It’s been quite a month. In late October Japan, despite a year of fairly aggressive quantitative easing, dropped back into recession and concluded that even
With US QE about to end, the rest of the world faced the prospect of another “taper tantrum” financial crisis, one that this time around
The dollar is on a tear. And the world is scrambling to figure out what it means. Beginning with the always-interesting Martin Armstrong in a
Europe is an economic basket case while the US is kind-of sort-of recovering. Why? Several reasons, but the only one that really matters these days
By now it’s an article of faith within the sound money community that most major countries have borrowed so much that they’re left with only
Excerpted From The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops by James Turk and John Rubino: In a very real sense, it is fractional
Last year the world kind of forgot about Europe. After ECB head Mario Draghi vowed to “do whatever it takes” to get the Continent growing,
In one sense, energy doesn’t matter all that much to what’s coming. Once debt reaches a certain level, oil can be $10 a barrel or
For all those analysts (including this one) who thought the debt binge of the previous decade marked end of the Age of Leverage, well, not
This morning the European Central Bank tried something different. As Bloomberg reported: Draghi Takes ECB Deposit Rate Negative in Historic MoveThe European Central Bank cut
From Chapter 15 of The Money Bubble, by James Turk and John Rubino: Banking didn’t start out as a reckless, parasitical plaything of a moneyed
Reporters and their editors (and the corporations that employ them) have the power to shape readers’ perceptions by, for instance, choosing what fact to put
A perfect sign of the times is the unexpected success of a 700-page economics text called Capital in the 21st Century by French college professor
For the past couple of years the European Central Bank has been the only sane inmate in the asylum. Unfortunately, in a crazy world being
As it tries to punish Russia for the latter’s dismemberment of Ukraine, the West is discovering that the balance of power isn’t what it used
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