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Why No One’s Going to Drain this Swamp

March 9, 2017

Why No One’s Going to Drain this Swamp The Financial Sector threw $2 Billion at Congress during the Election. Biggest Spenders? Not the Banks. The Financial Sector – whose products, risk-taking, and shenanigans blew up the sector and everything around it during the Financial Crisis – has finally gotten the memo in a serious way: […]

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Inflation To Rise – We expect UK, ECB and US Policy to Diverge

February 20, 2017

Inflation To Rise – We expect UK, ECB and US Policy to Diverge Purely for geopolitical reasons, namely frustration at the failure of the governments of individual member states to respond to repeated calls for “structural reforms”, your authors had taken the view in recent months that the ECB might increase interest rates this year. […]

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Policy Makers, like Generals, Are Busy Fighting The Last War

January 22, 2017

Policy Makers, like Generals, Are Busy Fighting The Last War The Maginot Line formed France’s main line of defense on its German facing border from Belgium in the North to Switzerland in the South.  It was constructed during the 1930s, with the trench-based warfare of World War One still firmly in the minds of the […]

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Currency Armageddon? A Word about the Hated Dollar

December 18, 2016

Currency Armageddon? A Word about the Hated Dollar The “death of the dollar” will have to be rescheduled. Sharply higher yields on Treasury securities and the prospect of more rate hikes by the Fed – in a world where other major central banks are still stewing innocent bystanders in the juices of NIRP, negative yields, and […]

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Central Bank Economists: Bad Central Bank Policy Is INCREASING Inequality

March 11, 2016

Central Bank Economists: Bad Central Bank Policy Is INCREASING Inequality While the leaders of the Fed and other central banks claim that their extraordinary monetary policies haven’t significantly increased inequality, economists with the world’s most prestigious financial agency, the Bank of International Settlements – known as “the Central Banks’ Central Bank” – just released a report showing otherwise. BIS notes: Our simulation suggests that […]

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Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was Not Fed Chair

August 19, 2015

Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was Not Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, the policy failure whose tenure at the Federal Reserve helped create the conditions for the largest financial crisis in nearly a century, was inexplicably given a major newspaper platform on Monday to opine about regulation, which he ideologically abhors. So it […]

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The Wall Street Ponzi At Work——The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies

August 18, 2015

The Wall Street Ponzi At Work——The Stock Pumping Swindle Behind Four Retail Zombies In the nearby column Jim Quinn debunks Wall Street’s latest claim that the American consumer is bounding back. He points out that on an inflation-adjusted basis retail sales are barely higher than they were a year ago, and, for that matter, are still only 4% greater in real terms […]

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