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Federal Reserve, Any System That Is This Inherently Corrupt Will Eventually Collapse Under the Weight of Its Own Corruption
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: FRED is a giant online database at the St. Louis Fed that allows anyone to graph the financial and economic data stored in its repositories. We use the data regularly to bring our readers a crystal-clear snapshot of the increasingly dangerous underpinnings of the U.S. financial system. Let’s start…
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Deer in Headlights Chaos in Credit Markets: Crypto Soars
BanksterCrime: by Tyler Durden Well that was a day… Almost time to trot out the ‘deer in headlights’… A double-whammy of a 30Y TSY auction bloodbath and Powell’s considerably more hawkish-than-expected tone prompted bonds and stocks to be clubbed like a baby seal as the dollar soared… Source: Bloomberg Did Powell finally notice that his…
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Fed Dramatically Speeds Up U.S. Payments With FedNow, but Downplays Any Tie to CBDCs–Don’t Trust The Fed’s
Some argue it would weaken crypto’s payments use case or form a bridge to a digital dollar. By Jack Schickler Takeaways FedNow conveys money almost instantly, versus the hours or days it has conventionally taken in the U.S. – finally bringing the world’s largest economy in line with other countries. The central bank has denied…
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RFK Jr. Vows to Back Dollar With Bitcoin, Exempt BTC From Taxes
The Democratic presidential hopeful also reiterated a May stance defending the right to self-custody bitcoin, run blockchain nodes at home and promising industry-neutral energy regulation. By Camomile Shumba CORRECTION (July 19, 13:30 UTC): Clarified that RFK Jr. was speaking about bitcoin, rather than crypto in general. U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled…
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“An Extremely Dangerous Game” – Central Bankers ‘Extend & Pretend’ Has Increased Risk Of “Catastrophic Collapse”
In recent weeks, there has been a lot of talk about the role of the world’s central bankers going forward. With that in mind, now seems like a good time to recap the market bailout operations during the past few years… to get some insights into how this all ends (spoiler alert – not well)! GnSEconomics.com’s Tumoas…
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Peter Schiff: The Fed Set The Fiercest Wildfire
Wildfires are raging out of control in western states doing millions of dollars in damage and disrupting countless lives. In a recent podcast, Peter Schiff said the Federal Reserve has set an even fiercer wildfire – inflation. And we are in danger of it burning out of control through the entire US economy. Stock markets…
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Central Banks Are Destroying What Was Left Of Free Markets
President Reagan memorably said that the nine words you don’t want to hear are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Governments in all the major jurisdictions are now making good on that unwanted promise and are taking responsibility for everything from our shoulders. Those receiving subsidies and loan guarantees are no doubt grateful,…
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Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, And An Epic Trail Of Destruction
The Institutional Risk Analyst, we review the new book by David Enrich, “Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction.” Enrich is currently a financial editor at The New York Times and was previously an editor at The Wall Street Journal covering financial institutions. This important book puts in perspective the history of Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:…
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STAGGERING GLOBAL DEBT OF $253 TRILLION IS A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN
Global debt has reached a staggering $253 trillion. This is a disaster waiting to happen, as the world’s total debt surged by some $9 trillion in the first three quarters of 2019, according to data from the Institute of International Finance. That’s a terrifying 322% of its GDP; and a record high. As Axios points out, in times…
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12 Signs That The Economy Is Seriously Slowing Down As 2020 Begins
Lost in all of the headlines about Iran and impeachment is the fact that the U.S. economic slowdown which began during the latter stages of last year appears to be accelerating. The final numbers which will tell us if we are officially in a recession at this moment won’t be released until months from now, but…
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