By James Kynge and Josh Noble Questions remain over the global economic impact of Beijing’s efforts to reduce its financial reliance on the US When an economic theme goes global, Hollywood is never far behind. In the futuristic thriller Looper, retired hit man Bruce Willis travels back in time from the year 2074. Upon meeting his younger self, he advises him to stop learning French and[...]
Tag: currency wars
Newly-Revealed, SECRET Stockpiles Are Evaporating! – Psst…PMC Ounce Owners Positioned to be Big Winners
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Conspiracy Fact. Well, well! Once again, all the “tin-foil” hat-wearing folks are looking like the smartest guys in the room, as an intriguing secret this week is revealed about a certain precious metal! This is the biggest news of the week, yet nearly no one has mentioned it! Now that we know this secret, it behooves us to use this knowledge to ask some very [...]
NIRP Arrives In The US: TBTF Banks Tell Customers To Move Their Cash Or Be Charged Fees
Back in June, the world was speechless when Goldman's head of the ECB, Mario Draghi, stunned the world when he took Bernanke's ZIRP and raised him one better by announcing the ECB would send deposit rates into negative territory, in the process launching the Neutron bomb known as N(egative)IRP and pushing European monetary policy into the "twilight zone", forcing savers to pay (!) for the[...]
Even The BIS Is Shocked At How Broken Markets Have Become
Not a quarter passes without the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) aka central banks' central bank (also the locus of some of the most aggressive manipulation of gold and FX in human history) reiterating a dire warning about the fire and brimstone that is about to be unleashed upon the global economy. It started in June of 2013, when Jaime Caruana, certainly the most prominent doom and[...]
With Its Gold “Vaporized”, A Furious Ukraine Turns On Its Central Bankers
As reported two weeks ago, following a stunning announcement by the head of Ukraine's central bank, Valeriya Gontareva, on primetime TV we learned that (virtually) all of Ukraine's gold was gone, or - in the parlance of Jon Corzine - had "vaporized." And as we also predicted two weeks ago, it was only a matter of time before Ukraine's people - the vast majority of whom are innocent pawns in a[...]
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Crashed Like This?…
By Michael Snyder There has only been one other time in history when the price of oil has crashed by more than 40 dollars in less than 6 months. The last time this happened was during the second half of 2008, and the beginning of that oil price crash preceded the great financial collapse that happened later that year by several months. Well, now it is happening again, but this time the stakes[...]
Global Business Outlook: “Darkest Picture since Financial Crisis.” “US of Greatest Concern”
by Wolf Richter The plunging price of oil since June has been a leading indicator: global economic growth is in trouble, despite six years of unprecedented central-bank free-money policies that caused asset prices to soar but has accomplished little else. This scenario has now been confirmed by businesses that help drive the economy forward – not by economists and Wall Street hype mongers:[...]
Grandmaster Putin’s Golden Trap – Forget Misplaced Sentiment, Position to Profit From the Financial War
By Dmitry Kalinichenko Very few people understand what Putin is doing at the moment. And almost no one understands what he will do in the future.No matter how strange it may seem, but right now, Putin is selling Russian oil and gas only for physical gold. Putin is not shouting about it all over the world. And of course, he still accepts US dollars as an intermediate means of payment. But[...]
The Shock Doctrine: When Order Trumps Personal Freedom
By James Rickards One of the most influential books among global power elites in the past 10 years is Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, published in 2007. The shock doctrine is an essential concept for understanding how power elites such as central bankers, finance ministers and the ultra-rich work behind the scenes to advance their agendas. It’s also how[...]
Here We Go: Yen Goes Parabolic, Begins to Hyperinflate
The Japanese yen is now collapsing. If the yen goes “super-nova” – i.e. collapses - it could bring down the U.S. The U.S. QE/Keynesian Ponzi scheme relies on Japan to help keep the scheme together. The yen is beginning to hyperinflate and it is now entering “parabolic” mode. First, this will cause the Japanese banks to implode because they’re loaded up with Japanese stocks and[...]