Tag: Federal Reserve
What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China
Aug 23, 2019 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
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.
Read MoreIs the Federal Reserve Losing Control of the Gold Price?
Aug 8, 2019 | Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreTariff Damage Spreading in US, China within Target in H2 2019
Aug 6, 2019 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreMore Fake Happy News About Jobs
Aug 5, 2019 | Economy & Business, News & Analysis, US
The claim of a falling rate of unemployment over the past decade is inconsistent with the falling labor force participation rate.
Read MoreEconomic Growth Comes from Consumer Saving, Not Spending
Jul 30, 2019 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, US
The Federal Reserve’s inflationary monetary policy perversely incentivizes consumer spending when what the economy needs for real growth is consumer saving.
Read MoreAre You Prepared for a Recession?
Jul 22, 2019 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreThe Diminishing American Economy
Jun 25, 2019 | Economy & Business, News & Analysis, US
The Federal Reserve conducts monetary policy for the purpose of protecting the balance sheets of banks and other favored financial institutions.
Read MoreThe State of the Economy
Jun 7, 2019 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreA Golden (Long-Term) Opportunity
Jan 7, 2019 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreThe Self-Imposed Impotence of the Russian and Chinese Governments
Aug 14, 2018 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
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.
Read MoreWho Does America Belong to? Not to Americans.
Aug 2, 2018 | Viewpoints, Economy & Business, US
Thomas Jefferson’s prediction that central banking would “deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless” is coming true.
Read MoreHow Trade Wars Penalize Asian Currencies
Jul 9, 2018 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
Trump’s economic policies have triggered trade wars that are now penalizing all currencies, particularly in exporting economies.
Read MoreHow Long Can The Federal Reserve Stave Off the Inevitable?
Jun 27, 2018 | Viewpoints, Economy & Business, US
It is Washington’s hegemony that protects the American Ponzi scheme, which will unravel the moment foreign central banks cease supporting the dollar.
Read MoreFor Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
May 12, 2018 | Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreHow the Federal Reserve System Harms the Economy
Apr 6, 2018 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreMake-Believe America: Why the US Unemployment Rate Doesn’t Indicate Economic Recovery
Mar 8, 2018 | Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreDo Financial Markets Still Exist?
Feb 14, 2018 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, 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?
Read MoreAnother Arrested Equity Correction?
Feb 9, 2018 | Viewpoints, Economy & Business, US
The Federal Reserve uses its Plunge Protection Team to further S&P futures. How long can the fraudulent valuation of equities continue?
Read MoreHow Much Death and Destruction Awaits Us in 2018?
Jan 4, 2018 | Economy & Business, 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.
Read MoreDoes Fed Inflation Cause Economic Growth? (Don’t Ask Paul Krugman.)
Nov 24, 2017 | Economy & Business, News & Analysis, US
Paul Krugman argues that Fed’s monetary inflation is the cause of economic growth and hasn’t caused significant price inflation. Here’s why he’s wrong.
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