In case you missed any of this week’s articles, here is a round-up of some of the most read pieces written by the Economic Collapse News staff: Will negative interest rates dominate monetary policy in 2016? Crony Alert: George Soros donates $6 million to Clinton super PAC A brief look at the GOP polls before […]
Archives for February 2016
Hillary Clinton is anti-establishment because she’s a woman? And other reasons to fear for humanity this week
That’s right. We’re just a bunch of babies. I’m a Woman. So I’m Automatically Anti-Establishment In case you didn’t know, there was a Democratic debate held on Thursday night between Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The debate was pretty much boring akin to the latest GOP debate without Donald […]
The Cozy Relationship between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve
By: David Howden Last year was a tough one for investors. Gold was down 10 percent. The Dow Industrials fell 2.5 percent, and most bond indexes finished down by at least that much. One institution that performed remarkably well in 2015 was the Federal Reserve. It just finished its most profitable year on record. The […]
5 random things for a Friday (Obama’s proposed oil tax, chicken wing prices for Super Bowl, Trump and a Nobel)
News Story of the Day: With the United States in the final year of the Obama presidency, it seems the Commander in Chief wants to impose some really bad policies on the American people. It was reported by Politico that the U.S. president will soon outline a proposal to adopt a $10 per barrel tax […]
Even Jose Canseco gets it right on BOJ’s subzero interest rates
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) turned many heads just before the weekend when it abruptly announced that it would be installing negative interest rates. With one quadrillion in the red, a weakening economy and a failing Abenomics plan, the Asian powerhouse has tried an array of tools in its arsenal, but nothing has worked out. […]