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The Central Bankers Are Crazy & Public is Out Of Its Mind – Where’s the Beef?
The Central Bankers Are Crazy & Public is Out Of Its Mind – Where’s the Beef? The central bankers are simply crazy, not evil. They are trying to steer the economy by utilizing this simpleton theory that if you make something cheaper, someone will buy it. Japanese and German cars managed to get a major […]
Deutsche Bank: Negative Rates Confirm The Failure Of Globalization
Deutsche Bank: Negative Rates Confirm The Failure Of Globalization Negative interest rates may or may not be a thing of the past (many thought that the ECB had learned its lesson, and then Vitor Constancio wrote a blog post showing that the ECB hasn’t learned a damn thing), but the confusion about their significance remains. […]
Why Negative Rates Can’t Stop the Coming Depression
Why Negative Rates Can’t Stop the Coming Depression A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. – Anonymous. In our upcoming issue of The Bill Bonner Letter, we explore the strange territory of “NIRP” – negative-interest-rate policy. About $7 trillion of sovereign bonds now yield less than nothing. Lenders give their money […]
The ECB – A Victim of its own Ignorance?
The ECB – A Victim of its own Ignorance? “Rates will stay low, very low, for a long period of time and well past the horizon of our purchases,” Draghi declared. “From today’s perspective and taking into account the support of our measures to growth and inflation, we don’t anticipate that it will be necessary […]
German bank that almost failed now being paid to borrow money
German bank that almost failed now being paid to borrow money The 12.5 hours spent crossing the Pacific on Qantas flight 27 feels like going through a wormhole. The flight departs Sydney, Australia at 12:50pm and arrives to Santiago, Chile the same day at 11:20am. In other words, the plane lands 90 minutes before it […]
Hillary’s Scary New Cash Tax
Hillary’s Scary New Cash Tax Have you heard of “negative interest rates”? It’s become a phenomenon with economists and the media. There’s a good chance you’ve read an article about it. We’ve covered it many times in the Dispatch. I’m writing to tell you something about negative interest rates you haven’t heard. You certainly […]
Never Go Full-Kuroda: NIRP Plus QE Will Be Contractionary Disaster In Japan, CS Warns
Never Go Full-Kuroda: NIRP Plus QE Will Be Contractionary Disaster In Japan, CS Warns In late January, when Haruhiko Kuroda took Japan into NIRP, he made it official. He was full-everything. Full-Krugman. Full-Keynes. Full-post-crisis-central-banker-retard. In fact, with the BoJ monetizing the entirety of JGB gross issuance as well as buying up more than half of all […]
The Financial System Is A Larger Threat Than Terrorism
The Financial System Is A Larger Threat Than Terrorism In the 21st century Americans have been distracted by the hyper-expensive “war on terror.” Trillions of dollars have been added to the taxpayers’ burden and many billions of dollars in profits to the military/security complex in order to combat insignificant foreign “threats,” such as the Taliban, […]
It’s a revolution: German banks told to start hoarding cash
It’s a revolution: German banks told to start hoarding cash Just stunning. German newspaper Der Spiegel reported yesterday that the Bavarian Banking Association has recommended that its member banks start stockpiling PHYSICAL CASH. Europe, of course, has been battling with negative interest rates for quite some time. What this means is that commercial banks are being charged […]
Where Negative Interest Rates Will Lead Us
WHERE NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES WILL LEAD US Despite zero-interest-rate-policy (ZIRP) and multiple quantitative easing programs — whereby the central bank buys large quantities of assets while leaving interest rates at practically zero — the world’s economies are stuck in the doldrums. The central banks’ only accomplishment seems to be an increase in public and private […]
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First Back in August 2012, when negative interest rates were still merely viewed as sheer monetary lunacy instead of pervasive global monetary reality that has pushed over $6 trillion in global bonds into negative yield territory, the NY Fed mused hypothetically about […]
Day of Reckoning Imminent
Day of Reckoning Imminent Fudging Numbers It all seems so systematic, arranged, and orderly. Sixty seconds make a minute, 60 minutes make an hour, 24 hours make a day, and one day equals one complete rotation of the planet earth. Roughly every 30 days the moon orbits the earth – which is one month. Then […]
