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Ken Rogoff’s Government Debt Default Plan
Ken Rogoff’s Government Debt Default Plan Ken Rogoff is by all accounts a brilliant man. The Harvard professor and former IMF chief economist is a chess grandmaster. His thesis committee included current Fed vice-chair Stanley Fischer. But like many survivors of Ivy League hoop jumping, the poor fellow appears to have emerged punch drunk. […]
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again Why has the Fed created incentives for US corporations to loot their companies and drive them deeper into debt? Despite four consecutive quarters of negative earnings, weak demand and anemic sales, US corporations continue to load up on debt, buy back their own shares and hand out cash […]
Sorry Losers!
Sorry Losers! By its actions, the Federal Reserve has selected a precious few winners and many, many losers. Sadly, you are highly likely to be one of the losers. Sorry! I’m one, too, if that helps soften the blow. But we have a lot of company. Other losers include: Savers Anyone with money in a […]
Control What You Can
Control What You Can Our society does not make it easy to control what you can control. One of the aphorisms to live by here at Of Two Minds is control what you can.We don’t control the erosion of our money from inflation, the state’s vast criminalization machinery, the nation’s foreign policies or the central bank’s free money for […]
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 […]
The Great Debt Unwind Beneath the Surface: US Commercial Bankruptcies Soar
The Great Debt Unwind Beneath the Surface: US Commercial Bankruptcies Soar They’d believed in six years of Wall Street hogwash. Not that you would have guessed from the stock market, hovering at all-time highs, or from soaring junk bonds, even the riskiest paper: CCC-and-below rated junk bonds skyrocketed since their February 12 low as their […]
Global Recession? The Canadian Economy Shrinks At The Fastest Pace Since The Last Financial Crisis
Global Recession? The Canadian Economy Shrinks At The Fastest Pace Since The Last Financial Crisis Things have not been this bad for the Canadian economy since the last global recession. During the second quarter of 2016, Canada’s GDP contracted at a 1.6 percent annualized rate. That was the worst number in seven years, and it […]
The Myth Of ‘Morning In America’—–How The Public Debt Went From $1 Trillion to $35 Trillion in Four Decades, Part 1
The Myth Of ‘Morning In America’—–How The Public Debt Went From $1 Trillion to $35 Trillion in Four Decades, Part 1 I have finished my book on the upheaval represented by the Trump candidacy and movement. It will be published soon, and is an exploration of how 30 years of Bubble Finance policies at the Fed, feckless […]
We’ve Reached the “Zero Point” of Debt Creation
We’ve Reached the “Zero Point” of Debt Creation Hurtling toward a massive financial crisis. Forty-five years and counting: We’ve been on a debt spree since the early 1970s when we went off the gold standard, covering every possible angle. Trade deficits, government deficits, unfunded entitlements, private debt – you name it! Our total debt has grown […]
War Is Coming And The Global Financial Situation Is A Lot Worse Than You May Think
War Is Coming And The Global Financial Situation Is A Lot Worse Than You May Think On the surface, things seem pretty quiet in mid-July 2016. The biggest news stories are about the speculation surrounding Donald Trump’s choice of running mate, the stock market in the U.S. keeps setting new all-time record highs, and the media […]
Energy limits: Why we see rising wealth disparity and low prices
Energy limits: Why we see rising wealth disparity and low prices Last week, I gave a fairly wide-ranging presentation at the 2016 Biophysical Economics Conference called Complexity: The Connection Between Fossil Fuel EROI, Human Energy EROI, and Debt (pdf). In this post, I discuss the portion of the talk that explains several key issues: Why we are right now seeing so many […]
Planet Debt
Planet Debt Low Interest Rate Persons She is a low-interest-rate person. She has always been a low-interest-rate person. And I must be honest. I am a low-interest-rate person. If we raise interest rates, and if the dollar starts getting too strong, we’re going to have some very major problems. — Donald Trump Two low interest rate persons! The Trumpsumptive president […]
Death to All Zombies!
Death to All Zombies! Wait a minute. They’re already dead. Brexit just reveals that not everybody’s brains have been eaten. A viral contagion now threatens the zombified institutions of daily life, especially the workings of politics and finance. Just as zombies exist only in the collective imagination, so do these two principal activities of society […]
Brexit and the Crisis of Capitalism
Brexit and the Crisis of Capitalism If you collapse these extractive, debt-dependent crony-capitalist cartels, you collapse the entire status quo. Thousands of commentaries have been issued about Brexit in the past week.I’ve written four myself. Most discuss Brexit as the result of immigration issues, class war, political theater, a reaction against the European Union’s bureaucratic […]
Puerto Rico Defaults On $2 Billion In Debt Payments
Puerto Rico Defaults On $2 Billion In Debt Payments As expected, Puerto Rico will default on about $2 billion in debt payments Friday, including $780 million in constitutionally-backed general obligation bonds, as governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has issued an executive order authorizing the suspension of payments. In addition, Garcia Padilla also declared states of emergency at the island’s […]
