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Like Everything Else, History Repeats (Almost Exactly) Because Power Truly Corrupts
Like Everything Else, History Repeats (Almost Exactly) Because Power Truly Corrupts With both the Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve today undertaking policy considerations at the same time, it is useful to highlight the similarities of conditions if not exactly in time. As I wrote this morning, what the Fed is attempting now is very nearly […]
You Will Be Poor
You Will Be Poor valuewalk.com There has been a progression through each iteration of monetary theft. A trial balloon launches, usually from academia, which proposes an “innovation” contrary to reigning practice and orthodoxy. A curmudgeonly minority reject it; the majority, securing their places on the intellectual fashion forefront, excoriate the old and after a suitable […]
Beware Central Banks’ “Illusion Of Control”; Spitznagel Warns “If The Fed Hikes, Markets Will Go Down Very, Very Hard”
Beware Central Banks’ “Illusion Of Control”; Spitznagel Warns “If The Fed Hikes, Markets Will Go Down Very, Very Hard” Central banks have created a bubble in the stock market, which will come down “very, very hard” when it finally prices in a series of Fed rate hikes, said Universa’s Mark Spitznagel, warning that “the markets are […]
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 […]
Central Banks May Choose Helicopter Money Over Negative Rates
CENTRAL BANKS MAY CHOOSE HELICOPTER MONEY OVER NEGATIVE RATES The US Federal Reserve (Fed) is considering raising rates. Is the “normalization” of interest rates about to happen which savers and investors have been yearning for? Most likely not. Policymakers are merely realizing that the policy of zero rates — or even negative rates as in the euro […]
The World Is Turning Ugly As 2016 Winds Down
The World Is Turning Ugly As 2016 Winds Down I have to say that the negative reverberations in our current economic and political environment are becoming so strong that it is impossible for people to not feel at least some uneasiness in their gut. I imagine this is the same kind of sensation many felt […]
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again Why has the Fed created incentives for US corporations to loot their companies and drive them deeper into debt? Despite four consecutive quarters of negative earnings, weak demand and anemic sales, US corporations continue to load up on debt, buy back their own shares and hand out cash […]
Sorry Losers!
Sorry Losers! By its actions, the Federal Reserve has selected a precious few winners and many, many losers. Sadly, you are highly likely to be one of the losers. Sorry! I’m one, too, if that helps soften the blow. But we have a lot of company. Other losers include: Savers Anyone with money in a […]
It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh
It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh My new book will be published next Tuesday. Preorders for the e-Book version will be available in this space beginning later this week. As I previously indicated, the book is an exploration of how 30 years of Bubble Finance policies at the Fed, feckless interventions abroad and […]
A Convocation of Interventionists – Part 1
A Convocation of Interventionists – Part 1 Modern Economics – It’s All About Central Planning We are hereby delivering a somewhat belated comment on the meeting of monetary central planners and their courtier economists at Jackson Hole. Luckily timing is not really an issue in this context. Central bank headquarters: the Fed’s Eccles building, the […]
The Myth Of ‘Morning In America’—–How The Public Debt Went From $1 Trillion to $35 Trillion in Four Decades, Part 1
The Myth Of ‘Morning In America’—–How The Public Debt Went From $1 Trillion to $35 Trillion in Four Decades, Part 1 I have finished my book on the upheaval represented by the Trump candidacy and movement. It will be published soon, and is an exploration of how 30 years of Bubble Finance policies at the Fed, feckless […]
Helicopter Money——The Biggest Fed Power Grab Yet
Helicopter Money——The Biggest Fed Power Grab Yet The Cleveland Fed’s Loretta Mester is a clueless apparatchik and Fed lifer, who joined the system in 1985 fresh out of Barnard and Princeton and has imbibed in its Keynesian groupthink and institutional arrogance ever since. So it’s not surprising that she was out flogging—-albeit downunder in Australia—- the next step in the Fed’s rolling coup […]
Alan “Bubbles” Greenspan Returns to Gold
Alan “Bubbles” Greenspan Returns to Gold Under a gold standard, the amount of credit that an economy can support is determined by the economy’s tangible assets, since every credit instrument is ultimately a claim on some tangible asset. […] The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the […]
Planet Debt
Planet Debt Low Interest Rate Persons She is a low-interest-rate person. She has always been a low-interest-rate person. And I must be honest. I am a low-interest-rate person. If we raise interest rates, and if the dollar starts getting too strong, we’re going to have some very major problems. — Donald Trump Two low interest rate persons! The Trumpsumptive president […]
Greenspan: “This Is The Worst Period I Recall; There’s Nothing Like It”
Greenspan: “This Is The Worst Period I Recall; There’s Nothing Like It” During a CNBC inteview today, when discussing the historic Brexit vote outcome, Alan Greenspan unleashed a fiery sermon that could have been prepared just by reading a random selection of posts from this website, the former Fed chairman told his shocked hosts that the current […]
