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When Authorities “Own” the Market, The System Breaks Down: Here’s Why
When Authorities “Own” the Market, The System Breaks Down: Here’s Why Central planning asset purchases aimed at propping up prices destroy the essential price discovery needed by private investors. Panicked by the possibility of declines that undermine the official narrative that all is well, authorities the world over are purchasing assets like stocks, bonds and […]
Central Banks Ready To Panic — Again
Central Banks Ready To Panic — Again Less than a decade after a housing/derivatives bubble nearly wiped out the global financial system, a new and much bigger commodities/derivatives bubble is threatening to finish the job. Raw materials are tanking as capital pours out of the most heavily-impacted countries and into anything that looks like a […]
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 […]
As Economy Heads to Another Crash, BIS Acknowledges: We’re Failing
As Economy Heads to Another Crash, BIS Acknowledges: We’re Failing http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/07/22/maechtigste-bank-der-welt-legt-mandat-zur-rettung-der-weltwirtschaft-zurueck/ World’s Most Powerful Bank Reverses Course, to Avoid a Global Depression German Economic News, Translation (and closing Note) by Eric Zuesse | Published: 22:07:15 20:10 clock The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) acknowledges in its annual report that the policy of cheap money has failed. All the trillions […]
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: When Authorities Buy Assets to Prop Up Markets
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: When Authorities Buy Assets to Prop Up Markets The Central Planners who thought that buying shares to prop up the stock bubble was an excellent fix are about to find out the true meaning of toil and trouble. The actual line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth is double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn, and […]
Central Banks Have Shot Their Wad——-Why The Casino Is In For A Rude Awakening, Part I
Central Banks Have Shot Their Wad——-Why The Casino Is In For A Rude Awakening, Part I There has been a lot of chatter in recent days about the plunge in commodity prices—–capped off by this week’s slide of the Bloomberg commodity index to levels not seen since 2002. That epochal development is captured in the chart below, but […]
All Hail Our Banking Overlords!
All Hail Our Banking Overlords! We work for them, plain & simple You really have to be paying attention to see what’s truly going on these days. The keepers of the system, that is the banking elites, now openly control everything — though you’d never know that by listening to the media. Consider this: Eurozone backs […]
The Curse Of The Euro: Money Corrupted, Democracy Busted
The Curse Of The Euro: Money Corrupted, Democracy Busted The preposterous Gong Show in Brussels over the weekend was the financial “Ben Tre” moment for the Euro and ECB. That is, it was the moment when the Germans—–imitating the American military on that ghastly morning in February 1968——set fire to the Eurozone in order to save it. Some day history will […]
Greek Banks Will Not Re-Open Monday Even As Loan To Repay ECB Approved
Greek Banks Will Not Re-Open Monday Even As Loan To Repay ECB Approved The timing could not be worse from a visual perspective but within minutes of the Eurogroup confirming that they approved the €7.16 billion bridge loan (which will merely be recycled back to The ECB to ensure the appearance of normalcy continues), local reports note that […]
Banker Occupied Greece: Requiem for a Failed State
Banker Occupied Greece: Requiem for a Failed State It’s all over but the obituary. Rubber-stamp Greek parliamentarians overwhelming approved transforming the nation into a banker run colony – by a 229 – 64 vote. Six lawmakers abstained. Coalition partner Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos and likeminded party members voted “yes” after rhetorically rejecting Troika terms. […]
How Fascist Capitalism Functions: The Case of Greece
How Fascist Capitalism Functions: The Case of Greece There is democratic capitalism, and there is fascist capitalism. What we have today is fascist capitalism; and the following will explain how it works, using as an example the case of Greece. Mark Whitehouse at Bloomberg headlined on 27 June 2015, “If Greece Defaults, Europe’s Taxpayers Lose,” and presented […]
Side-Effects Include: Household Debt
Side-Effects Include: Household Debt Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz fancies himself a surgeon. He compares cutting interest rates to life-saving surgery for the economy. I consider it more like bloodletting, a terrible practice that is now widely accepted as pseudoscience. According to Canada’s central banker, if the interest rate cut resulted in an increase of […]
Varoufakis’ Stunning Accusation: Schauble Wants A Grexit “To Put The Fear Of God” Into The French
Varoufakis’ Stunning Accusation: Schauble Wants A Grexit “To Put The Fear Of God” Into The French Earlier we reported that Yanis Varoufakis, seemingly detained by “family reasons” would be unable to join his fellow parliamentarians and personally vote in what is likely the most important vote of Syriza’s administration: the one in which he and his party […]
Losing Control
Losing Control Markets are beginning to signal that policy makers are losing control. Many second-order-effects of the unprecedented and experimental global actions taken since the 2008 crisis are beginning to manifest. There are always causes and effects that develop; but they do so at different speeds. Many actions in recent years have prioritized ‘benefits today’ […]
A Lesson From the Greek Crisis: Safe Deposit Boxes Are Not Safe
A Lesson From the Greek Crisis: Safe Deposit Boxes Are Not Safe Last week the Greek government imposed capital controls to prevent cash from escaping from the Greek banking system, which is on the brink of collapse. These repressive financial measures, which were invented by “Hitler’s banker” Hjalmar Schacht in the 1930s, include the closing of banks, limiting cash withdrawals from […]
