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[...]
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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[...]
The Retail Apocalypse Accelerates: Collapsing Holiday Sales Are A Signal That A Recession Is Coming
By Michael Snyder, on December 1st, 2014 Retail sales during the four day Thanksgiving weekend were down a whopping 11 percent from last year. This is a “make or break” time of the year for many retailers, and if things don’t turn around during the coming weeks we could see a tsunami of store closings in January and February. As you read this article, there is already more than a billion[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Gold Repatriation Stunner: Dutch Central Bank Secretly Withdrew 122 Tons Of Gold From The New York Fed
A week ago, we penned "The Real Reason Why Germany Halted Its Gold Repatriation From The NY Fed", in which we got, for the first time ever, an admission by an official source, namely the bank that knows everything that takes place in Germany - Deutsche Bank - what the real reason was for Germany's gold repatriation halt after obtaining a meager 5 tons from the NY Fed: ... the gold community[...]
Insider Exposes Shocking Truth On German Gold Repatriation
Today the original architect of Germany’s gold repatriation movement stunned King World News with the truth about what is really happening with the effort to get Germany’s gold back onto German soil. What he had to say will surprise readers around the world. Eric King: “Peter, you were one of the primary architects of this movement in Germany to repatriate Germany’s gold.” Boehringer: [...]
This Will Dislocate Every Market In The World – David Stockman
Today David Stockman warned King World News about what he says will dislocate every market in the world, including stocks, bonds, commodities, and real estate. KWN takes Stockman’s warnings very seriously because he is the man former President Reagan called on in 1981, during that crisis, to become Director of the Office of Management and Budget and help save the United States from collapse.[...]
China hoarding gold to challenge U.S. dollar? – USA Today
by Eric McWhinnie, The Cheat Sheet USA Today In a world filled with fiat currencies, how important is gold’s role in the financial system? Proponents often view the precious metal as a hedge against economic chaos, while critics typically claim gold is hardly more than an unproductive rock. Interestingly, some countries appear to believe gold is quite important, and one former Fed chair[...]
US Economic Growth is All an Illusion
by John Crudele New York Post As voters were coming out of the polls on Tuesday, pesky reporters were asking why they voted the way they did — and what was going through their heads? The most popular response — from 45 percent of the voters — was the economy. Only 28 percent said their families were doing better financially. The economy is always the major issue in an election during[...]