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The End of Free-Lunch Economics
STEFANI REYNOLDSAFP via Getty Images The End of Free-Lunch Economics Since the global financial crisis, and particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, fiscal and monetary policymakers have operated as if there are no tradeoffs to their expansionary policy programs. Now that economic conditions have changed, they may soon have to relearn old lessons the hard way. […]
Potemkin Economy: Costs & Consequences
Potemkin Economy: Costs & Consequences A Potemkin economy has lured the Fed, economists, and Wall Street analysts into a potentially dangerous assumption of economic normalcy. However, with a review of how we got here, we can better understand the costs and consequences of monetary interventions. “In 1783, after the Russian annexation of Crimea from the Ottoman Empire and the […]
Response: Money and Payments: The US Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation
Response: Money and Payments: The US Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation Implications from the Federal Reserve’s Paper Our first comment is that every monetary change from the Founding of America through present has been to move away from free markets, and to adulterate our currency. An analogy could be made to the Ship […]
Inflation Is The Kryptonite That Will End Our Decades-Long Monetary Policy Ponzi Scheme
Inflation Is The Kryptonite That Will End Our Decades-Long Monetary Policy Ponzi Scheme “It means buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye.” The linchpin that allows the world’s nefarious central banking model to be so effective is that the commonfolk – the plumber, the electrician, the teacher, the bartender, bus driver or barber […]
The Mayhem Below the Surface of the Stock Market Seeps to the Surface: Now it’s the Giants that Topple
The Mayhem Below the Surface of the Stock Market Seeps to the Surface: Now it’s the Giants that Topple The market finally gets it: The Fed is going to tighten to get a handle on its massive inflation problem. Since February last year, the hottest most hyped stocks, many of them recent IPOs and SPACS, […]
Choose One, But Only One: Defend the Billionaire’s Bubble or the U.S. Dollar and Empire
Choose One, But Only One: Defend the Billionaire’s Bubble or the U.S. Dollar and Empire The Empire is striking back, protecting what really counts, and the Billionaire Bubble sideshow is folding its tents. One of the most enduring conceits of the modern era is that the Federal Reserve acts to goose growth and therefore employment while keeping […]
Peter Schiff: The Fed Made This Bed and Now We Have to Lie In It
Peter Schiff: The Fed Made This Bed and Now We Have to Lie In It Inflation is running hot. Economic data is running cold. Stocks and bonds are under pressure. The Fed is scrambling. In his podcast, Peter Schiff talked about the trajectory of the economy. He said we’re on the cusp of the most […]
Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision
Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision Photo by Vadim Sadovski The U.S. economy teeters between two catastrophes: wild and untamed hyperinflation that turns cash into wallpaper, or an epic crash that would make 2008 look like a day at the beach. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has led the U.S. government’s monetary policy to this […]
Is Powell Again Pulling Strings From “The Shadows”?
Is Powell Again Pulling Strings From “The Shadows”? Recently, we have seen stocks rally while the dollar falls. Some of us are wondering why the dollar is falling at the same time currency traders are busy penciling in as many as four interest rate increases. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index, a measure of the currency […]
It Has Been 7% Inflation Since 1996
It Has Been 7% Inflation Since 1996 And so finally, now fiat $USD financial authorities are being forced to admit we have at a minimum 7% price inflation annualized. The issue, as per usual, is the real value loss truth is like twice that amount in terms of real purchasing power disappearances over the last twelve months. To […]
The Fed Just Guaranteed a Stagflation Crisis in 2022 – Here’s How
The Fed Just Guaranteed a Stagflation Crisis in 2022 – Here’s How Chair Powell leads a two day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held January 29-30th, 2019. Public domain photo courtesy of the Federal Reserve I don’t think I can overstate the danger that the U.S. economy is in right now as we enter […]
Peter Schiff: The Fed Can’t Do What It’s Saying It Will Do
Peter Schiff: The Fed Can’t Do What It’s Saying It Will Do The Fed FOMC minutes came out last week, signaling tighter monetary policy. Peter Schiff talked about the minutes in his podcast, arguing that the Fed can’t do what it says it’s going to do. If it does, it will crash the markets and the economy. […]
“Minsky Moments Almost Certainly Await”: Nomura Fears ‘Collateral’ Damage From The QE-to-QT Transition
“Minsky Moments Almost Certainly Await”: Nomura Fears ‘Collateral’ Damage From The QE-to-QT Transition “Minsky Moments” almost certainly await, warns Nomura’s Charlie McElligott in his latest note as he reflects on a massive week ahead for markets. With Powell testimony and bunches of Fed speakers, along with US economic releases headlined by the market’s most important datapoint in the […]
The Economy May Be Finally Peaking, and the Fed Won’t Help Matters
THE ECONOMY MAY BE FINALLY PEAKING, AND THE FED WON’T HELP MATTERS Here we go again it may seem to many. The Fed is preparing us for a policy tightening just when a powerful growth cycle upturn is faltering. Or is it in fact an example of another well-known type of error from Fed history—getting […]
Weekly Commentary: 2021 Year in Review
Weekly Commentary: 2021 Year in Review Books will be written chronicling 2021. I’ll boil an extraordinary year’s developments down to a few simple words: “Things Ran Wild”. Covid ran wild. Monetary inflation ran wild. Inflation, in general, ran completely wild. Speculation and asset inflation ran really wild. More insidiously, mal-investment and inequality turned wilder. Extreme […]
