Bad monetary policy means a bad economy, which gives power back to the party that didn't have it before. So long as the monetary problem gets fixed, the economy will too, and the new government's policies will, whatever their merits, get the credit.
Is 2015 the year that Ron Paul's Audit the Fed measure finally moves forward on Capitol Hill? As Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid refused to allow a Senate vote on the bill. But now Mitch McConnell is Leader, and his aides have said that he will
Odds are, you won't remember his name, but he's a Wall St. Journal reporter who forecast that with the end of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing, there would be potential for a catastrophic collapse in oil prices.
Peter Schiff had a very honest conversation about his predictions in his best-selling book The Real Crash with Wall Street Daily founder Robert Williams.
The only question is why does the Fed - a uniformly safe institution, where economists engage in deep contemplation and decide how much of the US deficit they will monetize - need a person with these qualifications?
The Federal Reserve and its bullion bank agents are actively using uncovered futures contracts to illegally manipulate the prices of precious metals in order to keep interest rates below the market rate.
• http://www.paulcraigroberts.org-Paul Craig Roberts
A dangerous new trend is the successful manipulation of the financial markets by the Federal Reserve, other central banks, private banks, and the US Treasury.
In an interview with Bloomberg's Tom Keene, Janus Capital's Bill Gross said that he left PIMCO 'in good hands.' Gross said, "…it's obviously an opportune situation at Janus. Running $2.5 billion is different than running $2 trillion, so it makes
The Department of Treasury is seeking to order survival kits for all of its employees who oversee the federal banking system. The emergency supplies would be for every employee at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
A popular concept is the government will "borrow" from the Federal Reserve for deficit spending. This involves giving a Treasury security (bill, bond, or note) to the Fed as collateral and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will credit
From his desk in Lower Manhattan, a banker at Goldman Sachs thumbed through confidential documents -- courtesy of a source inside the United States government.
Following the stunning announcement in January 2013 that the Bundesbank would repatriate 674 tons of gold from the NY Fed and the French Central Bank...
"On Nov. 16, the G20 will implement a new policy that makes bank deposits on par with paper investments, subjecting account holders to declines that one might experience from holding a stock or other security when the next financial banking crisis oc
"Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages must be foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through a process of law, the common people lose their homes they will become more docile and more easily governed through the influence of the strong arm
Finance ministers from over 51 countries signed an agreement in a step closer to ending the dark financial underworld of tax-evasion and money-laundering. Another 30 countries pledged to join by 2018.
The "new" post-Fed Greenspan sounds very much like the "old" pre-Fed Greenspan-––the one who consistently advocated gold before he became Fed chairman.
Boy, this is good financial doom to come…. Check out the charts.
On top of this endless and mind-numbing chatter, the Fed has spent over $4 trillion… an amount larger than most sovereign economies. To put this into perspective, the Fed could hav
The Federal Reserve voted on Wednesday to end its bond-buying stimulus program commonly known as QE3 and sent several upbeat signals to markets that it was not worried about global weakness, low inflation or a wobble in financial markets.
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The IRS is using a controversial policy known as civil forfeiture to seize huge piles of cash from Americans' bank accounts even if they've never been convicted of a crime, according to the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm.
They've been running tests (trial runs to ensure their manipulation of the markets will work as intended) since 2008 or so. They don't repeatedly drill for scenarios that they do not intend to encounter.
Their intent is NOT to prevent a repeat
There's some interesting discussion points in the UK-based Absolute Return Partners October 2014 Letter, by Niels C. Jensen, most of which I agree with, others not.