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Are Recessions Inevitable?
Are Recessions Inevitable? Stocks fell last week following news that the yield curve on Treasury notes had inverted. This means that a short-term Treasury note was paying higher interest rates than long-term Treasury note. An inverted yield curve is widely seen as a sign of an impending recession. Some economic commentators reacted to the inverted […]
Federal Reserve Confesses Sole Responsibility for All Recessions
Federal Reserve Confesses Sole Responsibility for All Recessions In a surprisingly candid admission, two former Federal Reserve chairs have stated that the Federal Reserve alone is responsible for creating all recessions in the United States. First, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said that Expansions don’t die of old age. They get murdered. MarketWatch To clarify […]
The Economic Consequences Of Debt
The Economic Consequences Of Debt Not surprisingly, my recent article on “The Important Role Of Recessions” led to more than just a bit of debate on why “this time is different.” The running theme in the debate was that debt really isn’t an issue as long as our neighbors are willing to support continued fiscal largesse. As I […]
Why Mainstream Economics Consistently Fails to Explain the Occurrence of Recessions?
WHY MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS CONSISTENTLY FAILS TO EXPLAIN THE OCCURRENCE OF RECESSIONS? In his article released on March 21 2018 – Economics failed us before the global crisis – Martin Wolf the economics editor of The Financial Times expressed some misgivings about macroeconomics. Economics is, like medicine (and unlike, say, cosmology), a practical discipline. Its goal […]
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 3
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 3 “During the 1980s and 1990s, most industrial-country central banks were able to cage, if not entirely tame, the inflation dragon.” —Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke began his oft-cited “helicopter speech” in 2002 with a few kind words about his peers, including the excerpt above. Speaking for central bankers, he […]
Daniel Nevins: Economics for Independent Thinkers
Daniel Nevins: Economics for Independent Thinkers It’s time we stop trusting the ‘experts’ Economists are supposed to monitor and analyze the economy, warn us if risks are getting out of hand, and advise us on how to make things runs more effectively — right? Well, even though that’s what most people expect from economists, it’s […]
How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 2: 99.9% Of The Global Population Lives In A Country With A Central Bank
How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 2: 99.9% Of The Global Population Lives In A Country With A Central Bank Even though the nations of the world are very deeply divided on almost everything else, somehow virtually all of them have been convinced that central banking is the way to go. Today, less […]
The Federal Reserve Must Go
The Federal Reserve Must Go If you want to permanently fix America’s economy, there really is no other choice. Even before Ron Paul’s rallying cry of “End The Fed” shook America during the peak of the Tea Party movement, I was a huge advocate of shutting down the Federal Reserve. Because no matter how hard […]
Meet The New Recession Cycle——Its Triggered By Bursting Bubbles, Not Surging Inflation
Meet The New Recession Cycle——Its Triggered By Bursting Bubbles, Not Surging Inflation We are now in the month of April—–so the Wall Street Keynesians are back on their spring “escape velocity” offensive. Normally they accept the government’s seasonal adjustments in stride, but since Q1 is again hugging the flat line or worse, it seems that “bad seasonals” owing to an incrementally winterish […]
