By: Peter Krauth When central banks start realizing they're not actually in control, it's time to get especially vigilant. As currency volatility gyrates like a sine wave, central planners are becoming increasingly desperate. We've already seen the advent of negative interest rates in a number of nations. Yet growing talk of possible capital controls is not only emerging, but gaining[...]
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Top Asset Manager Warns Of Risks In Banking System: “It’s The Biggest Reason To Own Precious Metals”
Mac Slavo March 10th, 2015 SHTFplan.com Top alternative asset manager Eric Sprott, whose company has $10 billion in assets under management, sounds the alarm about the day everyone in America finally realizes that the real economy has collapsed. In a highly informative interview from one of the most respected financial analysts in the world, Sprott explains why he believes gold, silver and[...]
Anti-Gold Propaganda In The West At An All-Time High – The Stench of Desperation Hangs Heavy
by David Kranzler Investment Research Dynamics "I’ve been involved in every aspect of the precious metals market since late 2001 and I’ve never heard of Rick Spooner or CMC markets…Rick Spooner? Why not just drag out Pee Wee Herman and have him read off a teleprompter?" David Kranzler CNBC, Ansuya Arjani and anti-gold terrorism With gold under the most intense market manipulation effort[...]
American “Nightmare” Shocker: The Real US Homeownership Rate Has Never Been Lower
The transformation of the American Dream, most broadly manifested in popular folklore as the aspiration of the US middle-class to own a home (even if it means agreeing to a 30-year loan with one's friendly neighborhood TBTF bank), into the American Nightmare, in which an entire generation (the Millennials) is locked out of purchashing a home due to over $1 trillion in student loans hanging over[...]
Nearly At ‘Full Employment’? 10 Reasons Why The Unemployment Numbers Are A Massive Lie
On Friday, we learned that the official “unemployment rate” has fallen to 5.5 percent. Since an unemployment rate of 5 percent is considered to be “full employment” by many economists, many in the mainstream media took this as a sign that the U.S. economy has almost fully “recovered” since the last recession. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, some Federal Reserve[...]
We Are About To Witness Orchestrated Financial Destruction And Social Unrest That Is Beyond Imagination
Today a 40-year market veteran sent King World News an incredibly important piece that warns the world is about to witness orchestrated financial destruction and social unrest that is beyond imagination. This piece exclusively for KWN also discusses why the financial destruction and social unrest will engulf the entire world. By Robert Fitzwilson of The Portola Group March 9 (King World News)[...]
The Global Problem: Monetary Policy Can’t Fix an Economy’s Structural Problems – C. H. Smith
When we look back from 2025, it will be painfully obvious that central bank policies exacerbated the systemic crises that brought down the global financialization machine. What with all the praise being heaped on central banks for "saving" the world from economic doomsday in 2008, it's only natural to ask which structural problems their unprecedented policies solved in the past 6 years. After[...]
Why the U.S. is Letting China Accumulate Gold – James Rickards
A lot of people think about gold as a percentage of a country’s total reserves. They are surprised to learn that the United States has 70 percent of its reserves in gold. Meanwhile, China only has about 1 percent of its reserves in gold. People look at that and think that’s an imbalance. But those are not very meaningful figures in my view. The reason is that a country’s reserves are a[...]
Suspicions About the Federal Reserve Spill Out in House Hearing
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: March 2, 2015 Fed Chairman Janet Yellen fielded questions last Wednesday before a combative House Financial Services Committee. Tempers flared, fingers stabbed the air, arms waved wildly as House reps expressed pent up frustrations with how the Federal Reserve is handling the economy. At times, Yellen answered curtly and at one point rolled her eyes at[...]
Man Who Predicted Collapse Of Euro Against Swiss Franc Warns Of Next Shock To The World
March 1, 2015 Today the man who 90 days ago remarkably predicted the collapse of the euro against the Swiss franc warned King World News about the next shock that will bring the world to its knees. Egon von Greyerz: “Eric, it's now totally clear to me that the hyperinflation I've been expecting is becoming more persistent and is now engulfing country after country. We are already seeing it in [...]