Category: Interest Rates
Interest Rate Surprise Highlights the Real Risk
In an unexpected move, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand has kept the OCR interest rate fixed at 1%. What does this mean for the Kiwi economy?
Our Doom Index Hasn’t Been This High Since 2008
Is an economic crash imminent? Here’s a hint: the last time our Doom Index was this high was in 2008. Here’s what’s at stake.
Fed Interference Hinders Americans’ Happiness
Thomas Jefferson believed that the secret to American happiness was non-interference in the affairs of others. How are we faring so far?
SoftBank’s Fall Foreshadows More Business Collapses to Come
The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank has run into serious turbulence. Here’s why this issue is just a prelude of something much worse.
Consistently Spending More Than a Nation Can Afford Causes Its Fall
America won’t be the first nation ruined by a corrupt elite, runaway spending, and a too-powerful military. The formula is classic.
The Deep State Already Runs the Country
How come the Deep State is out to get Donald Trump? It’s a complicated answer, but it comes down to greed and mismanagement.
Donald Trump Steps in and Funds The Swamp
As we showed, the man from Queens has turned out to be the best friend the Swamp and military-industrial complex ever had.
Trump Shouldn’t Take Credit for the Last Few Quarters of Economic Expansion
Everybody loves an economic expansion. Probably none more so than Trump. But is he actually overreaching by taking credit for it?
The European Central Bank Is an Aggressive Manipulator
A central banker should be passive…unnoticeable…and immovable, like a rock…dumb and reliable. But the European Central Bank is breaking all these rules.
Our Financial Situation Could Always Be Worse
Let’s face it: our financial situation is bad, and it’s getting worse. Neither the president nor the people aiming to replace him have a good plan.
The Fed Must Offer More Repo Credit as More People Take It
This morning, Thanks to the Fed, there will be more money than there was yesterday. And yesterday, there was more than the day before.
This Year’s Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics Didn’t Deserve It
The Nobel Prize receives a great deal of press and attention. But is it really all that it’s cracked up to be? Here’s why this year’s winners are overrated.
The Feds Add Liquidity to Sustain Economic Expansion
Are you hoping to retire on the new money coming from the Federal Reserve? Well, guess what. You are likely to be seriously disappointed.
The Feds Interfere in Markets and Multiply Corruption Opportunities
The amounts are staggering. But the process is old and familiar. As the feds interferes in markets, opportunities for corruption multiply.
The Fed Is Back to Robbing the Middle Class to Reward the Rich
The Fed is injecting money into the system as part of its ‘reserve management’ programme; it began this week with $7.5 billion.