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Signs Of Distress
Signs Of Distress The need to change is becoming more obvious than ever The world is edging closer to the final moments after which everything will be forever changed. Grand delusions, perpetuated over decades, will finally hit the limits of reality and collapse in on themselves. We’re over-budget and have eaten deeply into the principal […]
How Capitalist Central Banks Have Been Creating the Next Financial Crisis
How Capitalist Central Banks Have Been Creating the Next Financial Crisis As central bankers, finance ministers, and government policy makers head off to their annual gathering at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this August, 24-26, 2017, the key topic is whether the leading central banks in North America and Europe will continue to raise interest rates this […]
Central Banks Are Hiding the True Price of Risk
Central Banks Are Hiding the True Price of Risk If you invest your money, you will have to deal with numerous risks. For instance, if you buy a bond, you run the risk of the borrower defaulting or being repaid with debased money. As a stock investor, you face the risk that the company’s business […]
Central Banks ARE The Crisis
Central Banks ARE The Crisis Walter Langley Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break 1894If there’s one myth -and there are many- that we should invalidate in the cross-over world of politics and economics, it‘s that central banks have saved us from a financial crisis. It’s a carefully construed myth, but it’s […]
Don’t Be Fooled – The Federal Reserve Will Continue Rate Hikes Despite Crisis
Don’t Be Fooled – The Federal Reserve Will Continue Rate Hikes Despite Crisis Though stock markets in general are meaningless and indicate nothing in terms of the health of the economy they still function as a form of hypnosis, or a kind of Pavlovian mechanism; a tool that central bankers can use to keep a […]
“Financial Crisis” Coming By End Of 2018 – Prepare Urgently
“Financial Crisis” Coming By End Of 2018 – Prepare Urgently “Financial Crisis Of Historic Proportions” Is “Bearing Down On Us” John Mauldin of Mauldin Economics latest research note, Prepare for Turbulence, is excellent and a must read warning about the coming financial crisis. Mind refreshed from what sounds like a wonderful honeymoon and having had the time to read […]
Why Quantitative Tightening Will Fail
Why Quantitative Tightening Will Fail After nine years of unconventional quantitative easing (QE) policy the Federal Reserve is now setting out on a new path for quantitative tightening (QT). QE was a policy of money printing. The Fed did this by buying bonds from the big banks. The banks would then deliver bonds to the […]
Government Monopoly Money vs. Personal Choice in Currency
GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY MONEY VS. PERSONAL CHOICE IN CURRENCY For more than two hundred years, practically all of even the most free market advocates have assumed that money and banking were different from other types of goods and markets. From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, the presumption has been competitive markets and free consumer choice are […]
Will Central Banks Derail The Shale Boom?
Will Central Banks Derail The Shale Boom? The U.S. Federal Reserve has already increased interest rates several times, most recently in June, with promises to do much more. Rate hikes pose a problem for the oil industry, which has used debt to underpin a drilling boom across the U.S. shale patch. Higher rates could raise […]
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created, Rising Inequality and Social Disorder Are Inevitable
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created, Rising Inequality and Social Disorder Are Inevitable Centrally issued money optimizes inequality, monopoly, cronyism, stagnation and systemic instability. Everyone who wants to reduce wealth and income inequality with more regulations and taxes is missing the key dynamic: central banks’ monopoly on creating and issuing money widens wealth […]
A Stock Market Crash Scenario
A Stock Market Crash Scenario The one thing we can know with certainty is it won’t be easy to profit from the crash. After 8+ years of phenomenal gains, it’s pretty obvious the global stock market rally is overdue for a credit-cycle downturn, and many research services of Wall Street heavyweights are sounding the alarm about […]
BofA: “Central Banks Are Now In A Desperate Dilemma”…”Start Buying Volatility”
BofA: “Central Banks Are Now In A Desperate Dilemma”…”Start Buying Volatility” One week after the second biggest weekly inflow to Wall Street on record, the “risk on” rotation ended abruptly in the ensuing five days, when as Bank of America writes overnight, it observed “Inflows to structural “deflation”, outflows from cyclical “inflation”; with oil the […]
Mr Creosote is Full
Mr Creosote is Full Maitre D’: “And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.” Mr Creosote: “No.” Maitre D’: “Oh, sir! It’s only a tiny little thin one.” Mr Creosote: “No. F**k off. I’m full…” [Belches] Maitre D’: “Oh, sir… it’s only wafer thin.” Mr Creosote: “Look – I couldn’t eat another thing. I’m absolutely stuffed. Bugger off.” Maitre D’: “Oh, sir, just… just […]
Falling Interest Rates Have Postponed “Peak Oil”
Falling Interest Rates Have Postponed “Peak Oil” Falling interest rates have huge power. My background is as an actuary, so I am very much aware of the great power of interest rates. But a lot of people are not aware of this power, including, I suspect, some of the people making today’s decisions to raise interest […]
