Markets – free markets – are meant to be unstable. They are meant to crack-up from time to time. And thank God they do. Otherwise, we’d be stuck forever with zombie industries and dead end investments.
February 7th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "US Treasury"
How Central Bankers Attempt to “Cure” Insolvency
Whenever a central bank cannot provide direct, overt assistance to a specific insolvent investment bank or government, not to worry, a central bank can still provide indirect, covert assistance.
January 9th, 2012 | Eric J. Fry | 4 comments | Continued
The Disturbing Facts About Paulson, Fannie, Freddie and Friends
Here are the insiders at work…the people the central bankers are trying to help. Bloomberg has the story, from Richard Teitelbaum about a one Henry Paulson and his involvement with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac …and friends.
December 2nd, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Alphabet Soup Economy
Here’s what happens in our Alphabet Soup Economy:
Plan A doesn’t work…neither does Plan Z.
Last week ended with a whimper and a bang. Stock markets whimpered. Investors didn’t know what to think. And nothing happened last week to help them figure it out.
November 29th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Insider Economy
As the economy is taken over by zombies, more and more people are needed to do the zombies work shifting more and more of the economy’s output to the insiders.
The insiders rig the system for their own benefit. The rigs each one of them a form of price-fixing or central planning weaken the system. In today’s battle, the insiders fight to protect it.
November 24th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Do Away With the IMF, World Bank, and Central Bank
On that note, it is worth going off on a tangent for a moment. The idea that government formed institutions can bring about free markets and globalisation is a paradox.
February 20th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
Congress Slams Ben Bernanke and Fed Reserve
Because the mainstream press wouldn’t want people thinking bad things about the Fed Reserve. They are here to save us. They are the cavalry riding over the hilltops to our rescue.
The myth of the purity of the Federal Reserve’s motives is jealously guarded by the mainstream press. Any dissenting voices are quickly dismissed as cranks and extremists.
December 8th, 2009 | Murray Dawes | 16 comments | Continued
US Dollar a Sort of Monetary Brand
The dollar has been the “Coca-Cola of monetary brands,” says James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. But even the best of brands can be lousy investments.
October 22nd, 2009 | Chris Mayer | 4 comments | Continued
New Trend in the Market: Sell Bonds and Buy Commodities
Gross finishes with this advice: “Bond investors should, therefore, confine maturities to the front end of yield curves, where continuing low yields and downside price protection is more probable. Holders of dollars should diversify their own baskets before central banks and sovereign wealth funds ultimately do the same.
June 9th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
Fed Will “Monetize the Debt”
Meanwhile, the US Treasury is borrowing hundreds of billions’ of dollars in order to close the gap between what the US spends and what it receives in taxes. Even if the Chinese are willing to fund that borrowing in the very short term, it just pushes forward the inevitable day…
May 29th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
U.S. Trying to Auction Off $162 Billion in Debt
“The US is not alone in facing a deficit crisis,” reports the U.K.’s Telegraph. “Governments worldwide have to raise some $6 trillion in debt this year, with huge demands in Japan and Europe. Kyle Bass from the US fund Hayman Advisors said the markets were ‘choking on debt’”.
May 27th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Mistakes Made By America Are the Same Mistakes That Empires Make
When a company goes broke, analysts always say: ‘it made mistakes.’ But people always make mistakes. One invests too little. Another invests too much. One innovates too little. One innovates too much.
May 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Begging the Question: Recovery to What?
Does it mean that American “consumers” (so-called) are awaited momentarily in the flat-screen TV sales parlors with their credit cards fanned-out like poker hands, ready for “action?” Not too likely with massive non-performance out in cardholder-land, and half the nation’s electronics inventory wending its way onto Craig’s List.
April 17th, 2009 | James Howard Kunstler | 29 comments | Continued
Federal Reserve Has Destroyed the Economy
Neil Irwin at the Washington Post reported, with that subtle-yet-unmistakable hint of panic, “The Federal Reserve yesterday escalated its massive campaign to stabilize the economy, saying it would flood the financial system with an additional $1.2 trillion.”
March 31st, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 8 comments | Continued
A CAP to Replace the TARP
The share market is digesting the ambitious speech Barrack Obama gave to the U.S. Congress. He’s going to cut the U.S deficit in half, increase spending, provide universal health care, improve education, replace oil with alternative energy, introduce a carbon cap and trading scheme…and that’s just before lunch! You have to wonder what kind of Kool Aid the folks in Washington are drinking…
February 26th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
