By Mac Slavo SHTFplan.com March 20, 2019 Central Banks Prepare For A Slow Down In The Economy; But The Fed Can’t Fix This Crisis Big banks in the United States are quietly making plans to protect themselves from a slowing domestic economy. While the market increasingly shows signs of fatigue and strain, many […]
By Martin Armstrong Armstrong Economics March 18, 2019 German Government Approves a Merger of Banks Deutsche Bank and Commerce Bank have announced that they will begin merger talks after the government has finally approved that they can lay off workers. For those unfamiliar with the real world behind the curtain, you must realize […]
By Brendan Brown Mises Institute April 11, 2018 Why Big Government, Big Banks, and Big Tech All Hate Cash Big government, big banks, and big tech are now all on the same side in the war against cash. Government — we all know about already. Big banks — they do not want to see the users […]
By John Vibes Free Thought Project April 9, 2018 Fingerprints, Eye Scans Now Required To Buy Food In India, As Banks Cut Off Cryptocurrencies As banks in India cut off access to cryptocurrencies, the government is rolling out a big brother financial grid complete with their own digital currency. There was a string of interesting […]
By Martin Armstrong Armstrong Economics October 4, 2017 Central Banks at Risk of Default? Central banks do not play games with the markets but it sure feels like we are being played by someone! Earlier this year the Bank of Japan, Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank all had similar balance sheets at around […]
By Ryan McMaken Mises Institute June 19, 2017 Fed Raises Rates — Will Other Central Banks Follow? Last week, the Federal Reserve announced an increase in the Federal Funds rate to 1.25 percent. The last time the target rate reached so high was in September of 2008, when the rate was 2.0 percent. […]
By Michael Snyder Economic Collapse Blog June 9, 2017 Central Banks Now Own Stocks And Bonds Worth Trillions – And They Could Crash The Markets By Selling Them Have you ever wondered why stocks just seem to keep going up no matter what happens? For years, financial markets have been behaving in […]
By Michael Snyder Economic Collapse Blog May 17, 2017 Financial Weapons Of Mass Destruction: The Top 25 U.S. Banks Have 222 Trillion Dollars Of Exposure To Derivatives The recklessness of the “too big to fail” banks almost doomed them the last time around, but apparently they still haven’t learned from their past […]
By C.Jay Engel Mises Institute March 24, 2017 Are Central Banks Worthy of Trust? In an essay on Edmund Burke’s view of the nature of government, Murray Rothbard quoted him as saying: In vain you tell me that Artificial Government is good, but that I fall out only with the Abuse. The Thing! The […]
By Michael Snyder Economic Collapse Blog September 12, 2016 Major Problems Announced At One Of The Largest Too Big To Fail Banks In The United States Do you remember when our politicians promised to do something about the “too big to fail” banks? Well, they didn’t, and now the chickens are coming […]
By Thorsten Polleit Mises.org September 12, 2016 Central Banks May Choose Helicopter Money Over Negative Rates The US Federal Reserve (Fed) is considering raising rates. Is the “normalization” of interest rates about to happen which savers and investors have been yearning for? Most likely not. Policymakers are merely realizing that the policy of zero rates […]
By Peter Schiff Euro Pacific Capital August 14, 2016 If the Economy were a car, productivity would be the engine. Heated seats, on-demand 4-wheel drive and light-sensitive tinted windshields, are all very nice. But they mean little if the engine doesn’t turn and the car just sits in the driveway. The latest productivity data […]
