All Posts Tagged With: "central banks"

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Reality Sovereign Debt Finance Theatre

The European monetary family is in crisis. It meets on March 25th and 26th to discuss whether to kick Greece off the island (survivor style) or to intervene and save the prodigal son. The problem, from a German perspective, is that Europe is full of prodigal children. To save Greece means to save the rest of the economies troubled by rising public debt-to-GDP ratios.

March 19th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
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Debt Drugged

Governments and central banks have managed to engineer some more spin, but only at the expense of piling more debt on top of the already wobbling structure.

March 6th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 2 comments | Continued
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We Trust Gold Because We Don’t Trust Central Bankers

But now we see that the central bankers are even more unreliable than we imagined. They are diligently trying to do the wrong thing, as usual.

December 17th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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A Bull Market in Gold and Gold Alone

If you bought gold when we first recommended it, ten years ago, you are in a very comfortable position. Gold sells for more than 4 times as much today. But what should you do now?

November 18th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
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We Can Expect More and More People to Want to Own Gold

Gold seems to be advancing towards a new milestone – $1,100. Makes us nervous. We always feel more comfortable out in the wide, open spaces…

November 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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Bankers Betting That the Money Given by Feds Will Be Worth Less Next Year

So far the bet has gone their way. Copper has doubled. Gold is up 20%. Stocks markets all over the world are up 60%. Foreign currencies, too, have beaten the dollar.

October 27th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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Economic Cycle Theory

We began the week wondering about the cycles of history and markets. We wondered whether Australia is following the Anglo-American cycle into a long-winter…where people lose confidence in each other, in government, and in the institutions they relied on in the past for law and order, employment, and prosperity.

October 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 29 comments | Continued
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Feds Have Used the Correction to Increase Their Power and Add to Their Wealth

Noooo… We’re talking about a worthy correction…a real correction…a noble and distinguished correction…a correction that can hold its head up in public.

October 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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Inflation is an Artifice Caused by Government

Central banks ‘target’ a certain level of inflation because they think – or say they think – that a bit of inflation helps create full employment.

October 6th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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An Abundance of New Money that Will Destroy the Dollar’s Buying Power

The importance is dependent on your perspective. Those people who are not borrowing money to spend are thus suffering the pangs of a lowering of their lifestyle, which depended on borrowing money to spend;

September 29th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | Continued
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