Commentary
Milton Friedman Unraveled
By Murray N. Rothbard February 6, 2016 Mention “free-market economics” to a member of the lay public and chances are that if he has heard the term at all, he identifies it completely with the […]
Financial
Financial
In A Crisis, Your Paper Dollars Are Worthless: “Real Goods Are The Real Money”
Tom Chatham This article was written by Tom Chatham and originally published at hisProject Chesapeake blog. Editor’s Comment: When people hold paper money, they are holding a promise, or the illusion, of value. Tom makes […]
Financial
The West Is Reduced To Looting Itself
Paul Craig Roberts I, Michael Hudson, John Perkins, and a few others have reported the multi-pronged looting of peoples by Western economic institutions, principally the big New York Banks with the aid of the International […]
Financial
Ka-boom Goes the Bottom of the US Bond Market
by Wolf Richter And it’s not just oil & gas! The toxic pile of distressed corporate debt in the US grew to $285 billion in January, up 22% from a month ago and up 162% from a year […]
Financial
The Federal Reserve Just Made Another Huge Mistake
By Michael Snyder, on January 27th, 2016 As stocks continue to crash, you can blame the Federal Reserve, because the Fed is more responsible for creating the current financial bubble that we are living in […]
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Imminent Energy Defaults Will Impact These Banks
By ZeroHedge As we showed previously, when it comes to banks’ exposure to energy, things have gotten beyond nebulous, especially in the aftermath of the (officially denied, even though we stand behind it 100 percent) […]
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THIS IS IT. COLLAPSE IS HERE. — BILL HOLTER
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Financial
Fed Starts To Walk Back Its Rate Hike. Next Step: More QE, Bigger Experiments
by John Rubino That didn’t take long. A month after the Fed’s dreaded quarter-point interest rate hike, the markets tank and out come the talking heads to promise that whatever is bothering traders, Daddy will […]
Financial
TREND ALERT: Market Bounce BS; The Panic is on
KINGSTON, NY,13 January 2016 — Recent market snapbacks are temporary blips in a long down-trend cycle that will push stock prices and indexes sharply lower during the year. While there will be upward spikes and […]
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China, Oil and Markets: It’s All One Story
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Berenice Abbott William Goldberg, 771 Broadway, Manhattan 1937If there’s one thing to take away from this year’s developments in markets and economies so far, it’s that they are all linked, they’re […]