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Why We’re Poorer: Inflation And Deflation Are Now Globalized

by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, We're being hit with a double-whammy: Wages are under deflationary pressure, and almost everything else is exposed to inflationary pressure. As correspondent Mark G. observed in Globalization = Permanent Instability, it's impossible to understand inflation and deflation now except in a global context. Now that prices for commodities such as oil and[...]

Does This Look Like A Housing Recovery To You?

By Michael Snyder, on October 28th, 2014 We just learned that the homeownership rate in the United States has fallen to the lowest level in 19 years. But of course this is not a new trend. As you will see in this article, the homeownership rate in the United States has been in a continual decline for more than 7 years. Obviously this is not a sign of a healthy economy. Traditionally,[...]

Alan Greenspan: QE Failed To Help The Economy, The Unwind Will Be Painful, “Buy Gold”

As presented at Zero Hedge... It appears it is time for some Hillary-Clinton-esque backtracking and Liesman-esque translation of just what the former Federal Reserve Chief really meant. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the Fed chief from 1987 to 2006 says the Fed's bond-buying program fell short of its goals, and had a lot more to add. Mr. Greenspan’s comments to the Council on Foreign[...]

QE Might Be a ‘Toxic Legacy’ Poisoning America – Financial Times

By John Morgan Uneasiness is mounting about what some analysts view as a "toxic legacy" left behind by the Federal Reserve's unprecedented quantitative easing (QE) program and the towering debt it is leaving behind. When the Fed unveiled its ultra-easy monetary policies 2008, the aim was to spawn so much liquidity that investors would be willing to venture out of safe harbors and into riskier[...]

These Government Agencies Want You In 401(K)’s. And Here’s Why.

by Paul Seymour, Director of TDV Offshore I woke up this morning here in the communist-leaning Little Italy which is Buenos Aires, and was hoping to find something to write about, and what did I see? An article entitled – Treasury and IRS Encourage Use of Annuities in 401(k) Plans. That’s the kind of title that just sets me to bein’ a tad skeptical. Excuse me for being a bit jaded, but[...]

Overt Repression – Australian Scholar Says Futures Markets Suppress Commodity Prices, Keep Producing Nations Poor

by Ed Steer Yesterday In Gold & Silver The gold price got sold down a few dollars right at the 6 p.m. EDT open on Sunday evening in New York. It rallied back to unchanged within a few hours, but all four attempts to rally above unchanged during the Monday trading session were met by a willing seller. Then, once the 1:30 Comex close was in, the not-for-profit seller[s] sold gold down some[...]

Why the Fed Will Launch Another Round of QE – Economist Richard Duncan

In November 2002, Fed Governor Ben Bernanke introduced the concept of Quantitative Easing to the world. In a speech entitled “Deflation: Making Sure It Doesn’t Happen Here”, he explained that the Fed could prevent deflation from taking hold in the United States by creating money and using it to acquire government and agency (i.e. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) bonds. He proclaimed that this[...]

Jim Rogers: World to Pay ‘Terrible Price’ for Central Bank Antics

Monday, 27 Oct 2014 09:02 AM By Dan Weil Central banks around the world have been easing big-time over the past five years, and the results won't be pretty, says star investor Jim Rogers. "The central banks have been printing staggering amounts of artificial liquidity," he told Reuters TV. "It's going to come to an end. I don’t know if it's coming to an end now. When it does end, we're all[...]

Your Personal Gold Standard – James Rickards

There isn’t a central bank in the world that wants to go back to a gold standard. But that’s not the point. The point is whether they will have to. I’ve had conversations with several of the Federal Reserve Bank presidents. When you ask them point-blank, “Is there a theoretical limit to the Fed’s balance sheet?” they say no. They say there are policy reasons to make it higher or[...]

Central Banker Admits Central Bank Policy Leads To Wealth Inequality

Editors Note: The true purpose of central banking is to create debt slaves of the masses and enrich the elite.  That is why central bankers and the power elite hate physical gold and silver in the hands of the average citizen. Six years after QE started, and just about the time when we for the first time said that the primary consequence of QE would be unprecedented wealth and class inequality [...]

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