Central bank market intervention doesn’t extinguish risk–it simply transfers it to the system itself. The unspoken claim of central bank policy is that risk can be extinguished by intervention/manipulation: once the Fed has your back, […]
by Tyler Durden Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, The investment world has an embarrassingly short attention span. But frankly, it is a necessity. If daytraders, hedge funds and other horses in the carousel actually […]
Axel Merk, Merk Investments October 4, 2016 The end of U.S. dollar dominance may be unfolding in front of our eyes. No, we don’t think China’s ascent is the key threat; instead, key to understanding […]
by Pepe Escobar for RT The yuan is about to enter the IMF’s basket of reserve currencies this coming Saturday – alongside the US dollar, pound, euro and yen. This is no less than a […]
ECB and Italy’s bank rescue fund head clash over bailout rules … The European Central Bank and the head of Italy’s bank rescue fund clashed on Monday over the European Union’s tough conditions on state […]
Prepared just for us by the central banking cartel by Adam Taggart Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Last week, the Federal Reserve decided to keep […]
by Tyler Durden It has already been an abysmal day for Germany’s biggest lender: overnight Deutsche Bank plunged to fresh all time lows on speculation whether the German government would or wouldn’t provide state aid […]
The final condition for a market crash is falling into place by Chris Martenson Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever going to run out of new things to say about the economy. Nothing interesting has […]
Charles Hugh Smith If it isn’t a Depression, it’s a very close relative of a Depression. Just for the sake of argument, let’s ask: what if we’re in a Depression but don’t know it? How could […]
The essence of ultimate decision remains impenetrable to the observer — often, indeed, to the decider himself. ― John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) “The Manhattan Projects” by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra (©Image Comics) […]
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