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July 11, Readings
July 11, Readings How El Niño And La Niña Are Affecting Weather Patterns | ZeroHedge The Nationwide 500,000 EV Charger Charade › American Greatness’ Will the BRICS Currency Use a Gold Standard? – MishTalk Doug Casey on Preparing for Coming Shortages – International Man House Report Reveals GARM’s Role in Stifling Online Discourse–Reclaim the Net […]
Economic Collapse is Stalking us Like Death
Economic Collapse is Stalking us Like Death The exceptional degree to which the Fed has trapped itself (and all of us) in an economic death spiral is becoming evident everywhere now. Photo by Rob Martin on Unsplash My longtime prediction that the Fed will not be able to kill inflation without destroying the economy is showing itself true […]
The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses
The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses Last October, when the wounds from the March 2023 bank failures – which surpassed the global financial crisis in total assets and which sparked the latest Fed intervention, setting the market’s nadir over the past 16 […]
David Stockman on the Continual Rise in the Cost of Living… And Why the Fed has No Shame
David Stockman on the Continual Rise in the Cost of Living… And Why the Fed has No Shame Subscribe to International Man Jay Powell did it again assuring the 1% that he has their back. Markets recovered their poise over the last 24 hours, as investors were relieved after Fed Chair Powell stuck to his recent […]
The Biggest Risks of This Decade
The Biggest Risks of This Decade Since the 2020 pandemic, many things have changed, but nothing more than geopolitics. Wars and clashes that used to be largely national have given way to more regional conflicts that threaten to upend the current world order. The Ukraine War and Israel-Iran conflicts have the potential to lead to […]
Mike Walden: Is it ‘greedflation’ or something more keeping prices high?
Mike Walden: Is it ‘greedflation’ or something more keeping prices high? Photo by Adam Nir on Unsplash Although the pace at which prices are rising has moderated, prices are still going up. In 2021, average consumer prices surged 7%; in 2022 they jumped 6.5%; in 2023 prices went up a more tolerable 3.4%, and the latest […]
How Powell Destroyed His Inflation War as he Eats the Poor
How Powell Destroyed His Inflation War as he Eats the Poor I’m going to save discussion of today’s CPI report for my Deeper Dive this weekend because it requires digging deep into the numbers involved in the report to show why it is not the game-changer for the new trend in inflation that the stock market made […]
New Schiff Interview: All Inflation Has One Source
New Schiff Interview: All Inflation Has One Source On Wednesday, Peter appeared on This Week in Mining with Jay Martin. Jay and Peter discuss the state of the economy, the government’s assault on sound money, and why the mining sector constitutes a good investment. Early on in the interview, Peter lays out the dilemma the […]
Peter Schiff: Biden Lies Again on Inflation
Peter Schiff: Biden Lies Again on Inflation This week on the Peter Schiff Show, Peter covers a week of dismal economic reports. Both jobless claims and consumer sentiment came in worse than expected last week, with both figures missing predictions by a wide margin. Peter also discusses public statements made by both Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the […]
Peter Schiff: Rate Hikes on the Horizon?
Peter Schiff: Rate Hikes on the Horizon? Peter’s back to recap the last week in markets and economic news. This episode starts with April’s dismal stock performance and also discusses Jerome Powell’s most recent appearance. Peter wraps up the episode by recounting the Bitcoin debate he participated in on Friday. Peter notes that April’s losses in the stock market […]
Open the Overton Window
Open the Overton Window You may have heard of the “Overton window.” The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it taps into a certain sense that we all know is there. There are things you can say and things you cannot say, not […]
Inflation is Transitory Again
Inflation is Transitory Again Because it has to be in order to fund Bidenomics. As Powell clasps his hands in desperate hope without any evidence to back his hope, the US Treasurer today, like the Treasurer in yesteryear, is giving a solid thumbs-up to his plan, which is already accomplishing everything the Treasury desperately needed. […]
What Are the Odds the Fed Hikes Interest Rates to 8 Percent?
What Are the Odds the Fed Hikes Interest Rates to 8 Percent? I ask the question because the number came up in a recent JP Morgan publication. 8 Percent “Prediction” or “Possibility”? This headline by TFTC caught my eye: JP Morgan Predicts Crushing 8% Interest Rate Spike JP Morgan forecasts interest rates rising to 8%, potentially […]
David Stockman on the $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room
David Stockman on the $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room These people have to be stopped! We are talking about the nation’s unhinged monetary politburo domiciled in the Eccles Building, of course. It is bad enough that their relentless inflation of financial assets has showered the 1% with untold trillions of windfall gains, but their […]
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You’re Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You’re Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t Almost as if all of us Austrian Economists (read: any carbon based life form using common sense when it comes to finance) live in an echo chamber together, a third expert I respect came out over the last few days and has warned that 5% on […]
