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The Big Myth
The Big Myth Debunking a Lie Don Watkins of the Ayn Rand Institute wrote an article, The Myth of Banking Deregulation, to debunk a lie. The lie is that bank regulation is good. That it helped stabilize the economy in the 1930’s. And that deregulation at the end of the century destabilized the economy and caused […]
Is an Inflation Comeback in the Works?
Is an Inflation Comeback in the Works? Exterminating Angel LOVINGSTON, VIRGINIA – Amid all the sound and fury of the Trump news cycle, hardly anyone noticed. There is a specter haunting this economy. It is the specter of inflation… See, if you want to whip inflation now, you don’t need to do any of the really […]
The Futility of Predictions
The Futility of Predictions Awesome Forecasts and the Unknowable Future Back in late 2013 I wrote a piece on human nature which was in part inspired by the bullish exuberance exhibited by a MarketWatch article predicting the DJIA at 20,000 in the near term future. Yesterday afternoon, a bit over three years later, that prediction actually became reality and I’m […]
India – On a Downward Spiral
India – On a Downward Spiral India’s Currency Ban – Part IX India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on 8th November 2016 that Rs 500 (~$7.50) and Rs 1,000 (~$15) banknotes would no longer be legal tender. Sadly, the despondency visible in the old man’s facial expression has become a widespread phenomenon since the currency […]
Modi’s Great Leap Forward
Modi’s Great Leap Forward India’s Currency Ban – Part VIII India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced on 8th November 2016 that Rs 500 (~$7.50) and Rs 1,000 (~$15) banknotes would no longer be legal tender. Linked are Part-I, Part-II, Part-III, Part-IV, Part-V, Part-VI and Part-VII, which provide updates on the demonetization saga and how Modi is acting as a catalyst to hasten the […]
Fake News? It’s All Fake!
Fake News? It’s All Fake! Barbarous Huns Life is one long struggle in the dark. – Lucretius BALTIMORE – In January of this year, the Empire Herald reported that a “meth-addled couple” had eaten a homeless man in New York City’s Central Park. Later, Now8News reported that a can of cookie dough had “exploded in a woman’s vagina”; the […]
US True Money Supply Growth Jumps, Part 1: A Shift in Liabilities
US True Money Supply Growth Jumps, Part 1: A Shift in Liabilities A Very Odd Growth Spurt in the True Money Supply The growth rates of various “Austrian” measures of the US money supply (such as TMS-2 and money AMS) have accelerated significantly in recent months. That is quite surprising, as the Fed hasn’t been […]
Gold Price Skyrockets in India after Currency Ban – Part IV
Gold Price Skyrockets in India after Currency Ban – Part IV A Market Gripped by Fear The Indian Prime Minister announced on 8th November 2016 that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes would no longer be legal tender. Linked are Part-I, Part-II and Part-III updates on the rapidly encroaching police state. The economic and social mess that Modi has created […]
Gold Price Skyrockets in India after Currency Ban
Gold Price Skyrockets in India after Currency Ban India’s Government Makes Banknotes Worthless by Decree Overnight As I write this in the morning of 9th November 2016, there are huge lines forming outside gold shops in India — and gold traded heavily until late into the night yesterday. Depending on who you ask, the retail […]
Impoverished by Too Much Money
Impoverished by Too Much Money Shipping Decline BALTIMORE – “It’s over!” Raúl Ilargi Meijer, a regular contributor to David Stockman’s Contra Corner newsletter, explains that the “entire model our societies have been based on for at least as long as we ourselves have lived is over!” Global corporate defaults are at the highest level since the peak of […]
Doomed to Failure
Doomed to Failure Larded Up and Larded Over We’ve been waiting for the U.S. economy to reach escape velocity for the last six years. What we mean is we’ve been waiting for the economy to finally become self-stimulating and no longer require monetary or fiscal stimulus to keep it from stalling out. Unfortunately, this may […]
Great Causes, a Sea of Debt and the 2017 Recession
Great Causes, a Sea of Debt and the 2017 Recession Great Cause NORMANDY, FRANCE – We continue our work with the bomb squad. Myth disposal is dangerous work: People love their myths more than they love life itself. They may kill for money. But they die for their religions, their governments, their clans… and their […]
Why the Fed Destroyed the Market Economy
Why the Fed Destroyed the Market Economy What Have You Done for Me Lately? Swing voters are a fickle bunch. One election they vote Democrat. The next they vote Republican. For they have no particular ideology or political philosophy to base their judgment upon. The primacy of the wallet. They don’t give a rip about […]
Cash Bans and the Next Crisis
Cash Bans and the Next Crisis Criminalizing Cash Money sometimes goes “full politics”. Take poor Kenneth Rogoff at Harvard. He wants a dollar with a voter registration card, a U.S. flag on its windshield, and a handgun in its belt – the kind of money that supports the Establishment and votes for Hillary. Etatiste tool […]
