Why do banks have $8 trillion in uninsured deposits? Why do cash reserves, not new loans, dominate the increase in M2 over the past decade? Why were banks enticed into accumulating Treasury securities that have led to massive balance sheet …
BRICS+ is creating a new joint global reserve currency backed by natural resources to replace the USD reserve currency which is backed by NOTHING. Those who say that global trade will still be in USD in 5 yrs are delusional. …
The top executives at Google and Facebook are being accused of conspiring together by approving a secret deal that gave Facebook an advantage in online advertising auctions. Attorneys for Texas and other states, according to court filings obtained by Fox …
“In the old days, the Fed could do U-turns… it did a massive U-turn in January 2019, 2018… [and] after the taper tantrum,” Queens’ College, Cambridge, President @elerianm says. “The Fed can do U-turns as long as inflation isn’t a …
Men continue to abandon academia by any measure — applications, enrollment, attendance and graduation rates. How can colleges and universities convince boys that the time, effort and expense of a diploma is worth it? Do any college executives have the …
by Martin Armstrong The general talk has been that the end of the fiat monetary system is imminent. Central bank digital currencies allegedly threaten the US dollar, according to some very shallow reasoning and a total lack of understanding about why the …
by Fabius Maximus The Left has assembled a cohesive bloc of voters: people of color, immigrants, gays, hard-core leftists, radical feminists, single mothers, and fragments of their long-ago core (e.g., union workers and their families). These people have passion about their …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But deposit-taking banks have pulled back. Lovingly known as “shadow banks,” nonbanks have come to dominate the mortgage market. And they originate the riskiest mortgages. The government — mostly the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) — is …
by surefire_inceligence Amazon created this competition for their upcoming HQ2 location, ultimately picking New York City, and just outside of Washington D.C. So if they knew they were going to pick these already wealthy and developed cities, why dangle …
By Harry Dent Many studies focus on whole states for GDP and job growth, but I prefer looking at the cities people actually live in, which can be quite different from other parts of states. That’s where it really happens. …
via WND: The digital world has been flooded with concerns in recent months over the power of the giant tech companies, particularly Google and Facebook, to control the flow of information. Conservatives in America have expressed alarm, and in Europe, a leader …
by goldsilver Fast and easy. This is how debt flows at the top of a cycle, at peak bubble inflation. Cov-lite loans are an excellent example of cheap, uncollateralized, highly risky debt. And their issuance, as an overall percentage of US …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiFc3cqWzos Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, President Trump promised to reduce the trade deficit with China last weekend during a speech in Pennsylvania. The US deficit with China reached $375 billion in 2017. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/h…
By Michael Snyder Once we wake up to how the game is being played, then we will have a real shot at changing things. For decades, the elite have been pulling the strings behind the scenes in both major political …
By Michael Snyder How much is your view of the world shaped by what you see on television? On average, Americans spend more than 150 hours watching television every month, and it is called “programming” for a reason. If you allow anyone …
By Michael Snyder Even though the nations of the world are very deeply divided on almost everything else, somehow virtually all of them have been convinced that central banking is the way to go. Today, less than 0.1% of the …
By Michael Snyder Throughout human history, those in the ruling class have found various ways to force those under them to work for their economic benefit. But in our day and age, we are willingly enslaving ourselves. The borrower is …