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Deflation Is Winning: Brian Pretty – PeakProsperity.com | Peak Prosperity
Deflation Is Winning: Brian Pretty – PeakProsperity.com | Peak Prosperity. Remember in the early part of the last decade, long before he was appointed the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke penned an article that caught widespread public attention entitled, “Deflation: It Can’t Happen Here” ? Bernanke was referring to the deflationary pressures Japan […]
And On The Seventh Day God Shorted His People – The Automatic Earth
And On The Seventh Day God Shorted His People – The Automatic Earth. And on the Seventh Day, God sold his shares? What do you think, is He short the market? Short oil? Oil does look up a tad, but then the dollar lost about a percent vs the euro, so that definitely feels like […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Central Banks Have Failed Because They Can’t Push Wages Higher
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Central Banks Have Failed Because They Can’t Push Wages Higher. You can print all the money you want, but it will never boost wages to keep up with prices. Central banks have been pursuing two goals for the past six years: ignite inflation and an expansion of debt that will supposedly […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Central Banks Create Deflation, Not Inflation
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Central Banks Create Deflation, Not Inflation. Financial and risk bubbles don’t pop in a vacuum–all the phantom collateral constructed with mal-invested free money for financiers will also implode. If there’s one absolute truism we hear again and again, it’s that central banks are desperately trying to create inflation. Perversely, their easy-money policies actually generate […]
World in a Box
World in a Box. Of all the problems with fiat currency, the most basic is that it empowers the dark side of human nature. We’re potentially good but infinitely corruptible, and giving an unlimited monetary printing press to a government or group of banks is guaranteed to produce a dystopia of ever-greater debt and more […]
Even The BIS Is Shocked At How Broken Markets Have Become | Zero Hedge
Even The BIS Is Shocked At How Broken Markets Have Become | Zero Hedge. Not a quarter passes without the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) aka central banks’ central bank (also the locus of some of the most aggressive manipulation of gold and FX in human history) reiterating a dire warning about the fire and brimstone […]
Jim Grant Sums It All Up In 2 Stunning Paragraphs | Zero Hedge
Jim Grant Sums It All Up In 2 Stunning Paragraphs | Zero Hedge. What will futurity make of the [so-called] Ph.D. standard [that runs our world]? Likely it will be even more baffled than we are. Imagine trying to explain the present-day arrangements to your 20-something grandchild a couple of decades hence – after the […]
Citi: “The Limits Of Investors’ Faith That Central Banks Can Push Up Asset Prices, Are Increasingly On Display” | Zero Hedge
Citi: “The Limits Of Investors’ Faith That Central Banks Can Push Up Asset Prices, Are Increasingly On Display” | Zero Hedge. Some interesting insights by Citi’s Matt King recapping last week’s Citigroup credit conference. … [D]espite one panellist’s suggestion that “perhaps corporate bonds were never meant to be a liquid asset class in the first […]
$178 Billion In Government Kickbacks: Meet The World’s Biggest Organized Crime Syndicate | Zero Hedge
$178 Billion In Government Kickbacks: Meet The World’s Biggest Organized Crime Syndicate | Zero Hedge. Once upon a time it was the Sicilian, or Russian, or Japanese, or Chinese mob that were some of the biggest sources of funding for corrupt government officials (incidentally, most of them). After all, the government is smart enough to […]
charles hugh smith-The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns
charles hugh smith-The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns. It is these unforeseeable and uncontrollable consequences that are poised to wreak havoc on the global financial system. Here’s the thing about risk: it bursts out of whatever is deemed “safe.” It wasn’t accidental that the Global Financial Meltdown originated in home mortgages; it […]
Deficit Spending And Money Printing: A German Point Of View | Zero Hedge
Deficit Spending And Money Printing: A German Point Of View | Zero Hedge. Deficit spending And Money Printing: A German point of view The leading macroeconomic Nobel-Laureates, the Central Bankers as well as most Politicians have reduced their economic judgment on how to get the economies in Europe and Japan back to sustainable growth on […]
“I am a hard working taxpayer who is getting pretty fed up. . .”
“I am a hard working taxpayer who is getting pretty fed up. . .”. So the Swiss have decided not to force their central bank into underpinning its reserves with harder assets than increasingly worthless euros. At least they had the chance to vote. But in the bigger picture, the rejection of the “Save Our […]
As It Turns Out Deflation Is Good After All | Zero Hedge
As It Turns Out Deflation Is Good After All | Zero Hedge. Earlier today, in typical German fashion, the chief of the Bundesbank poured cold water on Europe’s latest round of demands that Germany carry the weight of the rebound from the triple-dip on its shoulders, as usual, when Buba President Jens Weidmann Friday rejected […]
Swiss Gold Referendum: What It Really Means — Paul Craig Roberts – PaulCraigRoberts.org
Swiss Gold Referendum: What It Really Means — Paul Craig Roberts – PaulCraigRoberts.org. In a few days the Swiss people will go to the polls to decide whether the Swiss central bank is to be required to hold 20% of its reserves in the form of gold. Polls show that the gold requirement is favored […]
