Americans are becoming more worried about inflation than ever following the Federal Reserve and the federal government’s unprecedented response to the virus pandemic downturn by plowing trillions of dollars into the economy. As a result, prices of financial assets and items in the real economy have soared over the last … > weiter lesen
We have entered a period the likes of which we have never seen before. The collapse of the dollar and dollar assets is growing increasingly certain by the day. The money-printing of the dollar designed to inflate assets will end up destroying the dollar. We know this thanks to the … > weiter lesen
The Federal Reserve and the confederation of central banks which follow Chair Powell and his lieutenants at the Eccles Building have flooded the world with fiat script which is only limited by Keynesians’ and modern monetary theorists’ imaginations. In this flurry of metaphorical printing, one country, Russia, has loaded its … > weiter lesen
The Federal Reserve’s official target rate of inflation is 2% per year. Put another way, that means that if the Fed hits its target, the value of today’s dollar will only be worth around a third of its current value in 50 years. Think that can’t happen? It already has. … > weiter lesen
Die Federal Reserve hat ihr offizielles Inflationsziel angepasst, um noch flexibler und inflationärer agieren zu können. Schon immer war die amerikanische Notenbank inflationärer ausgerichtet als die Bundesbank und nach ihr die EZB, zumindest auf dem Papier. Das vorrangige Ziel der EZB ist die Preisstabilität. Die EZB sieht kurioserweise Preisstabilität als … > weiter lesen
Given the way the euro has been rallying in the foreign exchange markets over the past three months, you would be forgiven for thinking the currency has become a beacon of stability in uncertain times. You couldn’t be further from the truth. mehr hier
Gold is up more than 30% on the year after a better than 18% gain in 2019. The mainstream spin was that the prospect of more fiscal stimulus was driving gold higher. The Democrats and Republicans appear closer to an agreement on a new spending bill. That’s certainly part … > weiter lesen
Dollar-denominated financial markets appeared to suffer a dramatic change on or about the 23 March. This article examines the possibility that it marks the beginning of the end for the Fed’s dollar. At this stage of an evolving economic and financial crisis, such thoughts are necessarily speculative. But an imminent … > weiter lesen
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“…. Das Defizit der USA im Warenverkehr mit der EU hat sich in den vergangenen zehn Jahren um 80% erhöht. Das erinnert an die prekäre Situation Chinas im Verhältnis mit den USA. Weniger bekannt ist: Die Eurozone ist wie die Volksrepublik auch einer der wichtigsten Gläubiger der USA. Vergangenes Jahr … > weiter lesen
The mystery, in a nutshell, was as follows: while banks are printing more bank notes than ever, these seem to be “disappearing off the face of the earth” and nobody knows where or why, or as the WSJ notes, “central banks don’t know where they have gone, or why, and … > weiter lesen