Jim Bianco at Bloomberg "The Fed will finance a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for each acronym to conduct these operations. The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each SPV and be in a “first loss” position. What does...
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We Are Still Undergoing A Massive Stock Market Cycle Shift
Going into the end of last year and at the start of this year I released a series of videos in which I said that the stock market weakness last year and gyrations across multiple financial markets represented a major stock market cycle shift that would lead to a very...
The EU is Rotting (and Its Banks are Insolvent)
The EU as a political construction is in a state of terminal decay. We know this for one reason and one reason alone: its core principle is the state is superior to its people. A system of government can only work over the longer term if it recognises that it is the...
9/7/17 Mark Thornton on the Austrian Business Cycle Theory and where we are today
Senior fellow of the Mises Institute Mark Thornton returns to the show to discuss Austrian business cycle theory, how the Fed's artificially low interest rates create perverse incentives, resulting in wild spending on both the production and consumer sides of the...
With Bank Bailouts, Italy Secures Moral Hazard
Over the past weekend, two more Italian banks were forced to close due to insolvency. As is often the case, bad loans were the cause of the downfall for both banks. They made too many risky bets on borrowers that didn't pay off. Banca Populare di Vicenza SpA and...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...