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The Bubble Finance Cycle——What Our Keynesian School Marm Doesn’t Get
The Bubble Finance Cycle——What Our Keynesian School Marm Doesn’t Get The world of Bubble Finance economies created by the Fed and other central banks is fundamentally different than that prevailing under the “Lite Touch” monetary policies which preceded the Greenspan era. Those essentially reactive and minimally invasive central bank intrusions into the money and capital markets prevailed from the time of the Fed’s […]
US Ally Turkey Throws Journalists In Jail For “Attempting To Overthrow The Government”
US Ally Turkey Throws Journalists In Jail For “Attempting To Overthrow The Government” Let’s just be clear: while it’s not precisely clear what combination of voter fraud, intimidation, and coercion ultimately led to Sunday’s sweeping ballot box victory for AKP in Turkey, there’s little question that the election results reflect the will of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more […]
Forget China: This Extremely “Developed” Country Just Suffered Its Biggest Money Outflow Ever
Forget China: This Extremely “Developed” Country Just Suffered Its Biggest Money Outflow Ever While understandably all eyes have been fixed on every monthly capital outflow update from China (even the ones that the Politburo is clearly massaging), few have noticed that one of the biggest total outflows currently in the global developed economy is taking place right in America’s own […]
US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences”
US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences” On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in “direct action on the ground” in Iraq and Syria. The change in rhetoric (and apparent shift in strategy) comes just days after […]
With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?”
With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?” The US is in a tough spot militarily. In Syria, Russia and Iran have taken advantage of the fact that the plan hatched by the West and its regional allies to destabilize the Assad regime took […]
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling
The Western Alliance Is Crumbling EU Is Abandoning U.S. on Overthrowing Assad Obama Cannot Defeat Assad without EU’s Help EU Also Rejects Obama’s TTIP & TISA Demands Obama’s Presidential ‘Legacy’ Heads to Failure Europe is being overrun by refugees from American bombing campaigns in Libya and Syria, which created a failed state in Libya, and which threaten […]
Giving Saudis a Pass on Yemen War
Giving Saudis a Pass on Yemen War By supporting Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, the U.S. is again finding itself on the same side with Al Qaeda in a Mideast conflict, a troubling pattern driven by a compulsion to excuse actions by U.S. “allies” no matter how outrageous, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. […]
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars”
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars” “We’ve ended two wars.” — Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser held at a “private residence” “Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of American troops, we salute this new generation of veterans.” — National Security Adviser […]
Puerto Rico To Run Out Of Cash By Year End, Faces $13 Billion Shortfall
Puerto Rico To Run Out Of Cash By Year End, Faces $13 Billion Shortfall Remember when two months ago Schauble jokingly offered Jack Lew to “trade” Greece for Puerto Rico? Something tells us in the interim period the German finmin changed his mind because while the Greek can has been kicked again, if only for the […]
Counterterrorism “Success Story” Fails Completely As Yemen Set To Split Into Two Countries
Counterterrorism “Success Story” Fails Completely As Yemen Set To Split Into Two Countries Late last month, as the fighting in Yemen continued unabated, Jeff Prescott, the National Security Council’s Senior Director for the Middle East said “there is no military solution to the crisis.” Saudi Arabia seemingly disagrees and that will reportedly be one topic […]
Who Runs the Fed?
Who Runs the Fed? Ben Bernanke, 2011. (Shirley Li/Medill DC via Flickr) The 2008 financial crisis challenged many orthodox assumptions in finance and economics, including the proper role and accountability of central banks. The U.S. Federal Reserve, commonly known as the Fed, is the world’s most powerful central bank. One major source of Federal Reserve […]
Where Candidates Fear to Tread
Where Candidates Fear to Tread That the snarkier circles of political commentary thrill to the elephantine bellowings of Donald J. Trump only shows the pathetic limitations of the snarkists. They enjoy Trump’s filterless mouth, his harsh goadings of the other presidential wannabes, and his supposed telepathic empathy for the suffering public outside the magic kingdom […]
