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Are You Infuriated Yet?
Are You Infuriated Yet? You should be. I certainly am… More and more, I’m encountering people who are simply infuriated with how our “leaders” are running (or to put it more accurately, ruining) things right now. And I share that fury. It’s perfectly normal human response to be infuriated when an outside agent hurts you, […]
Weekly Commentary: Arms Race in Bubbles
Weekly Commentary: Arms Race in Bubbles The week left me with an uneasy feeling. There were a number of articles noting the 30-year anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. I spent “Black Monday” staring at a Telerate monitor as a treasury analyst at Toyota’s US headquarters in Southern California. If I wasn’t completely in […]
Into the Cold and Dark
Into the Cold and Dark It amuses me that the nation is so caught up in the sexual mischief of a single Hollywood producer when the nation as a whole is getting fucked sideways and upside down by its own political caretakers. Behind all the smoke, mirrors, Trump bluster, Schumer fog, and media mystification about […]
Krugman and the “Heroic” Fed
Krugman and the “Heroic” Fed Once an avid reader of Paul Krugman’s New York Times twice-weekly columns, I admit to rarely even glancing at his work now, since I know that anything he writes is going to have the theme of “Trump evil, Democrats good” each time, and it doesn’t take long to get one’s […]
Looming Catastrophe Hanging Over Our Heads
Looming Catastrophe Hanging Over Our Heads Former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, says the record highs you see in the stock markets are based on “phony profits” that come from global central banks “propping up” the financial system. Roberts says, “Any of these central banks are really only there […]
Bitcoin: A Tower of Monetary Babel
Bitcoin: A Tower of Monetary Babel The promoters of crypto currencies have gushingly touted them as the mechanism by which the present central banking cabal and the system of nation states which derive much of their power from will be brought down and replaced by digital money. Despite their meteoric rise as speculative “assets,” there are […]
Fed Confused About What Drives Inflation
FED CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT DRIVES INFLATION On October 4 2017, the former governor of the Federal Reserve Daniel Tarullo in a speech at the Brookings think-tank in Washington said Fed policy makers do not have a reliable theory of what drives inflation. According to Tarullo, central bankers should pay less attention to theoretical models and […]
WORLD’S LARGEST OIL COMPANIES: Deep Trouble As Profits Vaporize While Debts Skyrocket
WORLD’S LARGEST OIL COMPANIES: Deep Trouble As Profits Vaporize While Debts Skyrocket The world’s largest oil companies are in serious trouble as their balance sheets deteriorate from higher costs, falling profits and skyrocketing debt. The glory days of the highly profitable global oil companies have come to an end. All that remains now is a […]
How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 2: 99.9% Of The Global Population Lives In A Country With A Central Bank
How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 2: 99.9% Of The Global Population Lives In A Country With A Central Bank Even though the nations of the world are very deeply divided on almost everything else, somehow virtually all of them have been convinced that central banking is the way to go. Today, less […]
Globalization is Poverty
Globalization is Poverty Marc Riboud Zazou, painter of the EIffel Tower 1953Central bankers have never done more damage to the world economy than in the past 10 years. One may argue this is because they never had the power to do that. If their predecessors had had that power, who knows? Still, the global economy […]
Nonsensical Global Worries Over Subdued Inflation: Yellen, Draghi, Kuroda
Nonsensical Global Worries Over Subdued Inflation: Yellen, Draghi, Kuroda Central bank presidents at the Fed, the ECB, and Bank of Japan are all concerned over low inflation. The Fed wants to hike anyway, but the Bank of Japan will keep pursuing aggressive monetary easing. Meanwhile, asset prices are in the biggest ever bubble. Bank of […]
Eric Peters: “This Is The Nightmare Scenario For The Next Fed Chair”
Eric Peters: “This Is The Nightmare Scenario For The Next Fed Chair” While we will have much more to share from the latest weekend letter by One River’s Eric Peters shortly, we found the following section on inflation vs asset bubbles – a topic which BofA’s Michael Hartnett has been focusing extensively on in the […]
The Endgame of Financialization: Stealth Nationalization
The Endgame of Financialization: Stealth Nationalization This is the new model of nationalization: central banks control the valuation of private-sector assets without actually having to own them lock, stock and barrel. As you no doubt know, central banks don’t actually print money and toss it out of helicopters; they create a digital liability and use […]
The Curious Case of Missing the Market Boom
The Curious Case of Missing the Market Boom Rembrandt Old man with a beard 1630“The Cost of Missing the Market Boom is Skyrocketing”, says a Bloomberg headline today. That must be the scariest headline I’ve seen in quite a while. For starters, it’s misleading, because people who ‘missed’ the boom haven’t lost anything other than […]
Schäuble Warns of Coming Economic Crisis
Schäuble Warns of Coming Economic Crisis In his farewell interview for the Financial Times, Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble warned of a new global financial crisis predicated upon the Quantity of Money theory that the central banks had pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system that is creating a risk of “new bubbles”. […]
