2012 is proving to be the ‘Year of the Central Bank’. It is an exciting celebration of all the wonderful manoeuvres central banks can employ to keep the system from falling apart.
March 8th, 2012 | The Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "money printing"
How Central Banks Provide You With The Illusion of Control
It’s pretty tough to invest in a world controlled by central bankers. They seem to be able to determine the price of anything. Their interventions stopped the stock market plunge of 2009 and ignited several rallies since then.
March 3rd, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
Why Europe Hasn’t Solved the Greek Debt Crisis
The Greek debt deal isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. A leaked memo prepared for Europe’s finance ministers – BEFORE the deal passed – revealed that the austerity measures could make Greece’s debt-to-GDP blow out to 160% by 2020, instead of reducing it.
February 22nd, 2012 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
WTF, Warren Buffett?
It looks suspiciously as if Warren Buffett, for all his undoubted investment success, has never actually studied any monetary history.
February 21st, 2012 | The Daily Reckoning | 5 comments | Continued
What the Greek Debt Crisis is Really About
What’s going on in Europe has nothing to do with solving the Greek debt crisis and everything to do with preserving a corrupt system based on limitless debt and growing government power. The sooner you understand that the sooner you’ll be able to prepare for what happens next.
February 21st, 2012 | Dan Denning | 12 comments | Continued
An Orderly Greek Default
The headlines still focus on Greece. It is broke. Here is Lucas Papademos, describing what an orderly default would mean.
February 20th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Buying Gold in Uncertain Times
The movement in the price of gold seems to be heading up again — almost no matter what else is happening. So, let’s look at what might be going on…
February 6th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
The First Casualty of the Currency Wars
Can Australia’s currency continue its rampage while exporters burn? The currency wars have been going on quietly here at home for some time now. And going by the state of our exporters, we’re losing.
February 4th, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 3 comments | Continued
How the Fed Prints Money Under the Guise of Currency Swaps
The Fed is ramping up its currency swap activity again. Meaning, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, is printing money again. That’s bad enough. But this time, after he prints it, he sends it over to Europe. Crazy, but true.
February 2nd, 2012 | Eric J. Fry | 3 comments | Continued
Currency Wars
The currency wars are heating up. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke promised speculators he would keep interest rates low until 2014.
January 27th, 2012 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
Introducing Mr Mario Draghi… Europe’s Incredible Economic Saviour
Mario Draghi, new ECB boss who completed his monetary apprenticeship at Goldman Sachs, has conjured up a sneaky way to print money while giving the impression he’s doing nothing of the sort.
January 19th, 2012 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
Money Printing: The Ugly Truth Behind the “Good News”
The news on the US economy has been generally “good” ever since the European Central Bank made it clear that it will print money rather than see major banks or minor nations get what is coming to them.
January 16th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Alan Greenspan and the Arithmetic of a Revolution
Hey… That rascal, Alan Greenspan, is back in the newspapers. And this time he has something sensible to say.
January 6th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 7 comments | Continued
Shadow Banking and The Golden Pyramid
Yesterday in our article about gold’s price going down we discussed gold and the shadow banking system. Today we’ll explain how it all fits together and what it means for the markets and your investments.
December 16th, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 2 comments | Continued
Gold Down 5 Per Cent: Thank You Mr Market!
‘But…but…I thought gold was a safe haven…’
If you’re having thoughts like that after gold’s horror $115 slide over the last 30 days… relax. Gold is, was and always will be a safe haven.
December 15th, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
