by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) CARACAS — Venezuela removed eight tonnes of gold from the central bank’s vaults last week, and the cash-strapped socialist state is expected to sell the bullion abroad as it seeks to raise hard currency …
via silverdoctors: Editor’s Note: This post is subjective opinion, and it will offend most readers. *** Hmm. I’m confused. Maybe you can help me out? You see, something disturbed me yesterday, and I can’t get it out of my head. Would …
Latest data show major Central Banks’ balance sheet flat on the week, with growing divergence between “Big Two”. The #PBoC draining liquidity at pace, while #Fed liquidity expanding gently. Bank of Japan data show similar act@liquidity.com for full reports pic.twitter.com/zC33nD5xqt …
via @TaviCosta: Liquidity is not the driver of this everything rally. Hope is. Not even massive global QE can prevent asset bubbles from bursting. See 2007-8 scenario below. Crescat new video coming out soon. 2-year yield falling after re-testing multi-decade resistance …
via MarketWatch: There are ideas that are so ubiquitous that it would be considered blasphemous to oppose them. A common one is that you cannot fight the Fed. If you can’t believe your own eyes based on the action in …
BY SRSROCCO By purchasing increasingly worthless paper assets, we can thank the central banks for propping up the global economy for the past decade. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the top central bank’s have acquired $13 trillion worth of assets …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: I am a mega dollar bull – I totally get how it is the only game in town. I’ve lived it too, having seen how the big banks work their balance sheets from the inside. However… occasionally people …
by Egon von Greyerz One of the Fed’s three main objectives is to maintain stable prices. But they have never achieved that at least not since 1971. Again, the Fed did a volte face because they have a total inability …
by SpontaneousDisorder This is the process by which their balance sheets have expanded in recent years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing Quantitative easing Quantitative easing (QE), also known as large-scale asset purchases, is a monetary policy whereby a central bank buys predetermined amounts …
The central banks are STUCK. Raising rates simply can’t happen anymore. It will crash the markets. Lowering interests are more likely but that signals that conditions are worsening. Poor little central banks. What ever will they do? Warning signals have …
by Jesse Colombo via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In a speech in Hong Kong this week, former Fed chair Janet Yellen stated that “global central banks don’t have adequate crisis tools.” According to that logic, she believes that launching additional multi-trillion dollar rounds of …
by Thinker Theresa May is helping to bring down the banking system that didn’t work for the people, and new system are already in place for change. All eyes are on Trump and what’s going on in the U.S.. The …
by Dmitriy Balkovskiy of The Reactionary Write me at db@goldenfront.ru Hi everyone, this is Dmitriy Balkovskiy of the Reactionary blog. In this issue we will talk more of how the perception of Russia as a gold locomotive differ from reality. In order to understand …
by GoldCore – Russia adds another 1,000,000 ounces (31.1 tons) to gold reserves in February – Russia’s gold reserves now 2,149 tons; 5th largest gold reserves in the world – Central bank of Russia buys all of Russian domestic gold production …
by Charles Hugh-Smith With each passing day, we get closer to the shift in the tide that will sweep away this self-serving delusion of the ruling elites like a crumbling sand castle. Those living in revolutionary times are rarely aware …
World renowned precious metals expert Andrew Maguire says watch silver for an extreme spike to the upside. Maguire says, “Silver is going to break out. I think $50 per ounce is a joke. I think it’s going to be substantially …
The people of the UK will not let May resubmit the same deal, the deal has been voted down twice now and the people are calling for something new, lets see how the EU reacts. GM wants to close a …
via katusaresearch: By the early summer of 1940, Belgium and the Netherlands were defeated. France was on the brink of surrender. The Nazi war machine took control of the French Channel coast… …a mere twenty one miles from England’s doorstep. In …
by John Rubino This was going to be the year when the other big central banks joined the Fed in “normalizing” interest rates and reversing the past decade’s QE experiment. Instead, the other central banks blinked and went back to …
via Yahoo: CARACAS (Reuters) – At least 8 tons of gold were removed from the Venezuelan central bank’s vaults last week, an opposition legislator and three government sources told Reuters, in the latest sign of President Nicolas Maduro’s desperation …
by Claudio Grass via Claudiograss.ch ECB: running out of runway – Part I At the end of January, only a month after the official end of the QE program of the European Central Bank (ECB), its President Mario Draghi told the European Parliament’s …
Luke Gromen interviewed on Palisade Radio To subscribe to our newsletter and get notified of new shows, please visit http://palisaderadio.com Luke discusses his background as a research analyst which led him into data aggregation research at an institutional firm. He argues that everything …
by Avi Gilburt of Elliott Wave Trader via Gold Seek There is an old Yiddish expression called a bubbe meise (pronounced my-seh). I guess the closest English interpretation of this expression would be a grandmother’s tale, or in the common vernacular, an old-wives’ tale. Of …
Ah yes. The central banks. Always saving the day. They manipulate the monetary system and destroy any value in the currency. The race to the bottom is on. Every country is ruined, some more than others. But central banks are …
Matteo Salvini has moved to end the Italian Central Bank, Jail Bankers and Repatriate it`s Gold. They are also opposing The Draconian Article 11 and 13. Good! It`s about time someone stood up to the EU!! …listen and learn… …
https://twitter.com/M_PaulMcNamara/status/1097845860325646337 Yep – here's one caught my eye this morning as I was going through the usual updates… spurious, or about to get furious? pic.twitter.com/QbCZyHwByW — Callum Thomas (@Callum_Thomas) February 18, 2019 China satellite manufacturing index YoY change now as …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Those who are betting on Central Planning do not understand the essential role of adaptation. The global economy is in the midst of a grand experiment pitting centralization (Central Planning) against the evolutionary model of adaptive, self-organizing …
by John Rubino Doug Noland’s weekly Credit Bubble Bulletin is always required reading. The latest – befitting the amazing things that have happened lately – is more necessary than usual. But at 10,000 words it’s also a lot longer than usual. So while everyone …
A strong economy does not need the Fed to revise rate and balance sheet strategy. Very worrying signals when a moderate slowdown leads the central bank to change 180 degrees its normalization path. pic.twitter.com/JwwmZOupKD — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) February 16, …
