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ECB Warning: More Directed History

"The idea that the ECB and the Fed are going to begin to quarrel or pursue separate policies is a ludicrous one. Yet we are being asked to believe it. These people never let a good crisis go to waste. Part of the point of the lingering EU credit crunch is to create a necessity for a deeper union, monetarily and politically. ECB pols have said as much. The goal of ECB bureaucrats is to further paste together the fraying EU and its even sicker euro currency. At this point, this policy is being pursued in direct defiance of EU citizens who have voted continuously, when they can, against a deeper union of any sort. There are no rogue central banks. Everyone has a part to play." Continue reading →

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Could We Have Been Correct About the Stock Market?

"Today government – and its central banks – utilize the private sector for policy purposes. Tomorrow, government may see fit to move those levers directly. In the meantime, there can be no doubt – as we have observed – that the plan is to take the stock market a good deal higher. While equity purists shall object that when earnings decouple from prices a crash is near, we would beg to differ. Volatility is certainly headed our way. But not necessarily an earth shattering crash, or not yet anyway. Markets are strange beasts. Pumped up by modern fiat money, they can go higher than one might expect – and then stay down longer, as well, as Japanese markets have." Continue reading →

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Party On Wall Street! Larry Summers Wants to Charge People for Saving

"The Wall Street Party we've forecast continues to build. The JOBS Act is forcing new product into the IPO market. QE continues in the US, Britain and Europe. Janet Yellen and Mark Carney are not about to try to taper in any serious way. The fracking meme continues to be pursued, giving people at least the illusion of more gas and oil to stimulate another industrial boom. And now, to ensue that money flows copiously, top bankers are obviously considering negative interest rates. How do you increase consumer spending, thus contributing to the Wall Street Party about which we've regularly written? Try to increase the velocity of money any way you can." Continue reading →

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Paul Craig Roberts: The Money Changers Serenade – A New Plot Hatches

"At the IMF Research Conference on November 8, 2013, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers presented a plan to expand the con game. Summers says that it is not enough merely to give the banks interest free money. More should be done for the banks. Instead of being paid interest on their bank deposits, people should be penalized for keeping their money in banks instead of spending it. Summers acknowledges that the problem with his solution is that people would take their money out of banks and hoard it in cash holdings. Summers has a fix for this: eliminate the freedom by imposing a cashless society where the only money is electronic." Continue reading →

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Jim Rogers … Sign of the Times?

"The fiat bull – which is really an unusual equity leg within a larger golden bull, from what we can tell – could run longer, even a lot longer. It could do so, as we have pointed out, with considerable volatility. But if the Fed continues to stuff banks and markets with money, we have a hard time believing that averages could plunge sharply and permanently, or at least not right away. Perhaps Rogers is aware, as we are, that top bankers are seemingly organizing a huge equity blow-off that takes the market a good deal higher before dropping it hard. In such a situation, we think there is certainly a possibility that central banking could be terminally discredited." Continue reading →

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China’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Seeks Recognition for Currency

"BTC China, the nation’s largest Bitcoin exchange, has had low-level discussions with regulators seeking recognition of the digital currency that would allow it to be used to buy goods and services in the country. The company has sought to discuss Bitcoin regulations with officials from agencies including the People’s Bank of China, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Securities Regulatory Commission, BTC China Chief Executive Officer Bobby Lee said in a Nov. 29 interview in Shanghai. It’s not yet been able to arrange any high-level meetings, he said." Continue reading →

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Nobel Prize winner warns of US stock market bubble

"At the ceremony in Sweden, Schiller told Reuters news agency that the Federal Reserve's economic stimulus and growing market speculation were creating a "bubbly" property boom. 'This financial crisis that we've been going through in the last five years has been one that seems to reveal the failure to understand price movements,' Shiller told Reuters. The S&P 500 Index is now higher by 26.6 percent since the start of the year, logging its longest weekly winning streak since 2004 on Friday. Both the Dow and the S&P 500 are regularly breaking fresh new all-time highs and the Nasdaq is trading at levels not seen since the Dotcom boom went bust in 2000." Continue reading →

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Nobel Prize winner warns of US stock market bubble

"At the ceremony in Sweden, Schiller told Reuters news agency that the Federal Reserve's economic stimulus and growing market speculation were creating a "bubbly" property boom. 'This financial crisis that we've been going through in the last five years has been one that seems to reveal the failure to understand price movements,' Shiller told Reuters. The S&P 500 Index is now higher by 26.6 percent since the start of the year, logging its longest weekly winning streak since 2004 on Friday. Both the Dow and the S&P 500 are regularly breaking fresh new all-time highs and the Nasdaq is trading at levels not seen since the Dotcom boom went bust in 2000." Continue reading →

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The Aden Sisters on Gold, Commodities and Near-Term Market Prospects

"We spoke a lot about gold and silver with the Aden sisters here because they are known in part for their precious metals insights. But it is interesting to see that they have 50 percent of their assets in the stock market itself and believe the market could continue its rise. We do, too. There will be no significant tapering, from what we can tell. Janet Yellen, the next Fed head, has expressed a determination to continue stimulation until the job picture brightens (which likely will never really happen). In England, Mark Carney - the Carney barker - has indicated via forward guidance that the BOE continues aggressive monetary stimulation." Continue reading →

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Gold suffers worst November since 1978

"A price fall of such magnitude hasn't been seen in November since 1978, according to data from the World Gold Council, when prices plunged 20 percent. Spot gold rested at $1,252 an ounce on Friday and was headed for its biggest monthly drop since June. It has lost over a quarter of its value year-to-date, putting it on track to post its first annual loss in 13 years. Citi said this month that gold was about to enter 'phase two' of its bear market and its downside target for the metal is now $1,111 per ounce. Goldman Sachs, meanwhile, predicts a 'significant decline' in gold in 2014, with a fall of at least 15 percent." Continue reading →

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