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Quantitative Easing for People: The UK Labour Frontrunner’s Controversial Proposal
Quantitative Easing for People: The UK Labour Frontrunner’s Controversial Proposal British MP Jeremy Corbyn has proposed a “People’s QE” that has critics crying hyperinflation and supporters saying it’s about time. Dark horse candidate Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently leading in the polls for UK Labour Party leadership, has included in his platform “quantitative easing for people.” […]
Venezuela Increasingly Looks Like A War Zone
Venezuela Increasingly Looks Like A War Zone Over the years, we have repeatedly poked fun at the transformation of Venezuela into a “socialist utopia” – an economy in a state of terminal collapse, where the destruction of the currency (one black market Bolivaris now worth 107 times less than the official currency’s exchange rate) and the […]
Deflation Is Winning – Beware!
Deflation Is Winning – Beware! Expect the ride to get even rougher Deflation is back on the front burner and it’s going to destroy all of the careful central planning and related market manipulation of the past 6 years. Clear signs from the periphery indicate that a destructive deflationary pulse has been unleashed. Tanking commodity […]
Citi Predicts Greek Hyperinflation Breaks Out In Two Years
Citi Predicts Greek Hyperinflation Breaks Out In Two Years Earlier, we showed that according to Citigroup (among many) for Greece to have any hope of surviving, it needs a masive debt haircut: the bigger, the better, with Citi tossing out numbers as high as €130 billion. Still, even if Greece does get debt relief, as long as […]
When Money Dies
When Money Dies “When Money Dies” is the title of a 1975 book by Adam Fergusson, in which he describes the downfall of the Reichsmark in Weimar Germany. A fascinating look at that period of history, one can glean quite a few useful pieces of advice on how to survive a currency crisis. But “when […]
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming”
“Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America” Schiff & Maloney Warn “People Don’t Realize What Is Coming” Ali and Frazier, Laurel and Hardy, Mayweather and Pacquiao, Liesman and Santelli, and now Schiff and Maloney. Peter and Mike join clash of the titan-like to discuss their investment strategies and expose the charts the government doesn’t want you to seeas […]
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 […]
Lessons from the German Hyperinflation of the 1920s
Lessons from the German Hyperinflation of the 1920s The German hyperinflation episode in the early 1920s is often quoted as an example of the dire consequences of excessive money printing – a leading industrial economy succumbing to the dangers of currency debasement promoted by incompetent central bankers. Alas, the reality is more complex than that, […]
The Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed!
The Federal Reserve Bank Must Be Destroyed! “Delanda est in Susidium Foederatum Bank” (The Federal Reserve Bank Must be Destroyed) During the years of the Roman Republic, Cato the Elder ended every speech with the phrase “Delanda est Carthago” (Carthage must be destroyed). Rome had fought two wars with Carthage, yet the threat to the […]
Is Japan Zimbabwe?
Is Japan Zimbabwe? Is Japan Zimbabwe? How preposterous: Japan is an advanced economy that cannot possibly suffer the same fate as Zimbabwe. Right? Or could Japan get hyperinflation? Below I explain why Japan, and with it investors’ portfolios, might be at risk. The other day, when I was on a panel discussing unsustainable deficits in […]
The Reason for Hyperinflation-phobia
The Reason for Hyperinflation-phobia The New York Times can be forgiven for blaming the empty shelves in Caracas to the plunge in oil. However, a raging hyperinflation cleared the cupboards before the price of oil was cut in half. William Neuman’s front page story illustrates what the NYT does best, making economic tragedies personal. Laboratory assistant Mary Noriega […]
When Money Dies: Germany and Paper Money After 1910 – Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna – Mises Daily
When Money Dies: Germany and Paper Money After 1910 – Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna – Mises Daily. The story of the destruction of the German mark during the hyper-inflation of Weimar Germany from 1919 to its horrific peak in November 1923 is usually dismissed as a bizarre anomaly in the economic history of the twentieth century. But […]
How Japanese Hyperinflation Starts (In 1 Chart) | Zero Hedge
How Japanese Hyperinflation Starts (In 1 Chart) | Zero Hedge. The Japanese Yen’s real effective exchange rate (REER) has collapsed to the weakest since 1982, according to Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities. Simply put, REER is a trade-weighted measure of Yen strength (or weakness) against, in this case, 59 trading partners; and as the nation posts […]
Prepping works as planned. Until it doesn’t
Prepping works as planned. Until it doesn’t. By Sierra Grey – entry for our non-fiction writing contest. Robert Burns once wrote, “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft a’gley.”. Translated—no matter how well we plan, things often fail, turn out wrong, or go awry. Humans have limitations. We possess only fragments of knowledge […]
