Tag: Federal Reserve
Economic Growth Comes from Consumer Saving, Not Sp...
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 30, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US | 0 |
Are You Prepared for a Recession?
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 22, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US | 3 |
The Diminishing American Economy
Posted by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 25, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US | 1 |
The State of the Economy
Posted by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 7, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US | 0 |
How Long Can The Federal Reserve Stave Off the Ine...
Posted by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 27, 2018 | Economy, US, Viewpoints | 3 |
Neoliberal Economics Destroyed the Economy and the Middle Class
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 18, 2019 | Economy, US, Viewpoints
Perhaps economists will also come to the realization that they owe us accurate GDP accounting and not fanciful accounts that serve elite wealth in the financialized economy.
What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 23, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Economy, US, Viewpoints
The Fed can pump out more money to drive up financial asset prices, but it doesn’t drive up production because the jobs have been sent abroad.
Is the Federal Reserve Losing Control of the Gold Price?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 8, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
With central banks moving their reserves from dollars to gold, the demand for US government debt is not keeping up with supply.
Tariff Damage Spreading in US, China within Target in H2 2019
by Dan Steinbock | Aug 6, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Economy, News & Analysis, US
In the second half of 2019, US economic prospects will soften, despite the Fed rate cut, whereas Chinese growth target is likely to prevail. It’s time to prepare for diminished global economic prospects in 2019-20.
More Fake Happy News About Jobs
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 5, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
The claim of a falling rate of unemployment over the past decade is inconsistent with the falling labor force participation rate.
Economic Growth Comes from Consumer Saving, Not Spending
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 30, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
The Federal Reserve’s inflationary monetary policy perversely incentivizes consumer spending when what the economy needs for real growth is consumer saving.
Are You Prepared for a Recession?
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jul 22, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
Contrary to what you might read in the New York Times and other establishment media, the US economy is not doing fine. Another Fed-caused bust is coming.
The Diminishing American Economy
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 25, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
The Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy for the purpose of protecting the balance sheets of banks and other favored financial institutions.
The State of the Economy
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 7, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
The Federal Reserve and plunge protection team will rig the markets for the mega-rich until the US dollar loses its role as world reserve currency.
A Golden (Long-Term) Opportunity
by Dan Steinbock | Jan 7, 2019 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
With most physical demand for gold coming from emerging economies that are also fueling global growth prospects, gold is on the right side of the future.
The Self-Imposed Impotence of the Russian and Chinese Governments
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 14, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Economy, US, Viewpoints
Why don’t the Russian and Chinese play their winning hands? The reason is that neither government has any advisers who are not brainwashed by neoliberalism.
Who Does America Belong to? Not to Americans.
by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 2, 2018 | Economy, US, Viewpoints
Thomas Jefferson’s prediction that central banking would “deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless” is coming true.
How Trade Wars Penalize Asian Currencies
by Dan Steinbock | Jul 9, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Economy, News & Analysis, US
Trump’s economic policies have triggered trade wars that are now penalizing all currencies, particularly in exporting economies.
How Long Can The Federal Reserve Stave Off the Inevitable?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 27, 2018 | Economy, US, Viewpoints
It is Washington’s hegemony that protects the American Ponzi scheme, which will unravel the moment foreign central banks cease supporting the dollar.
For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 12, 2018 | Economy, US, Viewpoints
Neoliberal economics is an essential part of The Matrix, the false reality in which Americans and Europeans live. Neoliberal economics permits an endless number of economic lies. Michael Hudson’s books provide an antidote.
How the Federal Reserve System Harms the Economy
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Apr 6, 2018 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
Jeremy R. Hammond explains how the Federal Reserve System harms the economy by effecting a transfer of wealth upward, serving the interests of the political and financial elite at the expense of the rest of society.
Make-Believe America: Why the US Unemployment Rate Doesn’t Indicate Economic Recovery
by Paul Craig Roberts | Mar 8, 2018 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
Today the labor force participation rate is the lowest since February 1978, reversing all of the gains of the Reagan years, and the Federal Reserve has used an increase in consumer debt to fill in for the missing growth in consumer income for so long that consumers have no more room to take on more debt.
Do Financial Markets Still Exist?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Feb 14, 2018 | Economy, News & Analysis, US
As central banks have learned that they can rig financial asset prices to the delight of everyone in the market, in what sense does capitalism, free markets, and price discovery exist?
Another Arrested Equity Correction?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Feb 9, 2018 | Economy, US, Viewpoints
The Federal Reserve uses its Plunge Protection Team to further S&P futures. How long can the fraudulent valuation of equities continue?
How Much Death and Destruction Awaits Us in 2018?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jan 4, 2018 | Economy, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Central banks, which are supposed to provide economic stability, have created a massive fraud, and no Western government serves the public interest.