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Keith Weiner: I have written other pieces on the topic of fractional reserve banking duration mismatch, which is when someone borrows short-term money to lend long-term and how falling interest rates actually encourages duration mismatch. Falling interest rates Read more…
Michael Snyder: Is the petrodollar dead? Well, not yet, but the nails are being hammered into the coffin even as you read this. For decades, most of the nations of the world Read more…
Michael Snyder: The cracks in the ice are getting bigger. At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all. They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident. Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially Read more…
Michael Snyder: We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous. It is now being alleged that 20 major banks have been systematically fixing global interest rates for years. Barclays has already been fined Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Regular readers of my work know that I have been outlining (and warning people about) two potential economic scenarios; as the West’s terminally-ill economies lurch towards their final collapse. These hollowed-out, debt-saturated economies Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In his most serious demeanor of recent memory, Jim Rogers of Roger Holdings said the U.S. economy is in for a very rough sledding akin to other major crises since the beginning of the republic. In fact, the 69-year-old veteran Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: The financial indicator that traders have watched most for a sign of another Lehman-like swan dive in stocks has suddenly inched to the edge of the abyss in overnight trading. Read more…
Michael Snyder: If you enjoy watching financial doom, then you are quite likely to really enjoy the rest of 2012. Right now, red flags are popping up all over the place. Corporate insiders are selling off stock Read more…
Michael Snyder: The economic crisis in Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK) continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare. All over Europe Read more…
Frank Holmes: Last week was a challenging one for gold investors. Gold prices have been on the downside. Although the yellow metal has been on a spectacular 11-year bull run, recent strength in the economy has some thinking gold’s heyday is over. Read more…
Jack Crooks: There are all sorts of reasons I could list to explain why the euro (NYSEARCA:FXE) will disintegrate. You have heard a lot of them before. But as this crisis continues to drag on, I think many Read more…
Michael Snyder: Most Americans have no idea how much economic trouble is heading our way. Most of them just assume that everything will eventually “return to normal” just like it always has before and Read more…
Jeff Nielson: B.S. Bernanke has been in a quandry, ever since the Federal Reserve’s “QE II” was universally castigated as a reckless (and selfish) escapade by the U.S., aimed at doing nothing more than propping up the value of the “financial assets” of the Wall Street crime syndicate. Bernanke never understood that Read more…
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The Daily Capitalist: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been giving a series of lectures on the Fed to students at George Washington University. They are available as videos for our enjoyment (see links, below). In his first lecture, Mr. Bernanke discussed various reasons why a gold standard would not work Read more…
Tom Essaye: Last week most of the financial media focused on the fact that the stock market made new highs for the year and hit the highest level since 2006. Indeed impressive. But I don’t believe that was Read more…
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