Tag: US Dollar
Economic 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 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 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 MoreFrom Trumped Equities to Gold
May 7, 2018 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, US
Gold is again beginning to attract investors, while Treasuries are no longer the obvious choice as central banks have turned the bond market into bubble territory.
Read MoreHow China Can Respond to Trump’s Tariff War
Apr 18, 2018 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
In the trade war against China, the White House’s “America First” advocates are relying on trade instruments that contained Japan’s rise in the 1980s. But China is not Japan. It has ten ways to hit back.
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 MoreWhat to Make of China’s Rejection of the Dollar? Washington Is Destroying American Power
Oct 19, 2017 | Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, Viewpoints
China and Russia understand that Washington, instead of operating a fair system, uses its world currency role to dominate other countries.
Read MoreThe Coming War on China: A Review of John Pilger’s Latest Documentary
Sep 27, 2017 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Reviews
John Pilger’s film ‘The Coming War on China’ should be viewed by anyone concerned about the world’s greatest threat to peace: the US government.
Read MoreAn Economic Lesson for China and Russia
Sep 15, 2017 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business
What it would mean for the US to carry out the Treasury Secretary’s threat to sanction China and bar it from the international dollar system.
Read MoreThe Chinese Yuan (RMB) as a Hard Currency
Apr 14, 2017 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific
At least for now, the RMB becoming a truly international or hard currency will be put on hold.
Read MoreThe History of Economic Relations Between China and Cambodia
Mar 23, 2017 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business
Over the past two decades, as China has grown to become a global economic power, it has positioned itself as Cambodia’s most important economic partner.
Read MoreHow December’s Fed Rate Hike Impacts China
Feb 13, 2017 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
In order to stimulate the Chinese economy, the central bank may cut interest rates further, adding fuel to the fire of capital flight.
Read MoreChina Sells US Debt
Jan 25, 2017 | News & Analysis, Asia Pacific, Economy & Business, US
Since December, 2008, China has been the largest holder of US debt. However, as of October, 2016, this is no longer the case.
Read MoreJohn Williams on The Federal Government’s Fake Economic News
Jan 6, 2017 | News & Analysis, Economy & Business, US
Statistics issued by the government about the economy—from CPI to GDP—are fake, and Mises.TV guest John Williams of Shadowstats.com explains how and why.
Read MoreRosemary Barton, War Crimes, and the Liberation of Aleppo
Dec 16, 2016 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics, US
What is truly happening is that Russia is standing up to US imperial interests as it increasingly recognizes that the US is still fighting its cold war.
Read MoreBook Review: “Ukraine, Zbig’s Grand Chessboard”
Oct 4, 2016 | US, Europe, Reviews, Viewpoints
This amazing book providing the necessary background for understanding the present situation in Ukraine should be in everyone’s reading library.
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