By Patrick Wood The International Monetary Fund says that the reason for growing market concentration is unclear. Unclear? Really? A prominent financial publication MarketWatch stated,…
By Brandon Smith Almost every aspect of the global economic downturn, which started ostensibly in 2007-2008 and is still ongoing to this day, can be…
By Brandon Smith The mainstream news has been awash lately in talk over the danger of economic “contagion,” primarily due to lack of dollar liquidity…
By Brandon Smith There has been a lot of confusion lately in the mainstream economic media as well as in independent media circles as to…
By Dave Kranzler The trading action in the paper gold markets of London and NY this week further convinces me that gold is being pushed…
By Thorsten Polleit Reading through Security Analysis, the roadmap for investing first published in 1934 by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd, I learned something quite…
By Brandon Smith If you have been following the public commentary from central banks around the world the past few months, you know that there…
By Charles Hugh Smith All of which brings us to the “crazy” idea of backing fiat currencies with cryptocurrencies, an idea I first floated back…
By Charles Hugh Smith As central bank policies are increasingly fingered by the mainstream as the source of soaring wealth-income inequality, policies supporting credit/asset bubbles…
By Jack Mullen, TGR Intelligence Briefing Royal Bank of Canada CEO, David McKay, was recently on CNBC and asked to talk about the cryptocurrencies. During…
By Charles Hugh Smith The idea that authorities can massage their pumping to keep asset bubbles inflated at a permanently high plateau is currently being…
By David Haggith With 60% of stocks now being traded by bots that fake each other out in order to create buying opportunities, stock exchanges…
By James Corbett Today James talks to Nomi Prins, author of books like All The Presidents Bankers, about her recent article “The Central Bank Power…
By Ellen Brown Several central banks, including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve, are…