Tag Archive: government debt

Weekly Market Pulse: Are Higher Interest Rates Good For The Economy?

2024-04-15

Interest rates surged last week on the back of a hotter-than-expected inflation report that wasn’t actually that bad (see below). Not that my – or your – opinion about these things matters all that much to the market.

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China and the US at sovereign debt war

2023-01-27

by Stephen Flood

2023-01-27

US dollar hegemony has long been a standard feature of the global financial and economic system. But developments in recent years and months (weeks, even) suggests there are more than a handful of countries who are looking to rely less on the US dollar. Instead countries who have long been at the mercy of the US dollar are looking to take their finances into their own hands…and gold is set to play a key role.

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“Die Schattenseiten von Schuldenbremsen (The Dark Side of Debt Limits),” ifoSD, 2021

2021-04-16

by Dirk Niepelt

2021-04-16

Was Schuldengrenzen aus politökonomischer Sicht besonders attraktiv erscheinen lässt – ihre vermeintliche Einfachheit und Klarheit – birgt also auch Risiken. Es führt dazu, dass Politiker und ihre Wähler die Solidität der Staatsfinanzen über Gebühr an expliziten Bruttoschulden messen.

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Central Banks Will Still Do “Whatever It Takes”!

2021-03-06

by Stephen Flood

2021-03-06

Governments are taking a page out of the play book that monetary policy began a decade ago – which will lead to even higher debt levels.

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Everyone Knows The Gov’t Wants A ‘Controlled’ Weimar

2020-05-09

by Jeffrey P. Snider

2020-05-09

There are two parts behind the inflation mongering. The first, noted yesterday, is the Fed’s balance sheet, particularly its supposedly monetary remainder called bank reserves. The central bank is busy doing something, a whole bunch of something, therefore how can it possibly turn out to be anything other than inflationary?The answer: the Federal Reserve is not a central bank, not really.

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US Debt: To Hell In A Bucket

2017-09-20

by MN Gordon

2017-09-20

No-one Cares. “No one really cares about the U.S. federal debt,” remarked a colleague and Economic Prism reader earlier in the week. “You keep writing about it as if anyone gives a lick.” We could tell he was just warming up. So, we settled back into our chair and made ourselves comfortable.

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The Power Elite: Bumbling Incompetents

2016-05-28

by Bill Bonner

2016-05-28

Is there any smarter group of homo sapiens on the planet? Or in all of history? We’re talking about Fed economists, of course. Not only did they avoid another Great Depression by bold absurdity…giving the economy more of the one thing of which it clearly had too much – debt. They also carefully monitored the economy’s progress so as to avoid any backsliding into normalcy.

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Kuroda-San in the Mouth of Madness

2016-05-14

by Pater Tenebrarum

2016-05-14

Deluded Central Planners Zerohedge recently reported on an interview given by Lithuanian ECB council member Vitas Vasiliauskas, which demonstrates how utterly deluded the central planners in the so-called “capitalist” economies of the West have bec...

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Retirement Torpedoes and Democracy

2016-05-14

by Bill Bonner

2016-05-14

Bonner compares Total credit market debt, federal government debt and GDP – an economy running on debt, and now running on empty.

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Heretical Thoughts and Doing the Unthinkable

2016-05-13

by Bill Bonner

2016-05-13

Heresy! NORMANDY, France – The Dow rose 222 points on Tuesday – or just over 1%. But we agree with hedge-fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller: This is not a good time to be a U.S. stock market bull. Legendary former hedge fund manager Stanley Druck...

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