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Gold Sector Correction – What Happens Next?
Gold Sector Correction – What Happens Next? The Long Awaited Correction is Underway The gathering of central planners at Jackson Hole was widely expected to bring some clarity regarding the Fed’s policy intentions. This is of course a ridiculous assumption, since these people have not the foggiest idea what they are doing or what they […]
Oilmageddon, Central Banks And Liquidity: The 3 “Feedback Loops” Keeping Citi Up At Night
Oilmageddon, Central Banks And Liquidity: The 3 “Feedback Loops” Keeping Citi Up At Night In recent months we have seen a dramatic spike in visualizations by sellside analysts, who appear to have finally grasped the reflexive nature of markets first noted so many years ago by none other than George Soros, which – with the […]
Planet Debt
Planet Debt Low Interest Rate Persons She is a low-interest-rate person. She has always been a low-interest-rate person. And I must be honest. I am a low-interest-rate person. If we raise interest rates, and if the dollar starts getting too strong, we’re going to have some very major problems. — Donald Trump Two low interest rate persons! The Trumpsumptive president […]
3 Things: Value Of Cash, 3rd Mandate, Yellen Channels Bernanke
3 Things: Value Of Cash, 3rd Mandate, Yellen Channels Bernanke El-Erian – The Value Of Cash My friend, Anora Mahmudova, recently wrote for MarketWatch about Mohamed El-Erian’s discussion on the importance of “cash” for investors. “At a breakfast meeting with reporters on Monday, the former Pacific Investment Management Company chief executive said central bank asset purchases have […]
Janet Yellen’s $200-Trillion Debt Problem
Janet Yellen’s $200-Trillion Debt Problem Blame “Brexit” BALTIMORE – The U.S. stock market broke its losing streak on Thursday [and even more so on Monday, ed.]. After five straight losing sessions, the Dow eked out a 92-point gain. The financial media didn’t know what to say about it. So, we ended up with the typical […]
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 […]
Why All Central Planning Is Doomed to Fail
Why All Central Planning Is Doomed to Fail Positivist Delusions [ed. note: this article was originally published on March 5 2013 – Bill Bonner was on his way to his ranch in Argentina, so here is a classic from the archives] We’re still thinking about how so many smart people came to believe things that […]
Former Fed Advisor Asks “Has The Fed Bankrupted The Nation”
Former Fed Advisor Asks “Has The Fed Bankrupted The Nation” Volcker, Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen. Which one does not belong? Logic dictates that Volcker should have been odd man out. After all, there is no legendary “Volcker Put.” The towering monetarist made no bones about never being bound by the financial markets. The same can certainly not […]
The Fed Can’t Save Us
The Fed Can’t Save Us In December, the Fed hiked its target for the federal funds rate, which is the interest rate banks charge each other for overnight loans of reserves. Since 2008 the Fed’s target for the Fed Funds Rate had been a range of 0 percent – 0.25 percent (or what is referred […]
Lost Faith In Central Banks And The Economic End Game
Lost Faith In Central Banks And The Economic End Game We live in strange economic times, stranger perhaps than at any other point in history. Since 2007-2008, the globally intertwined and dependent fiscal system has suffered considerable declines in every conceivable area. Manufacturing around the world is in a slump, from Japan to China to […]
The Boomer Retirement Meme Is A Big Lie
THE BOOMER RETIREMENT MEME IS A BIG LIE As the labor participation rate and employment to population ratio linger near three decade lows, the mouthpieces for the establishment continue to perpetuate the Big Lie this is solely due to the retirement of Boomers. It’s their storyline and they’ll stick to it, no matter what the […]
Yelling ‘Stay’ In A Burning Theater—–Yellen Ignites Another Robo-Trader Spasm
Yelling ‘Stay’ In A Burning Theater—–Yellen Ignites Another Robo-Trader Spasm Simple Janet has attained a new milestone as a public menace with her speech to the Economic Club of New York. It amounted to yelling “stay” in a burning theater! The stock market has been desperately trying to correct for months now because even the casino regulars can read the tea […]
Shuffling The Deckchairs On The USS Perpetual Growth
Shuffling The Deckchairs On The USS Perpetual Growth The USS Perpetual Growth was picking up speed, steaming over calm seas despite a growing chorus of capital market Cassandras fearing trouble under the surface and further out at sea. “Full speed ahead” Skipper Yellen barked to her economates, unperturbed by ominous radar images or the uselessness of econometric […]
Fed Admits it is the World’s Central Bank – not just the USA Central Bank
Fed Admits it is the World’s Central Bank – not just the USA Central Bank Janet Yellen signaled that the Fed is grappling with the problem I have been warning about: the dollar has become the de facto currency and the Fed is indeed becoming the world’s central bank. Yellen has admitted that everyone is […]
Yellen, Draghi, Kuroda: Deranged Lab Rats
YELLEN, DRAGHI, KURODA: DERANGED LAB RATS The stock market has regained all of its loses year to date as economic indicators continue to flash red, corporate profits continue to plunge, consumers continue to spend less at retailers, real wages continue to fall, and housing sales continue to decline. The entire dead cat bounce has been […]
