Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, November 19, 2021
Will the Senate Confirm a Marxist to Oversee the U.S. Currency System? / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: MoneyMetals
Precious metals markets pulled back a bit this week as the U.S. dollar strengthened versus foreign currencies.
In other markets, the rising dollar index put downward pressure on crude oil and gasoline futures this week. Consumers who have been experiencing pain at the pump should get a bit of a reprieve in the days ahead.
But it could be short lived. The same government policies that helped drive gas prices higher this year are still in place: Massive fiscal and monetary stimulus coupled with disincentives for domestic energy production.
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Monday, April 20, 2015
The Rise of the Paper Machines / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: DeviantInvestor
Since 2011 the financial markets have been dominated by rises in paper markets and declines in commodity markets.
Group One Paper Examples: T-Bonds, US Dollar Index, S&P 500 Index
Group Two Commodity Examples: Crude Oil, Sugar, Wheat, Gold, Silver
Group One markets are “paper” markets in fiat debt, fiat currency, and paper equities. They are heavily influenced by “money printing,” Quantitative Easing, High-Frequency-Trading, futures, central banks, and political agendas.
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
The Paper Money Titanic Sinks At Dawn! / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: DeviantInvestor
What Titanic? The RMS Titanic, or any of the following:
- A titanic quantity of derivatives – say 1,000 Trillion dollars. A derivative crash was at the center of the 2008 market meltdown. It could happen again since there is now more debt, leverage, and risk than in 2008.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Money and Growth / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: Alasdair_Macleod
The most common of all misconceptions today is that a weakening currency is fundamental to a healthy economy, or put another way, a strong currency is economically destructive. For decades this has been the fundamental belief of mainstream economists and the mainspring behind government policy. Even Switzerland, widely regarded as the leading exponent of non-interventionism, intervenes to keep the franc from rising against the euro.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Fractional-Reserve Banking: From Goldsmiths To Hedge Funds To…Chaos / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: John_Rubino
Banking didn’t start out as a reckless, parasitical plaything of a moneyed and politically-connected aristocracy. In the beginning, in fact, bankers weren’t even bankers. They were jewelers and goldsmiths who had to maintain their inventory with vaults, guards etc., and offered storage services to others with valuables to protect. So the original banks were, in effect, very safe warehouses.
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
Preparing for The Big One - U.S. Dollar Revolt / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: DeepCaster_LLC
”Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has been tap dancing on a land mine since 2008. He has avoided detonating an intensified banking-system crisis, so far, but the cost has been that of locking the Fed into near-perpetual quantitative easing and monetization of U.S. Treasury debt, with horrendous implications for future domestic inflation and U.S. dollar debasement…. the Fed has locked itself into quantitative easing for some time to come, irrespective of any jawboning to the contrary….
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Cheap Money Means Nothing is safe – Not student loans, Emerging markets, or London flats... / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: Adrian_Ash
Did you enjoy your monthly dose of non-farms nonsense last Friday?
Gold and silver both erased Thursday's drop when the latest US jobs figures were released. Set your gold or silver chart to one-week (1w) to see the silliness.
But were August's non-farm payrolls really so meaningless? Cutting the jobless rate is one-half of the US Federal Reserve's mandate (the other is beating inflation - or whisking it, perhaps, after folding in egg whites). And whatever he does (or doesn't do) to quantitative easing at next week's much-awaited policy meeting, Fed chairman Bernanke has made a 7.0% jobless rate a key condition for any talk of raising Dollar interest rates from zero.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Dealing with QE-Wars and Fiat Currency Devaluations / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: Gary_Dorsch
Whether you live in Cyprus, England, Japan, the United States, or elsewhere, the battle for financial survival is taking on new dimensions. At issue is the steady dilution of the purchasing power of money that is perpetrated by the world’s central banks, and worries about confiscation and taxation of monies by government authorities. Even the giant Multi-Nationals, that stashed trillions of dollars in offshore tax havens, are feeling a bit uneasy about reports that the G-20 plans to crackdown on their money laundering schemes in the future.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The Money in Your Savings Accounts Doesn't Really Exist! / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: GoldSilver
Best selling author Mike Maloney is launching a new video series on gold and silver, airing on YouTube starting February26th
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Our Money Is Dying, Don't let your wealth die with it / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: Dr_Martenson
A question on the minds of many people today (increasingly those who manage or invest money professionally) is this: How do I preserve wealth during a period of intense official intervention in and manipulation of money supply, price, and asset markets?
As every effort to re-inflate and perpetuate the credit bubble is made, the words of Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises lurk ominously nearby:
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Euro – Are There Any Hard Currencies Left? / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: Axel_Merk
With gold reaching $1,000 an ounce and posting new highs versus all currencies, are there any hard currencies left? Over the past 100 years, we have moved further and further away from the gold standard. We see no indication for that trend to reverse; if anything, it may accelerate. As a result, we have cautioned long before this credit crisis erupted that there is no such thing as a safe asset anymore; investors may want to take a diversified approach to something as mundane as cash. This lack of confidence in cash goes beyond “cash equivalents” such as money market funds, commercial paper, auction rate securities, to currencies themselves. We all rely on cash for liquidity, but are concerned about purchasing power. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, August 04, 2008
The Four Tires of the Economic Apocalypse Herald the End of Capitalism / Stock-Markets / Fiat Currency
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
The engine used to run on premium, e.g. gold and silver; now it's being run on credit which over time will destroy the engine and everything else.
The euro, the yuan, the yen, and the dollar are The Four Tires Of The Apocalypse , an event that recently appears to have come out of nowhere. It didn't. Its apparently sudden appearance is new only to those who wished to see otherwise.
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