Luxembourg say Hungary Should be Kicked Out of EU


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Luxembourg’ Foreign minister Jean Asselborn has demanded that Hungary must be kicked out of the EU because they constructed a 110-mile-long fence to stop migrants crossing the continent.  He said that the Hungarian government had disregarded the “values of the EU” with its anti-migration policies. What is most interesting here is that it was the Austrian-Hungarian Empire that was attacked in 1683 by the Ottoman Empire targeted for conquest. There are deep running memories that have prevailed for centuries. When I was there one time, I was reminded that they massacred 600 Christians. When I thought I had missed a major event and asked when was this, I was told about 300 years ago.

Venezuela’s “Death Spiral”


Margaret Thatcher said of the British Labor Party, “I think they’ve made the biggest financial mess that any government’s ever made in this country for a very long time, and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them. They then start to nationalize everything.” It can’t be said any better!

WHERE’S THE DEMAND? OIL PRICES DROP AGAIN


The price goes down when supply exceeds demand and the price goes up when demand exceeds supply basic economics.

Inflation – Deflation – Interest Rates


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QUESTION:

Is there a correlation between the GDP rate and interest rate ?
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ANSWER: No. What central bankers fail to take into consideration is that the interest rate is the OPPORTUNITY COST of money as reflected into the future. This is why interest rates naturally decline during a recession because of the future expectation of what money will buy when it returns. If inflation is say 10%, then lenders demand at least that much back plus a profit. Interest rates reflect the inflation rate (opportunity cost of money) plus a profit.

Deflation is when the purchasing value of money rises and tangible assets fall in value. This is also reflected in the drop of interest rates. Often, rates have gone negative for brief periods when people are parking money while expecting it to buy more. They are willing to pay to park their money just to know it will buy more tomorrow.

SDR – China – Dollar


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COMMENT: You are wrong. The SDR will destroy the dollar as of October 1st when they include China. You will see. China will sell all its US Treasurys and buy SDRs.

REPLY: Your very statement is totally absurd. The SDR is calculated simply by a basket of currencies including the dollar, yen, pound, and euro (see IMF calculation). So please explain to me, when the SDR is just a basket of currencies that have all declined against the dollar, just how the SDR could destroy the dollar when it is its largest component?

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Here is a chart of the SDR against the dollar. It too has declined like the components of the yen, euro, and pound. Now let’s look at the Chinese yuan. This too has declined against the dollar. So I fail to see how the SDR will destroy the dollar without a magical recovery in Japan, China, Britain, and Brussels. The dollar has been rising against the yuan since 2013. So why would you sell all treasury bonds when they have made a fortune on the currency and swap into something that depreciates?

NKorea warns ready to attack South over ‘US military provocations’… ‘Wounded’ Obama mocked on TV…


If they do attack it will need to be before Obama is gone because they will not like a Trump counter attack!

Donald Trump and Mike Pence Economic Club New York – 11:30am Live Stream


Trump did well and speaking from an economic education I agree with his over all approach and I also believe it will work.

Jim Grant Rejects Rogoff’s “Curse Of Cash”, Warns “Government Wants To Control Your Money”


The FED is only interested today in supporting the federal government its original charter was to prevent bank runs by buying and selling commercial paper. FDR changed that and so today the FED tries to control the economy with interest rates and buying and selling government debt neither of these works at economic smoothing and so we have what we have a situation where the government thinks it can control the economy but actual has no way to do so. The discussion is to long for a blog post but it is a fact why else to we have under 2% growth +/- 1% interest and trillions of dollars in debt?

Draghi Cannot Admit He is Wrong


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Mario Draghi cannot possibly admit that he is dead wrong in managing the European economy. This idea that continuing to lower rates will somehow inspire people to risk it all is just insane. This is even coming from Goldman Sachs, which means nothing for qualification. The people in the elitist banking group think that power makes everything and they believe the conspiracy theories, which shows that they are drunk on their own egos. Just because you are running the central bank does not mean you are all-powerful, and the utter failure of Mario Draghi is exposing that to the world.

The ECB’s entry into the corporate bond market has shown that Draghi is becoming desperate for he is buying bonds with junk ratings. It is one thing to buy good corporate paper, but he is buying the bottom of the barrel in hopes of fending off corporate failures. Draghi has even bought notes from troubled German carmaker Volkswagen AG.

Draghi’s first corporate bond purchases indeed made an impact, but one has to wonder how this will inspire growth rather than prevent failures. The ECB publicly said it would buy bonds from companies with a single investment-grade rating. Yet, people assumed the ECB would be buying the region’s highest-rated securities.

We are witnessing how governments collapse. We have unqualified people running things who are incapable of admitting to mistake and merely accelerate the same process.

Turkey Replaces 28 Elected Officials With Appointees


From Epoch Times ISTANBUL—Clashes erupted between police and protesters Sunday after Ankara announced it had replaced 28 elected municipal and district mayors in several predominantly Kurdish towns…

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