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The Bulletin: September 13-19
The Bulletin: September 13-19 Popular Narratives That Do Not Hold Up Under Scrutiny Environmental Impacts of Human Migration Did Putin Just Issue the Most Serious Warning to Date? – Global Research Putin Warns of ‘Direct’ War as US Mulls Letting Ukraine Use Long-Range Western Missiles | Common Dreams It’s Also “Disinformation” When Our Government Does […]
Yield Curve Control: Bubbles And Stagnation
Yield Curve Control: Bubbles And Stagnation Central banks do not manage risk, they disguise it. You know you live in a bubble when a small bounce in sovereign bond yields generates an immediate panic reaction from central banks trying to prevent those yields from rising further. It is particularly more evident when the alleged soar […]
A tale of two deflations
A tale of two deflations Japanification is a term that has re-emerged recently. It refers to the prolonged economic stagnation of Japan, which commenced after a financial crash in the early 1990s. The stagnation of Japan has been marked by very low inflation (recurring periods of deflation), stagnating productivity growth and a massive increase in government […]
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm The gathering storm cannot be dissipated with propaganda and bribes. July 4th is an appropriate day to borrow Winston Churchill’s the gathering storm to describe the existential crisis that will envelope America within the next decade. There is no single cause of the gathering storm; in complex systems, dynamics feed back into […]
Stagnation Nation: Middle Class Wealth Is Locked Up in Housing and Retirement Funds
Stagnation Nation: Middle Class Wealth Is Locked Up in Housing and Retirement Funds The majority of middle class wealth is locked up in unproductive assets or assets that only become available upon retirement or death. One of my points in Why Governments Will Not Ban Bitcoin was to highlight how few families had the financial […]
Fed Quack Treatments are Causing the Stagnation
Fed Quack Treatments are Causing the Stagnation Bleeding the Patient to Health There’s something alluring about cure-alls and quick fixes. Who doesn’t want a magic panacea to make every illness or discomfort disappear? Such a yearning once compelled the best and the brightest minds to believe the impossible for over two thousand years. Instantaneous relief! […]
Stagnation Is Not Just the New Normal–It’s Official Policy
Stagnation Is Not Just the New Normal–It’s Official Policy Japan is a global leader is how to gracefully manage stagnation. Although our leadership is too polite to say it out loud, they’ve embraced stagnation as the new quasi-official policy. The reason is tragi-comically obvious: any real reform would threaten the income streams gushing into untouchably […]
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created, Rising Inequality and Social Disorder Are Inevitable
If We Don’t Change the Way Money Is Created, Rising Inequality and Social Disorder Are Inevitable Centrally issued money optimizes inequality, monopoly, cronyism, stagnation and systemic instability. Everyone who wants to reduce wealth and income inequality with more regulations and taxes is missing the key dynamic: central banks’ monopoly on creating and issuing money widens wealth […]
“The Resentment Will Explode” – In Dramatic Twist, McKinsey Slams Globalization
“The Resentment Will Explode” – In Dramatic Twist, McKinsey Slams Globalization The IMF is getting nervous, and what it appears to be most concerned about, is a collapse of the status quo. Moments ago, in a speech in Washington, IMF head Christine Lagarde said that “The greatest challenge we face today is the risk of […]
Japan: A Future of Stagnation
Japan: A Future of Stagnation Take a declining population with declining rates of productivity growth and load it up with debt, and you get a triple-whammy recipe for permanent stagnation. One of our longtime friends in Japan just sold the family business. The writing was on the wall, and had been for the past decade: fewer […]
Don’t listen to the ruling elite: the world economy is in real trouble
Don’t listen to the ruling elite: the world economy is in real trouble Andy Xie says those attending the G20, Davos and other wasteful meetings are wrong to try to pin the blame for the turmoil on people’s psychology; all signs point to a prolonged period of global stagnation and instability The G20 working group […]
Next Economy: The Coming ‘Age of Stagnation’
Next Economy: The Coming ‘Age of Stagnation’ Author Satyajit Das kicks off Tyee series on global capitalism’s crisis. Satyajit Das: Having worked in financial markets for three decades, Das sees a global economy ‘in peril.’ [Editor’s note: What kind of future will we inhabit? Many thinkers say we’re moving toward automated job scarcity, digital sharing […]
Could an Economic Collapse be in Our Near Future?
Could an Economic Collapse be in Our Near Future? Climate scientists and others have in the past few years issued a steady stream of analyses showing that without immediate remedial actions, a disastrous future is headed our way. But is it a four-decade-old study that will prove prescient? That study, issued in the 1972 book The […]
The Class War Has Already Started
The Class War Has Already Started Here’s what’s obvious, but unacceptable: we need a new system. Pundits and apologists are quick to chastise anyone who even speaks of class war, as if the words alone might spark what the pundits and apologists fear. The pundits and apologists dread the words because they know the Class War […]
The Fed’s 2% Inflation Fairytale—–Who Made It Up And What Does It Mean?
The Fed’s 2% Inflation Fairytale—–Who Made It Up And What Does It Mean? Once upon a time, not too long ago, central bank wizards began telling a fairytale that economies need inflation. But not just any inflation. In their Goldilocks make-believe world, the not too hot, not too cold, just right dose of two percent […]
