The "War on Cash" Migrates to Switzerland

04-29-2015 • https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Pater Tenebrarum

Banks Increasingly Refuse Cash Withdrawals – Switzerland Joins the Fun

Negative interest rates put world on course for biggest mass default in history

04-29-2015 • http://www.telegraph.co., By Jeremy Warner

More than €2 trillion-worth of eurozone government bonds trade on a negative interest rate. It's a bubble that is bound to end badly

Japan Proves Monetary Policy Is Nothing But Destructive

04-28-2015 • zerohedge.com

Japan continues to provide the best refutation of monetary policy as anything other than destructive.

Debt Pile-Up To Fuel Further Oil Price Pressure

04-28-2015 • zerohedge.com

As regular readers are no doubt aware, a long-running theme here has been the vicious deflationary feedback loop inadvertently created by DM central bank policy.

Debt Pile-Up To Fuel Further Oil Price Pressure

04-28-2015 • zerohedge.com

As regular readers are no doubt aware, a long-running theme here has been the vicious deflationary feedback loop inadvertently created by DM central bank policy.

Nepal Earthquake Triggers Substantial Economic Aftershock

04-28-2015 • http://www.usnews.com, By Andrew Soergel

Wide-spread destruction is not what one of the world's poorest nations needed only weeks before monsoon season.

Gold Flows East China, India Import Massive Quantities of Gold from Switzerland

04-27-2015 • http://www.zerohedge.com

In what future generations will likely see as a major, potentially catastrophic blunder of monetary policy, the West and particularly the City of London continues to hemorrhage huge volumes of gold which is flowing Eastwards to Singapore, India and C

US to launch blitz of gas exports, eyes global energy dominance

04-27-2015 • By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The US Energy Department prepares a wave of LNG gas permits in the latest move to redraw the world's oil and gas landscape

CASH BANS GROW AS CENTRAL BANKERS PLAN CENTRALIZED FUTURE...

04-27-2015 • https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com, Evander Smart

CASH BANS GROW AS CENTRAL BANKERS PLAN CENTRALIZED FUTURE: BITCOIN TO THE RESCUE?

McDonalds Shuts Down Hundreds Of Stores Worldwide As Sales Decline

04-27-2015 • True Activist

In the first 3 months of 2015, McDonalds saw a 2.3% decrease in sales and a 28% drop in operating revenue, continuing a trend of loss that the company has been experiencing for years.

Recession rich: Britain's wealthiest double net worth since crisis

04-27-2015 • The Guardian

Richest 1,000 families control total of £547bn, rising by more than 112% since 2009, and own more than poorest 40% of British households

ECB Buys Negative Yield Covered Bonds; Trade Guaranteed to Blow Up

04-25-2015 • MIKE SHEDLOCK

In a move 100% guaranteed to blow up at a later date, the ECB Said to Start Buying Covered Bonds With Negative Yields.

Doug Casey: Most of the World's Banks Are Headed for Collapse

04-25-2015 • http://www.caseyresearch.com

Banking has been fundamentally unsound ever since the first central bank was created. That's when bankers started making promises they couldn't keep.

Spain's Unemployment Rate Increases to 23.7%; 114,300 Jobs Vanish in First Quarter...

04-24-2015 • MIKE SHEDLOCK

Spain's Unemployment Rate Increases to 23.7%; 114,300 Jobs Vanish in First Quarter, Public Sector Jobs Rise

Words US 'thinkland' dare not speak

04-23-2015 • http://www.atimes.com, By Pepe Escobar

Winston Churchill once said, "I feel lonely without a war." He also badly missed the loss of empire. Churchill's successor - the "Empire of Chaos" - now faces the same quandary. Some wars - as in Ukraine, by proxy - are not going so well.

Guess What Happened The Last Time Bond Yields Crashed Like This?…

04-23-2015 • By Michael Snyder

If a major financial crisis was approaching, we would expect to see the "smart money" getting out of stocks and pouring into government bonds that are traditionally considered to be "safe" during a crisis.

Forget "Grexit", "Grimbo" Has Arrived

04-23-2015 • zerohedge.com

If you didn't know any better you might think "Grimbo" was a new Sesame Street character.

It Just Cost Deutsche Bank $25,000 Per Employee To Keep Its Libor Manipulating Bankers Out Of Jail

04-23-2015 • zerohedge.com

And so another historic scandal involving the manipulation and rigging of one of the most important global markets, that of Libor which is the reference security for several hundred trillion in derivatives, goes in the history books.

Conspiracy Theories and Keynesian Economies

04-23-2015 • https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Gary North

One of the distinguishing marks of a formally trained historian is his rejection of what is known as the conspiracy view of history. Academia generally discourages such views.

What Happens Next In Greece (In 1 Simple Flowchart)

04-23-2015 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

Simple...

What Happens Next In Greece (In 1 Simple Flowchart)

04-23-2015 • zerohedge.com

Simple...

Bitcoin is Not a Honey Badger

04-22-2015 • Julia Tourianski - BraveTheWorld

Publisher: "What she said".

ECB Squeezes Greece on Collateral;

04-22-2015 • globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

Humorous Lies of the Day; Capital Controls Likely Soon

ECB Prepares To Sacrifice Greek Banks With 50% Collateral Haircut

04-22-2015 • Zero Hedge

In what seems like a coincidental retaliation for Greece's pivot to Russia (and following Greece's initiation of capital controls), the supposedly independent European Central Bank has decided suddenly that -

If Greece Collapses, Who Will Follow?

04-21-2015 • http://www.augustforecast.com

Greece had only two alternatives: default on their creditors like the IMF or default on their citizens. The confiscation prevented a default on citizens, at least for another few weeks - it owes another €1bn to the IMF in first half of May