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Central Bank Money Rules the World
Central Bank Money Rules the World Central bank credit that supports markets — is not just creation of the Fed, but by central banks and institutions around the world colluding together. Global markets are too deeply connected these days to consider the Fed in isolation. Since last month’s correction, the world has been watching the […]
Consequences of Replacing the Gold Standard with the PhD Standard
Consequences of Replacing the Gold Standard with the PhD Standard In 2011, Jim Grant chastised the Fed about replacing the Gold Standard with the PhD Standard. Our “reward” is coming up. Here is the pertinent video clip of James Grant. “The 2007-2009 real estate debacle is the monetary equivalent of a chain reaction on a […]
The Central Bank Bubble: It Will Be Ugly
The Central Bank Bubble: It Will Be Ugly 21 Mar The global economy has been living through a period of central bank insanity, thanks to a little-understood expansion strategy known as quantitative easing, which has destroyed main-street and benefitted wall street. Central Banks over the last decade simply created credit out of thin air. Snap […]
Worst Case Scenario: What is It?
Worst Case Scenario: What is It? This article provides insight as to the way the Fed and all central banks think. A worst-case scenario is a concept in risk management wherein the planner, in planning for potential disasters, considers the most severe possible outcome that can reasonably be projected to occur in a given situation. […]
DiMartino Booth: It Won’t Take Much More For The Fed To Break The Markets
DiMartino Booth: It Won’t Take Much More For The Fed To Break The Markets Via Financial Sense, The following is a summary of our recent FS Insider podcast, “Danielle DiMartino Booth: Problems at the Fed, More Volatility for the Markets.” Danielle DiMartino Booth, founder of Money Strong and author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is […]
Trump and the Federal Reserve
Trump and the Federal Reserve Many of us would rather not think about the possibility of President Trump getting reelected, but there is little doubt that he is thinking about it. If Trump is serious about winning reelection, he may want to reconsider the sort of people he is appointing to the Federal Reserve. Virtually all political […]
The Fed Has Its Finger On The Button Of A Nuclear Debt Bomb
The Fed Has Its Finger On The Button Of A Nuclear Debt Bomb I hear a lot of talk lately in the alternative media (and even the mainstream media) of the potential for World War III. The general assumption when one hears that term is that “nuclear conflict” is imminent. But a world war does […]
Will US Companies Repatriating Cash Home Create Banking Crisis Outside USA?
Will US Companies Repatriating Cash Home Create Banking Crisis Outside USA? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Do you believe that if American companies do repatriate dollars to get the low tax rate in the USA, will this impact foreign banks as capital withdraws? I figured you are the best qualified to answer that question nobody seems to […]
In this Era of Inflated Asset Prices, Can the Fed Raise Rates without Causing Financial Mayhem?
In this Era of Inflated Asset Prices, Can the Fed Raise Rates without Causing Financial Mayhem? Wolf Richter on the Keiser Report. The Fed is trying to accomplish a soft landing — hence the extraordinarily slow rate hikes — but our history with soft landings is very spotty, and there has never been more debt than now: Investors […]
The Fed Must Have Inflation. Failure Is Not an Option
The Fed Must Have Inflation. Failure Is Not an Option The Fed says incessantly that “price stability” is part of their dual mandate and they are committed to maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar. But the Fed has a funny definition of price stability. Common sense says price stability should be zero inflation and […]
Trump Trade Wars A Perfect Smokescreen For A Market Crash
Trump Trade Wars A Perfect Smokescreen For A Market Crash First, I would like to say that the timing of Donald Trump’s announcement on expansive trade tariffs is unusual if not impeccable. I say this only IF Trump’s plan was to benefit establishment globalists by giving them perfect cover for their continued demolition of the […]
Ron Paul Fears “Huge” Correction In Stocks, Warns “It’s Going To Be A Calamity”
Ron Paul Fears “Huge” Correction In Stocks, Warns “It’s Going To Be A Calamity” “I think we have a greater distortion and a financial danger sitting out there bigger than ever before,” warned former presidential candidate Ron Paul in an ominous interview with CNBC this week. While markets briefly got nervous over Trump’s tariffs last […]
Are Subprime Debt Slaves, a Leading Indicator, Worrying the Fed?
Are Subprime Debt Slaves, a Leading Indicator, Worrying the Fed? Credit problems always appear first at the margins. The new Fed remains a somewhat unknown quantity: There are still four vacancies on the Fed’s seven-member Board of Governors that forms the core of the policy-making FOMC. The new Chairman, Jerome Powell, has already shown in […]
Doug Noland: No Bailouts Anytime Soon, So Let Those Short Bets Run
Doug Noland: No Bailouts Anytime Soon, So Let Those Short Bets Run Now that equities are behaving the way they should have since, oh, 2013 – volatile with a pronounced down bias – everyone is wondering how far the crazy will go before the Fed starts buying the S&P 500. Short sellers, of course, want […]
