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The funny-money game
The funny-money game The sense of general unease that I detect among those I meet and discuss economics and financial matters with is increasing —with good reason. Clearly, what everyone calls inflation, rising prices or more accurately currency debasement, will lead to higher interest rates, threatening markets which are unmistakably in bubble territory. The consequences […]
Desperate Money Printing Leads to Depression – Dr. Marc Faber
Desperate Money Printing Leads to Depression – Dr. Marc Faber Legendary investor, economist and market forecaster Dr. Marc Faber thinks central banks (CB) are not going to cut back the money printing. Just the opposite. He predicts CBs are going to print even more money at a faster pace to hold the failing economic system […]
Who determines prices?
Who determines prices? One of the consequences of the response to the pandemic and the disruption from Brexit is that labour shortages are appearing across the low-paid sectors of the economy. So much so that even the metropolitan liberal Guardian has begun to wonder whether the benefits of higher wages for the low-paid might outweigh the cost […]
Is Anyone Willing to Call the Top of the Everything Bubble?
Is Anyone Willing to Call the Top of the Everything Bubble? Can extremes become too extreme to continue higher? We’re about to find out. Is anyone willing to call the top of the Everything bubble? The short answer is no. Anyone earning money managing other people’s money cannot afford to be wrong, and so everyone in […]
Fed Prints Money or the Whole Thing Blows Up-Craig Hemke
Fed Prints Money or the Whole Thing Blows Up-Craig Hemke By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post) Financial writer, market analyst and precious metals expert Craig Hemke says the Fed has all but said it was going to delay the so-called “taper” of easy money policies–forever. This is why gold and silver spiked as the dollar tanked […]
Eurozone finances have deteriorated
Eurozone finances have deteriorated Despite negative interest rates and money printing by the European Central Bank, which conveniently allowed all Eurozone member governments to fund themselves, having gone nowhere Eurozone nominal GDP is even lower than it was before the Lehman crisis. Then there is the question of bad debts, which have been mostly shovelled […]
The dollar’s debt trap
The dollar’s debt trap On the fiftieth anniversary of the Nixon Shock, this article explains why fiat currencies have become joined at the hip to financial asset values. And why with increasing inevitability they are about to descend into the next financial crisis together. I start by defining the currencies we use as money and […]
Inflation Is Winning, and Here’s Why the Fed Seems Content To Let It Happen
Inflation Is Winning, and Here’s Why the Fed Seems Content To Let It Happen Photo by cottonbro The U.S. Treasury publishes its balance sheet annually. The most recent, for fiscal year 2020, is so egregiously out of whack it might be hard to wrap your head around: Total Assets: $5.95 trillion Total Liabilities: $32.74 trillion Net Position (total […]
More Money Doesn’t Mean More Wealth
More Money Doesn’t Mean More Wealth Photo by Shane The Federal Reserve has targeted a 2% inflation rate for years, as though it’s a holy grail. As though 2% inflation was an economic panacea that would perfectly balance employment, business investment and bank lending. Recently, the Fed has loosened the reins on inflation and let it […]
Peter Schiff: Central Banks Have Created the Mother of All Bubbles
Peter Schiff: Central Banks Have Created the Mother of All Bubbles The Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world have pumped trillions of dollars into the global economy and depressed interest rates to artificially low levels to blow up the mother of all bubbles. In his podcast, Peter Schiff explained how the recent […]
Tough Questions Generate Weak Common Assumptions
Tough Questions Generate Weak Common Assumptions Picture Of Space Tourists An article suggesting how common space travel is about to become highlights how willing people are to accept opinions as fact. Most people make assumptions based on a number of factors. These include what they see, what they hear, and more importantly, based on the general […]
Quantitative easing: how the world got hooked on magicked-up money
© Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo Quantitative easing: how the world got hooked on magicked-up money Going cold turkey would finish off a dysfunctional global financial system that’s now hopelessly addicted to emergency infusions. The only solution is surgery on the system itself The world economy is a mess. The system, notionally governed by the […]
Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Goods and Services
Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Goods and Services Inflation can be considered a tax, an especially regressive one, falling harder on those with lower income and/or assets. As we’ve noted previously, the Federal Reserve’s “M2” monetary aggregate began growing significantly faster than the “GDP” measure of economic output in the United States beginning around 2008, […]
The everything death spiral
The everything death spiral Inflation is back in the establishment media headlines, as prices are rising across the economy. But rather like generals fighting the last war, business and economic journalists are dusting off models of inflation last used in the early 1980s. The idea, for example, that “inflation is always a monetary phenomenon” worked well […]
