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Why Financial Repression Will Fail

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...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Fri, Nov 16 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, CPI, deflation, inflation, GDP, IMF, Great Depression, CDS, unemployment, debt monetization, too big to fail, International Monetary Fund, Gross Domestic Product, Consumer Price Index, MBS, mortgage backed securities, over the counter derivatives, European Central Bank, ECB, Baltic Dry Index, sovereign default, bank failure, credit default swaps, BDI, monetary policy, OMT, recession, stock market crash, liquidity, QE3, quantitative easing III, systemic collapse, outright monetary transactions, market intervention, stagflation, tax increases, austerity measures, savings, U.S. Treasury, bank credit, stagnation, economic opportunity, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, instability, entrepreneurship, public funds, jobs, financial crisis, operation twist, bond yields, living standards, financial repression, Carmen M. Reinhart, OTC derivatives. Glass-Steagall Act, interest rates, net loss, middle class, consumer incomes, innovation, economic recovery

Financial Crime Is A Systemic Risk

Famed Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises wrote in his seminal work, Human Action (originally published by the Yale University Press in 1949), that “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Tue, Oct 23 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, inflation, BRIC, Gold, IMF, OPEC, CDS, OTC derivatives, unemployment, Ben Bernanke, Brazil, debt monetization, RMB, U.S. dollar, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, ECB, Austrian economics, crude oil, LIBOR, mortgage fraud, securities fraud, Baltic Dry Index, sovereign default, state sponsored terrorism, FASB, bank failure, credit default swaps, HFT, BDI, monetary policy, money laundering, debt levels, European Monetary Union, OMT, SDRs, debt downgrade, forclosure fraud, GAAP, Australia, zero percent interest rate policy, collapse, recession, stock market crash, High-Frequency Trading, gross notional amount, Ludwig von Mises, consumers, liquidity, deficit spending, Greece, Italy. unfunded liabilities, United Arab Emirates, Russia, QE3, quantitative easing III, South America, London Interbank Offered Rate, hyperinflation. gross credit exposure, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, systemic collapse, EMU, SML. Special Drawing Rights, mark-to-market rule, Africa. Sistema de Pagamentos em Moeda Local, renminbi, ZIRP, Japan, ISDA, Human Action, sovereign debt crisis, Spain, ATS, India and China, Financial Accounting Standards Board, over the counter, Automated Trading Systems, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Iran, South Africa, Europe, depression, financial markets, Portugal, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, outright monetary transactions, Los Zetas, UAE

How the U.S. Will Become a 3rd World Country (Part 2)

The United States is quickly coming to resemble a post industrial neo-3rd-world country. Unemployment, lack of economic opportunity, falling real wages and household incomes, growing poverty and increasing concentration of wealth are major trends in the U.S. today. Behind these growing problems are monetary...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Sun, Jul 1 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, CPI, GDP, IMF, OTC derivatives, unemployment, federal deficit, federal debt, Banking Act of 1933, income tax, federal employee retirement benefits, True Money Supply, CFMA, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, federal government, U.S. Military, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, too big to fail, wealthiest 1% of Americans, payroll tax, wars in Afghanistan, The Quiet Coup, carbon tax, Milton Friedman, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Allen Greenspan, CFTC, Glass–Steagall. Commodity Futures Modernization Act, SNAP, Simon Johnson, war in Iraq, USA PATRIOT Act, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, distribution of wealth, U.S. Census Bureau, corporate tax, FYFSD, financial weapons of mass destruction, Medicare, International Monetary Fund, wages, national sales tax, FBI, SEC, value added tax, Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, Gross Domestic Product, Consumer Price Index, capital gains tax, Social Security, NFORBRES, VAT, TMS, food stamps, EMRATIO, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, U.S. economy, lobbying, poverty, CPIAUCSL, corruption, GLB, Federal Bureau of Investigation, median household income, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, BAPCPA, AHETPI, Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, bank bailout, unfunded liabilities, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gini Coefficient

How the U.S. Will Become a 3rd World Country (Part 1)

The United States is increasingly similar to a 3rd world county in several ways and is accelerating towards 3rd world status. Economic data indicate a harsh reality that obviates mainstream political debate. The evidence suggests that, without fundamental reforms, the U.S. will become a post industrial...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Sun, Jul 1 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, CPI, GDP, IMF, OTC derivatives, unemployment, federal deficit, federal debt, Banking Act of 1933, income tax, federal employee retirement benefits, True Money Supply, CFMA, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, federal government, U.S. Military, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, too big to fail, wealthiest 1% of Americans, payroll tax, wars in Afghanistan, The Quiet Coup, carbon tax, Milton Friedman, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Allen Greenspan, CFTC, Glass–Steagall. Commodity Futures Modernization Act, SNAP, Simon Johnson, war in Iraq, USA PATRIOT Act, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, distribution of wealth, U.S. Census Bureau, corporate tax, FYFSD, financial weapons of mass destruction, Medicare, International Monetary Fund, wages, national sales tax, FBI, SEC, value added tax, Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, Gross Domestic Product, Consumer Price Index, capital gains tax, Social Security, NFORBRES, VAT, TMS, food stamps, EMRATIO, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, U.S. economy, lobbying, poverty, CPIAUCSL, corruption, GLB, Federal Bureau of Investigation, median household income, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, BAPCPA, AHETPI, Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, bank bailout, unfunded liabilities, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gini Coefficient

Really bad news

Mrs Lagard will follow Strauss Kahn. http://mises.org/Community/blogs/fdominicus/archive/2011/05/23/thanks-but-not-to-mrs-lagarde.aspx Oh well now we have another potential defrauder and definitive a centralist at the top if the IMF. Now I bet Greece will get some more money, even if the IMF has guide...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Wed, Jun 29 2011
Filed under: Filed under: deledefs, lying, IMF, stealingaling, Defrauders in power, Lagarde, ECB

Thanks but no to Mrs Lagarde

I'm against Mrs Lagard for the IMF. The IMF is just a from Politician controlled instrument, with no-failure-built-in. It's not a market instrument, because otherwise hardly any political pressure could be come from it. So short, it's dictatorship pure. Mrs Lagard has an open dispute about...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Mon, May 23 2011
Filed under: Filed under: lies, corruption, deledefs, bureacracy, IMF, sound money?, bad idea

What signals does the EU safety chute emit?

I'm currently reading about the report of the IMF about Greece. You can find it under:http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm I'm very skeptical over any of these just be states controlled supranational institutions. I feel we think there money for doubtful outcomes. And in a way I think...

Posted to F Dominicus Blog by Friedrich Dominicus on Mon, May 16 2011
Filed under: Filed under: money, deledefs, bureacracy, reports, default, sound money, IMF, procedures, lenders

Simon Johnson: “Quiet Coup” Prevents Solution To Economic Problems

Simon Johnson: “Quiet Coup” Prevents Solution To Economic Problems FINANCIAL OLIGARCHY RUINING THE ECONOMY “… recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time...

Posted to Monty Pelerin's World by Monty Pelerin on Mon, Dec 14 2009
Filed under: Filed under: oligarchy, Simon Johnson, IMF, economic crisis

Ganesha and the Price of Gold

The fact that investors around the world are turning to gold is remarkable. Unlike a bond, stored gold offers no yield and, unlike a stock, gold provides no leverage to the performance of an enterprise. Buying gold is not an investment per se, compared, for example, to buying a gold mining stock, where...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Fri, Nov 13 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, inflation, Asia, USDX, Gold, IMF, Bretton Woods, ETF, USGS, US economy, gold lease, SDR, GFMS, central bank, CBGA, LBMA

China’s Dragons: Oil, Gold, and the US Dollar

The end of the de facto petrodollar standard has profound and lasting implications for the US dollar, oil, and gold. The US is the epicenter of the global financial crisis and economic downturn, but the US continues to exercise disproportionate control of the oil trade and to enjoy the unique status...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Fri, Oct 23 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, Asia, Asian Tigers, USDX, Oil, central banks, G20, BRIC, China, petrodollar, Gold, natural resources, GNX, money supply, WTIC, IMF, OPEC, Bretton Woods