Private Bank Seeks to Monetize 2012 Treasury Bond Issuance
The Wall Street Journal’s Jon Hilsenrath has again done his job and floated a trial balloon for the Fed to test market reactions regarding “sterilized” overt currency printing. We believe, as...
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Money from Nothing: A Primer on Fake Wealth Creation and its Implications...
March 12, 2012 by Zeus Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D. (copyright March, 2012). Zeus can be reached at citizenzeus@gmail.com Frequent contributor Zeus Y. explains how the financial system creates fake “wealth”...
View ArticleNullification Backed by Federal Supreme Court Decision, States Reaffirm
Well, that didn’t take long. When U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts implicitly defended the right for states to nullify federal law (see page 4, section 5, “decline to comply”), we immediately...
View ArticleEnd of Cash Compatible with Freedom of Choice?
So is eradicating cash compatible with the freedom of choice? We doubt that the present-day banknotes we all use will disappear anytime soon, but it is possible, as humanity re-learns from history....
View ArticlePeru’s GDP Growth Demonstrates Less Market Intervention is More
As Western investors continue to agonize over the United States’ impending “fiscal cliff” and whether Europe’s recent currency expansion and debt relief programs will save the euro, the nation of...
View ArticleAnnual Wealth Created: BIS Banker vs American Worker
WealthCycles is all about measuring stuff with stuff, and taking the effects of the devaluing fiat currencies out of the equation. In an effort to paint a true picture of the well being of the average...
View ArticleSingapore’s ‘New Switzerland’ Status Signals Global Shift From Paper to Gold
Singapore is being touted as the “new Switzerland” of banking and wealth management, the beneficiary of geography and a new global trend to crack down on bank secrecy. Now the nation-state appears to...
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What’s the Primary Cause of Wealth Inequality? Financialization
charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / CHARLES HUGH SMITH / SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2014 Financialization results when leverage and information asymmetry replace innovation and productive investment as the source...
View ArticleWealthCycles Report – November 2014
WealthCylces.com is proud to introduce the new monthly video report for WealthCycles subscribers Each month Mike will be recording a report of what he sees as the most important and interesting...
View ArticleAmerica is Choking: Operation Choke Point
America is Choking: Operation Choke Point Last fall, I got a strange request from the bank I’ve been doing business with for more than 10 years. For the first time ever, this bank asked to see our...
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