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Deflation Is Blowing In On An Eastern Trade Wind
Deflation Is Blowing In On An Eastern Trade Wind Jack Delano “Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York.” 1941 Brexit is nowhere near the biggest challenge to western economies. And not just because it has devolved into a two-bit theater piece. Though we should not forget the value of that development: it lays bare […]
China’s Rolling Boom-Bust Cycle
China’s Rolling Boom-Bust Cycle Sweet Authoritative Nothings There is a mysterious figure making regular appearances in China’s government mouthpiece “People’s Daily”, which simply goes by the name “authoritative person” (AP). This unnamed entity always tends to show up with bad news for assorted speculators, by suggesting that various scenarios associated with monetary and/ or fiscal […]
Why I Think there Will Be a “Dollar Panic”
Why I Think there Will Be a “Dollar Panic” The Great American Credit Collapse Please remember this warning when you go to the ATM to get cash — and there is none. While we were thinking about what was really going on with today’s strange new money system, a startling thought occurred to us. Our financial system could […]
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 […]
Ben Bernanke: “Helicopter Money May Be The Best Available Alternative”
Ben Bernanke: “Helicopter Money May Be The Best Available Alternatives Now that the prospect of helicopter money by the ECB has so infuriated Germany, the ECB had to reach out to Schauble to “mollify” the Germans who are dreading the second coming of monetary paradrops in one century, it was only a matter of time before Citadel’s […]
Ron Paul Warns “The Conflict Between Government & Liberty Is At A Boiling Point”
Ron Paul Warns “The Conflict Between Government & Liberty Is At A Boiling Point” This is excerpted from the introduction of Ron Paul’s Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues that Affect Our Freedom. Liberty means to exercise human rights in any manner a person chooses so long as it does not interfere with the exercise of the […]
Remember the people involved
Remember the people involved When I was in University, I vividly remember one of my economics professors telling students to always remember the people involved when analyzing a policy change. I was reminded of this sage advice upon reading Matthew McCaffery’s Mises Daily article titled, “Who will pay for it?” is the wrong question to ask […]
US Money Supply and Debt – Early Warning Signs Remain Operative
US Money Supply and Debt – Early Warning Signs Remain Operative Still Slowing Down Year-end distortions have begun to slowly come out of the data, and while broad true US money supply growth remains fairly brisk, it has begun to slow again relative to January’s y/y growth rate, to 7.8% from 8.32%. So far it […]
Deutsche Bank: Negative Rates Confirm The Failure Of Globalization
Deutsche Bank: Negative Rates Confirm The Failure Of Globalization Negative interest rates may or may not be a thing of the past (many thought that the ECB had learned its lesson, and then Vitor Constancio wrote a blog post showing that the ECB hasn’t learned a damn thing), but the confusion about their significance remains. […]
Norway’s Interest Rate Conundrum
Norway’s Interest Rate Conundrum Current Situation The ECB recently stimulated more than expected, cutting rates by five basis points and expanding quantitative easing. It is already expected that Norges Bank (The Norwegian Central Bank) will cut rates next week, seeing accelerating inflation as temporary. They have a 2.5% inflation target mandate “over time,” giving them lee-way. They see demand […]
Downtrend In the Growth Rate of Money Supply Poses a Threat to Bubble Activities
DOWNTREND IN THE GROWTH RATE OF MONEY SUPPLY POSES A THREAT TO BUBBLE ACTIVITIES The yearly growth rate of real gross domestic product eased to 1.9% in Q4 from 2% in the previous quarter. Using our large scale econometric model we can suggest that the yearly growth rate of GDP could fall to 1.7% by Q3 before bouncing to […]
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First Back in August 2012, when negative interest rates were still merely viewed as sheer monetary lunacy instead of pervasive global monetary reality that has pushed over $6 trillion in global bonds into negative yield territory, the NY Fed mused hypothetically about […]
Stocks, the Economy and the Money Supply – What to Watch
Stocks, the Economy and the Money Supply – What to Watch The Stock Market and Economic Data In previous articles we have occasionally discussed the interaction between economic indicators and the stock market. Among the topics we have touched upon: for one thing, the capitalization-weighted indexes can hardly be called “leading indicators” of the economy […]
War On Cash Escalates: China Readies Digital Currency, IMF Says “Extremely Beneficial”
War On Cash Escalates: China Readies Digital Currency, IMF Says “Extremely Beneficial” Remember when Bitcoin and its digital currency cohorts were slammed by authorities and written off by the elite as worthless? Well now, as the war on cash escalates, officials from The IMF to China are seeing the opportunity to control the world’s money […]
