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When Inflation is really Deflation
When Inflation is really Deflation QUESTION: Why is the Fed doing so much Reverse Repo? Do you think it will hit $2 trillion? JE ANSWER: I understand that people seem to be talking up the reverse repo activity as doom and gloom. The Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates and boosted the return to fight inflation. […]
The long history of money
The long history of money We are approaching a critical turning point in the history of financial systems. Since the Great Financial Crisis, central banks have exerted control over the financial markets through their QE-programs and plan to extend their influence over the monetary system through the introduction of national digital currencies. Opposing forces include, as […]
Central Bank Crisis Expanding
Central Bank Crisis Expanding QUESTION: Hi Marty.You mentioned in the blog that all European sovereign debt may end up being converted into perpetual bonds. Will it be through debt mutualization or will each country have each own Consol? Could you please elaborate on how this conversion would affect pension funds, banks, social security and individual investors? […]
Making Sense Of An Increasingly Insensible World
Making Sense Of An Increasingly Insensible World Creating purpose and fulfillment within a failing system What the heck is going on? I hear this a lot these days. Developments are happening too quickly to process for many folks, creating a persisting cloud of confusion. Even focusing down on any particular single event often gets nowhere […]
WTF: What The Fed?!? (Round 2)
WTF: What The Fed?!? (Round 2) Williams, Maloney, Martenson, Smith: “Trillions more reasons to be concerned” Back in mid-January, Grant Williams, Mike Maloney, Charles Hugh Smith, Chris Martenson and I sat down for an in-depth discussion on the dangerous distortions to financial markets and the global economy that central bank intervention is causing. That video, […]
No One Gets Out Of Here Alive
NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE “The seasons of time offer no guarantees. For modern societies, no less than for all forms of life, transformative change is discontinuous. For what seems an eternity, history goes nowhere – and then it suddenly flings us forward across some vast chaos that defies any mortal effort to […]
The Pandemic Isn’t Ending, It’s Just the Beginning of Global Disorder and Depression
The Pandemic Isn’t Ending, It’s Just the Beginning of Global Disorder and Depression When you’ve been lied to, you’ve been betrayed. Betrayal has consequences. Unsurprisingly, denying the pandemic is unstoppable and consequential is the order of the day: authorities everywhere are terrified these realities might leak through all their oh-so-obviously desperate firewalls and filters. Why are […]
VIDEO: The Fed’s Evil Juggernaut
VIDEO: The Fed’s Evil Juggernaut Don’t let it crush your future Juggernaut: (n) massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path The US Federal Reserve is once again force-feeding liquidity into the system. At its fastest rate ever. The result? Record high stock prices whose valuations defy all logic. What’s wrong with […]
Surf’s Up!
Surf’s Up! The wave of change is finally here. Are you prepared to ride it? Nothing seems right anymore. In whichever direction we choose to look, things are unraveling at a quickening pace. Welcome to the Fourth Turning; and with it, a profound loss of trust in institutions and government. Such lack of social cohesion is […]
2020 Begins With A Bang (Literally)
2020 Begins With A Bang (Literally) A heck of a lot happened this week It sure didn’t take long for 2020 to get interesting. Iran The biggest development of the new year happened Thursday when the US military assassinated Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful figure after its Supreme Leader, in a surgical drone strike. This is […]
See You on the Dark Side of the Moon
SEE YOU ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON And if the cloud bursts thunder in your earYou shout and no one seems to hearAnd if the band you’re in starts playing different tunesI’ll see you on the dark side of the moon Brain Damage, Pink Floyd And if the dam breaks open many years […]
Federal Reserve Proposes New Rule To Let Inflation Run “Hot” Ahead Of Next Recession
Federal Reserve Proposes New Rule To Let Inflation Run “Hot” Ahead Of Next Recession As the Federal Reserve remains unable to stoke inflation (because it refuses to measure it correctly) and refuses to factor in asset price inflation… … it has now considered launching a new rule that would let inflation run above its 2% […]
Personal Politics, Public Impeachment, Persuasion and Post-Apocalyptic Planning
Personal Politics, Public Impeachment, Persuasion and Post-Apocalyptic Planning One of my primary concerns regarding the forthcoming economic chaos and societal breakdown is that there will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. As normalcy bias evaporates like tears on dehydrated sunken cheeks, hungry neighbors and pre-collapse friends and acquaintances will soon assimilate into zombie […]
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt In a very real way, MMT is already here Sure, it’s not admitting to this. And it’s using several technical jinks and jives to offer a pretense that things are otherwise. But it’s not terribly difficult to predict what’s going to happen next: the Federal Reserve will […]
