The enormity of U.S. government debt is hard for the average person to wrap their head around. For instance, compared to the median U.S. mortgage, the current level of federal debt is 230 million times larger. In this graphic, Julie Peasley shows how many one-dollar bills it would take to stack up to the total U.S. debt of $31.4 trillion.
The U.S. went bust in 2009 - technically. Since then, the hope by our enemies (internal and external) was to drive the U.S. dollar out of its role as reserve currency. It is not hard to understand why (for them) on many fronts, both legit and purely dictatorial.
Published: April 2023 Recent decades have been characterized primarily by closed systems, both financially and online. The financial system as we know it has been a rather closed system for ages, consisting of various silos. Banks and brokerages operate permissioned ledgers. Opening accounts with institutions is a permissioned activity. Sending assets between institutions is a […]
Governor DeSantis recently took aim at the Federal Reserve, presumably to bolster his national-issues profile ahead of announcing a run for the presidency, which he is expected to do in May. He lambasted both Chairman Powell’s leadership and the nascent moves towards a central bank digital currency (CBDC). DeSantis apparently wants to demonstrate his populist bona fides. He may even be trying to recapture some of the energy of Ron Paul’s “End the Fed” campaign from more than a decade ago.
Keynesian economists say that during an economic slump, the government must run large budget deficits in order to keep the economy going. In contrast, Austrian economists maintain that increased budget deficits are usually monetized, leading to general price increases.
Brain-dead Biden and his gang of neocon controllers want to “green” the economy. They use the phony “climate change” hoax, aka “global warming,” as the excuse to do this. Their plans will destroy America’s economy, which is dependent on fossil fuels.
Good, bad or ugly, it’s all free speech unless as defined by the government it falls into one of the following categories...
Limits to user transactions can be implemented according to the anti-money laundering rules of the country where the kiosk is installed, and users’ biometric data is stored locally for one day if the exchange is below a given threshold, to detect further transactions in the same time period.
It currently costs the gov't more than 2.5 cents to produce a penny.The cent makes no economic sense. The nickel is also now in the red.
The FedNow system is the first step on the road to a national CBDC.
Zimbabwe needs $100 million of gold to kick-start its proposed bullion-backed digital currency, as the southern African nation makes another attempt to stabilize its floundering dollar.
The US has been weaponising its currency - but that comes with a cost...
The OFR was created after the near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008. It derives its statutory role from the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010. Its key job is to issue timely alerts and research reports to keep the Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC) informed of emerging financial threats or weaknesses that have the potential to crater the U.S. financial system again.
Shares, after jumping 12% during the day in anticipation of something wonderful, plunged 22% after-hours, now within a hair of the low in March.
The CPI often does not always follow the PPI. Let's investigate why that is.
After a brief rebound in March, The Conference Board consumer confidence index slipped lower (lowest since June) as expectations sank back near 9 year lows while current conditions were modestly higher...
S&P CoreLogic (Case-Shiller) home price index unexpectedly rose (0.06% MoM) in February (the latest data released today), which slowed the annual 20-City Composite price index growth to just 0.36% YoY...
There’s now an increasing awareness of a move to ‘de-dollarization’, something that Mike Maloney has been warning about for more than a decade.
I’ve consistently said that the greatest threat to the dollar comes not from abroad but from the U.S. Treasury because they take confidence in the dollar for granted. We’re doing this to ourselves.
Yellen is proving my point.
"Thus the oldest and most traditional of assets, gold, is now a vehicle of central bank revolt against the dollar," Ruchir Sharma wrote... demand is coming from central banks reducing their dollar holdings, not the "usual suspects" made up of large and small investors, the chair of Rockefeller International wrote in The Financial Times on Sunday.