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What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve?
What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve? The Real Goal of Fed Policy: Breaking Inflation, the Middle Class or the Bubble Economy? “There is no sense that inflation is coming down,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a November 2 press conference, — this despite eight months of aggressive interest rate hikes and “quantitative […]
Ellen Brown: The Real Antidote to Inflation
Ellen Brown: The Real Antidote to Inflation The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are far more productive and less risky than raising interest rates. [Images Money / CC BY 2.0] The Federal Reserve is caught between a rock and a hard place. Inflation grew by 6.8% in November, […]
The Disaster of Negative Interest Rates
The Disaster of Negative Interest Rates The dollar strengthened against the euro in August, merely in anticipation of the European Central Bank slashing its key interest rate further into negative territory. Investors were fleeing into the dollar, prompting President Trump to tweet on Aug. 30: The Euro is dropping against the Dollar “like crazy,” giving […]
Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising
Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising On March 31stthe Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time in 3 years and signaled its intention to raise rates twice more in 2018, aiming for a fed funds target of 3.5% by 2020. LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate) has […]
Joyce Nelson, Mark Anielski on “It’s Our Money”
Joyce Nelson, Mark Anielski on “It’s Our Money” A handful of Canadians are waging a noble fight to return their central bank, the Bank of Canada, to its chartered role as a low and no-interest financier of government projects and the public interest. That case is at the center of a new book called Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism. […]
The Italian Banking Crisis: No Free Lunch – Or Is There?
The Italian Banking Crisis: No Free Lunch – Or Is There? It has been called “a bigger risk than Brexit”– the Italian banking crisis that could take down the eurozone. Handwringing officials say “there is no free lunch” and “no magic bullet.” But UK Prof. Richard Werner says the magic bullet is just being ignored. On […]
“Print the Money”: Trump’s “Reckless” Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln
“Print the Money”: Trump’s “Reckless” Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln “Print the money” has been called crazy talk, but it may be the only sane solution to a $19 trillion federal debt that has doubled in the last 10 years. The solution of Abraham Lincoln and the American colonists can still work today. “Reckless,” “alarming,” “disastrous,” […]
The War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
The War on Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless Exposing tax dodgers is a worthy endeavor, but the “limited hangout” of the Panama Papers may have less noble ends, dovetailing with the War on Cash and the imminent threat of massive bail-ins of depositor funds. The bombshell publication of the “Panama […]
This week on “It’s Our Money”: Stephen Lendman and Going Cashless
This week on “It’s Our Money”: Stephen Lendman and Going Cashless Kiss your cash goodbye! The word is that things would be more convenient, crooks would be confounded and diseases might be thwarted if we’d just get rid of filthy currency as the most essential form of personal financial liquidity. Currently circulating in the corridors of […]
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails
Exposing the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty. The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton […]
Ellen Brown: Interviewed on Max Keiser, Feb. 2016
Ellen Brown: Interviewed on Max Keiser, Feb. 2016
The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding
The Citadel Is Breached: Congress Taps the Fed for Infrastructure Funding In a landmark infrastructure bill passed in December, Congress finally penetrated the Fed’s “independence” by tapping its reserves and bank dividends for infrastructure funding. The bill was a start. But some experts, including Congressional candidate Tim Canova, say Congress should go further and authorize funds […]
“Bail-ins Begin”: Interviews with Greg Hunter and Thom Hartmann
“Bail-ins Begin”: Interviews with Greg Hunter and Thom Hartmann My Dec. 29th article “Bail-ins Begin” prompted two video interviews, with Greg Hunter on USAWatchdog.com, and Thom Hartmann, below.
A Crisis Worse than ISIS? Bail-Ins Begin
A Crisis Worse than ISIS? Bail-Ins Begin While the mainstream media focus on ISIS extremists, a threat that has gone virtually unreported is that your life savings could be wiped out in a massive derivatives collapse. Bank bail-ins have begun in Europe, and the infrastructure is in place in the US. Poverty also kills. At the […]
Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador
Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself. Among other interesting news items: In Russia, vulnerability to Western sanctions has led to proposals for a banking system that is not only independent of the […]
