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Fourth Turning 2022–Bad Moon Rising (Part 2)
FOURTH TURNING 2022 – BAD MOON RISING (PART 2) In Part 1 of this article I laid out how the global elite have used this covid flu to manipulate the weak minded into a fear induced mass psychosis as a key element in their Great Reset plan to control the world and keep you technologically enslaved […]
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 […]
Ask The Expert- James Grant
Ask The Expert- James Grant James Grant is an author, columnist, and founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. A frequent guest on business television, including CNBC, Fox Business News and a ten-year stint on “Wall Street Week”, Jim’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and The Financial Times. An inductee into […]
Will The Fed Really “Normalize” Its Balance Sheet?
Will The Fed Really “Normalize” Its Balance Sheet? To begin with, how exactly does one define “normalize” in reference to the Fed’s balance sheet? The Fed predictably held off raising rates again today. However, it said that beginning in October it would no longer re-invest proceeds from its Treasury and mortgage holdings and let the […]
The Fed Can’t Save Us
The Fed Can’t Save Us In December, the Fed hiked its target for the federal funds rate, which is the interest rate banks charge each other for overnight loans of reserves. Since 2008 the Fed’s target for the Fed Funds Rate had been a range of 0 percent – 0.25 percent (or what is referred […]
What If There Is No “Fed Put” – Paul Brodsky Thinks Yellen Will Not Bailout Markets This Time
What If There Is No “Fed Put” – Paul Brodsky Thinks Yellen Will Not Bailout Markets This Time Earlier today, Art Cashin summarized most (very desperate) traders’ thoughts when he said that as a result of today’s market crash, “the Fed will try anything” to prop up the wealth effect it had so carefully engineered with seven […]
Dan Amerman: Financial Repression & The New Interest Rate Hike
Dan Amerman: Financial Repression & The New Interest Rate Hike You have to understand one to make sense of the other Financial repression authority Daniel Amerman returns this week to discuss the ramifications of the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate hike in nearly a decade: The key to understand the situation here is that this is […]
Wall Street and the Cycle of Crises
Wall Street and the Cycle of Crises Regular readers of the leftish press have recently been presented with a raft of pleas coming from intelligent and occasionally articulate economists that the Federal Reserve not to raise interest rates. The general point being argued is that interest rates are the price of borrowed money, that raising […]
The Futility of Our Global Monetary Experiment
The Futility of Our Global Monetary Experiment Jeff Deist: The Fed recently announced just this past week that it would not use specific dates for targeting higher Fed funds rate this year and you almost get the sense that poor Janet Yellen is at the end of this Greenspan-Bernanke experiment and there’s not much left […]
Central banks paralysed at the zero bound
Central banks paralysed at the zero bound Though the Fed would deny it, it is clear from the minutes of the last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting that a rise in interest rates has been put off indefinitely. The subsequent rally in the price of gold and the sudden fall in the dollar tend […]
