A spectre is haunting economists and creditors across the world – the spectre of “financial repression”. The fear that governments may throw regulatory grit into the otherwise frictionless working of ...
As a person living in today’s world we have to keep expanding our lexicon of terms since there appears to be a new one created every single day. Some of the terms are manufactured out of “Political ...
Market veteran Lawrence McDonald has a stark warning regarding a recent GOP proposal spearheaded by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that calls for nixing federal interest payments to banks. The post shared by ...
The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is set to return to the Norwegian capital June 3-5 for its 16th installment since 2009. The conference series, hosted by the New York-based non-profit Human Rights ...
Financial repression is what happens when the government needs to make its $37 trillion debt disappear without actually paying it back. I've been telling MarketWatch readers to buy gold, silver and ...
The federal government, financial markets and most Americans are all in a state of denial about interest rates. Whenever someone goes on business TV, gets a mortgage or makes a long-term debt ...
Given investors still often think in terms of the traditional 60:40 equities to bonds split, that is pretty striking advice. It came from institutional investor advisor and financial historian Russell ...