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A Desperate China Begged Fed For “Plunge Protection Playbook” As Its Market Crashed
A Desperate China Begged Fed For “Plunge Protection Playbook” As Its Market Crashed Last June, China’s stock market miracle ended in tears. The SHCOMP’s inexorable, parabolic ascent was to a large degree facilitated by an explosion of margin debt, the likes of which could not be found in any other major market across the globe. […]
Norway’s Interest Rate Conundrum
Norway’s Interest Rate Conundrum Current Situation The ECB recently stimulated more than expected, cutting rates by five basis points and expanding quantitative easing. It is already expected that Norges Bank (The Norwegian Central Bank) will cut rates next week, seeing accelerating inflation as temporary. They have a 2.5% inflation target mandate “over time,” giving them lee-way. They see demand […]
Liberal fiscal plans less transparent than under Harper, Kevin Page says
Liberal fiscal plans less transparent than under Harper, Kevin Page says Kevin Page, Canada’s former parliamentary budget officer, says the Liberal government is even less transparent on fiscal matters than their Conservative predecessors. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) Listen 9:40 Canada’s former parliamentary budget officer says the Liberal government is even less transparent on fiscal matters than the Conservative […]
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns Two days ago, the man who now signs your Federal Reserve notes threw cold water on hopes for a so-called “Shanghai Accord.” Over the past month or so, anticipation has built among market participants for some manner of coordinated policy response at this weekend’s G20 summit […]
Meet China’s Latest $1.8 Trillion “Problem”
Meet China’s Latest $1.8 Trillion “Problem” Last summer we outlined how Chinese banks obscure trillions in credit risk. The powers that be in Beijing aren’t particularly keen on allowing the banking sector to report “real” data on souring loans – especially given the fragile state of the country’s economy. In some cases, the Politburo will pressure banks […]
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard Back in September 2012 we first presented “the world’s biggest hedge fund nobody had ever heard of”: a small, previously unknown company called Braeburn Capital which, however, managed more cash than even Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund. How had the little firm operating out […]
War On Cash Escalates: China Readies Digital Currency, IMF Says “Extremely Beneficial”
War On Cash Escalates: China Readies Digital Currency, IMF Says “Extremely Beneficial” Remember when Bitcoin and its digital currency cohorts were slammed by authorities and written off by the elite as worthless? Well now, as the war on cash escalates, officials from The IMF to China are seeing the opportunity to control the world’s money […]
What Does The Federal Reserve Have to Hide?
What Does The Federal Reserve Have to Hide? Over the years, dissidents in Congress (notably including former US Representative Ron Paul and current Republican and Democratic presidential contenders Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders) have periodically proposed legislation to audit the Federal Reserve. The legislation is always rejected and, when it gets any significant attention at […]
Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism
Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism Faith in an ideology based on a desire for power over others and the need to feel personally superior without any legitimate accomplishment is perhaps the most dangerous state of being an individual or society can adopt. I would refer to such a mindset as “zealotry,” an […]
Report: How Coal and Gas Industry Get Their Way In Fossil Fuel Rich Queensland
Report: How Coal and Gas Industry Get Their Way In Fossil Fuel Rich Queensland Where and how should the public expect negotiations between fossil fuel industries and governments be carried out? What kind of relationships should exist between fossil fuel corporations and the politicians and public servants who are part of the decision-making process that those […]
Don’t Forget China’s “Other” Spinning Plate: Trillions In Hidden Bad Debt
Don’t Forget China’s “Other” Spinning Plate: Trillions In Hidden Bad Debt To be sure, there’s every reason to devote nearly incessant media coverage to China’s bursting stock market bubble and currency devaluation. The collapse of the margin fueled equity mania is truly a sight to behold and it’s made all the more entertaining (and tragic) […]
Assange and Democracy’s Future
Assange and Democracy’s Future Democracy rests on citizens getting real facts and applying rational analysis. The ability of governments, including the U.S. government, to suppress facts and thus manage perceptions represents the opposite, a power over the people that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange threatened, says Norman Solomon. Three years after Ecuador’s government granted political asylum to Julian Assange in its […]
Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending
Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending The Sierra Club sent a letter to President Obama this week, urging the President to make good on his promise of increasing transparency in Washington. Specifically, the environmental group wants the administration to be forthright about the political spending of mega-polluters and their government contracts. Courtney Hight, director […]
The Embarrassment of Transparency
The Embarrassment of Transparency Over the past decade or so, “transparency” has become one of the buzzwords that has guided the Federal Reserve’s culture. The word was meant to convey the belief that central banking was best done for all to see in the full light of day, not in the murky back rooms of […]
Greenpeace Calls on Information Commissioner to Repair ‘Transparency Travesty’ and Publish Full Fracking Report
Greenpeace Calls on Information Commissioner to Repair ‘Transparency Travesty’ and Publish Full Fracking Report Greenpeace has appealed to the UK’s transparency watchdog over the government’s repeated refusal to publish an unredacted version of its Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts report. The environmental NGO has asked the Information Commissioner’s Office to force the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) […]
