by Mac Slavo | Mar 18, 2016 | Aftermath, Conspiracy Fact and Theory, Emergency Preparedness
Fact: The Federal Reserve has screwed over the country. Monetary policy has been the single most important factor in the economy for some time. A new analysis from economist Brian Barnier shows that while future GDP, household debt from credit cards and tech accounted...
by Contributing Author | Mar 11, 2016 | Aftermath, Commodities
This article was written by Michael Snyder and originally published at the Economic Collapse blog. Editor’s Comment: This continuing reality is just one more key factor in what keeps threatening to be the perfect storm of greed and stupidity as the economic...
by Mac Slavo | Oct 9, 2015 | Commodities, Headline News
The next great financial crisis may be only a short time away. As readers know, SHTF has routinely covered the bleak warnings and predictions of market insiders and critics of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. Now, there is yet another indication that things are...
by Mac Slavo | Apr 17, 2015 | Commodities, Headline News
As everyone knows by now, the Federal Reserve’s main tool in economic warfare has become hyper low interest rates and, thus, extremely cheap money for large institutions vis-à -vis the controversial reign of QE – quantitative easing. Now, the how-low-can-you-go...
by Mac Slavo | Feb 26, 2015 | Experts, Forecasting
The Fed has no mandate outside the 50 states, but it unofficially determines foreign debt and currency markets across the globe in a big way anyway. Now, chairwoman Janet Yellen has testified before Congress that the Federal Reserve is looking to increase interest...