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Big Banks Report Their Ultra-Wealthy Clients Are Rushing Into Gold
Big Banks Report Their Ultra-Wealthy Clients Are Rushing Into Gold This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: The ultra-wealthy aren’t sold on the stock market recovery, Powell’s dovishness boosts gold prices, and Goldman rolls out yet another optimistic forecast for gold. Big […]
Bailouts Can’t Save This Fragile System
Bailouts Can’t Save This Fragile System It’s obvious the global economy is painfully fragile. What is less obvious is the bailouts intended to “save” the fragile economy actually increase its fragility, setting up an inevitable collapse of the entire precarious system. Systems that are highly centralized, i.e., dependent on a handful of nodes that are […]
European Banks Reveal Scale & Complexity of Crisis. Shares Hammered Back to 1987 Level
European Banks Reveal Scale & Complexity of Crisis. Shares Hammered Back to 1987 Level They haven’t gotten over Financial Crisis 1 and the Euro Debt Crisis. Now there’s a new crisis. Deutsche Bank’s CEO going on TV to soothe nerves didn’t help matters. The biggest European banks have started to report their earnings against a […]
Banks Will Not Bail Out The Economy
Banks Will Not Bail Out The Economy These days, we hear a lot that banks were the problem in the 2008 crisis and now they are the part of the solution. Banking was not the main problem of the 2008 crisis, but one of the symptoms that indicated a more serious disease, the excess risk taken by […]
FDIC asks Americans to keep their money in the banks
FDIC asks Americans to keep their money in the banks Yesterday the Chair of the FDIC released an astonishing video asking Americans to keep their money in the bank. Accompanied by soft piano music playing in the background, the official said: “Your money is safe at the banks. The last thing you should be doing […]
Banks are going to drown in an ocean of defaults
Banks are going to drown in an ocean of defaults On November 6, 2000, then US presidential candidate George W. Bush told a crowd of cheering supporters, “they misunderestimated me.” Now, if English is not your native language, allow me to clear the air: ‘misunderestimate’ is not a word. But then again, George W. Bush […]
America Is The 4th Worst Abuser Of Biometric Privacy Rights In The World
America Is The 4th Worst Abuser Of Biometric Privacy Rights In The World Does anyone really believe America is still the land of the free? Since 9/11, DHS, the FBI, the CIA, and countless other alphabet soup agencies have turned the United States into a public surveillance monstrosity.In 19 years, one terrorist attack has done what […]
Farewell to Paper Money?
Farewell to Paper Money? A decade or more ago, I began to discuss with associates the possibility of governments and banks colluding to eliminate physical cash. Back then, the idea struck most everyone as poppycock, that governments could never get away with it. I didn’t write on the subject until 2015, when several countries had […]
China Braces For December D-Day: The “Unprecedented” Default Of A Massive State-Owned Enterprise
China Braces For December D-Day: The “Unprecedented” Default Of A Massive State-Owned Enterprise Something is seriously starting to break in China’s financial system. Three days after we described the self-destructive doom loop that is tearing apart China’s smaller banks, where a second bank run took place in just two weeks – an unprecedented event for a country where until […]
Is the Fed Secretly Bailing Out a Major Bank?
Is the Fed Secretly Bailing Out a Major Bank? Prettifying Toxic Waste The promise of something for nothing is always an enticing proposition. Who doesn’t want roses without thorns, rainbows without rain, and salvation without repentance? So, too, who doesn’t want a few extra basis points of yield above the 10-year Treasury note at no added […]
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt In a very real way, MMT is already here Sure, it’s not admitting to this. And it’s using several technical jinks and jives to offer a pretense that things are otherwise. But it’s not terribly difficult to predict what’s going to happen next: the Federal Reserve will […]
Global Debt Is Up To $188,000,000,000,000 – This Is Officially The Biggest Debt Bubble The World Has Ever Seen
Global Debt Is Up To $188,000,000,000,000 – This Is Officially The Biggest Debt Bubble The World Has Ever Seen The world is now 188 trillion dollars in debt, and that number continues to grow rapidly each year. It is a form of enslavement that is deeply insidious, because most of those living on the planet […]
The monetary lessons from Germany
The monetary lessons from Germany Germany suffered two currency collapses in the last century, in 1920-23 and1945-48. The architect of the recovery from the former, Hjalmar Schacht, chose to cooperate with the Nazi successors to the Weimar Republic, and failed. In that of the second, Ludwig Erhard remained true to his free market credentials and […]
Half The World’s Banks Won’t Survive The Next Crisis, McKinsey Finds
Half The World’s Banks Won’t Survive The Next Crisis, McKinsey Finds More than half of the world’s banks are at risk of collapse in the next global downturn if they don’t start preparing for late-cycle shocks, McKinsey & Company warned in its latest global banking outlook. The consultancy firm warned on Monday, in a 55-page […]
Underestimating Them & Overestimating Us
UNDERESTIMATING THEM & OVERESTIMATING US “Do not underestimate the ‘power of underestimation’. They can’t stop you, if they don’t see you coming.” ― Izey Victoria Odiase During the summer of 2008 I was writing articles a few times per week predicting an economic catastrophe and a banking crisis. When the biggest financial crisis since the Great […]
