Mass layoffs at Well Fargo as a result of declining real estate market. Federal reserve officials are keeping everything in motion, they will be raising interest once again. Trump when asked if the Fed should be independent he side tracked …
From Birch Gold Group In a firm display of confidence, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called for the creation of an independent payment system that doesn’t rely on the U.S. dollar. Citing the Financial Times, a Zero Hedge report quoted Maas (emphasis ours): Europe …
by Jesse This excerpt below is from a blog which I published in 2013. It is a theme that I have been striking since 2009 specifically. The turn in central bank gold buying came in 2008, although the bullish case …
by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market The mainstream news has been awash lately in talk over the danger of economic “contagion,” primarily due to lack of dollar liquidity in emerging markets. This lack of liquidity is being pegged as a trigger for instability in …
IMF says Spain needs 5 million migrants to pay pensions, what about all the youths that are not working. US household debt hit 13.3 trillion dollars, nothing to worry about. Retail sector rebound with a revision to last month data …
Venezuela is preparing to use the El Petro for all its oil transactions, this will bypass US sanctions. The credit impulse is still in the negative territory, the central banks have taken their foot off the gas pedal and we …
UK housing home values have now declined for five consecutive months in a row. The real estate bubbles around the world are popping. The entire central bank economic recovery illusion is now coming to an end, the economy will continue …
By Lance Gaitan The Bank of Japan (BoJ) shook the global credit markets last Tuesday. Even Treasury bond investors perceived the BoJ’s tweaks to its monetary policy as a signal that the transition away from extraordinarily accommodative measures may be coming. The …
via @weizent Rainer Michael Preiss, executive director at Taurus Wealth Advisors, pointed to how the investing environment is changing: volatility is picking up, and interest rates are rising and monetary policy is tightening. In times of volatility, a more hands-on approach …
by Shaun Richards One of the features of modern economic life is the way that central banks have expanded their operations. In a way that development is a confession of failure ( as why are new policies requited if they …
June 14, 2018: >>The European Central Bank could decide to announce the end its quantitative easing programme on Thursday. >>Such a move would end years of post euro-crisis stimulus. >>The ECB is expected to argue that its €2.55 trillion ($3 …
Why is the stock market increasingly reliant on massive injections of money to keep it going?
by Martin Armstrong The the first debt bankruptcy of a major corporation in China has now taken place here on schedule in 2018. This first bankruptcy of a major corporation was due to over-indebtedness which occurred in the current year. The South …
by Brandon Smith There has been a lot of confusion lately in the mainstream economic media as well as in independent media circles as to the behavior of stock markets in the wake of the recently initiated global trade war. In …
The Fed announced they are not considering digital currency, just like the Fed said back prior to the 2008 recession, they are not predicted or do not see a recession anytime soon. The US debt is not being paid down, …
IBM is now developing a cryptocurrency that will be pegged to the dollar, the reasoning is to stabilize it, but what is really happening the central bankers will try to use this as their currency. IMF is already sounding the …
“All cost of capital globally, eventually, will have to go negative and the reason is very simple: it’s the degree of leverage and financialization that we have globally. Pretty much every country now needs 3 to 4 dollars of debt for every …
h/t @StockBoardAsset Mind The Gap (it’s a big one)… Search Phrase “How to Prepare for a Recession” Surges to 10YR High there needs to be an intervention to keep the short cover alive — if that is CB comments, WH comments, …
When one central stops printing, another one takes over. Soon Europe stops printing after having printed 2500 Billion € since 2015 and I would not be surprised if the Fed starts another round of QE. It’s a game for them. …
Print The Bubble. The reason why capex is poor is that QE perpetuates overcapacity. Growth is poor because QE props up unproductive government spending and -as u said- housing bubbles Debt accumulation and saver repression are not social policies. …
World stock market capitalization versus global central bank balance sheets.
The Manhattan bubble is popping, foreign investment is being redirected, the real estate crisis has begun and it will spread. Global debt has hit an all time high and it is getting worse. The rate at which debt is rising …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Do you think that the central bankers influence has triggered a massive shift in the world order? Do you think the IMF and the BIS have gone beyond their mandates? Are central bankers directing the flow of …
via misesmedia Daniel Lacalle joins Jeff Deist to discuss how and why central banks are trapped, stuck with ultra-low interest rates and expansionary policies that produce astonishingly little real growth. This is a hard-hitting and sober look at what rising interest …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPCRyO_NWw Big fan of Luis work over on Smaulgld..and it’s true, although we’ve heard the collapse narrative for ten years, doesn’t mean it isn’t going to happen, and it doesn’t mean we should stop paying attention to the moves they …
Consumer confidence slides, people are nervous about the economy. Americas spending grows faster than income. This will not end well. Inflation is inching up and when it takes off people will not be able to make ends meet. There is …
by John Rubino One of the things giving “data-driven” central banks wiggle room on their pledge to tighten monetary policy is the fact there are several definitions of inflation. In the US the thing most people think of as inflation …
by Thinker For anyone who does even a modicum of research, the 2008 financial crash was not just a cyclical ‘bump’ in the credit cycle, but an actual death event for the entire financial system. And this is primarily why …
Central Banks will never get the blame for liquidity gaps in markets, as the QT turmoil will be shifted to Trump's TRADE WARS. It is such a perfect scapegoat for CBs pic.twitter.com/GKv3UlZOPG — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 26, 2018 Couldn't disagree …
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