As people continue to digest breaking news out of Greece and around the world, the Godfather of newsletter writers, 90-year-old Richard Russell, announced that the "bear market in gold is over!" Russell also covered everything from a desperate Fed ushering in QE4, to global hyperinflation, the California drought and coming Great Depression-style work programs. Richard Russell: "The latest[...]
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Hedge Fund Legend Julian Robertson Warns Of A “Complete Explosion” Unless Fed Contains “Boiling, Bubble” Market
Legendary hedge fund manager Julian Robertson, who has been conspicuously absent from CNBC in recent months, spoke with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo about his take on markets. He was hardly bullish, which may explain his absence from the cadre of CNBC bubble cheerleaders. Robertson (in addition to some generic comments on the weather impacting the jobs numbers: apparently the weather only[...]
It Just Happened: “The Moment the United States Lost its Role as the Underwriter of the Global Economic System.”
bySimon BlackonApril 6, 2015 Last week, the government of China closed the enrollment window to join its new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a ‘founding member’. The AIIB, if you haven’t heard of this yet, is designed to essentially displace the Western-controlled IMF and World Bank. And prior to last Tuesday’s deadline, dozens of nations around the world from New Zealand[...]
Putin: More Members To Join BRICS Bank
BRICS are coordinating their policies on key international issues ever more closely, and are playing an active part in shaping a multi-polar world order and developing modern models for the world’s financial and trading systems. – Putin,The BRICS Post Vladimir Putin assumed the annual Presidency of the BRICS last Wednesday and Shanghai will be the host city for the BRICS headquarters.[...]
Australia Wants to Tax Bank Deposits. Does Anyone Think the US Won’t?
bySimon BlackonApril 1, 2015 Several months ago, the government of Australia proposed to tax bank deposits up to $250,000 at a rate of 0.05% (5 basis points). Their idea was for the money to be invested in a rainy day Financial Stabilization Fund to insure against in the unlikely event of a banking crisis… or all-out collapse. And as of this morning, it looks like the levy might just pass and[...]
Experts Fear World May Be Headed for Yet Another Financial Crisis
By Dan Weil Only six years after the end of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s some experts are worried another one may be on its way.Some are "warning that the global community has failed to learn the lessons of the Greek debt crisis — or even of Argentina’s default in 2001, the consequences of which are still being contested furiously in courts on both sides of the[...]
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[...]
As Major Cracks Appear In The Global Financial System, It’s Everyone, Every Currency And Every Central Bank For Itself
By John Ing of Maison Placements March 24 (King World News) – Much is made of America’s economy becoming one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It is all relative. Debt has grown even faster. The US dollar too has soared relative to other currencies, thanks in part to a relatively better economic recovery and of course the trillions from the Fed’s bond buying program. However, [...]
6 Major Flaws in the Fed’s Economic Model – James Rickards
The U.S. dollar is the dominant global reserve currency. All markets, including stocks, bonds, commodities, and foreign exchange are affected by the value of the dollar. The value of the dollar, in effect, its “price” is determined by interest rates. When the Federal Reserve manipulates interest rates, it is manipulating, and therefore distorting, every market in the world. The Fed may have [...]
The United States, Weimar Germany And What The Fed Is Really Up To
Today one of the greats in the business spoke with King World News about the United States, Weimar Germany and what the Fed is really up to. He also included two fantastic illustrations that all KWN readers around the world must see. James Turk: "Each week the world’s financial picture goes further and further into la-la land, Eric. In short, things are getting crazier. An example is the[...]