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Off The Cuff: The Fed Is Just Playing For Time At This Point

It doesn't know how to escape the mess it has created

by Adam Taggart

Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 7:51 AM

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In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss:

Fire resilience

The Fed has no clue how to get out of the box it’s in

The Fed is only looking at the immediate term; it leaves tomorrow’s problems to tomorrow

Why the best short-term policy is a good long-term policy

Last week saw another FOMC statement, which Fed-watcher Axel Merk returns to the program to de-code for us.

In short, the Fed is giving itself more leeway to deal with a problem it has no clue how to fix. It is simply playing for time, trying to reassure us in the meanwhile that it has everything under control.

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Collapse Is A Process, Not An Event

How does one ‘get ahead’ during hard times?

by Chris Martenson

Friday, September 18, 2020, 9:01 PM

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We’re entering a period of time when the major systems that have supported humanity are going to fail.

Or, put more accurately: they are already failing.

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Market Update: DC/Wall Street Insider Predicts Coming Shock

The Fed is recklessly driving us towards an unavoidable reckoning

by Adam Taggart

Friday, September 18, 2020, 10:08 AM

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When asked what the biggest risks facing the economy are, David Stockman, lifelong Capital Hill and Wall Street insider, says “That’s easy. There are three: The Fed, The Fed and the Fed.”

After decades of misguided policy and chronically missing its targets, Stockman thinks the Federal Reserve is truly barreling off the rails now, hurtling our market economy towards disaster.

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Off The Cuff: It’s Getting Harder For The Fed To Hide Its Guilt

It favors the rich as it makes the system dangerously more unstable

by Adam Taggart

Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 10:03 AM

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In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Wolf Richter discuss:

The danger of asset bubbles

The Fed’s serial addiction to blowing them

Tesla and the shale industry as case studies

Covid-19s legacy on society

Everyone loves a bubble until it bursts. And we now live in age of multiple bubbles, with the Federal Reserve at the center, blowing each with vigor.

This inevitably will end painfully, as every prior bubble era has. But along the way, the more massive the distortions become, the greater the injustice between rich and poor becomes, and the more damage will ultimately follow.

And, slowly but surely, more and more people are waking up to the reality that the Fed’s serial addiction to blowing bubbles is actually the cause of many of today’s problems, not the cure as it would have us believe.

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Market Update: The Fed’s Big Lie

Ignore Powell's happy talk. The Fed is desperate and merely playing for time.

by Adam Taggart

Friday, August 28, 2020, 9:10 AM

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Perhaps the folks at the Fed are smarter than we think, and there’s actually a grand plan they’re pursuing that’s going to work out to society’s benefit?

Sadly no, reveals this week’s expert guest, Danielle DiMartino-Booth. Danielle knows the Fed inside and out, as she worked as a consultant for nearly a decade to Richard Fischer, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, including helping deal with the Great Financial Crisis. She knows how the organization runs, as well as the specific people running it.

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What Are You Going To Do As Our Money Dies?

Central banks are killing our currency to protect the already-rich

by Adam Taggart

Tuesday, August 25, 2020, 5:13 PM

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With the central banks hell-bent on supporting the rich by sending the prices of all financial assets farther into the stratosphere, is high/runaway inflation the natural next stage from here?

Will those worrying about a systemic “crash” from all the intervention and deformation be proved wrong?

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Is High Inflation Now A Bigger Danger Than A Deflationary Crash?

Is High Inflation Now A Bigger Danger Than A Deflationary Crash?

by Chris Martenson

Tuesday, August 25, 2020, 5:08 PM

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What’s the more likely event at this point: a deflationary crash or runaway inflation?

For a long time, Peak Prosperity co-founder Adam Taggart and I have hewed to the “Ka-POOM!” theory, which states that a major deflation will scare the central banks so badly that they overreact and pour too much liquidity into the system, thereby destroying it.

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Off The Cuff: A Boom For The Rich & A Depression For The Rest Of Us

Thanks, Fed & Congress!

by Adam Taggart

Monday, August 24, 2020, 4:22 PM

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In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss:

An escapee from Illinois tells all

Covid-19 is permanently changing household behavior

A boom for the rich; a depression for the rest of us

Is it now crunch-time?

As the dust continues to settle from the mad scramble by our “leaders” to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, it’s becoming clearer and clear that the unprecedented monetary and fiscal “rescue” stimulus served to make the already-wealthy a whole lot richer while the remaining 99% of America took it squarely on the chin.

And now that the scant money for Main Street has flowed to a trickle, Mish thinks that the bucket of consequences can’t be kicked down the road for much longer. Households are starting to run out of money, and once that happens on a large enough scale, the simmering resentment across the country is due to boil over.

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One Step Removed

Avoid the trap the system is setting to imprison you

by Chris Martenson

Friday, August 21, 2020, 7:57 PM

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Millions of people are about to enter a financial purgatory not of their doing, becoming little more than modern slaves.

They’ll be called “evicted” or “foreclosed” by the media. But if we define a slave as someone forced by existing legal circumstances and approved cultural norms to work for another person, then that’s exactly what these people should actually be called; modern-day slaves.

Too harsh? Not really. Allow me to make my case.

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Off The Cuff: Billionaires Beware!

Inequity is fast approaching a boiling over point with the masses

by Adam Taggart

Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 7:38 PM

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In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

Billionaires beware! The masses are reaching their point of intolerance.

Politicized medicine: Covid has made it clear Big Pharma puts profit over lives

Why Charles expects catastrophic, not catabolic, collapse

The coming great real estate crash of 2021

The Federal Reserve’s “Leave No Billionaire Behind” program is wearing thin with the general public, which is increasingly waking up to how badly it is being ransacked by the top 0.1%. As the punches keep coming in 2020, the ire of the masses could boil over.

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