By James Rickards The current global currency war started in 2010. My book, Currency Wars, came out a little bit after that. One of the points that I made in the book is that the world is not always in a currency war. But when we are, they can last for a very long time. They can last for five, 10 or 15 years, sometimes longer. And so it’s really not a surprise that here we are in 2014 talking [...]
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Bankers Want Your Savings As Part of Their Next Bail-Out
Keep a close eye on what savings you have left. The financial honchos have plans for your money. Ellen Brown, who writes at The Web of Debt is the only blogger that I am aware of who writes about the neoliberal machinations related to preparing for the next giant bank crashes. In a recent post she describes the latest plan adopted by the G20 nations. I believe this is crucial information for[...]
Yes, It’s Possible for a Gold-Backed Renminbi to Dethrone the Dollar
by Tim Price on December 15, 2014 [Sovereign Man Editor’s note: This letter was written by Tim Price, London-based wealth manager and editor of Price Value International.] “[W]e want to use our reserves more constructively by investing in development projects around the world rather than just reflexively buying US Treasuries. In any case, we usually lose money on Treasuries, so we need to[...]
Savings Accounts are at Risk as Long as JP Morgan CEO Gets Everything He Wants
The CEO of America’s biggest bank, JP Morgan, appears to have Washington at his beck and call but is his push to repeal a key financial safeguard a step too far? COMMON SENSE ACTION - OWN PHYSICAL PRECIOUS METALS HELD IN A NON-BANK DEPOSITORY...AWAY FROM THE WALL STREET PLUNDERERS. If you want to understand what’s wrong with the US financial system, start by asking this question: why does[...]
The Market Gage December 15, 2014 – Precious Metals Start Week Below Friday’s Close
“The Market Gage” features insights into the precious metals market from Roy Friedman. Roy has over 30 years of in-depth experience in all facets of precious metals. Precious metals concluded last week on a steady note, but its failure to find further buying on the back of a sharp sell-off in the U.S. stock market was disappointing. This morning finds all four precious metals trading[...]
Fairytales from the Federal Reserve: 15 Reasons Fed Policies Belong in Fantasyland
By James Rickards Don’t ever think for a minute that the central bankers know what they’re doing. They don’t. And that’s my own view, but I’ve heard that recently from a couple central bankers. I recently had spent some time with one member of the FOMC, the Federal Open Market Committee, and another member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, which is the equivalent [...]
Duck And Cover —- The Lull Is Breaking, The Storm Is Nigh
By David Stockman September 15, 2008 is the day that Lehman died and the moment that the world’s central banks led by the Fed went all-in. As it has turned out, that was an epochal leap into the most dangerous monetary deformation that the world has ever known. It needn’t have been. What was really happening at this pregnant moment was that the remnants of honest capital markets were[...]
China: Turning Away From the Dollar – Only the US Investor Remains Oblivious
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]