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The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025
The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950 A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. – The New York Times IEA Doubles Down On Peak Oil […]
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.” […]
Negative Interest Rates Have Arrived
Negative Interest Rates Have Arrived We are often warned that negative interest rates are an approaching menace — not an immediate menace. Yet are negative rates already reality in the United States? Has the unholy day already arrived? Today we don the sleuth’s cap, step into our gumshoes… and unearth evidence that negative interest rates […]
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization In 2019, US population growth fell to +1.55m or +0.5%…this was due to a trifecta of declining births, lower immigration, and higher deaths than anticipated. However, as with everything “2020”, all three trends are only intensifying to blow away 2019. Births are falling faster and […]
Negative Rates Are Not an Option
Negative Rates Are Not an Option Today, Fed Chair Jerome Powell reiterated the Fed’s position on negative rates and gave his economic assessment as well. Economic Outlook “Highly Uncertain” In a live economic interview with PIIE, Jerome Powell discussed the Fed’s outlook for the economy and the advisability of negative interest rates. The video interview […]
Peter Schiff: The Fed Is Not Done Cutting Until It Gets to Zero
Peter Schiff: The Fed Is Not Done Cutting Until It Gets to Zero Peter Schiff recently appeared on Kitco news with Daniela Cambone to talk politics, the economy and the Fed. He said that no matter what Jerome Powell is saying, the Fed central bank isn’t finished with rate cuts. Lisa started out the interview […]
We Finally Understand How Destructive Negative Interest Rates Actually Are
We Finally Understand How Destructive Negative Interest Rates Actually Are We are in the midst of a strange economic experiment. Vast quantities of negative-yielding debt are currently sloshing around the global economy. While the amount of negative-yielding bonds has dropped recently from a mind-boggling number in excess of $17 trillion, reinvigorated central bank easing across […]
How Is Negative Interest Possible?
HOW IS NEGATIVE INTEREST POSSIBLE? Germany has recently joined Switzerland in the dubious All Negative Club. The interest rate on every government bond, from short to 30 years, is now negative. Many would say “congratulations”, in the belief that this proves their credit risk is … well … umm … negative(?) And anyways, it will […]
More on the puzzle of negative interest rates
More on the puzzle of negative interest rates Interest rates on many bonds have plunged into negative territory. But why on earth would anyone be willing to save $1000 only to get $999 in the future? Saving up for a rainy day has always gone hand in hand with a positive interest rate, not a […]
History Being Made: Negative Rates, Fake Markets, & The Imminent “Daily Liquidity” Crisis
History Being Made: Negative Rates, Fake Markets, & The Imminent “Daily Liquidity” Crisis Transformational Markets: History Being Made No-Bond World And The Risk Of A Daily Liquidity Crisis Rates hit new lows this month. Symbolically, the 50-year swap rate in Europe dived into negative territory. Bonds as an asset class are in extinction, a major […]
How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy
How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy Now they’re clamoring for this NIRP absurdity in the US. How will this end? Now there is talk everywhere that the United States too will descend into negative interest rates. And there are people on Wall Street and in the media that are hyping this absurd condition […]
12 Reasons Why Negative Rates Will Devastate The World
12 Reasons Why Negative Rates Will Devastate The World It has been a thesis over 20 years in the making, but with every passing day, SocGen’s Albert Edwards – who first coined the term “Ice Age” to describe the state of the world in which every debt issue ends up with a negative yield as […]
IMF Recommends “DEEP” Negative Interest Rates as the Next Tool
IMF Recommends “DEEP” Negative Interest Rates as the Next Tool The IMF has continued to assume that the zero-bound on interest rates can be a serious obstacle for fighting recessions on the part of the central banks. The IMF maintains that the zero-bound is not a law of nature; it is a policy choice. The latest in […]
Nothing Is Guaranteed
Nothing Is Guaranteed There are no guarantees, no matter how monumental the hubris and confidence. The American lifestyle and economy depend on a vast number of implicit guarantees— systemic forms of entitlement that we implicitly feel are our birthright. Chief among these implicit entitlements is the Federal Reserve can always “save the day”: the Fed has the tools […]
Can the EU Survive the Next Financial Crisis?
Can the EU Survive the Next Financial Crisis? Despite the ECB’s subsidy of the Eurozone’s banking system, it remains in a sleepwalking state similar to the non-financial, non-crony-capitalist zombified economy. Gone are the heady days of investment banking. There is now a legacy of derivatives and regulators’ fines. Technology has made the over-extended branch network, […]
