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The Price Isn’t Right——-How Central Banks Are Fixing To Ambush The Casino
The Price Isn’t Right——-How Central Banks Are Fixing To Ambush The Casino The casino is incorrigible. After a monumental short squeeze that has lifted the averages right into the jaws of danger, Goldman Sachs has the temerity to print the following: “Our model suggests SPX calls are more attractive than at any time over the past 20 years”. […]
The Financial System Is A Larger Threat Than Terrorism
The Financial System Is A Larger Threat Than Terrorism In the 21st century Americans have been distracted by the hyper-expensive “war on terror.” Trillions of dollars have been added to the taxpayers’ burden and many billions of dollars in profits to the military/security complex in order to combat insignificant foreign “threats,” such as the Taliban, […]
Downtrend In the Growth Rate of Money Supply Poses a Threat to Bubble Activities
DOWNTREND IN THE GROWTH RATE OF MONEY SUPPLY POSES A THREAT TO BUBBLE ACTIVITIES The yearly growth rate of real gross domestic product eased to 1.9% in Q4 from 2% in the previous quarter. Using our large scale econometric model we can suggest that the yearly growth rate of GDP could fall to 1.7% by Q3 before bouncing to […]
2008 Revisited?
2008 Revisited? NEW YORK – The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession? My answer is a straightforward no, but that the recent episode of global financial market turmoil is likely to be more serious than any period of volatility and […]
Alan Greenspan’s Pickled Economy
Alan Greenspan’s Pickled Economy Winter of Discontent Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan resurfaced this week. We couldn’t recall the last time we’d heard from him. But, alas, the old fellow’s in desolate despair. Unexpectedly rising from the crypt: Alan Greenspan Photo credit: AP On Tuesday, for instance, he told Bloomberg he hasn’t been optimistic for “quite […]
Dallas Fed Unplugs Oil Bulls, Warns of Liquidity Crunch, Contagion
Dallas Fed Unplugs Oil Bulls, Warns of Liquidity Crunch, Contagion “Negative ripple effects” The rally in crude oil has been red hot. In the three weeks since February 11, WTI shot up a short-crushing 34% to $34.69 a barrel at the moment. Now the talk in the oil patch is at what price these desperate […]
America’s Ruling Classes: No Fear, No Caution, No Prudence
America’s Ruling Classes: No Fear, No Caution, No Prudence Could it be that America’s ruling classes, its Imperial state and the Federal Reserve, no longer rule their own destiny? America’s smug ruling classes are supremely confident: they feel no fear, no caution, and exhibit no prudence. I outlined the five ruling classes in America’s Nine Classes: The […]
America’s Ruling Classes: No Fear, No Caution, No Prudence
America’s Ruling Classes: No Fear, No Caution, No Prudence Could it be that America’s ruling classes, its Imperial state and the Federal Reserve, no longer rule their own destiny? America’s smug ruling classes are supremely confident: they feel no fear, no caution, and exhibit no prudence. I outlined the five ruling classes in America’s Nine Classes: The […]
Essential history: ‘Forever debt’ Federal Reserve system invented to pay interest without ever ever ever repaying debt – definition of ‘Ponzi scheme’
Essential history: ‘Forever debt’ Federal Reserve system invented to pay interest without ever ever ever repaying debt – definition of ‘Ponzi scheme’ Posted on February 25, 2016 by Carl Herman Ponzi scheme: criminal fraud of paying existing “investors” only and always from new “investors.” Collapse occurs without new “investors” and/or existing “investors” panic to cash-in. The US Federal […]
Steen Jakobsen: The End Of The Debt Cycle
Steen Jakobsen: The End Of The Debt Cycle As transformational as the fall of the Berlin Wall As we’ve been watching closely, something is wrong with the big banks. Their shares have lost 25-33% of their market value since the beginning of the year. What’s going on? The turmoil seems greatest in Europe, where bank […]
Your Do-It-Yourself Page Financial Armageddon Story
YOUR DO-IT-YOURSELF FRONT PAGE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON STORY “The media select, they interpret, they emotionalize and they create facts.. The media not only reduce reality by lowering information density. They focus reality by accumulating information where “actually” none exists.. A typical stock market report looks like this: Stock X increased because.. Index Y crashed due to.. […]
Safes Sell Out In Japan, 1,000 Franc Note Demand Soars As NIRP Triggers Cash Hoarding
Safes Sell Out In Japan, 1,000 Franc Note Demand Soars As NIRP Triggers Cash Hoarding Negative rates may not have found their way to bank deposits in most locales (yet), but that doesn’t mean the public isn’t starting to see the writing on the wall. At first, NIRP was an anomaly. An obscure policy tool […]
The Fed’s Nightmare Scenario
The Fed’s Nightmare Scenario Operating under the mistaken belief that a modest dose of inflation is either a prerequisite for, or a by-product of, economic growth, the nation’s top economists have been assuring us for quite some time that inflation will stay very low until the currently mediocre economy finally catches fire. As a result, […]
David Stockman CNBC Interview: “I don’t Know What The Bulls Are Smoking”
David Stockman CNBC Interview: “I don’t Know What The Bulls Are Smoking” Anyone who believes that the global economy isn’t crashing must be delirious, according to David Stockman. The former director of the Office of Management and Budget argues that a rapidly deteriorating economic environment is going to send stocks and oil prices spiraling even […]
