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“Potential For Extreme Havoc”: $50 Trillion Question Is What If Yields Spike Higher
“Potential For Extreme Havoc”: $50 Trillion Question Is What If Yields Spike Higher The size of the global government bond market surged by $10 trillion in the space of two years to reach about $50 trillion. Those outstanding borrowings are at least one gorilla in the room as investors gear up for a year in […]
China’s Banking Assets Are $52 Trillion, Growing By $40 Trillion Since 2008: “This Is What Hyper MMT Looks Like”
China’s Banking Assets Are $52 Trillion, Growing By $40 Trillion Since 2008: “This Is What Hyper MMT Looks Like” Thermodynamics “The interaction of inflation-focused monetary policies in the west and China’s mercantilist model created what I call The Refrigeration Mode,” said the CIO, sitting atop his prodigious pile. “The process has been ongoing for twenty years,” […]
Irish central bank raises gold reserves by 33%, worried by inflation
Irish central bank raises gold reserves by 33%, worried by inflation Recently the Central Bank of Ireland joined the ranks of sovereign gold buyers, adding 2 tonnes of gold to its monetary gold reserves in 2 months, consisting of a tonne of gold bought in each of September and October 2021. While in relative terms, […]
Printing and Borrowing Always Ends Badly
Printing and Borrowing Always Ends Badly As more countries copy the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy without the global demand of the US dollar, financing trade and fiscal deficits printing a weakening currency, nations become more dependent on the US dollar. Neither domestic nor international citizens demand local currency, and governments continue to build large fiscal and trade […]
Mainstream Economists Struggling to Hide the Incoming Economic Collapse
Mainstream Economists Struggling to Hide the Incoming Economic Collapse Photo by Annie Spratt For many years now there has been a contingent of alternative economists working diligently within the liberty movement to combat disinformation being spread by the mainstream media regarding America’s true economic condition. Our efforts have focused primarily on the continued devaluation of the […]
Davos is Making the Central Bank Case for Gold
Davos is Making the Central Bank Case for Gold A few months ago I talked about the upcoming changes to the way adoption of Basel III’s new bank reserve rules would alter the gold market. In short my conclusion was similar to that of Alistair MacLeod’s and others, that Basel III should collapse the egregious manipulation of […]
The Gross Misunderstanding of Central Banks
The Gross Misunderstanding of Central Banks
The Futility of Central Bank Policy
THE FUTILITY OF CENTRAL BANK POLICY It is only now becoming clear to the investing public that the purchasing power of their currencies is declining at an accelerating rate. There is no doubt that yesterday’s announcement that the US CPI rose by 6.2%, compared with the longstanding 2% target, came as a wake-up call to […]
«The Fed Reminds Me of a Speculator Who Is on the Wrong Side of the Market»
«The Fed Reminds Me of a Speculator Who Is on the Wrong Side of the Market» Jim Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, warns of the rampant speculation in the stock market. He worries that the central banks are underestimating the threat of persistently high inflation and explains why gold has a bright future. […]
Perversity: Thy Name is Dollar
Perversity: Thy Name is Dollar If you ask most people, “what is money?” they will answer that money is the generally accepted medium of exchange. If you ask Google Images, it will show you many pictures of green pieces of paper. Virtually everyone agrees that money means the dollar. Image credit: Cildo Meireles Breaking Down the Dollar Monetary […]
People Blame the Federal Reserve & Never Politicians
People Blame the Federal Reserve & Never Politicians Every now and again I get those stupid hate emails to blame the federal reserve and central banks for everything while NEVER once do they ever look at the history of central banks and how Congress has been manipulating the law changing the definition of what the […]
Brink of Totalitarianism
Brink of Totalitarianism
Janet Yellen Admits The “Net Zero” Grand Reset Price Tag Will Be $150 Trillion
Janet Yellen Admits The “Net Zero” Grand Reset Price Tag Will Be $150 Trillion For years, the climate change lobby was laser-focused on just one aspect of the “climate change” crusade: the end – which supposedly is some world where the temperatures no longer rise due to fossil fuel emissions (because we now live in […]
The Mainstream Has the Inflation Story Backwards
The Mainstream Has the Inflation Story Backwards The mainstream blames inflation on “supply chain bottlenecks.” But they have it completely backward. In reality, Federal Reserve-created inflation is causing the supply chain mess. According to Biden administration talking points, the economy is booming. Americans are flush with cash. And they are demanding lots of goods. The […]
