Financial

Interest Rates Spiking Everywhere

May 20, 2015 0

by John Rubino Just as ultra-low interest rates start to seem normal, the markets decide otherwise. US 10-year Treasury bonds yielded about 1.9% in April and are now above 2.20%: And the trend reversal isn’t […]

Financial

No Money, No Growth

May 18, 2015 0

by John Rubino Last August, the US Fed stopped creating new currency out of thin air and dumping it into the banking system. Which is another way of saying the US money supply stopped growing. […]

Financial

Who Decides What Is Money?

February 23, 2015 0

By John Rubino The following is an edited excerpt from The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops: During a 2011 congressional banking subcommittee hearing, Texas congressman Ron Paul asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke […]

Commentary

This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, Euro Edition

January 23, 2015 0

by John Rubino on January 22, 2015  Today the European Central Bank acknowledged that the currency it manages is being sucked into a deflationary vortex. It responded in the usual way with, in effect, a massive devaluation. Eurozone […]

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