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In this must watch video, British MEP Daniel Hannan addresses the Oxford Union as part of its debate on the Occupy Wall Street movement. The act of bailing out the banks with the taxpayer’s money, he says, will one day be viewed as a generational crime. The Occupy movement was correct in that something had
The pure fantasy involved in Paul Krugman’s great scheme to save the economy jumped out in one of his recent blogs where he stated: “It’s true that printing money isn’t at all inflationary under current conditions – that is, with the economy depressed and interest rates up against the zero lower bound. But eventually these
One of my long time clients, who makes his living trading gold and silver, sees a “Super Magnet” being placed in the gold call market. Below is how he describes the recent action. A ”Super Magnet” was placed yesterday with roughly 37,351 new Comex gold call options in the February 2014 option cycle. 10,546 calls
There are certain major trends, be it in finance or governance, that only go in one direction, until they can’t. For anyone paying attention to the behind the headlines maneuvering of the central banks and their indebted governments, 2012 was a year of great clarity. There is simply no political will anywhere in the world
Regarding the December Fed’s meeting, the Financial Times chose to report on the dissent within the ranks about whether QE3 will end December 2013. To waste news print on what might happen twelve months from now indicates the little understanding that financial reporters have regarding the politics in Washington. If Congress’ ten-year “solution” to our
Hyperinflation could happen overnight is how Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, describes a future when the rest of the world no longer sees the dollar as a viable store of value. “All of a sudden, people walk into Walmart, as usual, and they think they’ve walked into
