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Whether you are a senior, a retiree, a pension fund, a university endowment, or a whole host of other businesses that needs yield, and a cash flow, you are in the line of fire. With the 5 year and 10 year Treasuries hitting a record low yield last week, bond investors are in a wrath of hurt. I...

Predictions of the dollar's demise are likely premature and overblown. This post is in response to the rising interest in both precious metals and cryptocurrencies. Several factors are driving this trend. One is the idea governments have targeted cash and wish to move us towards a "cashless" s...

By Ryan McMaken In June, for the third month in a row, money supply growth surged to an all-time high, following new all-time highs in both April and May that came in the wake of unprecedented quantitative easing, central bank asset purchases, and various stimulus packages. The growth ra...

This article summarises why the credit cycle leads to alternate booms and slumps. It is only with this in mind that they can be properly understood as current economic conditions evolve. The reader is taken through three monetary models: a fixed money economy, one governed by changes in bank...

The demand for safe haven government bonds shows no sign of easing. It's not hard to understand why when you consider renewed concern that the US economic recovery is cooling , US-China relations are deteriorating , and there are few signs that America is getting control of the coronavirus. ...

This is the key dynamic of the economy going forward: defaults on debt, declining wealth as assets are relentlessly repriced lower and sharp declines in income due to layoffs and debt defaults. The economy is like an elephant surrounded by blindfolded economists and pundits: what each blin...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy I haven't had to blog about LIBOR and any attendant funding issues for a while… and that was the good news. Unfortunately, the negative market effects from the COVID-19 pandemic created a setting in the funding arena that needed to be...

News of Judy Shelton’s nomination as a Fed Governor is making waves because of her out-of-the-box views, but Jim Bianco of Bianco Research told Real Vision’s Daily Briefing that he doesn’t understand the pushback her nomination is getting. Bianco said that the Fed...

Source: pxhere.com In our 7/17/2020 weekly update, we noted a shift in Federal Reserve policy concerning its dual mandate of maintaining full employment while keeping a lid on inflation. So far, we've witnessed the Fed's aggressive response to the economic contraction and capital markets...

By Frank Shostak According to popular thinking, not every increase in the supply of money will have an effect on the production of goods. For instance, if an increase in the supply is matched by a corresponding increase in the demand for money, then there will be no effect on the economy. ...