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How Twisted Minds Function
How Twisted Minds Function The economic theories arising out of Australia are both amusing and frightening. In the latest bit of madness, an economist pleads for more inflation, blaming cheap overseas retailers for Australia’s housing bubble. For mocking purposes only, please consider How Cheap Overseas Retailers are Pushing Up House Prices in Australia. “DOWN Down! Prices […]
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 […]
Four Reasons Central Banks are Wrong to Fight Deflation
Four Reasons Central Banks are Wrong to Fight Deflation The word “deflation” can be defined in various ways. According to the most widely accepted definition today, deflation is a sustained decrease of the price level. Older authors have often used the expression “deflation” to denote a decreasing money supply, and some contemporary authors use it […]
Does the World End in Fire or Ice? Thoughts on Japan and the Inflation/Deflation Debate
Does the World End in Fire or Ice? Thoughts on Japan and the Inflation/Deflation Debate Japan has managed to offset decades of deflationary dynamics, but at a cost that is hidden beneath the surface of apparent stability. Do we implode in a deflationary death spiral (ice) or in an inflationary death spiral (fire)? Debating the question […]
Surplus or Stimulus
Surplus or Stimulus René Magritte Le Cri du Coeur 1960 Austerity is over, proclaimed the IMF this week. And no doubt attributed that to the ‘successful’ period of ‘five years of belt tightening’ a.k.a. ‘gradual fiscal consolidation’ it has, along with its econo-religious ilk, imposed on many of the world’s people. Only, it’s not true […]
Why China Is About To Bring The Global Reflation Rally To A Halt
Why China Is About To Bring The Global Reflation Rally To A Halt Previously we reported that iron ore prices – having almost doubled in the past year and launching a global reflationary wave – are on the verge of tumbling as the world becomes increasingly aware that China has a “13,000 Eiffel Tower” record […]
When This All Blows Up…
Shutterstock When This All Blows Up… Understanding the how & when of the next economic crash This report marks the end of a series of three big trains of thought. The first explained how we’re living through the Mother Of All Financial Bubbles. The next detailed the Great Wealth Transfer that is now underway, siphoning our wealth into […]
Hell To Pay
SkillUp/Shutterstock Hell To Pay The final condition for a market crash is falling into place Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever going to run out of new things to say about the economy. Nothing interesting has happened in a long time. Our liquidity-drunk “markets” remain over-priced due to the chronic intervention of the global central […]
Negative Interest Rates and the War on Cash (1)
Negative Interest Rates and the War on Cash (1) Irving Underhill City Bank-Farmers Trust Building, William & Beaver streets, NYC 1931 It’s been a while, but Nicole Foss is back at the Automatic Earth -which makes me very happy-, and for good measure, she starts out with a very long article. So long in fact that […]
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 […]
The Wave of Deflation & Rising Unemployment
The Wave of Deflation & Rising Unemployment QUESTION: Marty, years ago you did a chart showing the projection for unemployment. I believe I understand what you were projection for the company I work for has been replacing people with technology on a large scale. So we can have rising corporate profits with rising unemployment as technology […]
Government Officials Admit to ECONOMIC False Flag Operations
Government Officials Admit to ECONOMIC False Flag Operations There Are Economic – As Well As Military – False Flag Attacks False flag attacks don’t just involve physical deaths and wars … They also involve faked economic events and financial casualties. For example, two officials of the International Monetary Fund said last month that they needed the threat of an imminent […]
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 […]
The Deflation Bogeyman
The Deflation Bogeyman BRUSSELS – Central banks throughout the developed world have been overwhelmed by the fear of deflation. They shouldn’t be: The fear is unfounded, and the obsession with it is damaging. Japan is a poster child for the fear. In 2013, decades of (gently) falling prices prompted the Bank of Japan to embark […]
Helicopter Money: Global Central Banks Consider Distributing Money Directly To The People
Helicopter Money: Global Central Banks Consider Distributing Money Directly To The People Should central banks create money out of thin air and give it directly to governments and average citizens? If you can believe it, this is now under serious consideration. Since 2008, global central banks have cut interest rates 637 times, they have injected […]
