Kondratieff Wave

Social psychology precipitates economic depressions Don’t blame Martin Van Buren for America’s first deflationary depression. Social mood rode higher in the saddle than did our 8th President, who only stood 5′ 6″. Elected in 1836, by the time Van Buren assumed office in March 1837 a speculative bubble had burst and a banking crisis was… Read more Deflationary Depression Coming?

J.P. Morgan saved the banking system back in 1907. Then the Federal Reserve was created to protect the system in 1913. While the FED was at the helm, we had the Great Depression and the inflationary period of 70s. If we look at the stock market charts, it looks like market volatility has actually increased… Read more Can The Federal Reserve Help Us Today

The European Banking Authority announced Friday that 8 banks had failed their stress tests and 16 more had narrowly passed. But the results drew much criticism from analysts, who said that the stress test is not strict enough. Indeed, this is something that European Financial Forecast readers have known since the first stress test last… Read more European Bank Stress Tests

Elliott Wave International’s free report “Discover the Top 100 Safest U.S. Banks” explains the true risk that you may face when a bank fails. Bank failures still dominate headlines as the number of failing banks continues at an alarming pace in 2011. The odds are that you’ve seen at least one bank failure in your… Read more Money in the Bank

FED is printing money. They call it “Quantitative Easing” aka QE1, QE2 and so on. Many economists think this expansion of FED balance sheet will create inflation in the near future. But they were saying that back in 2009 too. And two years later we still do not have the promised inflation. Why?

Bernanke is at it again. His printing press is at work to create another 600 billion dollars. Bernanke declared the Economy needs it. The rationale is that if the government has more money coming from the FED, they can spend it and this Keynesian spending can jump start the economy. The assumption is that this… Read more Can The FED Save The U.S. Economy?

The world’s foremost Elliott wave expert Robert Prechter goes “behind the scenes” on the Federal Reserve Bank November 25, 2010 By Elliott Wave International The ongoing financial crisis has made the central bank’s decisions — interest rates, quantitative easing (QE2), monetary stimulus, etc. – a permanent fixture on six-o’clock news. Yet many of us don’t… Read more Understanding the Federal Reserve Bank

FED is getting ready to print more money to stimulate the economy. Total bank credit has stopped expanding. Total debt, which is principal + interest, is more than the money supply, which is principal only. As the shortage of US dollars forces foreclosures and bankrutpcies, FED and the government is cherry picking favored ones to… Read more The Deflationary Spiral

The total outstanding debt in the world is approaching record levels. Most are preparing for inflation thinking that central banks will be printing money to pay the debt. What if someone told you inflation is not the immediate danger, but deflation is? Why? Because our money supply is not printed money. It is debt. When… Read more Day of Reckoning: Deflationary Depression is Near

By Elliott Wave International There has been a lot of debate about what the government is doing to stave off a so-called double-dip recession. Some say it will cause runaway inflation; others say it’s simply delaying the inevitable. The man you’ll hear from below says DEFLATION is the true concern. It’s true that Robert Prechter… Read more Can The Government Prevent Double-Dip?