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The Risks of the War on Cash
The Risks of the War on Cash “Quick and easy is winning the war.” On January 1st, Londoners woke up to a rather perplexing reality: all of the cashless Oyster card readers on the city’s buses, rail and tube stations had stopped working. With cash as good as banished from the London transport system, attendants […]
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created and Distributed, We Change Nothing
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created and Distributed, We Change Nothing The only real solution in my view is to create and distribute money at the base of the pyramid rather than to those in the top of the pyramid. Many well-intended people want to reform the status quo for all sorts […]
2016 Is An Easy Year To Predict
2016 Is An Easy Year To Predict No year is ever easy to predict, if only because if it were, that would take all the fun out of life. But still, predictions for 2016 look quite a bit easier than other years. This is because a whole bunch of irreversible things happened in 2015 that […]
Even The Big Banks Now Admit It: “This Is How The Fed’s ‘Massive Manipulation’ Broke The Market”
Even The Big Banks Now Admit It: “This Is How The Fed’s ‘Massive Manipulation’ Broke The Market” Raise your hand if this sounds familiar: markets are calm, things are stable, stocks are levitating on virtually no volume… and suddenly there is a price ‘air pocket’ as one or more assets unexpectedly plunge in what has become […]
David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner
David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner With very few places for capital to hide For those who enjoyed his encyclopedic 2015: Year In Review, this week we spend an hour with David Collum to ask: After processing through all of that information, what do you think the future is most likely to bring? Perhaps it […]
I was asked: Whatever Happened to Inflation after all this Money-Printing?
I was asked: Whatever Happened to Inflation after all this Money-Printing? So where’s my free lunch? I was asked once again why all this central-bank “money-printing” along with global zero-interest-rate or even negative-interest-rate policies haven’t caused a big bout of inflation, considering how currencies are getting watered down. It’s a crucial question that baffled many […]
The Fed Has Created A “Monster” And Just Made A “Dangerous Mistake,” Stephen Roach Warns
The Fed Has Created A “Monster” And Just Made A “Dangerous Mistake,” Stephen Roach Warns Stephen Roach is worried that the Fed has set the world up for another financial market meltdown. Lower for longer rates and the proliferation of unconventional monetary policy have created “a breeding ground for asset bubbles, credit bubbles, and all-too […]
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created and Distributed, We Change Nothing
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created and Distributed, We Change Nothing The only real solution in my view is to create and distribute money at the base of the pyramid rather than to those in the top of the pyramid. Many well-intended people want to reform the status quo for all sorts […]
Central Banks Have Pushed the Middle Class Down into Neofeudal Serfdom
Central Banks Have Pushed the Middle Class Down into Neofeudal Serfdom The injustice of central-bank enforced neofeudalism cannot be suppressed like interest rates. In traditional feudal systems, serfs were the landless peasantry who worked the land of their feudal lords in exchange for protection. In our present-day neofeudal system, serfdom has a different definition: present-day serfs own little […]
Canadian dollar tumbles to close below 72 cents US
Canadian dollar tumbles to close below 72 cents US Oil slips below $35 US amid continuing strength of U.S. dollar Some analysts say the loonie could eventually fall to 70 cents US as the currency is pressured by low commodity prices, and the diverging interest rate policies of Canada and the United States. (Mark Blinch/Reuters) […]
Sell The Bonds, Sell The Stocks, Sell The House —–Dread The Fed!
Sell The Bonds, Sell The Stocks, Sell The House —–Dread The Fed! There is going to be carnage in the casino, and the proof lies in the transcript of Janet Yellen’s press conference. She did not say one word about the real world; it was all about the hypothecated world embedded in the Fed’s tinker toy […]
Grant Williams: The End Of The Road
Grant Williams: The End Of The Road The Fed is finally boxed in Grant Williams returns this week to set the context for this week’s FOMC meeting, where the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. To say he is very skeptical of the Fed’s ability […]
There’s No Upside Left
There’s No Upside Left The upside is ephemeral, illusory or wishful thinking; the downside is real and lasting. There’s no upside left–not just in the real economy, but in jobs, politics or policy tweaks. Yes, there will be huge relief rallies in the stock market–relief that the Fed is still omnipotent, that the Fed didn’t destroy […]
Paper Money Versus the Gold Standard
Paper Money Versus the Gold Standard We are living in a time that can only be considered monetary chaos. The U.S. Federal Reserve has manipulated key interest rates down to practically zero for the last six years, and expanded the money supply in the banking system by $4 trillion dollars over that time. And with […]
