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by Chris Black They also refused to sign the UN migrant pact. A reminder, governments don’t have to do as they are told by unelected organizations with a global agenda, in direct conflict with the citizens’ wishes. They may get fined by the UN though and they can leave the …
by Chris Black You retards should make better decisions. You attack civilians in the capital city of Russia, then you beg them not to escalate? This is not the way war works. https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1663489732016328705 Continue reading by subscribing.
by Chris Black The so-called progressives who are destroying the West are behind the massive wave of immigration from Islamic countries. Which begs the question: how stupid can you be to believe you can bring tens of millions of Muslims into your country without importing Islam as well? Breitbart: German …
by Chris Black It is important to address a significant issue here: individuals who lack the ability to discern truth should not have the privilege to vote. This problem is glaringly apparent. If people are unable to distinguish between a deceptive video created by a prankster and genuine information, it …
by Chris Black Pakistan is a disaster waiting to happen, but Turkey deserves its own post for being geopolitically unique. Turkey’s central bank net reserve balance tumbled negative last week. A black market for currency has formed, reminiscent of Venezuela. Could see a scenario à la Venezuela since 2016 in …
by Chris Black Goldman Sachs’ online bank, Marcus, is the only large bank offering a competitive interest rate (https://www.bankrate.com/banking/money-market/rates/) on its savings accounts – over 400 times that being offered by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and even Citibank. Marcus (https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings/high-yield-savings) is the online banking platform offered by Goldman Sachs …
Guest Post by Simon Black from Sovereign Man: Paris. Such a romantic city. Sip cafe at a sidewalk bistro, while you take in the wafting smell of burning rubber from the street fires. Take a picture with the Eiffel Tower, as you dodge incoming tear-gas canisters. Enjoy the ambiance as …
Guest Post by Adam Hamilton at Zeal LLC: The gold miners’ stocks are soaring again, just blasting to new upleg highs this week! They are following their metal higher and amplifying its gains like usual. Yet despite their dramatic surges in recent weeks, both gold and gold stocks have lots …
Guest Post by Ryan McMaken, Editor of the Mises Wire at Mises.org: Last week, Fox News aired a segment discussing the possibility that the US dollar will cease to be the global reserve currency and what that would mean for Americans. The tone of the piece suggested that a “catastrophic” decline of …
Guest Post by Peter C. Earle at the American Institute for Economic Research: Last week, China and Brazil reached an agreement to settle trades in one anothers’ currencies. Over the past 15 years, China has replaced the United States as the main trading partner of resource-rich Brazil, and as such …
Guest Post by Jordan Roy-Byrne at thedailygold.com: Gold is on the cusp of a major breakout from its super-bullish cup and handle pattern. The measured upside target is $3000/oz, and the log target is roughly $4000/oz. These targets may sound extreme, but breakouts from multi-decade bases are rare but very …
Guest Post by Nick Giamburno at International Man: It’s been rightly said that “he who holds the gold makes the rules.” After World War 2, the US had the largest gold reserves in the world, by far. Along with winning the war, this let the US reconstruct the global …
Guest Post by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: This is how we’ll end up with severe shortages of truly skilled labor and high unemployment of those who lack the necessary skills. The labor force and the job market are referred to as if they were monolithic structures. But they’re not monolithic, they are complex …
Guest Post by Richard Mills from Aheadoftheherd.com: Earlier, we listed the various reasons why the US dollar is headed lower. But this doesn’t mean all safe-haven assets are in for a reality check. In fact, this might be an opportune time to invest in precious metals, in particular gold and silver, …
Guest Post by Michael Maharrey at SchiffGold.com: Could the commercial real estate market be the next thing to break in this bubble economy? The rampant money creation and zero percent interest rates during the COVID pandemic on top of three rounds of quantitative easing and more than a decade of artificially low …
RELAX everything’s going to be fine, if there was ANY chance of collapse all the “experts” on the main collapse subreddit would be all over this. /s via realclearmarkets: “In purely technical terms, all these together are betting heavily on lower interest rates all over the world in the not-too-distant …
by okie1 New data just came in. Use of fed’s liquidity facilities declined again: View post on imgur.com This is where the money was coming from to create the demand for T bills, which is what was bringing rates down at the lower end of the yield curve. T bills …
by Chris Black These are the biggest loans (a little bit different from QE though, as they must be repaid with interest >0 ) in the history of the Federal Reserve by the way. RT: US banks took out a combined $164.8 billion in loans from two Federal Reserve facilities …
by Chris Black I don’t know how to tell you that and how many time we will have to tell you that (stop reading fear-porn-selling retards like Snyder) but the stock market will never “crash” ever again. At most it will drop 10%, they will halt trading, printers will go …
by Chris Black A bag of rocks. My Sides! They should have gone with magic beans instead – so much funnier. UK is literally Charlie Brown. https://twitter.com/business/status/1636774669347962901 Nickel is a barbaric relic, anyways. Don’t forget that the Chinese also recently found out the Perth Mint has been selling them doped …
by TheNewbieInvestor Everytime this happened, the Fed pivoted 2-year yield has now moved below the Fed funds rate pic.twitter.com/8fsrsDToh2 — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) March 17, 2023 Looks like my hunch was correct. This tweet was from Thursday, the day before #SVB failed. QE unofficially resumes on Monday. #Powell folded. The #Fed …
55 Trillion in garbage derivatives + 16:1 naked short in Silver and 4:1 naked short Gold + 2-Week Jim Cramer Effect = DOOM! JP Morgan is a fortress — Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) March 10, 2023 Closer to 50 Trillion at the end of last year. https://www.usbanklocations.com/bank-rank/derivatives.html AC
via NYPOST: Bill Ackman in a tweet on Friday said Bank of America is going to acquire Signature Bank on Monday, without citing the source of the information. “I am hearing that @BankofAmerica is going to buy Signature Bank on Monday. Unless and until we can protect uninsured deposits, the cost of capital is going …
by Dismal-Jellyfish It gets even more interesting! 1 year ago: 3/16: 18,073.5395 Billion. High was hit 4/13/2022: 18,130.6814 Billion. Over half a trillion in deposits pulled in the last year! Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US), Deposits, All Commercial Banks [DPSACBW027SBOG], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank …
by recklessSPY The Fed was on track to keep raising rates to stop inflation. Unemployment still hot and retail still spending. No reason to abate – maintain rates. Some banks f’d up and didn’t hedge their interest rate risk. Runs on regional banks showed how fragile the system is. Fed …
Top Chart: Over the past +50 years, the inversions of the 50 day SMA of the 10 year treasury rates minus the 50 day SMA of the 3 month treasury rates have all preceded the start of a U.S. recession (there have been no false indicators or exceptions to …
“We need to keep raising rates until something breaks and inflation eases” <Something breaks> “Wait wait no, not that thing.” It’s very important that inflation is brought into check by poor people losing their jobs. Not rich people losing their deposits. NEW Banking Crisis In One Chart, Inflation=Fed Rate Hikes=Treasury/MBS Duration Increases=Bond …
Fed Loaned $160 Billion to Banks and $142 billion to FDIC. But QT-Related Roll-off Continued At around 4.75%, plus collateral, these are expensive loans for banks. The Fed’s Discount Window Soared to Its Highest Level Since the Previous Financial Crisis of 2008 Fed Dead Redemption! Flight To Safety As …
Total deposits across all banks are much higher now, $17.6t now vs $6.7t in 2008. https://wolfstreet.com/2023/03/16/fed-loaned-160-billion-to-banks-and-142-billion-to-fdic-but-qt-related-roll-off-continued/ In 2008 banks had trouble because they were holding lots of mortgages and MBSs and their value went down a lot, losing them ton of money, forcing liquidation. In 2022, old TBills value went …
The bond market is showing the most fear outside of the 2008 crisis. Equity and currency volatility are at much lower levels, while the MOVE gauge of Treasuries volatility is at its highest level since 2011. This suggests that investors are becoming increasingly worried about the possibility of a sharp …