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QE Is Dead… Long Live QE! « The Burning Platform
QE Is Dead… Long Live QE! « The Burning Platform. [N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or […]
Central Planners Are In A State of Panic – Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity
Central Planners Are In A State of Panic – Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity. The central planners are in a state of fear and panic. They are trying everything and anything to create market validation for their policies, watching with trepidation as their favored economic metrics fail to respond to all of their frenzied efforts. […]
A Signal of Coming Collapse | Monetary Metals
A Signal of Coming Collapse | Monetary Metals. I proposed seven drivers of financial implosion in my dissertation. My recent writing has focused on two of them. One is the falling rate of interest on the 10-year government bond. As interest falls, theburden of debt rises. Since the falling rate incentivized more and more people to borrow, […]
We Have Just Witnessed The Last Gasp Of The Global Economy
We Have Just Witnessed The Last Gasp Of The Global Economy. It is difficult to find the motivation to write about the state of the global economy these days, if only because there is not much left to say. I feel like I am composing multiple obituaries for the same long dead corpse. Most of […]
Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins – PaulCraigRoberts.org
Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins – PaulCraigRoberts.org. Nomi Prins in the article below addresses the destruction of the market-based Western financial system and its replacement with a casino underwritten by taxpayers. Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins The recent spike in global political-financial volatility that was […]
Paul Singer Slams The Fake World: “Fake Growth, Fake Money, Fake Jobs, Fake Stability, Fake Inflation Numbers” | Zero Hedge
Paul Singer Slams The Fake World: “Fake Growth, Fake Money, Fake Jobs, Fake Stability, Fake Inflation Numbers” | Zero Hedge. Excerpted from Elliott Management’s Paul Singer letter to investors, FAKING IT Nobody knows when reality will overtake the rhetoric, lies, phony statistics, wishful thinking, fake prices and tiresome poseurs pretending to be world leaders. The […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Japan’s Monetary Pearl Harbor
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Japan’s Monetary Pearl Harbor. Trying to “fix” a sclerotic, inefficient state-cartel economy by boosting inflation–the ultimate goal of Japan’s Monetary Pearl Harbor– is a self-liquidating path to destruction. The Bank of Japan’s surprise expansion of financial stimulus strikes me as the monetary equivalent of Pearl Harbor –not in the sense of launching a […]
TRUTH vs PERCEPTION « The Burning Platform
TRUTH vs PERCEPTION « The Burning Platform. The stock market reached all-time highs last week based upon the machinations of central bankers and the perceptions of speculators that these bankers will always have their back. Yellen, Kuroda, and Draghi are growing increasingly desperate as everything they have done in the last five years has failed to revive […]
Child Poverty Jumps by 2.6 Million in Developed World Since 2008, While Number of Global Billionaires Doubles | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Child Poverty Jumps by 2.6 Million in Developed World Since 2008, While Number of Global Billionaires Doubles | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Two headlines came across my screen today, which taken together pretty much sum up the effects of policy decisions made by Central Bankers and politicians since the financial crisis. The financial oligarchs got bailed out, […]
Complexity: The Hidden Cost of Central Bank Actions | Enterprising Investor
Complexity: The Hidden Cost of Central Bank Actions | Enterprising Investor. Central banks are printing rules almost as fast as they’re printing money. The consequences of these fast-multiplying directives — complicated, long-winded, and sometimes self-contradictory — is one topic at hand. Manipulated interest rates is a second. Distortion and mispricing of stocks, bonds, and currencies […]
World Crude Oil Production and the Oil Price | FRACTIONAL FLOW
World Crude Oil Production and the Oil Price | FRACTIONAL FLOW. In April 2012 I published this post about World Crude Oil Production and the Oil Price (in Norwegian)which was an attempt to describe the developments in the sources of crude oils (including condensates), tranches of total life cycle costs (that is [CAPEX {inclusive returns} + OPEX] […]
How Will The Stock Market React To The End Of Quantitative Easing?
How Will The Stock Market React To The End Of Quantitative Easing?. It is widely expected that the Federal Reserve is going to announce the end of quantitative easing this week. Will this represent a major turning point for the stock market? As you will see below, since 2008 stocks have risen dramatically throughout every […]
Why the Financial and Political System Failed and Stability Matters – Thoughts – Nomi Prins
Why the Financial and Political System Failed and Stability Matters – Thoughts – Nomi Prins. The recent spike in global political-financial volatility that was temporarily soothed by ECB covered bond buying reveals another crack in the six-year-old throw-money-at-the-banks strategies of politicians and central bankers. The premise of using banks as credit portals to transport public funds […]
