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Five Reasons for the Weakness of the Argentine Economy
Argentina has been “printing money for the people” MMT-style for many years. Its wrongly-called “inclusive monetary policy” of the past -print money to finance massive government spending...
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Forbes: The World Economy Is A Pyramid Scheme
The world economy is based on ever-increasing population growth, said Nobel laureate Steven Chu, a scheme that economists don't talk about and that governments won't face, a scheme that makes sustainability impossible and that is likely to eventually fail.
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Why The Fed Rigs the Stock Market
Here's a chart that shows you exactly why the Fed rigs the stock market using QE, low interest rates, and propaganda jawboning.
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NorthmanTrader: Mismatch
Oh dear. People are embracing the bubble and, as it happens in every bubble, fantastical narratives are emerging to justify the valuations and the price momentum as folks cannot square reality with…
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Discussion of the Deflationary Risks in Japan and Brexit
Despite an aggressive balance-sheet expansion effort, the BOJ has missed its target by a long shot. It appears to have all but given up on achieving 2% core inflation...
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The Case for Monetary Regime Change
Central bankers aren’t omniscient. A linked-currency system could improve economic growth.
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Crescat Capital Quarterly Investor Letter Q1 2019
The year-to-date rally in global risk assets after the Fed flip appears to us to be a last gasp of speculative mania for the current economic cycle.
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Fed Should Buy Muni Bonds to Fight the Next Recession
Almost 10 years after the Great Recession ended, the growing threat of a new economic slowdown raises a troubling question: When the next recession strikes, what can the world’s central banks do?
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California’s Housing Bubble Counts on Blistering Population Growth
The housing market in California with its sky-high home prices depends on blistering population growth.
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Ron Paul: Who Pays For All The Government 'Free' Stuff?
Benjamin Franklin said that: “When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.” How prescient and true. Ron Paul:
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A Tale Of Two Central Banks (Fed Vs ECB And Their Bank Stocks)
This is a tale of two Central Banks: The US Fed and the European Central Banks. And their respective commercial banks. First, The Federal Reserve. US commercial banks recovered from the global fina…
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Commercial Real Estate Bubble?
Commercial real estate prices are not quite back to where they were at the height of the asset bubble prior to the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Suburban office space is barely above the pre-crisis peak.
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Brace for Unpredictable Markets After a Decade of ‘Extreme Policies’
It is no surprise that the possibility of a market “melt up” for the rest of 2019 is becoming a more common refrain among investors. After all, the unsettling volatility of the fourth quarter of 2018 is well within the rear-view mirror, and the first four months...
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What’s Missing for a Market ‘Melt Up’
Stronger global fundamentals need to underpin elevated asset prices, and the Fed must maintain a tricky policy balance as the U.S. continues to outperform advanced countries.
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Warren Releases Student Debt Cancellation and Free College Plan
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday proposed eliminating the student loan debts of tens of millions of Americans and making all public colleges tuition-free, staking out an ambitious stance on one of the central policy debates of the 2020 Democratic primary.
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Fed Officials Contemplate Thresholds for Rate Cuts
Federal Reserve officials are starting to talk about the conditions under which they would cut interest rates, including a scenario where inflation drifts lower even if the economic growth doesn’t falter.
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It's 2016 All Over Again. Or Is It?
Conditions today mirror 2016, when growing weakness in the global economy and wobbling financial markets caused the worlds central banks to absolutely freak out. They responded by dumping more...
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Can the US Government Just Keep Piling on Debt?
The government already owes over $22 trillion, and it’s adding over $1 trillion a year. Who is buying it, and why?
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The Debt Crisis Is Around The Corner
Both the U.S. and Greece have big budget deficits and too much debt, but Greece is already facing its crisis. Could the U.S. face similar problems soon?
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