Tag: housing

May 25, 2014 0

Former Bundesbank Vice-President Recommends Gold, Says Current Economic System is "Pure Fiction"

By News Desk

Former Bundesbank Vice-President Recommends Gold, Says Current Economic System is "Pure Fiction" Anyone who is thinking clearly knows the economic system fostered by central banks is totally and completely out of control. Repetitive rounds of QE, competitive currency debasement, interest rates at zero, and sponsorship of the internet bubble followed by the housing bubble, followed by the current stock market bubble is proof enough. So, what I am about to report is really nothing but common sense, except for the fact that it comes from an unusual place, where one does not normally hear such discussions

March 30, 2014 0

China Accelerates Bad Debt Writeoffs; Reflections on "Policies to Counter Economic Volatility"

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China Accelerates Bad Debt Writeoffs; Reflections on "Policies to Counter Economic Volatility" Financial stress related to Ponzi financing and other bad debts in China is readily visible in numerous places. One result is China’s Big Banks Double Bad-Loan Write-Offs . China’s biggest banks more than doubled the level of bad loans they wrote off last year, in a sign that financial strains are mounting as growth in the world’s second-largest economy slows.