Author : DollarCollapse.com

After three decades of epic deficit spending and three years of extraordinary money creation, Japan’s economy is enjoying a rollicking inflationary boom. Just kidding. Exactly the...

Corporate profitability is one of the canaries in today’s financial coal mine. If companies are making more money each year they tend to hire more...

The rationale for today’s easy money policies is pretty straightforward: Falling interest rates and rising government deficits will counteract the drag of excessive debts taken...

Back in 2014, online bullion dealer Tulving shocked its many customers by suddenly failing. See Coinweek’s story: How does $40M of Gold and Silver Disappear:...

Talk about diminished expectations. This morning’s estimate of 1.4% Q4 GDP growth is being hailed as a pleasant surprise. Which is odd, considering that for...

Savers are the obvious victims of the past few years’ plunge in interest rates. But there are other casualties, including money market funds, which have...

The Bank of Japan and European Central Bank eased recently, which is to say they stepped up their bond buying and/or pushed interest rates further...

Not so long ago the financial world viewed certain numbers as limits beyond which lay trouble. Interest rates near zero, for instance, were long thought...

Anyone who doubts that the global financial system has run out of (good new) ideas has only to track the recent words and deeds of...