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With Real Rates Rising is the Fed Preparing a Digital Dollar?

October 14, 2020

It pays today to never underestimate the venality of the people who think they run the world. It also pays to listen to them when they say the most outrageous things. At virtual Jackson Hole this year…

The Fed’s Fiscal Profligacy and Greedy Tech Oligarchs Are Sinking Capitalism Faster Than the Titanic

September 10, 2020

Opinion

During my 40-year Wall St career, I’ve never seen a mania like this. The problem is that central banks are rogue hedge funds with printing presses who are not elected or accountable and make policies …

China’s Project to Create A “Digital Yuan”

September 1, 2020

Opinion

The topic of cryptocurrencies has gained prominence among specialists in international trade in recent months. With the global economic crisis generated by the new coronavirus pandemic, this need has …

The Fed Redefines Inflation Again

August 30, 2020

Opinion

The original definition of inflation was an expansion of the supply of money. If you create more money while keeping everything the same, ceteris paribus, then prices should rise accordingly. This is …

The Quiet American Reset

August 26, 2020

Opinion

The great de-coupling is here. The U.S. now has plan a to purge Chinese tech companies fully from America’s internet, creating what the Trump administration has dubbed the Clean Network. It mirrors th…

Lockdowns, Coronavirus, and Banks: “Following the Money”. Devastating Economic and Social Impacts

August 22, 2020

Opinion

It usually makes sense to follow the money when seeking understanding of almost any major change. The strategy of following the money in our current convergence of crises in late summer of 2020 leads …

Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve

August 10, 2020

Opinion

Continuing from the prior column,John Remington Graham’s thesis that the mis-named “civil war” was fomented by bankers who desired a large national debt that they could acquire in order to expand and …

The Fed is Determined to Prove the QTM Right

August 5, 2020

Opinion

Milton Friedman famously said, “Inflation was always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” But Friedman didn’t live through the QE years here in the U.S. and blatantly ignored the twenty plus years o…