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Credit Market Warning: Long-awaited signs of danger are materalizing
Credit Market Warning: Long-awaited signs of danger are materalizing There are large signs of stress now present in the credit markets. You might not know it from today’s multi-generationally low interest rates, but other key measures such as liquidity and volatility are flashing worrying signs. Look, we all know that this centrally planned experiment forcing financial assets […]
Russia, China and the Battle Against Dollar Hegemony
Russia, China and the Battle Against Dollar Hegemony The Internal Contradictions of US Foreign Policy The Saker: We hear that the Ukraine will have to declare a default, but that it will probably be a “technical” default as opposed to an official one. Some say that the decision of the Rada to allow Iatseniuk to […]
Shots Fired – Jamie Dimon Questions Elizabeth Warren’s “Understanding of the Global Banking System”
Shots Fired – Jamie Dimon Questions Elizabeth Warren’s “Understanding of the Global Banking System” I think the following comments will come back to haunt Jamie Dimon. They represent the perspective of an out of touch, financial oligarch who is so consistently fed bullshit compliments by all those surrounding him, he has no idea how badly this […]
Guess How Many Nations In The World Do Not Have A Central Bank?
Guess How Many Nations In The World Do Not Have A Central Bank? Central banking has truly taken over the entire planet. At this point, the only major nation on the globe that does not have a central bank is North Korea. Yes, there are some small island countries such as the Federated States of Micronesia that […]
More Central Banking Lunacy
More Central Banking Lunacy US Rate Hike: The Back-Pedaling Brigade Last week’s payrolls report was “stronger than expected”, which should actually be fairly meaningless, given how many times it will be revised and considering that it is a lagging economic indicator. However, in light of the Fed’s absurd employment mandate, it does slightly increase the […]
As Goes The Credit Market, So Goes The World
As Goes The Credit Market, So Goes The World When confidence cracks, we’ll see it there first During the prior economic cycle of 2003-2007, one question I asked again and again was: Is the US running on a business cycle or a credit cycle? That question was prompted by a series of data I have tracked […]
An Important Economic Indicator – Money Velocity – Crashes Far Worse than During the Great Depression
An Important Economic Indicator – Money Velocity – Crashes Far Worse than During the Great Depression Underneath the Propaganda, the Economy Is In BAD Shape … We noted 3 years ago that the velocity of money – an important economic indicator – is lower than during the Great Depression. Things have gotten even worse since since […]
The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets
The Central Banks Are Losing Control Of The Financial Markets Every great con game eventually comes to an end. For years, global central banks have been manipulating the financial marketplace with their monetary voodoo. Somehow, they have convinced investors around the world to invest tens of trillions of dollars into bonds that provide a return that […]
Get Used to Selloffs, Central Bankers Say as They Fret about the Terrifying Moment When Liquidity Evaporates
Get Used to Selloffs, Central Bankers Say as They Fret about the Terrifying Moment When Liquidity Evaporates Axel Weber, president of the Bundesbank and member of the ECB’s Governing Council until he quit both in 2011 to protest the ECB’s bond purchases, quickly landed a new gig: chairman of UBS. WHIRR went the revolving door. From this […]
Why Did These Former Fed Members Admit Mathematically, Logically, & In Reality: “It’s Over”?
Why Did These Former Fed Members Admit Mathematically, Logically, & In Reality: “It’s Over”? In the ironically titled “Paying For The Past” presentation, none other than Dick Fisher, Al Greenspan, and Larry Lindsey appear to have crossed the Rubicon of denial, lies, and deception to the dark-side of accepting reality. As Bill Holter asks, why exactly would these […]
From Whence Cometh Our Wealth—–The People’s Labor Or The Fed’s Printing Press?
From Whence Cometh Our Wealth—–The People’s Labor Or The Fed’s Printing Press? It is hard to believe that in these allegedly enlightened times this question even needs to be asked. Are there really educated adults who believe that by dropping helicopter money conjured from thin air, the central bank can actually make society wealthier? Well, yes there […]
Central Banks Are Pointing A Weapon Of Financial Mass Destruction—–Right At The Global Bond Markets
Central Banks Are Pointing A Weapon Of Financial Mass Destruction—–Right At The Global Bond Markets For the first time in its country’s history, Portugal sold 6 month T-bills at a negative yield. The 300 million euros ($333 million) worth of bills due in November 2015 sold at an average yield of minus 0.002%. A negative […]
We’re In Uncharted Economic Territory
We’re In Uncharted Economic Territory We’re in uncharted territory … For example, this is the first time in history that most central banks worldwide have printed money during the same time period. And one of America’s leading economists (Nobel-prize winner Robert Shiller) just said that – unlike 1929 – this time, stocks, bonds and housing are ALL overvalued: This […]
Government – Designed for Robbery
Government – Designed for Robbery Why I’m Looking Forward to the Next Big Crash First, the Dow dropped 190 points on Monday – or 1%. It was threatening to close below 18,000 for the first time in almost three weeks. We’ll wait to find out. Yesterday, a London-based magazine and a TV station interviewed us. […]
