It Wasn’t “Different This Time”…It Was Worse & The Fed Will Fail
It’s never “different this time.” The Fed’s bubbles and busts keep coming and they’re getting more intense…
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s Lie Of The Day: “We are Limited By The Ability To Take Losses”
What’s the truth? The Fed never has to take a loss. Here’s why…
Continue readingIs The Fed Ready For A Recession?
The situation of the Fed can be likened to that of an individual with $500 in their savings account who is driving an old vehicle…
Continue readingWill Gold Shine Due To Coronavirus Infecting The Global Economy?
With new cases of COVID-19 outside China rising, the chances of a pandemic and global recession have increased recently…
Continue readingHong Kong Embraces Helicopter Money – Govt Gives Every Adult Citizen HK$10,000
Hong Kong is in a desperate effort to “do something” about the economic collapse that the region is suffering…
Continue readingIs Coronavirus The Black Swan That Takes Gold To-Da-Moon?
Fears about previous virus outbreaks were overblown in hindsight. Therefore, the current anxiety may be only temporary…
Continue readingThe Owl Has Landed: Lagarde’s New Vision For The ECB
It would be a mistake to assume that we’ve already seen the worst of it when it comes to monetary interventions. Investors & savers should…
Continue reading“Inflation Is Inevitably Going To Rise”…Is Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan Right?
It isn’t just Greenspan that is worried about rising US consumer price inflation…
Continue readingDaniel Lacalle: Monetary Policy Puts Middle & Working Classes At Big Disadvantage, Negative Interest Rates Coming Soon To USA
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Daniel shares his thoughts on the economy and why the Fed’s current policy does not favor the middle or working class. During our discussion, Daniel…
Continue readingEasy-Money Policies Don’t Solve The Problem Of Idle Resources
It is widely believed that resources that are utilized in normal times to promote economic prosperity become underutilized during recessions…
Continue readingSYSTEMIC RISK IS UNCONTAINABLE | Danielle DiMartino Booth
What is a concerned, ordinary person to make of the Fed mysteriously injecting life and liquidity into a seizing-up banking system?
Continue readingThe European Central Bank’s “Mea Culpa”
Conservative investors and market observers have been issuing warnings for years regarding the severe impact of the current monetary policy direction…
Continue readingWhat ECB’s Tiering Means For Gold
In a key policy shift, the ECB has recently introduced tiered system of interest rates…
Continue readingGreed Driving Stock Market Today As Investors Lose Interest In Gold & Silver
With the Fed propping up the entire market and extreme greed driving the stock indexes to new highs, investors have lost interest in the precious metals…
Continue readingWill Repogeddon Make Gold Rally?
One of the most important recent developments in the world of finance was the September liquidity crisis in the U.S. repo market…
Continue readingRetailers Scramble For Promotions To Combat Shorter Holiday Selling Season
Not unlike how the Fed runs monetary policy, retailers this holiday season are trying to “move the goalposts”…
Continue readingFed Cuts Rates, Causing Gold To See-Saw
Inflation would have to soar to force the Fed to increase the federal funds rate…
Continue readingEurope’s Spending Binge Is Slowing Its Economy
The idea that governments can’t lower taxes because there is a deficit, but are free to raise all expenses even if there is a deficit…
Continue readingWill Sputtering Global Growth And The Just-Announced Brexit Deal Support Gold?
It’s the lowest one since the Great Financial Crisis. Is the much talked about recession coming?
Continue readingFor The First Time Ever, Greece Issues Negative Yielding Debt
The former bond market pariah and Eurozone’s most indebted nation has joined the exclusive club of negative-yielding European nations…
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