Keith Weiner

A Signal of Coming Collapse

A Signal of Coming Collapse

A currency collapse is the total wipeout of debt denominated in that currency.

 Dickson Buchanan, Jr.

Argentina’s Default: A Devastating Lesson in Unfunded Government Liabilities

Argentina’s Default: A Devastating Lesson in Unfunded Government Liabilities

Argentina’s central planners have pursued a slew of defunct monetary policies of the Keynesian, Monetarist and Mercantilist variety. Repeated default is the fruit of that labor.

 Paul Brodsky

An Adult Approach – II (Defining Relative Real Value)

An Adult Approach – II (Defining Relative Real Value)

In this piece we seek to provide a truer sense of money, inflation and real value today, all of which seem grossly misunderstood in the marketplace.

 Paul Brodsky

An Adult Approach – I (Investing in a Vulgar Age)

An Adult Approach – I (Investing in a Vulgar Age)

We argue that indebted governments have ceded power to banking systems without conscience or public accountability.

 Michael Hudson

Democracy and Debt

Democracy and Debt

Has the Link been Broken?

 Paul Brodsky

[AUDIO] The Seeds of Our Destruction Were – And Still Are – Sown in the Bond Markets

[AUDIO] The Seeds of Our Destruction Were – And Still Are – Sown in the Bond Markets

Paul Brodsky thinks our credit system is so far out of control that it will cause a massive – and largely unavoidable at this point – devaluation of the US dollar (and most other fiat currencies, as well).

 Michael Hudson

How financial oligarchy replaces democracy

How financial oligarchy replaces democracy

The Greeks gathering in Syntagma Square seem to need no culture shock to reject their Socialist government’s cave-in to European bankers. It looks like they may follow Iceland in leading the ideological pendulum back toward a classical awareness that in practice, this rhetoric turns out to be a junk economics favorable to banks and global creditors.