FOMC Minutes Reveal "Most Fed Officials Saw QE Tapering In 2013"
In what had already been exposed as a 'contentious' meeting the minutes of the last Un-Taper FOMC meeting show a Fed in turmoil...*MOST FED OFFICIALS SAW QE TAPERING THIS YEAR, HALTING MID-2014 *FOMC...
View ArticleFed Admits It Is Caught In A Reflexive Catch 22
Here are the only key sections from the Minutes that matters, because they show clearly that the Fed is now fully aware of the Catch 22 quagmire it has caught itself in: suggest tapering due to an...
View ArticleApologist for Assassination of Americans to Be Named as New Homeland Security...
Apologist for Assassination of Americans to Be Named as New Homeland Security Chief USA Today reports:President Obama plans to nominate former Pentagon attorney Jeh Johnson as the next secretary of...
View ArticleNSA Busted Conducting Industrial Espionage In France, Mexico, Brazil, China...
U.S. Conducts Industrial Espionage GloballyLe Monde has revealed that the NSA gathered more than 70 million French phone calls in a single month.France’s largest English-language newspaper – The Local...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Sixth Stage Of Collapse
Submitted by Dmitry Orlov via Club Orlov blog,I admit it: in my last book, The Five Stages of Collapse, I viewed collapse through rose-colored glasses. But I feel that I should be forgiven for this; it...
View ArticleFrontrunning: October 24
Central Banks Drop Tightening Talk as Easy Money Goes On (BBG)More Democrats voice Obamacare concerns as website blame goes around (Reuters)Contractors Point Fingers Over Health-Law Website (WSJ)Jury...
View ArticleAn Audacious Plan To Fix The QE Non-Taper And Fiscal Non-Action in One Swift...
Submitted by F.F. Wiley of Cyniconomics blog,If you’re anything like us, you may have reached the conclusions that:Our elected officials are charting a course to a fiscal disaster.The Fed is repeating...
View ArticleFukushima Is Here
500 people assembled on October 19th on Ocean Beach in San Francisco and formed the letters with their bodies to demonstrate their growing concern about eventual fallout on the west coast. Credit and...
View ArticleWhining for Wine
Click here to follow ZeroHedge in Real-time on FinancialJuiceIn a few years’ time we might all be whining because there is no more water left in the world apparently. That’s because according to the...
View ArticleWhat Is The ACTUAL Risk for Pacific Coast Residents from Fukushima Radiation?
“[The Odds of] Longer Term Chronic Effects, Cancer Or Genetic Effects … Cannot Be Said To Be Zero”It is very difficult to obtain accurate information on the dangers from Fukushima radiation to...
View ArticleChinese Yuan Surpasses Euro, Becomes Second Most Used Currency In Trade Finance
Slowly but surely the Chinese currency is catching up to the world's reserve and moments ago, according to SWIFT, the Yuan just surpassed the Euro in trade (remember trade: that's how countries once...
View ArticleA Dogmatic Slumber
Submitted by Ben Hunt of Epsilon Theory Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even...
View ArticleChina: Forces of Movement and Forces of Order
In every organization, including the Chinese Communist Party, there are forces of movement and forces of order. The forces of movement have moved into ascendancy in China and this was signaled by...
View ArticleBipartisan Budget Deal Reached; No Extension Of Unemployment Benefits Means...
Moments ago, news hit that democrat negotiators Patty Murray, and republican Paul Ryan reached a bipartisan deal to ease the automatic budget cuts by $60b. The deal calls for auctioning of govt...
View ArticleYet Another Massive Nail In The Dollar's Coffin
Two years ago, the CME announced USD/CNH futures trading enabling speculation (and hedging or risk transfer) of offshore Chinese Renminbi. On the other side of the world this week, a couple of...
View ArticleInvesting in 2014
2013 is ready for the history books as an exceptional year on the financial markets in many regards. For the first time in five years there were no signs of a big financial crisis anywhere in the...
View ArticleExaggerating the Rise of the Yuan
The internationalization of the Chinese yuan has been a major story this year. We have been suspicious that much of what passes for the internationalization yuan has been the "Sino-ificiation of Hong...
View ArticleIs the U.S. Government Changing the Amount In People’s Financial Accounts...
Background:White House Panel Slams NSA, Says Mass Spying Is Unnecessary“These Programs Were Never About Terrorism: They’re About Economic Spying, Social Control, and Diplomatic Manipulation. They’re...
View ArticleHow Ultra-Rich Chinese Men Find Their Wives
Submitted by Charmika Monet via The Diplomat,Much of the world is familiar with the unique struggles Chinese face when it comes to marriage. Increasingly strict financial security requirements coupled...
View ArticleThe Legends Are Bailing on the Markets… For Good Reason
The capital markets have become artificial with all risk being mispriced due to Fed intervention. The problem with this is that when the capital markets “break” due to a loss in credibility, the shift...
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