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TOP NEWS USA's Monstrous Debt Time Bomb Just Got Bigger...
Today brings news of the latest federal budget proposal, a $4.75T presidential wishlist doomed to defeated in the House that spends money we don’t have. In this video, Mike Maloney explores the impending debt crisis and what it means to you.
Which Sector Is the Pin That Pricks the Everything Bubble?
With seemingly everything except precious metals in a bubble, it can be quite hard to keep your eye on the ball. Join Mike Maloney as he uncovers what could potentially be a huge factor in the next crash – insane levels of corporate debt.
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Gold Traders' Report - March 18, 2019
Gold traded either side of unchanged last night in a range of $1298.25 - $1306.25. It was pressured to its low during early Asian hours as the DX remained firm around 96.60 and Asian equities and S&P futures....
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Fed Should Cut Rates, Says Former Minneapolis Fed President
Narayana Kocherlakota, former president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, discusses the Fed's upcoming policy meeting.
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U.S. Debt: Is It the Calm Before the Storm?
Wharton's Joao Gomes and George Washington University's Tara Sinclair discuss the nation's long-term debt burden and what might be done about it.
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Tariffs Didn't Reduce the Trade Deficit (Deals Won't Either)
The important point as relates to this article is the increase in debt is the true deficit.
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Key ECB Stimulus Tool Is Put on Trial for Creating Problems
The European Central Bank is approaching the point where it needs to decide whether if negative interest rates are more problem than solution.
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Deutsche Bank + Commerzbank = Ogre Zombie Bank
What do you get when you merge German zombie Deutsche Bank and zombie Commerzbank? An ogre zombie bank! Or as Billy Preston almost sang, “Nothing Plus Nothing Equals Nothing.” Both Deut…
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This Bubble-Era Mortgage Trick Could Smash Major U.S. Housing Markets
Cash-out refinancing fallout threatens home prices, writes Keith Jurow.
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JPMorgan Chase Expanding While It’s Still on Probation for a Felony
Being prosecuted multiple times for felonies by the Justice Department does not appear to have clipped the wings of JPMorgan’s expansion plans...
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The Fed May Soon Let Inflation Run a Little Hotter Than Usual
Goldman Sachs says the Federal Reserve will decide to allow overshoots of its inflation goal next year.
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ECB Official Calls for Fresh Look at Strategy, Tools
A top European Central Bank official called for a review of the ECB’s strategy after its latest economic forecasts suggested it won’t hit its inflation target for years, underscoring that the goals of major central banks may be unattainable amid deep changes in the global economy.
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Dirty Money Creates a Schism in Europe’s Banking System
The dirty money scandal engulfing Europe’s post-crisis banking champions is leading to a lot of finger-pointing inside the bloc. The EU’s bank supervisors are investigating possible regulatory failures at the national...
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Deflation Fears Drive Developing Countries to Even Lower Interest Rates
As the economic contagion of the global financial crisis was spreading from country to country in 2007, it was frequently noted that the mainstream economics profession seemed to be just as much in the dark about the true causes of the crisis as were the general public.
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The Impending US Demographic Tailwind Examined
According to a recent Morgan Stanley report, linked HERE, the Millennials and Gen Z are about to provide a positive "youth jolt" to power the US economy higher
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Fed Revealing ‘How and When’ It Will Stop Shedding Balance Sheet Assets
The Federal Reserve is expected this week to answer some specific questions about its plans to stop shedding assets from its balance sheet.
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The Coming Crisis the Fed Can't Fix: Credit Exhaustion
Having fixed the liquidity crisis of 2008-09 and kept a perversely unequal "recovery" staggering forward for a decade, central banks now believe there is no crisis they can't defeat...
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Foreigners Sell U.S. Treasuries for 3rd Month in January
...data from the U.S. Treasury department showed on Friday, a trend that has been in place for several years.
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Argentina's Peso, Nothing but Trouble
Argentina released its February inflation rate, and inflation spiked again. The official annual inflation rate jumped to 51.3%/yr. This isn't a surprise. I measure Argentina's inflation each day, and, by my measure, the annual inflation rate is 100%/yr.
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A Debt-Riddled System That Is Hitting The Wall
An elevated level of corporate debt, along with the high level of U.S. government debt, is likely to mean that the U.S. economy is much more interest rate sensitive than it has been historically.
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