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Crash-O-Matic Finance | KUNSTLER
Crash-O-Matic Finance | KUNSTLER. “Oil prices have dropped $50 a barrel. That may not sound like much. But when you take $107 and you take $57, that’s almost a 47 percent decline…!” –James Puplava, The Financial Sense News Network May not sound like much? I guess when you hunker down in the lab with the […]
Will Oil Kill The Zombies? – The Automatic Earth
Will Oil Kill The Zombies? – The Automatic Earth. Oil producer Russia hikes rates to 10.5% as the ruble continues to plunge, while fellow producer Norway does the opposite, and cuts its rates, but also sees its currency plummet. As Greek stocks lose another 7.35% after Tuesday’s 13% loss on rumors about what the left […]
Gross Says Fed May Become ‘Dovish’ as Oil Prices Plunge – Bloomberg
Gross Says Fed May Become ‘Dovish’ as Oil Prices Plunge – Bloomberg. (Bloomberg) —Bill Gross, who used to run the world’s largest bond fund before joiningJanus Capital Group Inc. (JNS) in September, said the Federal Reserve may become more “dovish” after oil prices plunged in recent weeks. The Federal Reserve would have to take lower oil […]
Deflation Is Winning: Brian Pretty – PeakProsperity.com | Peak Prosperity
Deflation Is Winning: Brian Pretty – PeakProsperity.com | Peak Prosperity. Remember in the early part of the last decade, long before he was appointed the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke penned an article that caught widespread public attention entitled, “Deflation: It Can’t Happen Here” ? Bernanke was referring to the deflationary pressures Japan […]
B-Dud Explains The Fed’s Economic Coup—-Or Why Every Asset Price Is Manipulated | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
B-Dud Explains The Fed’s Economic Coup—-Or Why Every Asset Price Is Manipulated | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. Keynesian economists are annoying enough when they are pitching inflated financial assets on Wall Street or the supposed curative powers of fiscal deficits on Capitol Hill. But they become positively dangerous when they populate the Eccles Building and […]
charles hugh smith-The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns
charles hugh smith-The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns. It is these unforeseeable and uncontrollable consequences that are poised to wreak havoc on the global financial system. Here’s the thing about risk: it bursts out of whatever is deemed “safe.” It wasn’t accidental that the Global Financial Meltdown originated in home mortgages; it […]
Fed rattled by elusive inflation, but loath to sound alarm yet | Reuters
Fed rattled by elusive inflation, but loath to sound alarm yet | Reuters. (Reuters) – With the U.S. economy humming along at its fastest clip in more than a decade, the Federal Reserve should be confident about its ability to weather a global slowdown and start lifting interest rates around the middle of next year. But then […]
The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of The Debt Enslavement System That Dominates Our Lives
The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of The Debt Enslavement System That Dominates Our Lives. From the dawn of history, elites have always attempted to enslave humanity. Yes, there have certainly been times when those in power have slaughtered vast numbers of people, but normally those in power find it much more beneficial to […]
GDP Headed to Permanent Contraction by 2023 – Here’s Why | First Rebuttal
GDP Headed to Permanent Contraction by 2023 – Here’s Why | First Rebuttal. November 18, 2014—I’d like to carry on the theme from my recent article “Interest Rates Cannot Rise – Here’s Why” that garnered some discussion after being posted on Zerohedge. I’m going to show that GDP is also in a trap of decelerating […]
Fed focused on sunny side, downplayed global woes in October | Reuters
Fed focused on sunny side, downplayed global woes in October | Reuters. (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve wrestled with whether to nod to financial market volatility and a weakening globaleconomy in its policy statement last month, but opted not to out of worry it could send an unwarranted signal of pessimism. Minutes of the U.S. […]
New Scrutiny of Goldman’s Ties to the New York Fed After a Leak – NYTimes.com
New Scrutiny of Goldman’s Ties to the New York Fed After a Leak – NYTimes.com. From his desk in Lower Manhattan, a banker at Goldman Sachs thumbed through confidential documents — courtesy of a source inside the United States government. The banker came to Goldman through the so-called revolving door, the symbolic portal that connects […]
The Real Reason Why Germany Halted Its Gold Repatriation From The NY Fed | Zero Hedge
The Real Reason Why Germany Halted Its Gold Repatriation From The NY Fed | Zero Hedge. Following the stunning announcement in January 2013 that the Bundesbank would repatriate 674 tons of gold from the NY Fed and the French Central Bank, a year later the Bundesbank followed up with a just as stunning revelation that of the 84 tons […]
Why the Reserve Currency Status is America’s “Achilles Heel”
Why the Reserve Currency Status is America’s “Achilles Heel”. Ned Goodman (born in 1937) is a successful entrepreneur (by background a geologist) and a philanthropist who also happens to be a billionaire, thanks to his Dundee Group of Financial, Resource and Real Estate Investments, which he founded in 1991. He is also a deep thinker, […]
Keynesian Dogma – Garbage In, Garbage Out « The Burning Platform
Keynesian Dogma – Garbage In, Garbage Out « The Burning Platform. Janet Yellen Bemoans “Lack of Fiscal Support” Fed chair Janet Yellen studied under the Keynesian James Tobin, whose name is nowadays best known for being associated with a tax. It should therefore not come as a big surprise that she supports Keynesian dogma regarding […]
Markets and reality disconnected » The Cobden Centre
Markets and reality disconnected » The Cobden Centre. The behaviour of financial markets these days is frankly divorced from reality, with value-investing banished. Markets have become distorted by Rumsfeld-knowns such as interest rate policy and “market guidance”, and Rumsfeld-unknowns such as undeclared market intervention by the authorities. On top of these distortions there is remote […]
