Federal Reserve Policies Aimed at Creating Price Stability Bring About Economic Instability
The ever-growing interference with the workings of markets drives the US economy toward persistent economic impoverishment and…
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Forget What the “Experts” Claim about Deflation: It Strengthens the Economy
The emergence of deflation is always good news, since it is in response to…
Continue readingA Guide For Trading And Investing The Macro Top-Down Global Economic & Financial Backdrop
The Fed and its various talking heads, with Treasury Secretary Yellen in the side car, are in the game trying to manage our expectations about…
Continue readingWorld’s Largest Pension Fund Announces It’s Selling Over 34% of Its US Treasury Holdings ASAP?
Maybe this is why the Fed announced last week that it is…
Continue readingWith Reverse Repos, The Fed Is Now Trying to Clean up Its Own Mess
There’s been chatter aplenty about the surge in the amount of reverse repos…
Continue readingSystemic Risks Abound
If you wanted to design a system guaranteed to collapse in a putrid heap, you’d make moral hazard ubiquitous and you’d make the system 100% dependent on a hubris-soaked faux […]
Continue readingFed Balance Sheet Up $92 Billion In The Last Week, Other Central Banks’ Sheets Growing Out of Control!
In just the last week, the Fed’s official balance sheet is up another $92 billion to over $7.9 trillion in “assets”…
Continue readingStrong Dollar? Weak Dollar? Stable Dollar? The Fed Is Ruining The Dollar!
The Fed, politicians and their crony corporate friends persistently manipulate the dollar and U.S. economy to their advantage, at the expense of everyone else. Prices are…
Continue readingHyperinflation Risk is Higher Now Than Ever
GDP today does not consider inflation or planned obsolescence from cheap consumer goods…
Continue readingThe Fed Further Reduces Its Transparency
What is the Fed trying to cover up by eliminating this economic report?
Continue readingFed Guidance: The Oxymoronic Illusion
The next time a Fed official stands in front of you and tells you that he “has your back,” and will provide you with…
Continue readingWarning Light Flashing Red
When the warning light is flashing red, it’s prudent to have a capital preservation strategy in place.
Continue readingNew And Existing Home Sales: Fact vs Spin
The housing market is quickly becoming dysfunctional from the enormous amount of Fed and Government intervention in the housing and mortgage markets…
Continue readingThe Only Way to Get Ahead Now Is Crazy-Risky Speculation
It’s all so pathetic, isn’t it? The only way left to get ahead in America is to leverage up the riskiest gambles…
Continue readingGold, Silver, Commodities & More: What a Shift in Monetary Policy Portends for Investors
Not only will stock portfolios implode, think about the highly-leveraged holders of government bonds, where a…
Continue readingThe Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America
Central banks are now in the business of pushing up stock prices for the benefit of Wall Street and large public companies. Thanks to…
Continue readingThe Hazardous Detour in the Road to Economic “Recovery” Few Foresee
You know the plot point in the horror film where the highway is blocked and a detour sign directs the car full of naive teens off onto a rutted track […]
Continue readingInflation: Fed Won’t Pick a Fight It Can’t Win
Powell’s tool will turn the economy from recession into a depression…
Continue reading“A Fed With No Fear of Inflation Should Scare Investors”
When the MSM frets that an inflation scare will spook the markets, that concern can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It also makes…
Continue readingThe Everything Bubble: How A Debt-Driven Economy Creates More Frequent Crises
Governments and central banks create a crisis from a moderate and completely healthy slowdown by denying economic cycles and, even worse…
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