Sorry, Joel, I have to disagree. The US is not even the captain of its own foreign policy, except for Iran. The US does what it is told by the globalists and that is why we have a mess in Syria. Yinon should be studied. It is not a good doctrine. We rarely prop up governments, we mostly cut them down and break things. And that, of course is what Yinon called for over 30 years ago.

America only has one foreign policy, and that is of regime change. The sooner the Chinese find that out the better prepared they will be.

The Fed and globalist leaders will talk up positive rates until they go negative and push seriously for a cashless society. Then most people will be totally screwed. The only option is to stop allowing long bonds to be used for collateral for any derivatives swap.

Women got hit hard and had to move back with parents. That is a bit surprising because they have more job opportunities, but with high real estate and rent and low wages this was inevitable. The investors can't have it both ways. They can't fail to pay wages and bid up real estate at the same time and expect a different result!

Correction to the article: Banks generally take the low floating side of the interest rate swap they issue with loans. The borrowers take the fixed higher interest side of the bet. Interest rates generally must stay low to protect the big banks in this situation. The article said "fixed low" when I meant "floating low".

Bankers think that people will just keep taking abuse, and are perplexed when they decide to stop and get out of the areas that have worked so well for banks over the years. Millennials hate the idea of long loans and bankers are furious at them. Well, too bad. You should have thought of that before you decided to rip off their parents.

Ultimately, it will backfire, and people will boycott all things financial like they never have before.

Very disturbing information that the general public does not understand. The Fed seems to want to raise rates, but is falling into the negative rate trap and the cashless society trap. Yellen and Carney have both central bankers and economists openly opposing their desire to raise rates and want them lowered.

With the manipulation of treasury bonds and use as collateral demand ever increasing, we have to use junk bonds to tell how things are going.

I warned a long time ago that Bitcoin was likely to be the NWO currency. Looks like that could be.