Authored by Greg Hunter via USAWatchdog.com,
Resource analyst and futurist Chris Martenson says everyone should be taking notice of our “dangerous markets.”
At the center of the danger zone is the declining U.S. dollar. Martenson explains,
One year ago, the imminent arrival of helicopter money among endless discussions of pervasive lowflation was all the rage within high-finance policy circles. Then, everything changed as if on a dime, and in recent months the dominant topic has been global coordinated tightening - and in some cases even revisions to central bank mandates and the lowering of inflation targets - perhaps as a result of central banks' realization that monetizing debt by central banks leads to bad outcomes, not to mention global asset bubbles.
But not everywhere.
New cryptocurrencies are emerging almost daily, and many interested parties are wondering whether central banks should issue their own versions. But what might central bank cryptocurrencies (CBCCs) look like and would they be useful? This feature provides a taxonomy of money that identifies two types of CBCC - retail and wholesale - and differentiates them from other forms of central bank money such as cash and reserves.
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
Review & Update
Two weeks ago, I noted:
In its latest annual summary published at the end of June, the IIF found that total nominal global debt had risen to a new all time high of $217 trillion, or 327% of global GDP...
... largely as a result of an unprecedented increase in emerging market leverage.