Bankster Crime
Bernanke Hints At Negative Rates, “Purchases Of Private Securities” To Fight Next Recession
…We can’t rule out the possibility that, at some point in the next few years, our economy will slow, perhaps significantly. How would the Federal Reserve respond? What tools remain in the monetary toolbox? By Ben Bernanke First steps for easing policy …Given where we are today, how would the Fed respond to a hypothetical economic…
Read MoreIs Zoltan’s Market Doomsday Imminent? Here Are The Two Things To Watch
In the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales, one of the more famous quotes is, “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.” We do not accept the rationale the Fed is using to justify the reintroduction of QE and the latest surge in their balance sheet. Although we do not know why the Fed has…
Read MoreThe Danger Of Deeper OPEC+ Cuts
OPEC+ agreed to cut production by 500,000 bpd, sending oil prices higher on Friday. During mid-day trading, WTI was just shy of $60 per barrel, and Brent moved closer to $65. In total, the 1.2 million-barrel-per-day (mb/d) cuts from OPEC will rise to 1.7 mb/d. Those details had been reported on Thursday. But when OPEC+ made it…
Read MoreIts BS, Fracking Blows Up Investors Again: Phase 2 Of The Great American Shale Oil & Gas Bust
In 2019 through the third quarter, 32 oil and gas drillers have filed for bankruptcy, according to Haynes and Boone. Since the end of September, a gaggle of other oil and gas drillers has filed for bankruptcy, including last Monday, natural gas producer Approach Resources. This pushed the total number of bankruptcy filings of oil and…
Read MoreThe Beast Is Almost Complete, Deutsche Bank to Replace 18,000 Workers with Robots
Deutsche Bank plans 18,000 job cuts in robot strategy called “Operations 4.0”. Operations 4.0 Underway Deutsche Bank says Operations 4.0 is already underway. The plan is to Replace 18,000 Jobs With Robots. Mark Matthews, head of operations for Deutsche’s corporate and investment bank, told Financial News that machine learning algorithms “massively increased productivity” and “redistribute capacity.”…
Read MoreJPMorgan Shames Jeff Gundlach As The King Of The Armageddonists
They’re starting to go after each other… As bearish-biased analysts, strategists, and investors throw in the towel amid the market’s incessant FOMO-driven melt-up in the face of record global policy uncertainty, declining earnings, and a global economy showing anything but ‘troughing’; it seems JPMorgan’s Asset Management group has decided now is the time to name names and call out…
Read MoreSnyder: “Brace For Impact!” The US Economy Is Going Down, And It’s Going Down Hard…
I have so many bad economic numbers to share with you that I don’t even know where to start. I had anticipated that the U.S. economic slowdown would accelerate during the fourth quarter of 2019, and that is precisely what has happened. The Federal Reserve is trying to do all that it can to keep us from officially…
Read MoreBank Behind World’s Largest Money Laundering Scandal Offered Russians Gold Bars To Hide Their Fortune
Greed is responsible for much sorrow. The Bible says in 1 Timothy 6:10, “the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.” But is greed only about money? No. Greed goes much further than money. What is greed exactly then? What does God or the Bible have to say about it? Greed is a spiritual…
Read More“It’s As If JPMorgan And Goldman Vanished…”
The equity-ification of the bond market has been closely followed by Bloomberg News and other financial journalists. Unfortunately for the big banks, it’s a trend that has largely been led by fintech firms like TradeWeb and Bloomberg. Many corporate bonds from investment grade to deep in the speculative territory can be found trading on-the-run on…
Read MoreGerman Finance Minister Publishes New Banking Union Plan To Save The EU (And Deutsche Bank)
Less than a year after his finance ministry failed to broker a merger between Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank in a bid to rescue the flailing German lending giant (Deutsche) and create a new national champion (or so he hoped), German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is embarking on a campaign to convince the European Union to…
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