Massive Central Bank Ponzi Creates Permanent Distortion [Video]

Massive Central Bank Ponzi Creates Permanent DistortionGreg Hunter – Three-time, best-selling book author Nomi Prins says the reason why there is so much uncertainty and chaos in the global economy comes down to one simple theme, and that is a couple of decades of central bank money printing has created the biggest Ponzi scheme the world has ever seen.

Prins explains, “The Fed and other central banks have created basically this idea, and put it into practice, whenever there is real crisis, however they deem it, they are going to print money, and a lot of money. . . and pushing this envelope forward on the back of a very artificial fabrication of money. That is the Ponzi scheme here.

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Era of Fake Money is Gone [Video]

Era of Fake Money is GoneGreg Hunter – Financial and precious metals expert Egon von Greyerz (EvG) stores gold for clients at the biggest private gold vault in the world buried deep in the Swiss Alps.  EvG is a former Swiss banker and financial expert that says massive money printing and huge amounts of unpayable debt will lead to a monster financial meltdown soon.

EvG says, “I did forecast that . . . the stock market is going to fall at this particular point.  The 1,000-point drop on the DOW last Friday came right on cue.  Fundamentally, the markets should have crashed a long time ago. . . .

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It’s Going to Get Bad, Really Bad

MorganGreg Hunter – Last year about this time, precious metals expert and financial writer David Morgan was warning about massive money printing and the so-called “everything bubble” popping.  Inflation is the pin, and it found the bloated debt bubble.

Now get ready for some pain as Morgan explains, “It’s going to get bad, and I mean really bad.  There is already mass starvation at the lower end of the economic scale in third world countries. . . .

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Take More Cash Out Of Markets And Banks-Nomi Prins

prinsGreg Hunter – Best-selling author Nomi Prins says the only thing propping up the system is money printing. The tip of the iceberg was the Greek debt crisis. Prins says, “Before it happened, there was a lot of concern at the central bank level. That wasn’t really discussed very much in the press . . . but I believe behind the scenes there were a lot of fearful conversations about the financial system, not just the relationship of the euro and Greece politically, which was a part of it, but you don’t want any chips to fall off your table. Anything could open the door for a run on liquidity (cash), which is also why I talk about what individuals should do more and more now is try to preserve their own liquidity and to take more cash out of the markets or out of banks to just have on the side before this period of volatility, before we have the actual crash. This is a tenuous situation. I am afraid of things that look like a bail-in up to the level of a bail-in.”

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Prins, who was a top Wall Street Banker, says the too-big-to-fail banks are much bigger and will be much harder to save in the next crash. The stats Prins comes up with to illustrate this are stunning. Prins says, “43% more deposits are held by the big six banks in the United States since before the crisis (in 2008). 84% more assets are held by the big six banks and 400% more cash. . . . The point is the big six banks control more deposits, more assets, more trading, more cash than they did before. That’s a fact.”

Prins says, now more than ever before, central bankers are fearful. What are they afraid of? Prins contends, “Their fear is the liquidity that they put into the system through epic unprecedented methods . . . all the money they dumped into the markets to make them appear healthy and the banks controlling much of them, the fear is if they pull that plug, if that liquidity somehow falters . . . that things start to tank and implode very quickly. The only think keeping these markets up, the only thing keeping these banks up is either the artificial funding or the purchasing of bonds. Basically, the central bank interventions is the only thing keeping this going.” Continue reading

The Top 1/10th Of 1% Loves A Guaranteed Minimum Income: With One Caveat

“Why wouldn’t the top 1/10th of 1% love a central bank-funded guaranteed minimum income?” – C H Smith

CharlesHughSmithIt is widely assumed that the super-wealthy top 1/10th of 1% are against a guaranteed minimum income (GMI) (also known as guaranteed basic income or basic income guarantee) because this would somehow limit their wealth and power.

On the contrary–the top 1/10th of 1% are fine with a guaranteed minimum income for households, with one tiny caveat: as long as they don’t have to pay for it. But wait, you say: that’s the entire idea: tax the rich and redistribute the money to those below.

Ah, but you’re forgetting the magical power of central banks and treasuries of the world to create money out of thin air. As the top 1/10th of 1% understand, the GMI could be paid with freshly issued money–a method of funding that leaves the top 1/10th of 1% untouched beyond the taxes they already pay (substantial in many cases).

But wait, you say: printing and distributing helicopter money is highly inflationary. (Helicopter money refers to former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s famous claim that deflation could be reversed by dropping money from helicopters.)

Not only is printing money inflationary, it soon burdens the nation with crushing debts. So goes the conventional line of thinking: printing money is inflationary and borrowing money by selling bonds leads to crushing interest payments on the ever-rising debt.

But what if the conventional thinking is wrong? Consider the following thought experiment: Continue reading