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Collateral Haircut- Understanding the Collapse of What We Think are Assets
A collateral haircut is a financial term encompassing one thing: Devaluing Of An Asset. Oh this is not the official definition by far. However it will do just fine depicting what we will see happen to liabilities that we have been led to believe are assets. You see we call things like savings, our homes, 401k’s, and pensions assets. But truly they are really liabilities. Why, because simply the banks label them as liabilities. For us truly to understand the world in any form of meaning we have to understand the thinking of Bankers, Central Bankers in particular. For nothing […]
Financialization Of The Economy
We live in a world of Financialization. The term alone is complex, and the problems it has caused our economy is even more troubling. Now I cannot take credit for this term, as I only heard of the term by watching the fantastic work of Gordon T Long and his friend Charles Hugh Smith. They cover this in a 4 part video dialogue. I have enclosed the 4th in this video series because I believe it is the most poignant. Ever since we have gotten off the gold standard in 1971, we have been living and functioning on ever amounts […]