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What Did Fed Chairman Yellen Whisper In Obama’s Ear?
By Ron Paul, Ron Paul Institute Last week, President Obama and Vice President Biden held a hastily arranged secret meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. According to the one paragraph statement released by the White House following the meeting, Yellen, Obama, and Biden simply “exchanged notes” about the economy and the progress of financial reform. Because the … Continue reading
The Real Reason The Fed Will Not Raise Rates Again
By Phoenix Capital Research The Fed is “one and done” for rate hikes. It will not raise rates again. We called this back in mid-2015. The US economy is far too weak for the Fed to engage in anything resembling a series of rate hikes. Corporate leverage, household leverage, even the national debt stand at levels … Continue reading
The Fed Is Just As Wrong Today As It Was In 1937
By Jeffrey P. Snider, Alhambra Investment Partners There is great allure in comparing our current economic circumstances to those in 1937, and why wouldn’t there be? The associations are especially striking, starting with the gaping hole left over by each contraction. Each recovery, then and now, was at least moving in the right direction but not … Continue reading
Emerging Markets: What Has Changed This Week?
By Marc Chandler, Marc to Market Blog Bank Indonesia will use the 7-day reverse repo rate as its new benchmark policy rate The ruling party in South Korea unexpectedly lost parliamentary elections The Monetary Authority of Singapore eased monetary policy to recession settings Turkey has nominated its next central bank chief The Brazilian special lower house committee … Continue reading
No Limit To Kuroda’s Monetary Easing?
By Paul-Martin Foss Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda two weeks ago stated that there is no limit to the Bank of Japan’s monetary easing measures. “There aren’t any such things as a quantitative limit or anything, any numbers we can’t overcome,” he was reported to have said. Kuroda must apparently adhere to the Weimar School of … Continue reading
Secular Stagnation Would Be The Best Case, But It’s Not Even Realistic
By Jeffrey P. Snider, Alhambra Investment Partners The IMF released the first 2016 edition of its World Economic Outlook (WEO). Titled Too Slow For Too Long, it seems as if the institution has finally caught on to the fact that the global recovery never really was a recovery. Throughout the report you get the sense that they … Continue reading
CEO Keith Neumeyer On Negative Rates In The U.S.: There’s Going To Be A Major Revolt; Riots
By Mac Slavo With negative interest rates now the order of the day in much of the Western world, it’s only a matter of time before financial institutions start charging American depositors for the privilege of keeping their money safe in the U.S. banking system. And according to Keith Neumeyer in his latest interview with SGT Report, that … Continue reading
Japan’s Wild Monetary Experiment Is Far From Over
By Brendan Brown The leading narrative in the foreign exchange markets is told and re-told to explain how the Japanese yen has surged this year despite an ever wilder monetary experiment pursued by the Abe government. The story seems plausible to many, and thus is deeply challenging for the backers of sound money principles. The financial … Continue reading
The War On Savings: The Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, And The Push To Go Cashless
By Ellen Brown Exposing tax dodgers is a worthy endeavor, but the “limited hangout” of the Panama Papers may have less noble ends, dovetailing with the War on Cash and the imminent threat of massive bail-ins of depositor funds. The bombshell publication of the “Panama Papers,” leaked from a Panama law firm specializing in shell … Continue reading
Declining Profits, Rising Defaults Assure 2016 Recession
By David Haggith, The Great Recession Blog I believe a 2016 recession is already a fact in the US, and the Great Recession will return with a vengeance. That recession never really ended. It was simply propped up while all of its fundamental flaws remained, and the props are now all ended or failing. It … Continue reading
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