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«The Fed Reminds Me of a Speculator Who Is on the Wrong Side of the Market»
«The Fed Reminds Me of a Speculator Who Is on the Wrong Side of the Market» Jim Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, warns of the rampant speculation in the stock market. He worries that the central banks are underestimating the threat of persistently high inflation and explains why gold has a bright future. […]
Today’s Negative Rates Are the Path to Poverty
Today’s Negative Rates Are the Path to Poverty Almost Daily Grant’s (ADG) made the pronouncement on December 14th that a “new benchmark in financial repression” had been set: ”a record $18.4 trillion in global debt is priced to yield less than zero, up from less than $8 trillion in March and a five-year average of $10.3 trillion.” […]
Loonie Tumbles After BOC Warns There Is “Increased Uncertainty” About Future Rate Hikes
Loonie Tumbles After BOC Warns There Is “Increased Uncertainty” About Future Rate Hikes Another central bank appears to be throwing in the towel on any future rate hikes. Just days after Canada reported an abysmal December GDP print, which declined for the second consecutive month and sparked fears of an imminent technical recession… … the Bank of […]
Fed Hints During Next Recession It Will Roll Out Income Targeting, NIRP
Fed Hints During Next Recession It Will Roll Out Income Targeting, NIRP In a moment of rare insight, two weeks ago in response to a question “Why is establishment media romanticizing communism? Authoritarianism, poverty, starvation, secret police, murder, mass incarceration? WTF?”, we said that this was simply a “prelude to central bank funded universal income”, […]
Prepare For Interest Rate Rises And Global Debt Bubble Collapse
Prepare For Interest Rate Rises And Global Debt Bubble Collapse – Diversify, rebalance investments and prepare for interest rate rises – UK launches inquiry into household finances as £200bn debt pile looms – Centuries of data forewarn of rapid reversal from ultra low interest rates – 700-year average real interest rate is 4.78% (must see chart) […]
700 Years Of Data Suggests The Reversal In Rates Will Be Rapid
700 Years Of Data Suggests The Reversal In Rates Will Be Rapid Have we been lulled into a false sense of security about the future path of rates by ZIRP/NIRP policies? Central banks’ misguided efforts to engineer inflation have undoubtedly been woefully feeble, so far. As the Federal Reserve “valiantly” raises short rates, markets ignore […]
Negative interest rates are coming to America
Negative interest rates are coming to America Well, that didn’t take long! Negative Interest Rate Policy appears to be a gift that keeps on giving. Just a little while ago I wrote that, in essence, if the Federal Reserve wants to keep the financial party going a little bit longer, it will have to continue […]
The US Economy Has Not Recovered And Will Not Recover
The US Economy Has Not Recovered And Will Not Recover The US economy died when middle class jobs were offshored and when the financial system was deregulated. Jobs offshoring benefitted corporate executives and shareholders, because lower labor and compliance costs resulted in higher profits. These profits flowed through to shareholders in the form of capital […]
Another Reason Why the Middle Class and the Velocity of Money Are in Terminal Decline
Another Reason Why the Middle Class and the Velocity of Money Are in Terminal Decline This has three extremely negative consequences. In response to a recent post on the structural decline in the velocity of money, correspondent Mike Fasano described a key dynamic in both the decline of money velocity and the middle class. “There […]
China Has A “Colossal Credit Bubble” And No One Knows How It Will Unwind, Marc Faber Warns
China Has A “Colossal Credit Bubble” And No One Knows How It Will Unwind, Marc Faber Warns A little over a week ago, Marc Faber dialed in from Thailand to chat with Bloomberg TV about the outlook for US equities, the American economy, and USTs in the new year. The US is “already in a recession,” the […]
This Is What Happened The Last Time The Fed Hiked While The U.S. Was In Recession
This Is What Happened The Last Time The Fed Hiked While The U.S. Was In Recession Back on June 17, Bank of America started its 66-day countdown to the moment it was convinced the Fed would hike rates, September 17, 2015. We, correctly, said that “we disagree entirely” with BofA’s conclusion that the Fed would hike rates, and […]
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot? Remember those old ads showing a senior couple lounging on […]
Swiss Bank “Goes There”, Applies Negative Rates To Retail Deposits
Swiss Bank “Goes There”, Applies Negative Rates To Retail Deposits Back in September in “How Mario Draghi Can Force The Swiss National Bank To Go ‘Nuclear On Depositors,” we discussed the implications of the ECB’s (likely) decision to plunge further into NIRP-dom at the bank’s December meeting. In short, DM central banks – with the […]
Oil Prices Testing August Lows As Inventories Swell
Oil Prices Testing August Lows As Inventories Swell As Mike D from the Beastie Boys turns fifty today, WTI is trying to fight for its right to party on in forty-dollardom. (but failing). Brent is being more successful in trying to ‘get it together’, holding somewhat steady, but the ongoing swelling-inventory, tanker traffic-jammed nature of […]
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot? Remember those old ads showing a senior couple lounging on […]
