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US Credit Growth – the First Cracks?
US Credit Growth – the First Cracks? Inflationary Bank Lending and Money Supply Growth Given that there is currently no “QE” program underway – with the exception of the reinvestment scheme designed to prevent the Fed’s balance sheet from shrinking (if it were to shrink, the money supply would decline as well) – money supply […]
A Question of Money – Interest – Bankers
A Question of Money – Interest – Bankers QUESTION: Mr Armstrong, interesting article today, the story of the store of value (at least long term) has always confused me. One can look at saving accounts also as an asset as it yields the interest payment and one relinquishes the access to the money. No difference […]
Real Wealth and Phantom Wealth – Secular Boom and Bust
Real Wealth and Phantom Wealth – Secular Boom and Bust The Things that Produce Real Wealth vs. Phantom Wealth Our friend Michael Pollaro, the keeper of long-term data on the true money supply and author at Forbes as well as occasionally a guest author on this site, recently sent us the following chart of a […]
The Logic of Interventionism, or How to Wake up in a Prison
The Logic of Interventionism, or How to Wake up in a Prison Archaic Financial Freedom The mainstream press is still full of articles about the alleged evils of cash, which we regard as a typical “trial balloon” launched by the powers-that-be. The way this works is that they get a repressive measure they indent to […]
Weekend Edition: Literally, Your ATM Won’t Work…
Weekend Edition: Literally, Your ATM Won’t Work… Editor’s Note: Today, we’re running an urgent warning from Bill. It’s about theviolent monetary shock he sees coming. This may sound strange… But the catastrophic scenario Bill outlines below is potentially a much bigger threat than even the out-of-control national debt. Please remember this warning when you go to the ATM […]
Gold Verses Fractional Reserves Part 2
Gold Verses Fractional Reserves Part 2 The Harmful Consequences We have now to examine the harm that the system does whether or not the pressure to reduce the reserve requirements is continuously successful. Let us begin with a situation in, say, Ruritania, which has a fractional-reserve gold standard and a central bank, but in which […]
It Is Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off All Of Our Debt
It Is Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off All Of Our Debt Did you know that if you took every single penny away from everyone in the United States that it still would not be enough to pay off the national debt? Today, the debt of the federal government exceeds $145,000 per household, and it is getting worse […]
Modern-Day Monetary Cranks and the Fed’s “Inflation” Target
Modern-Day Monetary Cranks and the Fed’s “Inflation” Target One Bad Idea After Another Ben Bernanke is frequently in the news these days. The latest occasion concerns his opinion on the Fed’s “inflation” target, i.e., the target for the speed at which money should be debased relative to consumer goods in order to finally attain centrally […]
Spelling Out The Big Reset
Spelling Out The Big Reset As economies age, debt builds up. Advanced economies – those with the highest borrowing ratings by the reputable agencies they developed – have it clogging up inside all their arteries. The Big Reset will finally become inevitable, as has been acknowledged by the IMF head Largarde, mentioning the year 2020. […]
How money creation threatens hyperinflation
How money creation threatens hyperinflation In order to understand the relationship between money creation and the price level, we first need to get some definitions straight. To Austrians the terms inflation and deflation refer to money and not prices. There is no doubt that money has experienced unprecedented inflation. In February of 2010 base money […]
Steve Keen: The Deliberate Blindness Of Our Central Planners
Steve Keen: The Deliberate Blindness Of Our Central Planners Choosing to ignore the largest risks The models we use for decision making determine the outcomes we experience. So, if our models are faulty or flawed, we make bad decisions and suffer bad outcomes. Professor, author and deflationist Steve Keen joins us this week to discuss […]
The ECB’s Lunatic Full Monty Treatment
The ECB’s Lunatic Full Monty Treatment Not Quite Right in the Head? The belief that the market economy requires “steering” by altruistic central bankers, who make decisions influencing the entire economy based on their personal epiphanies, has rarely been more pronounced than today. Most probably it has actually never been stronger. It is both highly amusing and […]
When This Ends, Everybody Gets Hurt
When This Ends, Everybody Gets Hurt And the end is uncomfortably close Central banks around the globe have taken us all into unchartered territory, where the possible paths boil down to a binary outcome: either it all works out or it doesn’t. Unfortunately, the ‘it all works out’ outcome has a very low probability of […]
Canadian Chart Blast
Some interesting trends:
