Excessive leverage and risk in the financial system, e.g., using customer funds to speculate, never ends well. Stock market crashes, bank and investment firm failures or economic recessions are all potential consequences. Following the failure of the United States to regulate over the counter (OTC) derivatives...
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By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com - "We are in a computer generated dream world . . . because everything is rigged." That's what Ron Hera of Heraresearch.com said this week when interviewed about living in an age he calls "The end of cheap everything." The system isn't...
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Thu, Jul 19 2012
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The Hera Research Newsletter is pleased to present the following insightful interview with John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist of Sprott Asset Management LP, where he plays an instrumental role in the corporate and investment policy of the firm. Mr. Embry, who is a world renowned expert on the gold...
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Sun, Jul 1 2012
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Investors understand that the Federal Reserve’s ongoing purchase of U.S. Treasuries in the open market, known as quantitative easing two (QE2), injects newly created money into the U.S. financial system and economy, but the actual means by which newly created money monetizes U.S. government debt...
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Mon, Feb 21 2011
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Filed under: Federal reserve, deflation, debt, inflation, USDX, M3, Hyperinflation, Bailouts, QE2, U.S. Treasuries, QE, S&P500, M1, economic collapse, M2, money supply, Primary Dealers, Ben Bernanks, U.S. federal budget deficit, Nasdaq, Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Hera Research Newsletter (HRN) is pleased to present an eye opening interview with James G. Rickards, Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital Partners, a merchant bank specializing in alternative asset management solutions, and also Chief Operating Officer of Oro Capital Advisors, LLC, a commercial...
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Fri, Feb 4 2011
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Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, faces a Sisyphean task because US banks are experiencing debt deflation and, because lending is now at much lower levels, monetary deflation is encumbering the domestic US economy as existing debts continue to be serviced. Government deficit spending...
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Wed, Mar 10 2010
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If a lawless gang of madmen, gamblers and alcoholics seized control of a large company, how would you expect the business to perform? How would you expect the story to end? What if, instead of a company, they seized control of the world's largest economy, thus, to some extent, the world financial...
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The US economy has been in crisis since 2008 and despite optimistic statements by officials and commentators there are no fundamental signs that the crisis will end in the foreseeable future. Current economic data suggests a number of diverging and unsustainable trends. The US economy has suffered a...