Up until now, the world's descent into the NIRPy twilight of fiat currency was a function of failing monetary policy around the globe as central bank after desperate central bank implemented negative and even more negative (in the case of Denmark some four times rapid succession) rates, hoping to make saving so prohibitive consumers would have no choice but to spend the fruits of their labor, or[...]
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Fed’s Yellen Says Rate Hikes—But Not Too Many—Are Coming
By Greg Robb WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen on Friday channeled her inner Mary Poppins, giving markets a spoonful of sugar while delivering the message that an increase in interest rates is coming soon. “I expect that conditions may warrant an increase in the federal funds rate target sometime this year,” Yellen told a conference sponsored by the San[...]
ECB Prepares For Grexit, Anticipates 95% Loss On Greek Debt
Dear Greek readers: the writing is now on the wall, and it is in very clear 48-point, double bold, and underlined font: when the ECB "leaks" that it is modelling a Grexit, something Draghi lied about over and over in 2012 and directly in our face too, take it seriously, because it is time to start planning about what happens on "the day after." And incidentally to all those curious what the fair[...]
Housing Starts Collapse Most In 8 Years To 18 Month Lows
Housing Recovery? Yellen, we have a problem. Housing Starts for February collapsed 17% - this is the biggest MoM percentage drop since February 2011, and at -184K units down, this was the single biggest monthly decline in absolute terms since January 2007! At 897k SAAR, this is the first sub-900k print since September 2013 and biggest miss since Feb 2007. Multi-family starts are the lowest since[...]
What Will Happen to You When the Dollar Collapses?
by Jeff Thomas Historically, when a nation’s debt exceeds its ability to repay even the interest, it can be assumed that the currency will collapse. Typically, governments exacerbate the situation by printing large amounts of currency notes in an effort to inflate the problem away, or at least postpone it. The greater the level of debt, the more dramatic the inflation must be to counter it.[...]
Anti-Gold Propaganda In The West At An All-Time High – The Stench of Desperation Hangs Heavy
by David Kranzler Investment Research Dynamics "I’ve been involved in every aspect of the precious metals market since late 2001 and I’ve never heard of Rick Spooner or CMC markets…Rick Spooner? Why not just drag out Pee Wee Herman and have him read off a teleprompter?" David Kranzler CNBC, Ansuya Arjani and anti-gold terrorism With gold under the most intense market manipulation effort[...]
Why the U.S. is Letting China Accumulate Gold – James Rickards
A lot of people think about gold as a percentage of a country’s total reserves. They are surprised to learn that the United States has 70 percent of its reserves in gold. Meanwhile, China only has about 1 percent of its reserves in gold. People look at that and think that’s an imbalance. But those are not very meaningful figures in my view. The reason is that a country’s reserves are a[...]
Suspicions About the Federal Reserve Spill Out in House Hearing
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: March 2, 2015 Fed Chairman Janet Yellen fielded questions last Wednesday before a combative House Financial Services Committee. Tempers flared, fingers stabbed the air, arms waved wildly as House reps expressed pent up frustrations with how the Federal Reserve is handling the economy. At times, Yellen answered curtly and at one point rolled her eyes at[...]
Man Who Predicted Collapse Of Euro Against Swiss Franc Warns Of Next Shock To The World
March 1, 2015 Today the man who 90 days ago remarkably predicted the collapse of the euro against the Swiss franc warned King World News about the next shock that will bring the world to its knees. Egon von Greyerz: “Eric, it's now totally clear to me that the hyperinflation I've been expecting is becoming more persistent and is now engulfing country after country. We are already seeing it in [...]
Bill Gross: “Central Banks Have Gone Too Far In Their Misguided Efforts To Support Economic Growth”
The usual stuff in Bill Gross' latest monthly letter which could have been picked form the pages of Zero Hedge circa late 2009/early 2010, now that virtually all the "conspiracy theories" we first presented years ahead of everyone have not only been validated, but accepted as New Paranormal canon. The excerpted highlights: None dare call it a “currency war” because that would be counter to [...]