DoJ Strikes Deal To Recover $1 Billion From Mysterious Fugitive Mastermind Behind 1MDB Fraud
Several of its employees have been arrested, and a former top banker has already pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. The U.S. Justice Department has struck a deal with fugitive financier Jho Low – the mysterious financier who allegedly masterminded…
U.S. Shale Braces For Brutal Earnings Season
A lot of big names will report third-quarter earnings this week, and the results are expected to be worse than the same period in 2018. The timing comes as the shale sector is facing somewhat of a reckoning. After years of…
Peter Schiff: QE Is A Monetary Roach Motel
This Is Not a Printing Press! (Or Is It?) Rene Magritte’s 1929 painting “The Treachery of Images,” depicts a tobacco pipe with a caption that reads “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” (French for “This is not a pipe”). Everyone who…
“Paper Money Systems Have Always Wound-Up With Collapse And Chaos”, Buffett Senior
Warren Buffett, despite his extraordinary investment success, has a rather famous and long-standing love/hate relationship with precious metals. Maybe it started with his dad – Congressman Howard Buffett of Nebraska – who, as a staunch advocate for the gold standard, argued…
Central Bankers Go Green… Why?
I was told many depressing things as a child. Watching World Vision infomercials educating the west to the want and misery suffered by millions of children in the third world, I wasn’t alone in asking adults “why”? When I enjoyed all…
Danske Bank Executive At Center Of Massive Money-Laundering Scandal Found Dead, So They Say?
Greed refuses to be satisfied. More often than not, the more we get, the more we want. Material possessions will not protect us—in this life or eternally. Jesus’ parable of the rich fool in Luke 12:13–21 illustrates this point well. Again, money…
Financial Storm Clouds Gather
Greed and a desire for riches are traps that bring ruin and destruction. “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil,” and Christians are warned, “Do not put your trust in wealth” (see 1 Timothy 6:9-10, 17-18). Covetousness,…
These Are The Banks Where The Fed’s $1.4 Trillion In Reserves Are Parked, Big Trouble-Birth Pains
Over the past few days there has been much confusion over the repocalpyse that shook the overnight funding market, and just as much confusion over the definition of reserves which some banks were unwilling to part with, other banks were desperate for,…
Incentives (And Sociopaths) Rule The World
Ryan Murphy, an economist at Southern Methodist University, recently published a working paper in which he ranked each of the states by the predominance of—there’s no nice way to put it—psychopaths. The winner? Washington in a walk. In fact, the capital scored…
The End Of The Dollar As We Know It?
These same money changers were associated with others who engaged in shady business practices in the temple courts. Some sold sacrificial animals, overcharging people who did not bring their own. Others were in charge of examining the animals to be sacrificed,…