Last month it was revealed that former federal reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, the architect of U.S. monetary policy under four Presidents, is anticipating a significant market event as a result of the trillions of dollars that have been pumped into
Warren: Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch Received $6 Trillion Backdoor Bailout from Fed
The trouble with the money-printing madness in the Eccles Building is that it generates huge deformations, misallocations, and speculative excesses in the financial markets. Eventually these bubbles splatter, as they have twice this century.
An unprecedented look inside one of the most powerful, secretive institutions in the country. The NY Federal Reserve is supposed to monitor big banks. But when Carmen Segarra was hired, what she witnessed inside the Fed was so alarming that she got a
Fed Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate and House this week. The US central bank is doing a great job, she told them. Dr. Paul and co-host Daniel McAdams break it down, with special guest (and former Congressional colleague) Paul-Martin Fo
Foreigners and the Fed hold large percentages of US. Treasury Bonds. What happens when foreigners reduce their need for U.S. dollars and the Fed ends QE?
If the Federal Reserve was granted a 100-year charter on December 23, 1913; then under what authority are they currently operating?
In the Minutes from the January FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve addressed the financial situation, and noted that the increasing role of bond and loan mutual funds could pose a liquidity risk if everyone tries to get out of the market at the same t
With the world's oldest central bank - Sweden's Riksbank - taking the plunge into negative rates, there have been 19 'eases' by central banks this year, Morgan Stanley warns of "ghosts of the 1930s."
Remember when one of the hot Fed buzzwords of 2014 was "macro-prudential regulation", a phrase which was supposed to mean that the Fed can centrally plan every asst price,....
What is not often covered in the media or blogosphere are the audits of the US official gold reserves stored at the US Mint, which is the custodian for 95 % (7716 tonnes) of the stash ??"
Some bad news for people in Somalia who rely on monetary remittances from America--and that's a lot of people: Merchants Bank of California is expected to close the accounts of all Somali-American money transfer companies on its books.
It would appear the powers that be are getting nervous.
It would appear the powers that be are getting nervous.
It should hardly come as a surprise when a hard-core US socialist comes out with demands that his socialist peers in Greece be bailed out by none other than the Federal Reserve:in fact, it does show why while so many quasi-socialists hate when the Fe
In 1792 the penalty for currency debasement was death
I received several requests to comment on an article written by Antal E. Fekete entitled the Counter-Productive Monetary Policy of the Fed.
Faber: "Only one way to short central banks and that is to buy gold".
Russia's relative gold holdings, relative to its fiat exposure, are truly impressive, the real question...
The Rothschilds, who had the power to make or break governments in the 19th century, took care not to abuse their power to avoid rousing opposition and putting their business at risk. The ECB is now operating with a swagger that...
Fifty of the world's most prominent Bitcoin chieftains are set to gather in secret at an undisclosed Caribbean resort in a roundtable gathering that some are already comparing to The Bilderberg Group meetings.
If you have most of your money tied up in the bank, you are either the most generous person in the world, or you are a fool of monumental proportions.
Following the ECB meeting last week, news headlines summarized the initial market response with titles such as, 'Markets rally as ECB bond buying plan exceeds all expectations'.
Over the last 100 years the Fed has had many mandates and policy changes in its pursuit of becoming the chief central economic planner for the United States.
British and US agents will carry out a mock cyber attack or 'cyber war games' on the Bank of England and commercial banks in City of London and on Wall Street in the coming months as part of tests on critical, but vulnerable financial...
This video was just released by The Ron Paul Institute today (1/28/15). Ron Paul's history lesson on the Federal Reserve, including the Fed's absurd mandate to ensure a two percent inflation rate. The Fed is the primary driver of the warfare/welfare
These developments, in turn, eventually led to the Great Depression, the Welfare State and Keynesian economics, World War II, the holocaust, the Cold War, the permanent Warfare State and its military-industrial complex.
Studies show that the business cycle was less volatile before the Federal Reserve was born. The presence of the Fed means that the implicit backing of the Fed allows excess leverage, and this has resulted in bigger and bigger collapses...
Next time around, the federals are going to have to confiscate stuff, break promises, take away things, and rough some people up. The question is how much of this abuse will the public take? I take a certain comfort knowing how heavily armed...
The Swiss have backed out of this system. Will others follow, or will the rest of the world follow the Russians and Chinese governments into new monetary arrangements and simply turn their backs on the corrupt and irredeemable West?
