Today on The Janssen Report (#72): Federal Reserve insolvent, leveraged debt is unsustainable. Federal Reserve Q2 2014 Quarterly Report metrics:Leveraged debt = 78 to 1 Mind you: there are many ways to analyze the balance sheet and there are more interesting metrics to cover.Another important analysis to be made is …
Today on The Janssen Report (#71): ECB will inflate their balance sheet by at least 700 billion euros to purchase so-called ‘assets’ in an attempt to stimulate the economy. I argue this will lead to inflation in asset markets, but the positive effect on the real economy will be limited. …
Today on The Janssen Report (#70): article appearing in the Foreign Affairs journal of the Council on Foreign Relations explains why central banks should print less money but give more directly to the people.Although this sounds great (free cash for everyone!), this is hardly a structural solution to the enormous …
Today on The Janssen Report (#69): window dressing leads to propped up macro-economic figures that makes the economy seem in relatively good shape. If window dressing tactics are excluded and we use the reporting methods that were used for decades before they were changed, then we see a significantly worse …
Today on The Janssen Report (#68): Would you trust a small group of people to run the world for you? Do you like the idea of placing your fate in the hands of a small elitist group controlling a one-world government, using a single world currency and operating a worldwide …
Today on The Janssen Report (#67): even mainstream economists and academics are starting to show their concern about the bubbles in the markets, which might be considered a small breakthrough. Stock investor credit balances are at massively negative levels indicating a huge increase in borrowing due to the cheap money …
Today on The Janssen Report (#66): TTIP and TTP: the dangers of these secretive “free trade” agreements, which actually represent a global corporate takeover. View this episode of The Janssen Report here: Link to the short awareness video: TTIP: a race to the bottom”, under 2 mins Links to my …
Today on The Janssen Report (#65): yesterday Mario Draghi hinted at the possibility of an ECB asset purchases program coming to the Eurozone. This is yet another form of loose monetary policy to be implemented in the EU, also known as quantitative easing (QE). QE is already in full force …
Today on The Janssen Report (#64): the governments don’t protect the people from the banksters’ crimes, so we’d better do it ourselves. Over the past year many cases of bank fraud have come to light, even in the mainstream media. Supposed mega settlements are made, although the resulting fines do …
Today on The Janssen Report (#63): reporting to you from the magnificent Garda Lake in Italy with a different perspective on the value of precious metals, particularly gold and silver bullion. A little note: at the 3:56 mark I meant to refer to the geopolitical circumstances here; gold would really …