thought upon seeing this was “must be the yen” – and so it was: June yen futures, […]
Gold and Negative Interest Rates
Gold and Negative Interest Rates The Inflation Illusion We hear more and more talk about the possibility of imposing negative interest rates in the US. In a recent article former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke asks what tools the Fed has left to support the economy and inter alia discusses the use of negative rates. We first have to […]
Simultaneous Elderly Overpopulation, Youth Depopulation & The Impact on Economic Growth
Simultaneous Elderly Overpopulation, Youth Depopulation & The Impact on Economic Growth Strangely, the world is suffering from two seemingly opposite trends…overpopulation and depopulation in concert. The overpopulation is due to the increased longevity of elderly lifespans vs. depopulation of young populations due to collapsing birthrates. The depopulation is among most under 25yr old populations (except Africa) […]
Draghi at War with Reason & Other Central Banks
Draghi at War with Reason & Other Central Banks Tensions are starting to rise between Germany and the ECB because Draghi will not admit his negative interest rates are causing an economic meltdown. “We continue to expect them (interest rates) to remain at present or lower levels for an extended period of time, and well past […]
“A Total Illusion from QE and Financial Engineering”
“A Total Illusion from QE and Financial Engineering” The 10-Year Treasury Is Less Than You Think When the Fed was created in 1914, it was set to task of controlling short-term interest rates in an attempt to iron out financial cycles. It succeeded for many years. But by avoiding the natural rebalancing (and occasional pain) from […]
What Have ‘We’ Been Doing All This Time?
What Have ‘We’ Been Doing All This Time? Amidst all the pearls of wisdom unleashed in mainstream economics over the past unbelievable eight years or so, it was one paragraph of common sense that had it been written and appreciated at the start of this period might have saved us all the inordinate and totally […]
