Ilmars Rimsevics, the governor of Latvia’s Central Bank, is currently held at the Corruption Prevention and Combatting Bureau of Latvia (KNAB), where he has already spent seven hours, amid the ongoing investigation into allegations of corruption, Sputnik correspondent reported on …
Erik Townsend interviewed by Jason Burack on Wall St For Main St In this interview, Jason asks Erik if central banks have a viable exit strategy to remove liquidity? Erik thinks they will try but no one knows for sure what will happen …
The Canadian housing crisis is imploding, sales have dropped on existing homes. Inflation is starting to pick up, once inflation gets going the central bank will not be able to control it. The central banks are beginning to move into …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU98MSClziA Today’s Guest: Brandon Smith Websites: Alt-Market http://www.alt-market.com
by Brandon Smith If you have been following the public commentary from central banks around the world the past few months, you know that there has been a considerable change in tone compared to the last several years. For example, officials …
Central Banks Now Own 33% of All Global Sovereign Debt Because who else would buy it? You can get trapped in a liquidity event even when you hold something very valuable if you need to sell with urgency and the …
by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning To understand the risk of contagion, you can think of the marlin in Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. The marlin started out as a prize catch lashed to the side of the fisherman Santiago’s boat. But, once …
by Simon Black Within the last week, Facebook announced a ban on all advertisements about bitcoin, initial coin offerings and other cryptocurrencies. Facebook (along with Google) virtually controls Internet advertising. So their policies have enormous influence over consumer behavior. Banning ICO …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kegvVTeeZzU Today’s Guest: Jason Burack Websites: Wall St For Main St http://wallstformainst.com YouTube: WallstforMainst https://www.youtube.com/user/WallStFo…
via the MacroTourist Last week, markets got all excited about comments from Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda that Japan’s inflation is “finally close” to the BoJ’s 2% target. Overnight, there were suddenly all sorts of articles speculating on the end of …
Reality Checking Canada’s Central Bank and the Economy (Link to article below) http://business.financialpost.com/new…
by northmantrader How stupid do central bankers think we are? By account of their communications and actions the answer is: Very. Just in the past 24 hours we got a heap of communications that can be considered cringeworthy at best, highly …
From Quartz: Late last year, China’s Xi Jinping said it was time for the nation to “take center stage in the world.” There are many ways for China to do this, including promoting globalization, boosting foreign aid, and developing advanced technologies. Another critical step in …
by Charles Hugh-Smith This is one reason why I anticipate “unexpected” disruptions in the global economy in 2018. The mere mention of “central banks” will likely turn off many readers who understandably have little interest in convoluted policies and arcane mumbo-jumbo, …
by Shaun Richards The credit crunch era has brought us all sort of themes but a lasting one was given to us by Brazil’s Finance Minister back in September of 2010. From the Financial Times. “We’re in the midst of …
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 1/5/18 Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, Chief Investment Officer of Bleakley Financial Group and Editor of The Boock Report newsletter https://boockreport.com/, Peter Boockvar. Jason asks Peter about …
Since the great recession the economy has been pumped with stimulus, manipulated government stats and propaganda from the Fed. The peoples economy is struggling,retail is a disaster and the other stats were manipulated to convince the public that the economy …
Here’s a summary from the report which succinctly explains the potential debt crisis and how the world’s central banks have painted themselves into a “monetary policy corner”: “Otherwise, over long horizons, failing to constrain financial booms but easing aggressively and …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkGXy-vI9-E All central banks have been playing a game. Printing money and buying stocks. Yet another disclosure is about to be unveiled for you. This time, it’s Norway. Norway Central Bank Balance Sheet | 1950-2017 | Data | Chart …
From Birch Gold Group Market crashes often happen not when everyone is worried about them, but when no one is worried about them. That’s why one of the biggest risks in the stock market right now is complacency. It’s become a …
Why is this not front page news in the west? So it must be looking good, as super-loose monetary policy seems to have peaked and central banks are “talking the talk” and “walking the walk” for normalisation and tighter policy …
by sundance Panda Reacts To Finding Lion Tracks Amid Shrinking Bamboo Forest ! A Chinese central planner, Zhang Yong, the vice-head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), made a statement today (during the communist party congress) that carries much …
Resource analyst and futurist Chris Martenson points out, “The Dow is hitting all-time highs. So, it can’t be that bad, right? The Dow is used as a signaling device, and it says have faith in your leadership and everything is …
In the year of 2000 there were seven countries without a Rothschild owned Central Bank: Afghanistan Iraq Sudan Libya Cuba North Korea Iran It is not a coincidence that these country, which are listed above were and are still being …
by David Haggith Central banks buying stocks are effectively nationalizing US corporations just to maintain the illusion that their “recovery” plan is working because they have become the banks that are too big to fail. At first, their novel entry into the …
by David Haggith We just saw a major rift open in the US stock market that we haven’t seen since the dot-com bust in 1999. While the Dow rose by almost half a percent to a new all-time high, the NASDAQ, …
By Michael Snyder Have you ever wondered why stocks just seem to keep going up no matter what happens? For years, financial markets have been behaving in ways that seem to defy any rational explanation, but once you understand the …
Financial analyst Andy Hoffman contends debt is the main problem with the economy. Hoffman says, “There is so much debt in it that even a tiny bit of interest rate increase is killing it further. Yes, they have had the …
What would it look like if the central banks and the elite lost control of the markets and interest rates and the derivative market? Money Manager Michael Pento contends, “I think you have to stop saying ‘if.’ I think ‘if’ …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Until the system implodes–you’re a genius. So you’ve ridden the markets higher–stocks, housing, commercial real estate, bat guano, quatloos, you name it–everything you touch turns to gold. What can we say, bucko, other than you’re a genius! …