Socio-Economics History Blog
Socio-Economics History Blog
RT America The volume of Russian investment in US government debt fell in July 2019 to its lowest level in 12 years. Russian investment in US bonds has decreased by almost 35 percent since the start of the year. China has begun to follow a similar pattern of divestment. RT’s Yulia Shapovalova reports on the …
RT America International human rights activist Ajamu Baraka joins RT America’s Michele Greenstein (in for Rick Sanchez) to discuss the creep of militarism in US foreign policy, pointing out that “maintaining global hegemony” is a bipartisan consensus in US politics. They also discuss censorship on social media platforms. end
Kitco NEWS E.B. Tucker, director of Metalla Royalty & Streaming, doubled down on his bet earlier this year that gold would eventually rise to $1,500, an now he’s betting that silver will hit $20 in the next two months. “Right now, we want to trade silver up to $20. We think gold is going to …
Crush The Street Charles Hugh Smith weights in on the FED’s dangerous game of financial chess with our economy, on top of that we dive deep into the correlation between our living standards and the stock market. With QE insanity all around, are Gold and Bitcoin the answer to protecting our wealth from long term …
CNBC Television In another round of liquidity injection, the Federal Reserve announced results of its auction as it seeks to control the level of its benchmark interest rate. CNBC’s Steve Liesman reports. end
Yahoo Finance Yale University economist Robert Schiller compares today’s market to that of 1929 but adds that a downward correction, “Is not imminent.” Schiller also discusses the Federal Reserve, interest rates and the housing market. end
A Clueless New York Fed Is Examining Why Banks With Excess Cash Failed To Halt Repo Panic by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ When it comes to occasional (or chronic) dollar shortages, and the plumbing of the overnight lending market, which as everyone knows suffered a spectacular heart attack early this week when the overnight repo rate …
RT America At least 30 Afghan civilians were killed and 40 others were injured by a US drone strike on Thursday. RT America’s Michele Greenstein (in for Rick Sanchez) reports. Meanwhile, new US sanctions have been imposed on businesses associated with CLAP, Venezuela’s food distribution program, in an effort to combat “systemic corruption.” President Nicolas …
RT America Three employees at JP Morgan, the largest bank in the US, have been charged under the RICO act for “spoofing the market.” They made millions for the bank by defrauding other market participants, including their own customers. The defendants include the head of the bank’s precious metals desk. RT America’s Michele Greenstein (in …
Liquidity Scramble: Fed Announces Overnight Repos Every Day Next Week, Introduces Term Repos by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ Yesterday we reported that Goldman now expects the Fed to restart Permanent Open Market Operations, i.e., bond purchases, i.e., QE some time in November. For those who missed it, Goldman assumes a roughly $15bn/month rate of permanent OMOs, “enough …
RT America The Federal Reserve has dropped interest rates yet again. Anthony Saccaro, president of Providence Financial joins Scottie Nell Hughes to discuss the market reaction. He says that the Fed is “firing bullets before there’s an intruder,” and that it will be “out of bullets” when the proverbial intruder arrives. end
Press TV Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a possible military strike against his country by the United States or Saudi Arabia will unleash an “all-out” war in the region. Iran’s top diplomat made the remarks in an exclusive interview with the CNN in Tehran on Thursday. end
RT New Delhi says Pakistan-controlled Kashmir should be considered as part of India: India’s foreign minister also expressed hope that ‘one day they would have physical jurisdiction over the region’. New Delhi and Islamabad have been at loggerheads for more than 7 decades over Kashmir since they failed to agree on the borders drawn up …
EVERYONE is On the List: Snowden Says No ‘Innocents’ in Mass Surveillance World by https://www.rt.com/ Asked if buying his memoir would get one on a spy list, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden chillingly replied that everyone in the world is on the “list” and there are no innocents in the age of mass surveillance. – Responding …
Peter Schiff: Why the Fed Won’t Be Able to Rescue the Economy the Next Time Around by https://schiffgold.com/ Peter Schiff has been saying that the Federal Reserve is going to take interest rates back to zero and launch another round of quantitative easing in order to reinflate the bubble economy after the next crash. The …
Do You Know Who Owns All the Land in Canada? Not Its Citizens! It is Solely Owned by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, Who is Also the Head of State by https://www.rt.com/ The second largest country in the world by total area, Canada, is one of the most highly urbanized globally. However, none of its citizens …
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif Warns of ‘All-Out War’ by https://www.aljazeera.com/ In an interview, Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran ‘won’t blink’ to defend itself but doesn’t want war after oil attacks. – Any attack by the United States or Saudi Arabia on Iran will result in an “all-out war”, Tehran warned on Thursday. Foreign Minister …
TRT World Israel is preparing for a snap general election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the country’s longest-serving prime minister, and wants to secure another term in office. But ahead of Tuesday’s polls, he’s made a particularly controversial promise to appease his support base. Reagan Des Vignes reports. “In 2001, Dr. Ariella Oppenheim, of Hebrew …
Danielle Park: What’s the Repo Market Trying to Tell You? by Financial Survival Network Danielle Park notes that repurchase agreements or Repos are a cornerstone of today’s leveraged economic system. They’ve been around since 1917. It’s a way for banks to eke out a few more basis points on their bond holdings. Just yesterday the interest …
RT America RT America’s Michele Greenstein reports on the links between the “democratic” political opposition protest movement in Hong Kong and the National Endowment for Democracy, an NGO based in Washington. She interviews Hong Kong official and chairman of the New People’s Party, Regina Ip, about the issues underlying the ongoing unrest in the island …
CGTN Since mid August, over 40 MTR stations in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region have been vandalized by radical protesters. They have vandalized entry gates, dismantled surveillance cameras and set station entrances on fire. By indulging in these violent acts they have not only wasted the taxpayers’ money but also threatened the lives and …
Silver Bullion TV Simon Black, Founder of Sovereign Man, spoke with SBTV about the importance to not only own real assets like gold and silver but to also to diversify wealth globally. More about Sovereign Man: https://www.sovereignman.com Discussed in this interview: – 04:04 Banking has become a terrible burden due to FATCA 07:04 Investing in …
Fed Funds Prints 2.25%, Breaching Target Range, As IOER Spread Explodes by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ With the Fed’s repo operation oversubscribed for the second day in a row, as $9BN in liquidity requests remained unfulfilled by the $75BN operation, it is perhaps not a surprise that as the funding shortage persists, today’s effective fed funds …
Corbett Report Extras SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=33017 Catherine Austin Fitts has been following the story of the black budget, the missing trillions, and the back door in the US Treasury for decades. Now, her tireless work on this subject has been published in a comprehensive report from Solari.com, “The Real Game of Missing Money” …
Thom Hartmann Program The conflict in Yemen is a humanitarian crisis which has left millions on the brink of starvation, but how did this all start and what is Saudi Arabia’s role in it? Thom Hartmann exposes how one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory unfolded. But now we have to ask, what …
The Fed Intervened in Overnight Lending for First Time Since the Crash. Why It Matters to You by Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 18, 2019, http://wallstreetonparade.com/ Yesterday felt a little like that scene from the 1946 movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” starring Jimmy Stewart. There’s a run on Stewart’s bank because his absent-minded Uncle …
Silver Report Uncut Economic collapse news. First We start with the overnight repo market there is a real big issue with liquidity in the banking system and the 75 billion dollar cap apparently wasn’t enough to feed the hunger. In fact the Fed’s second repo operation was oversubscribed by 5 billion dollars so there was …
