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Financial Repression Has Come Back to Stay: Carmen M. Reinhart
Bloomberg By Carmen M. Reinhart Mar 11, 2012 7:00 PM ETAs they have before in the aftermath of financial crises or wars, governments and central banks are increasingly resorting to a form of “taxation”...
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We Owe How Much??
Dollar Collapse by John Rubino on April 2, 2012 One of the problems with the debate over the “national debt” is that there’s no generally agreed upon definition of that term. Is it what the federal...
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The Solution…is the Problem, Part II
sprott.com / By Eric Sprott & Etienne Bordeleau / 08-11-12When we wrote Part I of this paper in June 2009, the total U.S. public debt was just north of $10 trillion. Since then, that figure has...
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$16,OOO,OOO,OOO,OOOBAMA!
zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / August 28, 2012November 16, 2011 was a historic date: that’s when the US officially surpassed $15 trillion in debt for the first time since World War 2. We celebrated...
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A debt inspired milestone – US Public Debt to GDP ratio over 102 percent. In...
mybudget360.com / October 27, 2012What is the significance of having too much debt? Does it even matter? It seems that politicians understand something must be done but while the bickering occurs,...
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The Economics of the Fiscal Cliff
financialsense.com / By Antony P Mueller / November 8, 2012As 2013 gets closer, the calls get louder to reverse earlier decisions by the US government and Congress that would lead to public spending...
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Will 2013 usher in the end of the Eurozone Crisis?
yanisvaroufakis.eu / By Yanis Varoufakis / December 15, 2012The question above was put to me by a Brazilian journalist. I would have loved to answer in the affirmative. Only it would be misleading and...
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Taking stock of the Global and Euro Crisis
yanisvaroufakis.eu / By Yanis Varoufakis / December 16, 2012A Spanish journalist interviewed me on the Spanish language edition of The Global Minotaur. Her questions, however, gave me an opportunity to...
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Public Debt – Japan is the Worst
armstrongeconomics.com / By Martin Armstrong / December 20, 2012So many people only look at the US debt and yell and scream while jumping up and down in their yellow rain coats preaching the end is...
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Try Tuning Out the Craziness
rickackerman.com / By Rick Ackerman / December 28, 2012[Inflationary pressures are not exactly rampant right now, notwithstanding the huge increase in the cost of living imposed on us by Obamacare. For...
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The ‘Dairy Cliff’ and Other Absurdities
acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / January 3, 2013Is there Free Beer Somewhere?The way the markets celebrated the Senate’s attempt to kick the can down the road for two more months on Wednesday,...
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An Argument For The Debt Ceiling
streettalklive.com / by Lance Roberts / Tuesday, January 8, 2013As we rapidly approach the great “debt ceiling debate,” of which we are told that we should“rise above,” there has been a rising chorus...
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Trying To Reform Government Is Largely a Waste of Time
lewrockwell.com / By Steven Greenhut / January 29, 2013Whenever I speak or write about California’s pension and public debt problems, I always hear from well-intentioned, conservative- and...
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More Fed Follies…. Paper
market-ticker.org / By Karl Denninger / February 22, 2013, 13:08This one’s rich:“The combination of a massively expanded central bank balance sheet and an unsustainable public debt trajectory is a mix...
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The Pound Will Fall like a Stone – Try Ounces Instead
hindecapital.com / By Simon White / February 22, 2013Sterling remains one of our least favourite currencies. We have frequently highlighted the terrible state of the UK economy, and the baleful effects...
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The Bank of England’s New ‘Remit’
acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / March 21, 2013Paving the Way for the Incoming InflationistUK finance minister George Osborne used his budget speech to announce a change in the BoE’s ‘remit’ on...
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More Pain in Spain
acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / March 26, 2013Deficit Targets Out of ReachNews from Spain have been overshadowed last week by what has happened in Cyprus, but the news from Spain are actually...
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Japanese Two Step
acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / April 2, 2013Kuroda has Second Thoughts About Public DebtAs we have frequently pointed out in these pages, currency traders got carried away by expectations...
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Helicopter QE will never be reversed
telegraph.co.uk / By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / April 3, 2013, 7:49PM BSTReaders of the Daily Telegraph were right all along. Quantitative easing will never be reversed. It is not liquidity management...
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Federal Reserve to Print New Bill – Will Usher in 21st Century American Paradigm
shtfplan.com / By Mac Slavo / April 12th, 2013For a little bit of humor on a serious subject, we present the latest Federal Reserve Note, made available by The Daily Sheeple Picture of the Day:In all...
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