The Death of Banks and the Future of Money

Banks are something between dinosaurs and vampires.

One thing is now clear to even the most casual observer: banks are not capitalist businesses. In their present incarnation they have little to do with the free market and no place in it. They are constantly oscillating between two positions:

One moment, they are a state protectorate, in desperate need of support from the state printing press or unlimited taxpayer funds, as, in the absence of such support, we are supposedly faced with the dreaded social fallout of complete financial collapse. The next moment they are a convenient tool for state policy, simply to be fed with ample bank reserves and enticed with low interest rates to create yet more cheap credit and help manufacture some artificial growth spurt.

Either the banks are the permanent welfare queens of the fiat money systems, or convenient policy levers for the macro-economic central planners. In any case, this is certainly not how a capitalist business should look.
Central banks and modern fiat money banks are quite simply a blot on the capitalist system. In order for capitalism to operate smoothly they will ultimately have to be removed. I believe that the underlying logic of capitalism will work in that direction. Trying to ‘reform’ the present system is a waste of time and energy. It is particularly unbecoming for libertarians as they run the risk of getting infected with the strains of statism that run through the system. Let’s replace this system with something better. With a market-based monetary system. Read more >>

G7 Banana Republics On the Road to Zimbabwe!

The global financial cataclysm is mushrooming with every stroke of the keyboard at a central bank, with the issuance of new debt to cover old debt, and with the illusion of creating money out of thin air. It is all debt, nothing else, with no final settlement…. EVER. You exchange the money you work for and save and buy a government bond; they print the money to pay you back and PRETEND you have been paid. The situation is just as Von Mises outlined:

“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved” -Ludwig Von Mises

The LEADERS of the developed world have chosen the latter route. This is a currency and financial-system extinction event, make no mistake. Only the zigs and zags on the path to that destination are UNKNOWN. We’re seeing the most powerful forces on the planet aligned against each other: King Kong (Mother Nature and Darwin) versus Godzilla (public servants, banksters, elites and crony capitalists). Read more...

Michael Pento Senior Market Strategist: End The FED

Michael Pento says abolish the FED. Michael Pento serves as Senior Market Strategist for the California-based investment firm, Delta Global Advisors, an S.E.C.-registered investment advisor. He is a well established specialist in the Austrian School of economic theory, and his commentaries are read on various forums across the Web.