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This Is What Happens To Gold When Citizens Lose Faith In Fiat Currency
This Is What Happens To Gold When Citizens Lose Faith In Fiat Currency It appears, first slowly and now quickly, the world is realizing that Alan Greenspan was right after all: “Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it.” As Nick Laird exposes, gold […]
Silver Linings: Keynesian Central Banking Is Heading For A Massive Repudiation
Silver Linings: Keynesian Central Banking Is Heading For A Massive Repudiation For several years now the small coterie of Keynesian academics and apparatchiks who have seized nearly absolute financial power through the Fed’s printing presses have justified the lunacy of unending ZIRP and massive QE on the grounds that there is too little inflation. The bureaucrats at the IMF […]
The Silver Age of the Central Banker
The Silver Age of the Central Banker We all sing along But the notes are wrong – Matt & Kim, “Get It” (2015) The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must. – Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War” (c. 400 BC) Xerxes: Come Leonidas, let us reason together. It would […]
The First Steps to Ending Currency
The First Steps to Ending Currency While I don’t want to sound like a broken record, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Federal Reserve, other central banks and governments around the world are laying the foundation for a negative interest rate environment that will more than likely be imposed during the next recession. Governments […]
Deere In Headlights After Guidance Cut: Sees 10% Sales Drop Due To “Downturn In Global Farm Economy”
Deere In Headlights After Guidance Cut: Sees 10% Sales Drop Due To “Downturn In Global Farm Economy” It is not just Caterpillar that continues to post horrendous numbers, and has now recorded 38 consecutive months of declining Y/Y sales, double the length of the contraction of the great financial crisis. Moments ago heavy farm equipment […]
The US Economy Has Not Recovered And Will Not Recover
The US Economy Has Not Recovered And Will Not Recover The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted corporate executives and shareholders, because lower labor and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital […]
The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture
The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture This interview with Michael Hudson was conducted by Finnish journalist Antti J. Ronkainen. Antti J. Ronkainen: The Federal Reserve is the most significant central bank in the world. How does it contribute to the domestic policy of the United States? Michael Hudson: The Federal Reserve supports the status […]
50% Of Canadians Say They Are Within $200/Month Of Being Unable To Pay Their Bills
50% Of Canadians Say They Are Within $200/Month Of Being Unable To Pay Their Bills It was just last month when we profiled Canada’s “other problem”: record high household debt. Canada is struggling to cope with falling crude prices which have put enormous amounts of pressure on some parts of the country, most notably Alberta, where suicide […]
What Markets Are Telling Us
What Markets Are Telling Us Last week US stock markets tumbled yet again, leaving the Dow Jones index down almost 1500 points for the year. In fact, most major world markets are in negative territory this year. There are many Wall Street cheerleaders who are trying to say that this is just a technical correction, […]
The Inevitability of Dramatic Inflation
The Inevitability of Dramatic Inflation No one is very concerned about inflation right now and that’s understandable. Although inflation exists in some sectors of the economy, the present subject of discussion is deflation. Any depression is inherently deflationary since spending is curtailed, which drives prices down. Since 2008, despite all the fudged reports emanating from governments, […]
Repricing Reality
Repricing Reality It ought to be a foregone conclusion that Mr. Obama’s replacement starting January 20, 2017 will preside over conditions of disorder in everyday life and economy never seen before. For the supposedly thinking class in America, the end of reality-optional politics will come as the surprise of their lives. Where has that hypothetical […]
Are You Ready for a Crack-Up Boom?
Are You Ready for a Crack-Up Boom? Crack Up! BALTIMORE – The Dow rose on Wednesday morning… after Janet Yellen made soothing remarks about a “gradual” return to normal interest rates. Then investors must have realized that returning to normal is not on the Fed’s agenda. The Dow finished the day down 99 points. We […]
What’s Holding Back the World Economy?
What’s Holding Back the World Economy? NEW YORK – Seven years after the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, the world economy continued to stumble in 2015. According to the United Nations’ report World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016, the average growth rate in developed economies has declined by more than 54% since the crisis. An […]
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe”
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe” Trying to simply hold onto the standard that you’ve got has become a new normal for financial challenges. Equity erodes away when interest rates go negative… then everything starts to sour. China’s economy and stock market are effectively in the toilet, or poised […]
Central Bank Soap Opera Hides Financial Globalization
Central Bank Soap Opera Hides Financial Globalization Stock markets suspect Federal Reserve has interest rate jitters … Hints that the Fed won’t raise interest rates in March are proving to be good news for miners and oil producers’ share prices The Federal Reserve’s William Dudley said further strengthening in the dollar could have ‘significant consequences’ […]
