Central banks

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics released its nonfarm payrolls data heading into the Labor Day weekend, and less than three weeks before the Federal Reserve meets to consider an interest rate hike.

This question might sound preposterous, but this movement is very real and growing in importance: central banks are progressively buying private assets with their unmatched firepower.

You need neither words nor a Ph. D. to see the evident distortion created by government manipulation of the currency.

The fate of the global economy was decided decades ago as deficits, debts and derivatives started their exponential growth and reached the time bomb phase that we are now in.

This long-standing monetary policy generates a massive and catastrophic perverse effect: banks are no longer profitable. In other words, this policy pushes them into bankruptcy. This is what no less than the IMF explains in a study from last August 10.

This coming autumn, we are likely to see the beginning of the hyperinflationary phase of the sovereign debt crisis.

In spite of the manipulation of gold and gold stocks, gold will always over time reveal the truth. And the truth is that the massively inflated US stock market is underperforming in real terms in spite of making new highs.

We’ve already talked about the banking crisis in Italy, with 360 billion € in bad loans, the equivalent of 22% of its GDP, an inordinate amount that leads us to fear the worst. The situation has been temporarily stabilised after a deal between the head of government and Brussels: a bailout plan h...

The Bank of England today cut its official interest rate for the first time in 7 years, from 0.5 percent to 0.25 percent.

Central banks have led the world on a course that could only have one result. And sadly, I believe that we are now very near the beginning of a disaster that will have a bigger impact on mankind than any war, disease or depression that the world has ever experienced.