All Posts Tagged With: "hyperinflation"

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Shadow Banking System: A Murky World of Credit, Securitisation and Derivatives

Most of these are interest rate and credit derivatives. As we learned in the last two years, the big risk here is to institutions which owe and own these obligations amongst one another. In our view, the degree of interconnectedness among these obligations (they still aren’t unwound) still makes the entire global financial system vulnerable…

March 10th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
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Feds are Getting Plenty of Taxpayer Support

Not only are the feds taking up a bigger percentage of GDP, they’re also becoming bossier. During the Bush years the federal register recorded 7,000 more pages of new rules.

February 16th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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Japanese Government Displays Generosity as Prices Fall in Japan

“Japan Deflation Hits a Record Pace,” reported the BBC. Prices in Japan were falling faster than they ever had since they began keeping track in 1970.

February 8th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
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US Economy and its Political System Has Become More Rigid and Costly

One thing Americans take for granted is that they will always be the richest, most successful people on earth. They think that because that is what they have always known.

November 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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Government Debt

And that assumes there is no big increase in interest rates…and that the economy recovers as planned. If either of those things fails to happen, the situation will degrade fast.

October 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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Cash is Created When the Feds “Monetize the Debt” by Buying US Treasury Bonds

Are you kidding, dear reader? After being the single largest buyer on the planet? Imagine what will happen to the bond market when investors realize that the Fed is selling! It’s not going to happen.

October 23rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
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Paying Off Debt is Like Dying…

Voters don’t like hearing about debt. Politicians don’t like talking about it. And economists don’t want to think about it.

October 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
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Dr. Michael Hudson On Landlords and Bankers in Charge of the Economy Again

Regrettably, your editor was back at the doctor’s office early this morning being diagnosed with tonsillitis after a lousy night. We were especially disappointed because scheduled for today was a noon lunch with Dr. Michael Hudson. His tour of the country is being sponsored by Prosper Australia and tonight at the Melbourne Town Hall at 6:30 Dr. Hudson and Dr. Steve Keen will be “lifting the lid on the GFC.”

October 14th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 17 comments | Continued
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China Rises While United States Declines

“The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today, wars, massive government debt defaults and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society,”

October 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 8 comments | Continued
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Inflation is Our Future

On one hand, the deflationists are claiming that given the extremely high debt levels in the West, further inflation is impossible.

September 30th, 2009 | Puru Saxena | 4 comments | Continued
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