The Global Liquidity Crisis Has Only Just Begun

The mechanism is simple: the global Everything Bubble is kept alive by low interest rates, cheap money which allows highly leveraged derivative investments. To maintain the bubble requires ever-growing amounts of available liquidity. As soon as a crisis of confidence occurs somewhere in the global system, margin calls and a liquidity crisis follow, threatening a collapse of the system. That […]

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The Hard Reality of Deindustrialization Felt in Germany

Ideas for rapidly building up European defense industries to replace large-scale purchases of military hardware from the U.S. are impressive on paper, reaching into the hundreds of billions of euros. But transforming the proposals into real military products will prove difficult since Europe has neither the steel, the rare earths nor the electronics required to do so. The EU imports […]

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EIR Roundtable Warns U.S. President Trump Against War in Venezuela

As the United States military buildup continues in the Caribbean, allegedly to counter “narco-terrorism”, EIR held an emergency roundtable on Nov. 20 with a number of experts from the region, who all warned Donald Trump not to fall into the trap being set by the neoconservatives in and around his administration. A “regime change war” against Venezuela, they argued, will […]

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The EIR Strategic Alert Service is approaching its 40th year of activity. If you have followed us over the years, you know that we are not a simple news service, but a factor in world politics. We not only provide analyses and facts, we offer solutions and campaign for them. We have been able to do so thanks to your […]

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South America: The U.S. State Department Escalates on All Fronts

As the Trump administration dramatically escalates its demonstration of force against Venezuela, with the arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s largest aircraft carrier, in the Caribbean, the State Department is moving ahead with plans to organize a “U.S.-friendly coalition” in South America to counter the influence of China, the BRICS, and Brazilian President Lula da Silva personally in […]

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The Federal Reserve Warms The Engines of Its Helicopter Fleet

On Nov. 12, the president of the New York Federal Reserve met with leaders of Wall Street banks to discuss using the former’s Standing Repo Facility (SRF) over the coming period to keep the financial system functioning, as reported by Reuters. The SRF allows for banks to sell various bonds and securities they are holding to the Federal Reserve (Fed), […]

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