Currency Wars Deepen – IMF Concedes End to Dollar Hegemony – Dollar has declined as reserve currency over past decade from 70% of global reserves to 61% – Chinese yuan is growing in stature as international currency – IMF deputy…
Yesterday a number of Irish people turned off, tuned out and dropped in on Ireland’s public service broadcaster RTE. They were protesting media bias that ‘favours elites and demonizes ordinary people’. The serious overpayment of out of touch media ‘stars’,…
I’m getting lots of emails from people asking me why I’m not in the new Terry Jones film ‘BoomBustBoom’ about the folly of economic theory and wonky markets. After all, “Keiser Report” is probably the most recognized name in the…
Only a few days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from his much publicized United States trip, during which he was celebrated and drooled over by America’s top warmongers, a large protest against him erupted in the nation’s section largest city, Tel…
Do partial differential equations confuse you? Do you hate bond math? We feel the same way! So we simplified your life with headache free QE math. — The Federal Reserve Board We-Hate-Math Committee (satire) Read More…
We discuss the publicly-listed companies eating themselves through stock buybacks and what this means for a monetary policy which encourages it in our new financialized era, in which corporations borrow not to invest but to take money out of the…
One of the biggest debates happening at the intersection of technology and privacy at the moment revolves around the U.S. government’s fear that the American peasantry may gain access to strong encryption in order to protect their private communications. Naturally, this isn’t something Big…
One of the biggest debates happening at the intersection of technology and privacy at the moment revolves around the U.S. government’s fear that the American peasantry may gain access to strong encryption in order to protect their private communications. Naturally, this isn’t something Big…
When we look back from 2025, it will be painfully obvious that central bank policies exacerbated the systemic crises that brought down the global financialization machine. What with all the praise being heaped on central banks for “saving” the world…
Apple Major New Gold Buyer – Propel Gold Higher? – There is a major new buyer in the gold market – Apple – New Apple watch could use up to one third of total annual gold supply – Apple expects…
We discuss the modern economic, financial and monetary system in which one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. And yet to one without faith, no explanation is possible. And once no explanation is possible – hyperinflation and economic disorder…
We discuss the modern economic, financial and monetary system in which one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. And yet to one without faith, no explanation is possible. And once no explanation is possible – hyperinflation and economic disorder…
Innovation is selectively restrained in systems controlled by vested interests. Just as everyone supports “solutions” until the solutions crush their share of the swag, everybody supports innovation and transparency (IT) until IT disrupts their share of the swag. Then they…
Innovation is selectively restrained in systems controlled by vested interests. Just as everyone supports “solutions” until the solutions crush their share of the swag, everybody supports innovation and transparency (IT) until IT disrupts their share of the swag. Then they…