Banking

The financial industry & financial news networks have been discussing whether or not the government should be getting involved with more quantitative easing (QE4) in order to slow down or try to prevent the fall in the markets. This idea is unconscionable to us and it absolutely cannot happen. Here's why.

In a dynamite interview, Richard Fisher, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve of Dallas, gave what may be the biggest confession you’ll ever see and hear from a Federal Reserve insider:

When the Federal Reserve decided to lift interest rates, they made a colossal error. You don’t raise interest rates when a global financial crisis has already started. That is absolutely suicidal...Surely the “experts” at the Federal Reserve can see what is happening:

On January 1st, 2016, a new bail-in system will go into effect for all European banks which means that, if you have more than 100,000 euros in a European bank right now, you are potentially on the hook should that bank go under. In the U.S. the Federal Reserve recently adopted a new rule that limits its ability to lend emergency money to banks. Is that the first step to European style bank "bail-in" legislation being enacted in America?

In an unprecedented move that signals China’s growing global influence, Zimbabwe has announced that it will adopt the Chinese currency as legal tender as it seeks to increase trade with Beijing.

Every year, Forbes analyzes the sports world to produce a list of the 50 most valuable sports teams in the world. This year’s list includes 20 NFL teams, 12 MLB teams, 10 NBA teams, 7 soccer teams, 1 NHL team, and 1 racing team (Formula One) worth, on average, $1.75 billion each, which is up 31% from 2014.

In 2011, the IRS introduced the Foreign Account Compliance Act, or FACTA to “minimize tax cheats” but in doing so FACTA is making banking - and life in general- painfully difficult for millions of American expats. The affects of FACTA are illustrated in the following infographic.

The American Dream--characterized by plentiful jobs offering living wages, security and opportunities to get ahead--is over....Piling on debt is not a solution; it's simply a politically expedient method to forestall the crisis, while guaranteeing the eventual repricing will be even more severe because the debt load is then so much larger. If you think otherwise, I strongly recommend that you reduce your dosage of Delusionol.

Every year, roughly $1 trillion in "hot money" flows illegally out of developing and emerging economies due to crime, corruption, and tax evasion growing at an average rate of 6.5% annually (and at an 8.6% clip in Asia). China, Russia, Mexico and India lead the way as depicted in the following infographic.

A significant rate hike would...adversely affect the country's GDP, stock markets, bonds, government revenue, U.S. denominated debt and the U.S. dollar itself. Because of that, I don't think we will see a significant rate hike. Let me explain.