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Money: How Its Past Predicts Its Future
Money: How Its Past Predicts Its Future What is money, where does it come from and more importantly where does it go? At first glance, it might appear inexplicable and bizarre that our governments and our rulers have managed to keep their stronghold over the monetary system for 2000 years, especially when one thinks about […]
Yellow Vests Advocate Taking Money Out of Banks in France to Topple Macron
Yellow Vests Advocate Taking Money Out of Banks in France to Topple Macron The Yellow Vest Movement in France is turning to an all-out war against Macron. Many are now advocating withdrawing their money from backs in order to topple Macron. Yellow Vest activists ‘Gilets Jaunes’, are now supported by up to 70% of the population. […]
Is This Downturn A Repeat of 2008?
Getty images Is This Downturn A Repeat of 2008? Crashes differ, so be cautious about your assumptions Even people who don’t follow the stock market closely are aware that the global economy is weakening and appears to be heading into recession. For those who track the stock market, the signs are ominous: the U.S. was […]
2018 Year in Review
2018 Year in Review The year everything changed Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than our usual […]
The Fed Relies Indirectly on the Banks & Cannot Stimulate the Economy Directly
The Fed Relies Indirectly on the Banks & Cannot Stimulate the Economy Directly QUESTION: Hello, Since the Fed ‘created’ ‘money’ after 2008 that was then deposited back at the Fed by the recipient banks ( say,75% of it), it is not easy to see why the Fed is to blame for the credit explosion since 2008- […]
The Yield Curve Flattens And Bank Stocks Plunge. Here’s The Connection – And The Prediction
The Yield Curve Flattens And Bank Stocks Plunge. Here’s The Connection – And The Prediction Despite all the ominous press being devoted to the soon-to-be-inverted yield curve, it’s not always clear why such a thing matters. In other words, how, exactly does a line on a graph slipping below zero translate into a recession and […]
Why Everything That Needs to Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken
Why Everything That Needs to Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken Just in case you missed what’s going on in France: the status quo in Europe is doomed. The status quo has a simple fix for every crisis and systemic problem: 1. create currency out of thin air 2. give it to super-wealthy banks, financiers and […]
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, A World That Is the Property of the 1%
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, A World That Is the Property of the 1% This year, I simply couldn’t get one fact out of my head: according to a 2017 report from the Institute for Policy Studies, three billionaires — Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, and Bill Gates — have amassed as much wealth as the bottom half […]
“Severe Collapse” of Home Prices Might Trigger a “Financial-Institution Crisis” in Australia: OECD Frets about the Bank
“Severe Collapse” of Home Prices Might Trigger a “Financial-Institution Crisis” in Australia: OECD Frets about the Bank “The authorities should prepare contingency plans.” The big four banks are too exposed to mortgages. Even if the banks don’t topple, the economy will get hit hard. In its latest report on Australia, the OECD focuses to a […]
Energy Transfer, Banks Lost Billions by Ignoring Early Dakota Access Pipeline Concerns
Energy Transfer, Banks Lost Billions by Ignoring Early Dakota Access Pipeline Concerns Roughly four years ago, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) filed a federal application to build a 1,172 mile oil pipeline from North Dakota’s Bakken shale across the U.S. to Illinois at a projected cost of $3.8 billion. Before that application was filed, on September 30, 2014, […]
The Fed Explains the Rate Hikes: To Prevent Financial Crisis 2
The Fed Explains the Rate Hikes: To Prevent Financial Crisis 2 Instead of “bubble” or “collapse,” it uses “valuation pressures” and “broad adjustment in prices.” Business debt, not consumer debt, is the bogeyman this time. Preventing another financial crisis – or “promoting financial stability,” as the Federal Reserve Board of Governors calls it – isn’t […]
Truth Is What We Hide, Self-Serving Cover Stories Are What We Sell
Truth Is What We Hide, Self-Serving Cover Stories Are What We Sell The fact that lies and cover stories are now the official norm only makes us love our servitude with greater devotion. We can summarize the current era in one sentence: truth is what we hide, self-serving cover stories are what we sell. Jean-Claude […]
Coffee Sellers Are Not Fundamentally Different From Banks
COFFEE SELLERS ARE NOT FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM BANKS With the 2007-8 financial crisis came a splendid alphabetical soup of central bank interventions to stimulate financial markets, lower interest rates, provide astonishing amounts of liquidity to banks and, allegedly, prevent another Great Depression. Likening the failure of big banks to falling elephants crushing even the smallest grass, […]
Subprime Rises: Credit Card Delinquencies Blow Through Financial-Crisis Peak at the 4,705 Smaller US Banks
Subprime Rises: Credit Card Delinquencies Blow Through Financial-Crisis Peak at the 4,705 Smaller US Banks So what’s going on here? In the third quarter, the “delinquency rate” on credit-card loan balances at commercial banks other than the largest 100 banks – so the delinquency rate at the 4,705 smaller banks in the US – spiked […]
“A Daisy Chain Of Defaults”: How Debt Cross-Guarantees Could Spark China’s Next Crisis
“A Daisy Chain Of Defaults”: How Debt Cross-Guarantees Could Spark China’s Next Crisis On November 8, China shocked markets with its latest targeted stimulus in the form of an “unprecedented” lending directive ordering large banks to issue loans to private companies to at least one-third of new corporate lending. The announcement sparked a new round […]
