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The Risk of the Fed’s Continuous Rate Hikes
The Risk of the Fed’s Continuous Rate Hikes This past week, the Fed raised interest rates by 0.25%. The effective Fed fund rate is now 1.63% – the highest since the big market crash of 2008. However, it could get as high as 3.375% by 2020. The decade 2020 – 2029 could see a high-tech […]
Wolf Richter: The Era Of The Fed “Put” Is Over
Wolf Richter: The Era Of The Fed “Put” Is Over It now wants lower asset prices (just not too fast) To all those investors expecting the Fed to step in to backstop the recent weakness seen in the stock market, Wolf Richter warns: The cavalry isn’t coming. After years of force-feeding too much liquidity into […]
What Kind of Hyper-Enthusiastic Market is this that Blindly Keeps Pursuing Scams to Make a Fortune Overnight, even if They Already Crashed the First Time?
What Kind of Hyper-Enthusiastic Market is this that Blindly Keeps Pursuing Scams to Make a Fortune Overnight, even if They Already Crashed the First Time? It’ll take many more sell-offs and the collapse of many more iffy stocks before this hyper-enthusiasm, after nine years of central bank nurturing, is finally wrung out of the market. […]
Russia Stockpiles Gold, But Why?
Russia Stockpiles Gold, But Why? The US’s overhang of debt and looming trade war is worrisome on many levels as the value of the dollar keeps decreasing and the national debt spiraling. So, what should we make of the fact that the Central Bank of Russia has been steadily amassing vast gold reserves since 2015? […]
Central Bank Money Rules the World
Central Bank Money Rules the World Central bank credit that supports markets — is not just creation of the Fed, but by central banks and institutions around the world colluding together. Global markets are too deeply connected these days to consider the Fed in isolation. Since last month’s correction, the world has been watching the […]
How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It?
How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It? Alas, fakery isn’t actually a solution to fiscal/financial crisis.. This chart of “debt securities and loans”–i.e. total debt in the U.S. economy–is also a chart of the creation and distribution of new money, as the issuance of new debt is the mechanism in our financial system for […]
“Where Will It Stop?”: Libor Spread Blows Out Beyond Eurocrisis Highs, Central Banks Intervention Awaited
“Where Will It Stop?”: Libor Spread Blows Out Beyond Eurocrisis Highs, Central Banks Intervention Awaited Until two days ago, the critical level for both the Libor-OIS and FRA-OIS spread was the “psychological level” of 50bps. This, however, was breached on Wednesday when as we reported Libor pushed significantly higher without a matching move in swaps. […]
Will US Companies Repatriating Cash Home Create Banking Crisis Outside USA?
Will US Companies Repatriating Cash Home Create Banking Crisis Outside USA? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Do you believe that if American companies do repatriate dollars to get the low tax rate in the USA, will this impact foreign banks as capital withdraws? I figured you are the best qualified to answer that question nobody seems to […]
What is Wrong With the Popular Definition of Inflation?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE POPULAR DEFINITION OF INFLATION? According to Mises, Inflation, as this term was always used everywhere and especially in this country, means increasing the quantity of money and bank notes in circulation and the quantity of bank deposits subject to check. But people today use the term `inflation’ to refer to […]
$21 Trillion And Rising: How Central Banks Are LBOing The World In One Stunning Chart
$21 Trillion And Rising: How Central Banks Are LBOing The World In One Stunning Chart Back in late 2016, we showed the unprecedented domination of capital markets by central banks using a chart from Citi, which had put together a fascinating slideshow asking simply “Where is the utility in marginal QE” and specifically pointing out […]
The Amazing Amount of Gold The U.S. Exported Since 2000
The Amazing Amount of Gold The U.S. Exported Since 2000 The U.S. exported a stunning amount of gold since the turn of the century. As the price of gold surged along with the massive increase in U.S. debt, gold exports jumped to record highs. In 2012 alone, the United States exported nearly 700 metric tons […]
Why QE didn’t send gold up to $20,000
Why QE didn’t send gold up to $20,000 Why didn’t quantitative easing, which created trillions of dollars of new money, lead to a massive spike in the gold price? The Quantity Theory of Money The intuition that an increase in the money supply should lead to a rise in prices, including the price of gold, […]
New U.S. Record-Level Oil Production! Peak Oil Theory Disproven! Not.
New U.S. Record-Level Oil Production! Peak Oil Theory Disproven! Not. Well, I’m amazed and impressed. Tight oil production has pushed total United States petroleum output to more than 10 million barrels a day, a rate last seen almost a half-century ago. It’s a new U.S. record. Fifteen years ago I was traveling the world with […]
It’s Not A “Conspiracy Theory”: Here’s How Central Banks Actively Suppress The Price Of Gold
It’s Not A “Conspiracy Theory”: Here’s How Central Banks Actively Suppress The Price Of Gold Alhambra Investment Partners CIO Jeffrey Snider returned to Erik Townsend’s MacroVoices podcast this week to discuss one of his favorite topics: How central banks’ use gold lending to manipulate their balance sheets, and also to manipulate the broader market for […]
Never Mind Volatility: Systemic Risk Is Rising
Never Mind Volatility: Systemic Risk Is Rising So who’s holding the hot potato of systemic risk now? Everyone. One of the greatest con jobs of the past 9 years is the status quo’s equivalence of risk and volatility: risk = volatility: so if volatility is low, then risk is low. Wrong: volatility once reflected specific […]
