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Is Draghi Really Ending QE?
Is Draghi Really Ending QE? Mario Draghi said the euro-area economy is strong enough to overcome increased risk, and therefore this justifies the European Central Bank’s decision to end bond purchases bringing to an end a decade-long failed experiment. The truth behind this statement is starkly different than being portrayed in the press. Draghi also pledged […]
America’s Greatest Crisis Upon Us…Debt to GDP Makes It Clear
America’s Greatest Crisis Upon Us…Debt to GDP Makes It Clear America in the midst of its greatest crisis in its 242 years of existence. I say this based upon the US federal debt to GDP (gross domestic product) ratio. In the history of the US, at the onset of every war or crisis, a period of federal […]
The Federal Reserve: Public Enemy Number One
The Federal Reserve: Public Enemy Number One When currency was backed by gold, a central bank’s main function was to maintain the value of the issued currency in terms of gold. For example, if a central bank created too much money against the gold reserves in the banking system, an increasing number of people would […]
Weekly Commentary: The Great Fallacy
Weekly Commentary: The Great Fallacy A big week in the world of monetary management: The Federal Reserve raised rates 25 bps, the ECB announced plans to wind down its historic QE program, and the Bank of Japan clung to its “powerful monetary easing” inflationist scheme. A tense People’s Bank of China left rate policy unchanged, […]
Nomi Prins: The central banking heist has put the world at risk
Nomi Prins: The central banking heist has put the world at risk “The 2008 financial crisis was the consequence of a loosely regulated banking system in which power was concentrated in the hands of too limited a cast of speculators,” Nomi Prins tell me. “And after the crisis, the way the US government and the […]
NY Fed President Dudley Complains Unemployment is Too Low, Rate Hikes Needed
NY Fed President Dudley Complains Unemployment is Too Low, Rate Hikes Needed NY Fed President William Dudley is worried about the low unemployment rate. He thinks the Fed needs to be above neutral. New York Fed President William Dudley will retire Monday. Current San Francisco Fed chief John Williams will take over. He departs with […]
Free Money Calculation: Fed Will Give $36.93 Billion of Taxpayer Money to Banks
Free Money Calculation: Fed Will Give $36.93 Billion of Taxpayer Money to Banks The Fed upped the interest it pays on excess reserves to 1.95% today. This is free money (taxpayer funded) to banks. The Fed bumped up the interest it pays on excess reserves today to 1.95%. Currently, excess reserves sit at $1.894 trillion. […]
Blain: Will The Fed Hike Unleash The “Swing” Moment When Suddenly Balance Is Lost?
Blain: Will The Fed Hike Unleash The “Swing” Moment When Suddenly Balance Is Lost? Fed, Stratospheric dangers, US corporate leverage and the greater competition to manage funds. “Of all extinct life-forms, dinosaurs are the most popular. Why that should be is not clear… ” All eyes on the Fed today. They will hike by 25bp […]
Supply v Demand-Side Economic & What is Never Discussed
Supply v Demand-Side Economic & What is Never Discussed COMMENT: Usury, first the Fed starves we savers for return for 18 years with their zero percent interest rates and gave us two giant stock market crashes in that intervening period. The lack of return caused us to cannibalize our savings and trillions of savings lost thru […]
Is the U.S. in a depression? (How John Williams became America’s most important statistician)
Is the U.S. in a depression? (How John Williams became America’s most important statistician) America’s economy has been progressing steadily. First quarter real GDP growth came in 2.2%. The official unemployment rate is 3.8%. Inflation, according to the Fed’s preferred measure is 2%. But how accurate are those numbers? “Nonsensical,” says John Williams, founder of […]
Beware Former Central Bankers Telling You to Work More
Beware Former Central Bankers Telling You to Work More I’m not the only one of course. The financial crisis of 2008/09 similarly shattered the worldview of tens, if not hundreds of millions of people across the globe. I believe that the old manner of doing things as far as organizing an economy and society died […]
Nomi Prins: Central Bank-Inspired “Major Credit Squeeze” Will Trigger Next Crisis
Nomi Prins: Central Bank-Inspired “Major Credit Squeeze” Will Trigger Next Crisis For all the talk about tapering (in both the US and Europe), the Federal Reserve has actually done remarkably little to reduce its balance sheet. And in an interview with Macrovoices Erik Townsend, former Wall Street executive Nomi Prins expands upon some of the […]
The Federal Reserve’s Shell Game
The Federal Reserve’s Shell Game Inflation, wealth redistribution, and the subtle art of misdirection The Federal Reserve is a key component of the US government’s wealth redistribution apparatus. Under the guise of “macroeconomic management,” it redistributes vast amounts of wealth on an ongoing basis through inflation. The victims of these transfers are ordinary Americans. The […]
Higher Oil Prices Might Not Destroy Demand Growth
Higher Oil Prices Might Not Destroy Demand Growth The recent jump in oil prices to $80 per barrel raised a lot of questions about whether or not the heady demand growth projections for this year would hold up. In fact, signs of strain quickly popped up in disparate parts of the world. But as governments […]
Should the Fed Print Money to Accommodate Demand for Money?
SHOULD THE FED PRINT MONEY TO ACCOMMODATE DEMAND FOR MONEY? For most economists and commentators the main role of the Fed is to keep the supply and demand for money in equilibrium. Whenever an increase in the demand for money occurs, to maintain the state of equilibrium the accommodation of the demand for money by […]
