Startling Inflation News Illustrates The Failure Of Easy Money
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...
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Dead Canaries And Disobedient Falcons: Bad Month Coming, Especially For Banks
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...
Can We Grow Out Of Our Problems If We’re Not Actually Growing?
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...
The Pitfalls Of Buying Gold And Silver Online, And How To Avoid Them
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:...
Bad — But Better Than What’s Coming
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...
NIRP Is Absolutely Crushing Big Parts Of The Finance World
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...
Here We Go Again: Government Ramps Up Borrowing As Private Sector Slows
This morning, US existing home sales plunged and the Chicago Fed’s national activity index turned negative. Both are obvious signs of a slowing economy. Anticipating...
Well That Didn’t Work
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...
Is This The Debt Jubilee?
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...
The Rats Keep Pressing The Bar: Two Amazing Stories, One Inevitable Result
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...