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Japan Embraced Debt As a Way Out of Its Budget Crisis. It’s Not Working.
JAPAN EMBRACED DEBT AS A WAY OUT OF ITS BUDGET CRISIS. IT’S NOT WORKING. The sudden resignation of Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has led to evaluations of his so-called Abenomics. Many have praised Abe’s aggressive monetary policy because the long shopping list of the Bank of Japan (government bonds, corporate bonds, ETFs and real […]
It’s Easier To Pretend Our Economic System Works And Just Blow Endless Asset Bubbles
It’s Easier To Pretend Our Economic System Works And Just Blow Endless Asset Bubbles Yesterday saw the US comprehensively beat China. Not in any sporting sense, and certainly not in any dimension of the current Cold War: and for those who still like to think the latter isn’t happening, just listen to what US Attorney […]
The Bubble In A Fairy Tale World
The Bubble In A Fairy Tale World Great interview with Michael Novogratz, Galaxy Digital founder, CEO, and chairman. He sounds exactly like the global macro heads at GMM. His money quotes from the July 8th CNBC interview should sound very familiar to our readers. Money Quotes Macro set-up is so perfect for something like gold…central banks around […]
The Fed’s Couldn’t Even Stomach a 10% Drop in Stocks… It’s Officially in the Bubble Business
The Fed’s Couldn’t Even Stomach a 10% Drop in Stocks… It’s Officially in the Bubble Business The Fed will soon be buying stocks. Earlier this week, the Fed announced that it will begin buying corporate bonds from individual companies. Before this announcement, the Fed was already involved in the: The Treasury markets (US sovereign debt) […]
How QE has radically changed the nature of the West’s financial system.
How QE has radically changed the nature of the West’s financial system. Because they are so ensconsed in their little bubble and because they profit so much from maintaining the status quo, Western mainstream media pundits don’t – or perhaps can’t – admit how Quantitative Easing policies have so quickly and so radically changed the […]
The Next Economic Crisis and the Looming Post-Multipolar System
The Next Economic Crisis and the Looming Post-Multipolar System The Impending Crisis At one time, specifically during the post-World War 2 Bretton Woods era, it looked like as if the capitalist model could be indefinitely sustainable and avoid plunging the world into major world conflicts. That era began to come to an end during the […]
Chapter 5: Bubbles and Adam Smith
CHAPTER 5: BUBBLES AND ADAM SMITH. This chapter explores how laws enabling debt to be bought and sold transformed Britain. Suddenly, vast quantities of money and value were being created out of nothing. The effect was dramatic and widely commented on. Some people thoroughly approved, while others saw a new kind of tyranny taking over […]
How The Bubbles In Stocks And Corporate Bonds Will Burst
How The Bubbles In Stocks And Corporate Bonds Will Burst As someone who has been warning heavily about dangerous bubbles in U.S. corporate bonds and stocks, people often ask me how and when I foresee these bubbles bursting. Here’s what I wrote a few months ago: To put it simply, the U.S. corporate debt bubble […]
The Primacy Of Income
The Primacy Of Income The Era Of Gains is over Ever since the central banks became serial bubble blowers twenty years ago, household wealth has mostly been driven by asset price inflation: But this has been a quixotic pursuit. Created by pulling tomorrow’s prosperity into today, these asset price bubbles are unsustainable, and invariably suffer […]
Bubbles, Balloons, Needles and Pins
Bubbles, Balloons, Needles and Pins M. C. Escher Meeting (Encounter) 1940 It’s no surprise that China has its own plunge protection team -but why were they so late?-, nor that Beijing blames its problems on Trump’s tariffs. GDP growth was disappointing at 6.5%, but who’s ever believed those almost always dead on numbers? It would […]
Rising Interest Rates Start Popping Bubbles — The End Of This Expansion Is Now In Sight
Rising Interest Rates Start Popping Bubbles — The End Of This Expansion Is Now In Sight Towards the end of economic expansions, interest rates usually start to rise as strong loan demand bumps up against central bank tightening. At first the effect on the broader economy is minimal, so consumers, companies and governments don’t let […]
Pensions Now Depend on Bubbles Never Popping (But All Bubbles Pop)
Pensions Now Depend on Bubbles Never Popping (But All Bubbles Pop) We’re living in a fantasy, folks. Bubbles pop, period. The nice thing about the “wealth” generated by bubbles is it’s so easy: no need to earn wealth the hard way, by scrimping and saving capital and investing it wisely. Just sit back and let central […]
UN Report Cites Central Bank Liquidity Bubbles, Loose Money, Debt Expansion
UN Report Cites Central Bank Liquidity Bubbles, Loose Money, Debt Expansion A UN report has everything wrong as to the cause of current problems. Yet, the report mentions central bank liquidity. Seldom does one see a report that “debt is the problem” while being 180 degrees wrong as to the cause of the buildup in […]
Bubbles and Zombies
Bubbles and Zombies They say nobody rings a bell at the top of the market. But whether this is the top or not, two prominent market observers and historians, Robert Shiller and Edward Chancellor, are expressing concern. First, Shiller warns readers not to take big increases in earnings too seriously because earnings are volatile. Everyone […]
Mike Pento Warns Global Central Banks Are Entering The Danger Zone
Mike Pento Warns Global Central Banks Are Entering The Danger Zone Authored by Michael Pento via PentoPort.com, Investors are experiencing huge moves in commodities, currencies, equities and in sovereign debt across the globe. And now the fall has arrived. Expect the volatility currently witnessed in markets to only surge. This is because global central banks […]
