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CHICAGO -- Vinegar has been used for everything from cleaning refrigerators to taming foot odors, and now this common kitchen staple may reduce cervical cancer deaths as well, researchers reported here.
In a 12-year randomized study of 150,000 women in India, biennial visual inspection with vinegar (acetic acid) reduced cervical cancer mortality by 31%, compared with no screening, reported Surendra Srinivas Shastri, MD, from the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, and colleagues at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.
"We now have a method which could in a very simple way reduce cervical cancer mortality in low-resource countries like India," Shastri said.
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Indian women, and India accounts for 30% of the global burden of cervical cancer deaths, he said.
Pap smear screening isn't feasible because the country doesn't have the necessary health-care infrastructure, such as diagnostic laboratories and trained health care workers, said Shastri.
There's a cost issue, too. The vinegar screening test costs less than $1 per patient, while Pap smear or HPV DNA testing run about $15 per test, he said.
Looking for a simpler alternative, the researchers randomly assigned women, ages 35 to 64 years, with no prior history of cancer to biennial screening with vinegar (75,360 women) or no screening (76,178 women), which is the current standard of care in India. The study was conducted from 1998 to 2002 with 12 years of follow-up.
The vinegar used in the test is a sterilized combination of acetic acid with water -- not your regular off-the-shelf household vinegar.
Trained personnel -- 10th graders were used in the study -- used a cotton swab to apply the solution to the cervix. Cancerous and precancerous cells have more proteins in the nucleus than healthy cervical cells, and they aggregate into a whitish mass within a minute, Shastri said.
The incidence of invasive cervical cancer was similar between the two groups: 26.74 per 100,000 (95% CI 23.41-30.74) in the screening group versus 27.49 per 100,000 (95%CI 23.66-32.09) in the control group. This suggests that screening didn't lead to overdiagnosis, he said.
The researchers estimated this strategy could prevent 22,000 cervical cancer deaths every year in India and close to 73,000 in resource-poor countries worldwide.
The trial was supposed to continue until 2016, but was halted last year at the recommendation of an independent oversight committee due to the overwhelming benefits in the screening group, Shastri said. The government has already started rolling out the program nationally, a process that will take at least 2 years, he said.
The fact that the screening results were known immediately and women treated promptly is a real plus in rural areas where women might otherwise have to travel for hours to see a doctor, commented Carol Aghajanian, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a member of the ASCO Communications Committee. Electra Paskett, PhD, of The Ohio State University in Columbus, agreed and told MedPage Today that the test will save lives.
"Showing that a screening test reduces mortality is the gold standard, and that had not been done before. Now we have a large randomized trial in a low-resource country showing the vinegar test meets that standard," said Paskett, who was the discussant for the study.
It could also be used in low-resource pockets in the U.S. that don't have access to or can't afford Pap smears or HPV DNA tests, she said.
Previous studies have shown that Pap smears and vinegar screens are comparable in accuracy, Paskett added.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health and Women's Cancer Initiative, an Indian nonprofit group, helped fund the study.
The researchers and Paskett reported no conflicts of interest.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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American Society of Clinical OncologySource Reference: Shastri, SS, et al. "Effect of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) screening by primary health workers on cervical cancer mortality" ASCO 2013; Abstract 2.


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Burbank, CA (April 27, 2012) - ABC Family celebrates Mother's Day during "Mamalicious Week," with movies and shows that moms love, airing each weeknight and all-day Saturday and Sunday, starting Sunday, May 6 and running through Sunday, May 13 (Mother's Day). The movies include "The Blind Side," "A Walk to Remember," "The Notebook," the Basic Cable Premieres of "Leap Year" and "The Time Traveler's Wife" and more.
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Sunday, May 6
(6:00pm) THE BLIND SIDE
A well-to-do white family (Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw) takes in a homeless black teen and helps him realize his potential on and off the football field.
(9:00pm) THE BLIND SIDE ENCORE
Monday, May 7
(8:00pm) THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER
Kathleen tries to bribe Grace into speaking with Jacob, while Dylan tries to bond with Adrian.
(9:00pm) MAKE IT OR BREAK IT
Lauren has an experimental surgery done, but her chances at placing are still in question. Meanwhile someone from Jordan's past shows up.
Tuesday, May 8
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(6:30pm) UPTOWN GIRLS
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(8:30pm) A WALK TO REMEMBER
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Wednesday, May 9
(4:00pm) REVENGE OF THE BRIDESMAIDS
Best friends Abigail (Raven-Symoné) and Parker come to the rescue of their friend Rachel when they discover their mutual frenemy Caitlin is marrying Rachel's ex-boyfriend Tony.
(6:00pm) A WALK TO REMEMBER (see Tuesday, May 8)
(8:30pm) DIRTY DANCING
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Thursday, May 10
(3:30pm) DIRTY DANCING (see Wednesday, May 9)
(6:00pm) RAISING HELEN
A successful modeling agency assistant (Kate Hudson) takes on the role of guardian to three precocious young children when her sister dies in a car accident.
(8:30pm) STEPMOM
Isabel (Julia Roberts), a career-minded photographer, finds herself forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to her boyfriend Luke's (Ed Harris) two children. Her efforts to earn their love and respect are complicated by Jackie (Susan Sarandon), Luke's ex-wife who is terminally ill.
Friday, May 11
(1:30pm) RAISING HELEN (see Thursday, May 10)
(4:00pm) THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
After nine years apart from their missing son, a couple (Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams) are reunited with him, only to discover the teenager (Jonathan Jackson) is a happily adopted boy with no memory of his real parents. Whoopi Goldberg costars.
(6:30pm) STEPMOM (see Thursday, May 10)
(9:00pm) FREAKY FRIDAY (2003)
Strict mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and wild daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) swap bodies after opening mysterious fortune cookies. The two must fight to figure out how to switch back, while each pretends to be the other.
Saturday, May 12
(7:00am) AU PAIR
A woman with an MBA accidentally finds herself working for her boss as his children's au pair instead of the executive position she thought she was going for.
(9:00am) AU PAIR 2
Jennifer and Oliver are put to the test when they decide to merge their company with another - not realizing the other owner's adult children are trying to sabotage not only the deal - but Jennifer and Oliver's relationship as well.
(11:00am) AU PAIR 3: ADVENTURE IN PARADISE
Jennifer and Oliver juggle with a family summer vacation, a new baby and a corporate takeover.
(1:00pm) FREAKY FRIDAY (1976) ABC FAMILY PREMIERE
A sloppy teenager (Jodie Foster) and her overworked mother (Barbara Harris) magically trade personalities on one strange Friday.
(3:00pm) FREAKY FRIDAY (2003 - See Friday, May 11)
(5:00pm) LEGALLY BLONDE
After being dumped by her politically ambitious boyfriend for not being serious enough, fashionably fabulous Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) applies and is accepted to Harvard Law School.
(7:00pm) LEAP YEAR BASIC CABLE PREMIERE
A woman (Amy Adams) goes to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend, but she winds up stranded on the other side of the Emerald Isle with a handsome, but surly, Gaelic man (Matthew Goode).
(9:00pm) THE NOTEBOOK
An old man (James Garner) in a nursing home begins reading a story to a female fellow patient (Gena Rowlands) to keep her company. The story is about a young couple (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) who share a stormy romance over a period of years.
(12:00am) LEGALLY BLONDE ENCORE
Sunday, May 13 - MOTHER'S DAY
(7:30am) FREAKY FRIDAY (1976 - see Saturday, May 12)
(9:30am) FREAKY FRIDAY (2003 - See Friday, May 11)
(11:30am) DIRTY DANCING (see Wednesday, May 9)
(2:00pm) LEAP YEAR (see Saturday, May 12)
(4:00pm) THE NOTEBOOK (see Saturday, May 12)
(7:00pm) THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE BASIC CABLE PREMIERE
The unusual genetic makeup of a librarian (Eric Bana) causes him to travel back and forth through time, so that he and his beloved (Rachel McAdams) are always out of sync.
(9:30pm) A WALK TO REMEMBER (see Wednesday, May 9)
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World Championship 2019: Mark Selby loses to Gary Wilson
Three-time champion
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Selby, 35, fell 5-3 and 9-7 behind before levelling at 10-10.
But qualifier and fellow Englishman Wilson, 33, held himself together superbly by claiming three frames on the trot, including a cool 92 break.
Defending champion Mark Williams returned from hospital but trails David Gilbert 9-7 at the Crucible.
Welshman Williams, 44, felt unwell after a first session in which he fell 5-3 behind.
He had tests at Sheffield's Northern General before coming back to the Crucible for Saturday's morning session.
Williams and England's Gilbert play to a finish from 19:00 BST.
Williams made breaks of 86 and 101 to trail 8-7 and a break of 68 in the 16th frame, but former potato farmer Gilbert hit back with a superb 69 clearance to maintain his two-frame advantage.
Taxi for Selby as Wilson relishes 'best result of my career'
Selby won the China Championship in September but has struggled to find his best form since, usurped at the top of the world rankings by Ronnie O'Sullivan and failing to reach another final this season.
He continued his poor recent record in Triple Crown events, last winning consecutive games at the World, UK or Masters in 2017 when he won the title in Sheffield.
Wilson is a former taxi driver who is playing in the World Championship for only the second time.
He gained a measure of revenge for his 10-2 thrashing by Selby in the 2015 China Open final to set up a last-eight meeting against fellow Ali Carter or Zhou Yuelong, both of whom also qualified.
Wilson described the surprise victory as "the best result of my career".
Asked if he can go on to win the tournament, Wilson replied: "Who knows? I was close to quitting many times. I always knew deep down I was good enough and could make a living in this game.
"There are times you are literally all over the place, can't pot a ball and think, 'What's the point? I can't even play.' It's a strange game."
Selby said he did not think his performance was "that bad", adding: "Gary played well and deserved to win. I felt I missed the boat yesterday and the run of the ball in the first two sessions didn't go my way.
"I'll have a month and a half off now, go on holiday and forget about the season."
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- setattr --barrier /vservers
- showattr /vservers
Seems insufficient. You need to set --barrier for every existing and NEW directory except those below /vservers/. as the suggested command protects only against chdir ..
Why? The fchdir.
Am I right?
once you gain root inside the scure chroot:
may you gain access to the device node?
i/o ports not restricted?
- Accoring to http://oldwiki.linux-vserver.org/Step-by-Step+Guide+2.6: "On Linux 2.6 this isn't really necessary, since another mechanism is used to lock in the guests anyway" - maybe someone could elaborate on this and put it in the article, please


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Vitamin B12 deficiency under-diagnosed: The condition of Vitamin B12 deficiency is a possible misdiagnosis of various conditions, such as multiple sclerosis (see symptoms of multiple sclerosis). See symptoms of Vitamin B12 deficiency or misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
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I live in So. Cal., and so far have gotten along fairly well without a Fastrak. I did run a toll bridge in the bay area once (I thought motorcycles were free) and got a small bill in the mail.
Now OC, SD, and the bay area have Fastrak tollways, most charge motorcycles to ride (doesn't look like SD does).
Anyone know of benefits of signing up for one over another (other than the obvious deposit costs?)
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Stimulus may put some wind in clean energy's sails
WASHINGTON — Many of the jobs that the economic stimulus would create are generated by the parts of the plan that also are intended to help combat global warming and reduce the nation's dependence on fossil fuels.
The $787.2 billion stimulus plan that President Barack Obama will sign Tuesday includes the nation's largest investment to date in cleaner energy. More than $80 billion in spending and tax cuts will go toward renewable domestic energy, a better grid to transmit electricity, energy research and programs to reduce the use of fossil fuels, such as weatherizing homes and federal buildings.
It's difficult to put precise numbers on how many new green jobs to expect. Government economists use a formula to figure out how a fiscal stimulus translates into jobs, but uncertainties remain. Some of the results will depend on decisions that the Department of Energy and the states make about how to spend the money.
Even so, it's possible to look at the big picture and see how the environmental spending can create some jobs in the hard-hit manufacturing and construction sectors.
Dorothy Coleman, the vice president of tax and domestic economic policy for the National Association of Manufacturers, said she didn't have an estimate of the number of energy jobs the stimulus plan might produce but that the association expected the renewable energy provisions to help some of its members expand production and add workers.
The association supported incentives for wind and solar development for that reason, Coleman said. Similarly, weatherizing schools, hospitals, federal buildings and homes would create a need for goods made in the United States, such as more energy-efficient windows, she said.
The White House's economists have said that the overall stimulus plan would create or save more than 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010. The government estimates that nearly 500,000 jobs will be created by the end of 2010 from investments in the energy transmission system, advanced battery technology and energy efficiency.
Robert Pollin, a professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, said the green investment portion of the stimulus more broadly should yield about 1.7 million jobs, about 30 percent of them in construction.
"Of course, the jobs crisis is deepening quickly, so that much of an increase in spending for green investments and job creation is not big enough on its own to fight the countervailing recession forces," Pollin said.
Still, Pollin has said that investments in green technology create more than three times as many U.S. jobs as fossil fuel production because they generally require more workers and much of the money stays in the U.S. economy.
Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy-research group in Washington, said that Obama's recovery plan would more than triple clean-energy investments.
The efficiency elements of the plan are useful because they put people to work quickly and put money into the pockets of people who pay heating or air conditioning bills every month — and those savings keep adding up, year after year, said Nathan Hultman of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.
"Arguably, it's better than any other rate of return you can get in the economy," he said.
The White House estimates that the average family would save $350 per year on heating and air conditioning after weatherizing.
The spending on weatherization would create jobs quickly, Hultman said, because there's no need to invent anything; the materials and skills are readily available.
The bill sets aside $5 billion to improve energy savings in more than 1 million modest-income homes and about $4.5 billion to weatherize federal office buildings.
Weatherizing buildings across the United States offers an easy, relatively cheap way to put people to work and cut energy consumption and costs, said Phil Angelides, the chairman of a coalition of labor, business, community and environmental leaders called the Apollo Alliance that promotes investments that build clean-energy industries and cut energy costs.
About 40 percent of energy use and carbon emissions in the United States come from constructing, operating and powering buildings.
Other parts of the stimulus plan related to cleaner energy that might create jobs:
- Transportation: The measure provides $8.4 billion for public transit and $8 billion for high-speed rail.
The American Public Transportation Association surveyed transit agencies starting a year ago and recently released the results. It found that 227 public transportation agencies said they could provide 787 projects that were ready to start within 90 days that otherwise wouldn't have been able to proceed. It said these projects would "create and sustain more than 440,000 new jobs in the coming months."
The bill also provides a tax credit of up to $7,500 for plug-in hybrid vehicles and funding for advanced battery technology in an effort to stimulate the automotive industry.
Menzie D. Chinn, an economist in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, said that tax credits for fuel-saving cars might have helped the auto industry incrementally, but a more important benefit would come from boosting the economy overall and fixing the financial system to encourage more people to buy cars.
- Renewable energy: Over the next decade, the government will provide $20 billion in tax incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency, including grants and an extension of the production tax credit for renewable energy.
Greg Wetstone, the American Wind Energy Association's senior director of government and public affairs, said the plan would create jobs in the wind industry and was a "critical down payment" on ways to increase the nation's use of renewable energy. A developer needs only six months to set up a wind plant to generate electricity, he said.
Wind advocates also say that since many of the parts of wind turbines are so large, it makes economic sense to build them in the United States to save on transportation costs.
The U.S. wind market grew rapidly last year: Its power-generating capacity increased by 50 percent. The industry also created 35,000 jobs in the U.S. for a total of 85,000, according to the Global Wind Energy Council in Brussels, Belgium. By late in 2008, however, the financial crisis hit the wind industry and greatly slowed wind-farm projects and turbine manufacturing.
(Jack Chang contributed to this article.)
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An official with Japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency told CNN that "a meltdown may be under way at one of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear power reactors" (the plant that exploded). Earlier, it looked like things would be under control but the company began to experience difficulty cooling the reactor, even attempting to solve the issue by dumping seawater. [CNN]
A Meltdown May Be Under Way at Japan Nuclear Power Plant


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A generation has come of age since orchestral eurythmy—and the full richness of the art that it reflects—was last seen in North America 27 years ago.
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Erhai Lake is the largest highland lake next to Dianchi and one of the seven biggest fresh water lakes in China. It means, "sea shaped like an ear", in Chinese. Implying that the lake is ear shaped and as large as a sea, hence it was so named. The lake covers an area of 250 square kilometers and is located about two kilometers east of Dali. It is like a crescent lying between Cangshan and Dali city as seen from Cangshan Mount.
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Yunnan Province in southwest China border, the provincial capital Kunming. Warring States period, this is the Dian tribe fowl. Yunnan, namely, "Caiyunzhinan"and the other argument is that because in the "Yunling of the South " is named. The total area of about 39 million square kilometers, accounting for 4.11% of total land area, the provincial administrative regions in the country ranked No. 8 in the area. The total population of 45,130,000 (2008), accounting for 3.36% of the population, the population ranked 13th. And Yunnan provinces adjacent to Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Tibet, Yunnan Province, three neighboring countries of Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Tropic of Cancer crosses from the southern province.


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Oils and fats do not just add texture, but flavor in Italian food; that's why, if you want to eat like a REAL Italian, you should use different ones depending on the type of food you are cooking and the result you are trying to achieve. Butter and seed oils are more traditional than olive oil in Northern Italian cuisine (goose fat used to be popular as well!); and in general, for risotto, for frying fish, and for desserts, some people prefer sunflower oil, grapeseed oil or even canola. Some dishes like risotto taste best with butter, but you prefer to limit saturated fats you can start with a canola or sunflower oil, and just add some butter at the end with the parmigiano, to give it flavor and sheen.
Most generic Italian olive oils, even when extra-virgin, are made with blends from different regions (by the way, always buy extra-virgin for the best flavor: plus they are cold-processed and therefore do not require a hechsker according to most authorities). This makes them too strong for certain dishes, and not always pleasant to the palate.
I prefer to have a few extra-virgin oils on hand: a very delicate one from Liguria (Imperia or Alghero, in the North-West) for fish; a medium Tuscan (slightly bitter) or Umbrian (fruitier) for salads, vegetables and meat dishes. For earthier dishes like pastas or specialties containing a lot of tomato, garlic and spices, a stronger oil like a Sicilian or Pugliese can be recommended.
If you can only get one bottle, pick an oil from Tuscany or Umbria, which will go with most dishes, and a smaller bottle of Ligurian oil, which will taste wonderful drizzled on steamed fish.
I always buy one bottle of extra-virgin olive oil labeled "Olio Novello", "Di Frantoio" (fresher oil, from the mill); this is more expensive, but of much higher quality. For cooking, I use my regular-quality extra-virgin olive oil; before serving the food, I drizzle it with a few drops of the higher-end Olio Novello, to add depth to the flavor!
Please don't buy any 'light' or 'blended' kind, but look for EXTRA-VIRGIN, COLD-PRESSED olive oil. This is the only type that is unprocessed (and naturally kosher – according to most authorities, it doesn't need a hechsher because it's made by simply pressing cold olives).
Make sure it's labeled 'EXTRA'-virgin, not just 'virgin'. Virgin oils are still extracted without chemicals, but after repeated pressings of the olives- which makes their acidic levels higher, and their taste more pungent.
If it doesn't even say 'virgin', don't buy it! It has been produced by chemical heat pressing, which makes it harsher-tasting, less healthy, and not kosher unless certified.
Olive oil is not just meant to grease up foods: it makes food taste better. If you really shudder at the idea of pouring abundant quantities of oil directly from a bottle into your pots and pans, you can always put it into a spray bottle. But remember that consuming olive oil may reduce your risk of heart disease and make your skin look great, not to mention the fact that it will remind you of the Hanukkah miracle, making you smile.
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Big Time Rush Wants To Collaborate With Rachel Crow
Big Time Rush talks to HollywoodLife.com about collaborating with X Factor finalist, Rachel Crow.
Big Time Rush is fan of The X Factor too! The group recently collaborated with X Factor finalist Rachel Crow and can't wait to do it again!
"She is in one of our episodes and she is so cute. And she has such a huge voice," Logan Henderson EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife.com at Wango Tango in Los Angeles May 12. "It was so fun to film, we have actually been able to listen to some of her new music lately and its pretty unbelievable!" adds Kendall Schmidt.
The group hopes to work with Rachel more in the future and even compared her to a another celebrity they worked with in the past, Jordin Sparks.
"We would love to have her voice," says Kendall. "They kind of have similar angelic voices."
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Video look at Denver Nuggets' new gold alternate skyline uniforms and Danilo Gallinari's 'fauxhawk'
Here's a thorough video look at the Denver Nuggets' unveiling of their new third, alternate gold skyline uniform at the Pepsi Center on Monday.
Also, Ty Lawson talks about the jerseys and the upcoming season. And Danilo Gallinari has a 'fauxhawk'? (Is that what that is?)
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I'm running an app that gets small donations (Micro payments up to ~11 USD) and also I'm doing some freelancing where I get some higher payments over PayPal too. (~900 USD a month)
Is it possible to have 2 accounts on PayPal?
(I'm asking because if someone send me money for my freelancing, they get the contact information from the app - Like email@example.com instead of email@example.com )


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European Central Bank Doubles Down on Ultra-Easy Money
European Central Bank Doubles Down on Ultra-Easy Money
Not that QE ever really went away, but the European Central Bank is taking it up a notch with today's rate cut. According to the Wall Street Journal today :
The European Central Bank cut its key interest rate and launched a sweeping package of bond purchases Thursday that lays the ground work for a long period of ultraloose monetary policy, jolting European financial markets and triggering an immediate response from President Trump.
The ECB's pre-emptive move was aimed at insulating the eurozone's wobbling economy from a global slowdown and trade tensions. It is the ECB's largest dose of monetary stimulus in 3½ years and a bold finale for departing President Mario Draghi, who looks to be committing his successor to negative interest rates and an open-ended bond-buying program, possibly for years.
But the move triggered opposition from a handful of ECB officials, according to people familiar with the matter, while leaving key practical questions unanswered. Primarily: How long can the ECB keep purchasing bonds without significantly enlarging the pool of assets it can buy? Some analysts estimated it might be less than a year.
Meanwhile, the president attempted to use the move to put additional pressure on the Fed to ratchet up its own QE plans, writing: "European Central Bank, acting quickly, Cuts Rates 10 Basis Points. They are trying, and succeeding, in depreciating the Euro against the VERY strong Dollar, hurting U.S. exports.... And the Fed sits, and sits, and sits. They get paid to borrow money, while we are paying interest!"
European Central Bank, acting quickly, Cuts Rates 10 Basis Points. They are trying, and succeeding, in depreciating the Euro against the VERY strong Dollar, hurting U.S. exports.... And the Fed sits, and sits, and sits. They get paid to borrow money, while we are paying interest!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2019
Trump, apparently is unconcerned by the effects of negative rates on the banking sector or on family budgets.
For example, the European banking sector has been hit hard by negative rates, as shown by Maurus Adam recently at mises.org:
Low interest rates make credit for private banks — and in turn, for consumers — cheaper. But at the same time, the low return on government bonds makes investment in these long-term options unattractive. Inflation and low return on investment options discourage people from saving and investing capital but encourage spending. Moreover, the low interest rates result in a low return for banks on the credit they grant to consumers. High consumption, low investment, and low profit on all banking activities strongly affects the ability of European banks to compete. Consequently, Markets Insider reports :The extremely low interest rates in the Eurozone hit the bank's investment branch hard...
The bank has struggled financially amid rock-bottom interest rates in Europe and fierce competition in the German banking industry, limiting its ability to invest and expand in line with US rivals.
And, as reported by Matt Egan at CNN:
Deutsche Bank's struggles have also been amplified by something the 149-year-old lender never imagined, mostly because it had never happened before in modern history: negative interest rates. In 2014, the European Central Bank wanted to boost the sluggish economy but interest rates were already at zero. The unconventional decision to take them into negative territory was aimed at encouraging growth and avoiding deflation, but it meant banks were charged a fee for parking their reserves with the central bank. The ECB's extreme policies may have injected some life into Europe's sleepy economy, in turn giving Deutsche Bank and other lenders a boost. However, negative rates are also crushing the profitability of all banks, Deutsche Bank included. And this unorthodox policy — one that the ECB is on the verge of doubling down on — is making it awfully difficult to revive the champion of Germany's banking system. But rates don't have to be negative to have a negative impact on savers and pensioners. In order to see any meaningful gains from saving in an economy with ultra-low rates, an investor must engage in yield chasing. but that;s much more difficult for ordinary households who don't have the tools of wealthy investors at their disposal - tools that allow for a variety of risky investments that may bring sizable returns. Ordinary people, in contrast, can't gamble their savings in that way, and can't even access hedge funds and other tools designed to seek out returns in an environment with so few opportunities for yield.
Moreover, pension funds that rely on more safe and traditional investments must pursue riskier investments, or do without the sorts of gains they need. That means future retirees will face far fewer returns and a falling standard of living.
None of this concerns the president, apparently, as he now appears to be champing at the bit to get his over version of European style QE.
Just yesterday, he was demanding the Fed cut the federal funds target rate "down to ZERO, or less":
The Federal Reserve should get our interest rates down to ZERO, or less, and we should then start to refinance our debt. INTEREST COST COULD BE BROUGHT WAY DOWN, while at the same time substantially lengthening the term. We have the great currency, power, and balance sheet.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 11, 2019
That is, the president apparently believes savers should have to pay to save money, as is potentially the case under a negative-rate regime.
The president might also want to consider the fact that even after a decade of extreme easy-money policies, the European economy is still weak, and the euro zone's growth has slowed to under one percent.
This won't surprise hawks who understand that easy money is not exactly a miracle formula for economic growth. But this fact is seemingly irrelevant to the president who sees monetary policy as little more than a tool to spur exports.
Although the Fed is now expected to cut its own target rate later this month, one can only hope that it keeps to only 25 basis points.
After all, the good news here is that, with a target rate of 2.25 percent, the US's central bank looks relatively sane compared to the ECB and the Bank of Japan, both of which are employing negative rates. The Fed is even clocking in at well above the Bank of England's target rate of 0.75 percent.
So long as the Fed does not significantly increase its own balance sheet and other QE efforts in response to the ECB and other central banks, the dollar will continue to look relatively attractive compared to other currencies. Predictions that the dollar will quickly devalue in relation to other currencies are likely overstated. It is true that larger geopolitical trends, such as de-dollarization efforts among some major world economies , are a threat. But these efforts lie outside run-of-the-mill monetary policy right now which continues to point to a relatively sound dollar.
A summary of the most recently set rates:
- Canada: 1.75%
- Australia: 1.0%
- Japan: -0.1%
Note: All graphs by Ryan McMaken. Here are the specific key rates discussed here, with links:
- Fed. Reserve: Federal Funds Rate
- Bank of England: Official Bank Rate
- Reserve Bank of Australia: Cash Rate
- Bank of Japan: Overnight Call Rate (Observed); ( Target Rate )
- Bank of Canada: Overnight Target Rate
- ECB: Deposit Facility Rate
Modi's Policy of Higher Taxes, Spending, and Inflation Make India a Growing Risk in Emerging Markets
India's economy had an annual growth of 5.0 percent in the April-June quarter, the slowest in more than six years dragged down by weak consumer demand and private investments.
A Reuters poll of economists had forecast annual growth of 5.7 percent for April-June, compared with a 5.8 percent rise the previous quarter. For April-June 2018, India reported 8 percent growth.
Last year I commented about the risks for India here.
Governments always consider that economic problems come from lack of demand, and they assign themselves the task of "correcting" that wrong assumption by massively increasing deficits and using monetary policy well beyond any logical measure.
India's rising populist policies are part of the nation's current problems.
Recent data is quite concerning.
Industrial production, manufacturing PMIs and growth estimates are coming down (according to Focus Economics).
According to Kotak Economic Research, India's current account deficit is forecast to be the highest in six years. The overall balance of payments is moving into larger deficits than expected, as capital inflows weaken and are unable to current account deficit.
Another warning comes from the maturities in foreign exchange. Nearly $220 billion of short-term debt, equal to more than half of India's foreign exchange reserves, will come up for maturity in 2018-2019 fiscal year. Moody's states that India is one of the countries that are least exposed to a rising US dollar. However, Moody's did not expect the rupee to fall this much.
The average maturity of debt is close to 10 years and over 96 percent of it is in the local currency, according to Moody's. However, it also notes the country's low debt affordability. Given that the vast majority of debt is in the local currency, the incentive to depreciate the rupee is very high.
Foreign exchange reserves remain acceptable but can fall rapidly. Foreign exchange reserves are likely to suffer another dip as the rupee falls against the US dollar.
At the same time, 68% of the fiscal deficit target for 2019 consumed in the first quarter.
India expects a fiscal deficit of 3.3% of GDP in 2018-19 that seems quite challenging, given the weakening of data and the rise in expenses. The deficit was revised up to 3.5% of GDP in 2017-18.
The combination of wider trade and fiscal deficits added to lower reserves makes the currency weaken severely. The rupee keeps plummeting to new lows vs the USD.
India's government usually solves this equation increasing subsidies and raising taxes. That combination will not work in a world that has a lower tolerance for fiscal and trade imbalances and a risk-off scenario. Additionally, the tax wedge is already a high burden. As Prateek Agrawal notes, "if one looks at GST and taxes on the affluent sections, India would rank as one of the highest taxed countries globally. For consumption, these sections are actually paying close to 60 percent of the income as taxes).
Additionally, printing more rupees is not going to solve the challenges.
The situation in India is not as desperate as in Turkey or Argentina, because FX reserves are not being depleted at a high rate, but the trend is concerning and the outlook for growth, trade and fiscal balances is weakening.
The government has preferred to raise taxes and increase spending, and the demonetization policy was a big mistake (read). All the cash that was taken out of the system came back a few months later. It is time for India to change its historical policies of subsidizing the low productivity sectors to penalize the high productivity ones with more taxes.
India can easily navigate this turmoil if it changes some misguided demand-side policies. The question is, will the government do it? Or will they prefer to blame an external enemy and increase the imbalances?
If the government decides to ignore these issues, India could become a big risk in emerging markets.
Trump Pauses the Government's War Against Incandescent Lightbulbs
This past week Trump's Energy Department announced a relaxation of a set of light-bulb energy efficiency standards ( EISA ) first implemented under George W. Bush and finalized under Obama. The standards were set to go into full effect in January 2020 (eliminating incandescent versions of three-way bulbs, candle-shaped, globe-shaped and reflector bulbs).
The autistic screeching from the corporate press and leftist "public policy" lackeys only underscores the lengths to which " the Cathedral" will go to in order to maintain the hell-fire of climate alarmism. For Cathedral adherents the sky is quite literally falling. It is because of their prescient guidance that the rest of us are corralled into doing "the right thing" – namely spending $10 on a bulb to save $15 in electricity – over the next 30 years. Even though the market has always deprecated older technology in favor of newer, we just can't wait when it comes to energy efficiency. In the words of New York Times columnist John Schwartz , we need the federal government to "force(d) Americans to use more energy-efficient light bulbs." Please note that "force" here is a politically correct euphemism for "threaten with initiatory violence". Now it is true, force can solve problems quickly. All the mugger needs to do is to wave his gun in my face and moments later his monetary problems are solved. One would like to believe that in the "land of the free" such state sponsored aggression would not be so readily lauded as the primary method deployed against perceived societal problems. Of course I do not expect the state to abjure this special power it has any time soon, it is the qua sine non of every state/government. When a such a body dictates to the citizenry what they may or may not manufacturer and buy, then that country is no longer entitled to call itself "the land of the free" or claim "liberty and justice for all."
One of the more vocal critics of this rollback, an Andrew deLaski of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project went on record with some rather eyebrow-raising comments. For example
"The Trump administration is trying to protect technology that was first invented in the 1800s. It's like trying to protect the horse and buggy from the automobile technology."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I recall the government did not OUTLAW the sale or manufacture of the horse and buggy in favor of promoting the automobile. Consumers transitioned to the newer technology over time at a rate mediated by both the cost and advantages of the new technology.
To imply that removing regulations that are annihilating an industry is equivalent to "protecting" said industry makes about as much sense as saying someone who was in the process of knifing you to death but then pauses and begins to only punch you in the face is actually now "protecting" you. The truth is the polar opposite. The manufacturers of fluorescent and LED bulbs are the ones receiving state protection insofar as competing technology have being outlawed. But we're "protecting" the planet so greater good trumps all. Makes one wonder what the left is capable of when they eventually hold power and the climate apostates are in their cross hairs. In the words of Cole Porter I suspect it will be "anything goes!"
The Economic Theory of Costs Now in Paperback
I'm happy to announce that the 2018 collection The Economic Theory of Costs: Foundations and New Directions, is now available in paperback at a substantially reduced price (see the post announcing its original publication here). This collection includes contributions from both leading and up-and-coming scholars working in the Austrian tradition. The contributors include many of the senior faculty members of the Mises Institute, as well as many of the younger fellows. It focuses especially on price theory, the unique feature of Austrian economics.
At the moment, the cheapest copies are available here and here.
The table of contents is as follows:
Introduction: "The Economic Theory of Costs in Perspective" Matthew McCaffrey
Cost and Choice
Chapter 1: "Contemporary Debates on Opportunity Cost Theory and Pedagogy" Jonathan Newman
Chapter 2: "The 'Income Effect' in Causal-Realist Price Theory" Joseph T. Salerno
The Evolution of Causal-Realist Production Theory
Chapter 3: "From Marshallian Partial Equilibrium to Austrian General Equilibrium: The Evolution of Rothbard's Production Theory" Patrick Newman
Chapter 4: "Man, Economy and State, Original Chapter 5: Producer's Activity" Murray N. Rothbard
Risk, Uncertainty, and Cost
Chapter 5: "The Myth of the Risk Premium" Jörg Guido Hülsmann
Chapter 6: "Time and the Theory of Cost" Jeffrey M. Herbener
Causal-Realist Price Theory: Debate and Synthesis
Chapter 7: "Monopsony Theory Revisited" Xavier Méra
Chapter 8: "Costs and Pricing: An Austro-Post-Keynesian Synthesis?" Mateusz Machaj
Economic Organization, Entrepreneurship, and the Firm
Chapter 9: "Austrian Economics and Transaction Cost Economics: Notes on a Doubtful Compatibility" Mihai-Vladimir Topan
Chapter 10: "The Management Problem of Socialism: Cost at the Expense of Value" Per L. Bylund
Chapter 11: "Economic Calculation and the Limits of Social Entrepreneurship" Matthew McCaffrey
The National Debt Is Now More than Ten Times Annual Tax Receipts
Politicians from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Dick Cheney are united in their agreement that deficits don't matter. Of course, that's exactly what a politician would say. Politicians score points by spending other people's money, so naturally, they don't want to hear anything about how prudence suggests it might be a good idea to not spend that extra 800 billion dollars they don't have.
But there is apparently little concern in Washington, DC as the annual deficit — for a single year, mind you — approaches one trillion dollars for the first time since the hit-the-panic-button days of the Great Recession. Except that now huge deficits are coming during "good" economic times.
Moreover, as the Congressional Budget Office has forecast, the debt load is expected to rise to 125 percent of GDP over the 20 years. That's higher than the US debt-to-GDP ratio during World War II.
This, of course, assumes no major geopolitical or economic disruptions, whicih would make things far worse.
For those who believe huge debts are no big deal, however, there's still no need to worry. After all, they say, actual debt payments are still only a minor issue. In fact, they're still lower than where they were during the early 1990s.
Consider the first graph, for example. If we take the federal government's interest payments, and calculate them as a percentage of federal tax revenue, we find 12 percent of what the feds take in has to paid out as interest. Back during the early nineties, on the other hand, the feds were paying more than twenty percent of their tax revenue toward debt service.
Source Office of Management and Budget and US Bureau of Economic Analysis.1
Of course, that's not all due to debt load. A lot of it depends on the interest rate. Back in late 1990, for example, the target federal funds rate was over 7 percent. The 10-year note rate was around seven percent also — compared to around two percent today. Not surprisingly, the feds were paying more on the debt they owed than under current conditions with a note rate of two percent.
But, the CBO estimates the 10-year note rate to double between now and 2020. I'm skeptical it will rise that fast from its current low levels, but when it does go up, so will the amount of money the federal government has to devote to servicing the debt. And that means cuts to things like defense, social security, and medicare.
Moreover, as the debt gets bigger and bigger, the need to keep the interest rate low via central bank "quantitative easing" will become more important, meaning middle class savers will take more of a hit to savings accounts and pension plans.
But perhaps the most striking aspect of the growing debt is the fact there really is no end in sight, and the US has no chance of ever paying off the debt.
We can see this when we compare the total size of the debt with government revenue.
Comparing Debt to Tax Revenue
Part of the reason people have a hard time comprehending the sheer size of the debt is because it is often compared to total GDP size. For example, it's easy to find online that the US debt-to-GDP ratio right now is around 105 percent. But what does that mean? One problem we encounter here is the fact when it comes to personal debt, people don't think of making debt payments as a percentage of their household "GDP." That wouldn't make much sense since the ability to pay off debt usually depends on income.
So what is the national debt as a percentage of the federal governments income? Income, in this case is the federal government's tax revenue. And it turns out by this measure, we're in uncharted waters.
In fact, the national debt is now eleven times annual federal revenue. And as far as I can tell, that's the highest it's ever been. (In 1945, the national debt was $251 billion, and tax receipts were $45 billion, meaning the national debt was 5.6 times tax revenue that year.)
Specifically, in 2018, the national debt ($21.4 trillion) was 10.9 times the size of annual tax receipts ($1.9 trillion). That's even higher than what it was during the dark days of the "stimulus" following the great recession. In 1981, on the other hand, the total debt load was only two-and-a-half times annual tax receipts.
From the perspective of household management, this is easier to comprehend. For example, if a household has an income-to-debt ratio like the federal government, that would mean an annual income of $100,000 and a debt load of a million dollars.
Now, at ultra low interest rates, if payments are interest-only, and non-debt-related daily expenses are fairly low, one could certainly manage this. But there are risks here. Interest rates could go up. Other expenses could rise. And in the end, the great-grandchildren are still paying off the debt for vacations and fancy trinkets their ancestors bought decades earlier. Even worse, if interest rates go up significantly, one's great grandchildren have a lower standard of living because they have to devote more and more of their possible savings and consumption to unproductive debt service.
None, of this, however, is likely to convince those who think debt doesn't matter. Some may still cling to the idea that the government can just print more money and purchase bonds to drive down interest and make payments.There are at least two problems that emerge here. The constant forcing down of interest rates is a problem for those who rely on pension funds and other investments that need relatively lower-risk yield to grow. Meanwhile, households that are on fixed incomes will be harmed by growing inflation, if it takes the form of consumer price inflation. If, on the other hand, the money-supply growth leads to asset -price inflation (which is what we have now) then this will make housing more unaffordable, while locking out lower-income and lower-net-worth people from a variety of assets, such as homes.
Now, none of this is an apocalyptic scenario, but it is a scenario in which people with low and moderate incomes must pay more, and are able to save less and invest less. It's a scenario of a standard of living that in decline. It's a scenario in which much of the population faces more roadblocks to wealth accumulation and must devote increasing levels of income and resources to paying off the debts of past generations. Government amenities such as welfare payments and transportation facilities must also shrink as more tax revenue must be spent on debt service. And, of course, the tax burden on ordinary people certainly won't be going down.
- 1. For interest payment information, see Table 3.2 from OMB's historical tables. https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/historical-tables/
Why Property Rights Are Indispensable
In today's political discussion, one of the fundamental principles our society is built on has been on the defense: private property rights and the protection of such rights. Just take the current debate about the housing shortage in Germany as a prime example. A very prominent policy proposal is flat-out expropriation of housing. Another one is the limitation of ownership of residential apartments.
Ideas such as these are not only supported by extremists. An activist group in Berlin collected over 77,000 signatures for the expropriation of private real estate corporations in Berlin. No worries, the appropriate vehicle for something like this already exists by the way: the German capital city already has an expropriation authority (Enteignungsbehörde).
Some proposals are less obvious, though they have the same basis. Rent control or the prohibition of "luxury renovations" seem harmless – but they are still major intrusions in one's property. After all, these policies would result in the owner, in the legal sense, without real power or control over his own property.
Opponents of those policies correctly emphasize that housing in public ownership will lead to a state of disrepair, as it happened back in East Germany and as it still does to this day in socialist countries. The reason is that if the government has its hands in the housing sector to such a large extent, an imbalance of supply and demand will occur. And, as Mises and Hayek have shown, if too much tinkering with market prices fails, the price system will ultimately fail as well, leading to chaos, or that state of despair. At this point, socialists will point to a central planning board as a solution, but that would be no more than a "pretense of knowledge."
However, the fundamental problem, of course, is the attack on private property itself. Property rights have not been created – they are a result of human action. Property rights developed over time through the interaction of people. Through a bottom-up process, this institution came into being organically, as Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School of Economcis, put it. It was not someone deciding top-down that we shall have property rights now. It came into being because people who accepted and protected property rights had an advantage over others, and so those others adopted the same approach.
The reason property rights have to be in place is scarcity. If the world was a utopia without any scarcity, private property would not be necessary. In such a world there would be no conflict between people over goods and services. There would be no necessity of an economy at all, as there would be no reason to trade. You could just have whatever you want. But the real world is characterized by scarcity. In the real world, not all dreams come true and human wishes stay unfulfilled. Some people have certain desirable goods, while others don't.
At this point, there are two options: a Hobbesian anarchy, where everyone fights it out with hands and fists (or worse) who "owns" what – owning it only until someone else, someone stronger, comes along again. Or, you safeguard ownership, so that property is protected and the owner can be assured that he or she will own whatever he or she owns for longer, ultimately having the option to cultivate, to further develop the property – or to trade it for something else. Thus, property rights are at the basis of a genuine rule of law.
Without property rights, distrust and violence gain the upper hand. But with property rights, a peaceful order can emerge. It is this that Berlin's expropriators seemingly have not realized yet.
Democrats and Republicans Team Up to Send Federal Spending to New All-Time Highs
This summer's budget deal, negotiated by Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump made few headlines. And that's exactly how these power brokers wanted it.
The new law suspends the debt ceiling through July 2021, removing the threat of a default during the 2020 elections, and raises domestic and military spending by more than $320 billion compared to existing law over the next two fiscal years.
Anxious to avoid a budget debate which Trump obviously thought he couldn't win, the President quickly signed a new agreement to keep federal spending growing quickly into the future.
Democrats crowed:
Importantly, Democrats have achieved an agreement that permanently ends the threat of the sequester ... With this agreement, we strive to avoid another government shutdown, which is so harmful to meeting the needs of the American people and honoring the work of our public employees.
Trump, in his usual unwarranted hyperbole, called the deal "phenomenal."
In nominal terms, spending has gone up relentlessly since Republicans gained control of both the White House in Congress in 2016. The Democratic takeover of the House has, not surprisingly, done nothing to stop the spending juggernaut.1
The budget deal ensures defense spending will go up for the sixth year in a row.2 Spending will hit a new all-time high in 2019, and will surpass a trillion dollars in 2020.
Growth is less impressive when adjusted ot the CPI. In 2018 dollars, defense spending will be just about back to the previous all-time high reached in 2011, hitting 989 billion in 2020. Welfare programs such as Medicare and Social Security all continue to reach new all-time highs nearly every year, with the exception of non-Medicaid poverty programs, such as TANF. Those programs have seen cuts in recent years.
From 2017 to 2020, the OMB estimates (in 2018 dollars) growth rates in each area as:
- Defense: 16 percent
- Soc Sec: 10.4 percent
- Medicare: 8.1 percent
- Healthcare such as Medicaid: 8.9 percent
- Other Poverty-Related Programs: -3.7 percent
Not surprisingly, the Trump administration has shown little inclination toward cutting or even moderating federal spending. Republicans had total control of Congress and White House during 2017 through early 2019, but total federal spending increased at sizable rates.
In fact, the sort of spending we saw in the 2019 fiscal year (which ends this month) and which is expected in 2020, is the type of spending we haven't seen since the wake of the 2008 financial crisis when the federal government greatly expanded spending in the name of "stimulus."
But, as I noted here, the Trump administration's budgets are huge — with growing deficits — during a period of economic expansion. That is, even orthodox Keynesians might counsel slowing spending growth under current conditions, because stimulus is expected when recession hits. But the federal government is now going full bore into recession-type spending, even though there's no recession (yet.)
So, expect spending growth and deficits to become even more astronomical when the economy shows greater signs of slowing.
- 1. See table 3.2 covering federal functions and subfunctions from the Office of Management and Budget. Functions included in this article include 050, 550, 570, 600, 650, 700, and 750. https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/historical-tables/.
- 2. Defense spending here includes all "national defense" spending, plus veterans benefits, plus "Administration of Justice" funds, such as those going to the FBI which now describes itself as a national security organization. See Table 3.2 in OMB estimates.
Forget the Russians: It's the Federal Reserve Seeking to Meddle in Our Elections
The US Constitution never granted the federal government authority to create a central bank. The Founders, having lived through hyperinflation themselves, understood that government should never have a printing press at its disposal. But from the very beginning of America's founding, the desire for a crony central bank was strong.
But, unfortunately, a third attempt was successful and the Federal Reserve was unconstitutionally created by Congress in 1913. Americans have been living under a corrupt and immoral monetary system ever since. The Federal Reserve is the printing press that has financed the creation of the largest government to ever exist. Endless welfare and endless military spending are both made possible by the Federal Reserve. The Fed can just print the money for whatever the US establishment wants, so those of us who long for a Constitutional and limited government have few tools at our disposal.
Despite all the propaganda claiming "independence," the Fed has always been a deeply political institution. Because the Fed is a government-created monopoly with key government-appointed employees, its so-called "independence" is a mere fiction. However, the US Congress created the Fed with legislation; it can also abolish the Fed with legislation.
Last week, the facade of Federal Reserve "independence" was dealt a severe blow. Ironically, the person who broadcast to the world that the Fed is anything but "independent" was ex-New York Fed President Bill Dudley. Dudley wrote that, "Trump's re-election arguably presents a threat to the United States' and global economy, and if the goal of monetary policy is to achieve the best long-term economic outcome, the Fed's officials should consider how their decisions would affect the political outcome of 2020."
The timing of Dudley's threats to use Fed monetary policy to affect the outcome of a US election couldn't come at a more striking time. After all, for more than two solid years Americans have been bombarded with fabricated stories about Russians rigging our elections. And yet here is a Federal Reserve official threatening to do the same exact thing - but this time for real!
Whether it's the mainstream media, the CIA, the FBI, or now the Federal Reserve, more and more Americans are waking up to the fact that there is a Deep State in America and its interests have nothing to do with American liberty. In fact, our liberty is what the Deep State wants to abolish.
When it comes to the Federal Reserve, I stand firmly by my conviction that it needs to be audited and then ended as soon as possible.
Tariffs Add to China's Banking Bust
While Americans contemplated Jeffrey Epstein's demise, Chinese authorities had more pressing matters as the country's third bank was bailed out late last week. HengFeng Bank with $200 billion in assets fell into the hands of "Central Huijin Investment, a subsidiary of the China Investment Corporation that acts as the Chinese government's shareholder in the country's four biggest banks," according to a brief report overnight by Shanghai Securities News, published by state news agency Xinhua and cited by Zero Hedge.
Prior to HengFeng, Bank of Jinzhou was propped up using "state-owned strategic investors," according to Dai Zhifeng, analyst with Zhongtai Securities Co.
In plainer terms, Zero Hedge reports ,
"The latter approach is more market-oriented and showcased the determination of regulators to resolve problematic banks, while injecting confidence into the market," Dai said, although when stripped of all the pig lipstick, what just happened in China is that another major bank, one with $100 billion in assets, just collapsed and received a government-backed rescue.
China's banks hold $30 trillion in deposits according to Alexander Campbell, more or less double the amount of aggregated U.S. bank deposits. Campbell was pitching Alex Rosenberg on Real Vision on his thesis of buying gold in Yuan terms with the idea that bank bailouts take a flood of central bank created fiat money to paper over. So while the Chinese may want to keep the Yuan near the 7 to the dollar range, bank busts are just beginning in China and 7 may become a distant memory.
Campbell's view is,
Bank of Jinzhou just went under, Baoshang went under. They're providing liquidity while trying to take out the small guys.
There's some big guys coming up. Industrial Bank looks fine. But by all of our metrics, it's the sketchiest big bank. Minsheng is not that far behind them. If you start to get those banks under question, the liquidity that they have to provide to offset the deleveraging, the negative liquidity from bank runs will be so big that I think the question of do you want to keep seven is obvious. And you say, no, who cares? Like, let's have it go down. And let's stimulate the economy. I think the cruxy thing, and the thing for the trade then is will do we print money as well?
China's rural banks have classified loans totaling 4.1% which may not sound bad, but is the equivalent of circling the drain in the fractionalized banking world. ZH cited a JP Morgan report downgrading Chinese banks.
The J.P. Morgan economics team revised down its GDP growth forecast for 2020 by 0.1ppt due to the recent sharp turn in Sino-U.S. trade negotiations. But even prior to that, declining PPI and industrial profits growth, suggesting declining debt-servicing ability and weakening cash flow for Corporate China, increase the risks that banks will be asked to support macro growth at the potential expense of profitability. Recent official PBOC comments on an accelerating interest rate liberalization process are illustrative of such rising risks.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is thrashing China with tariffs. In a piece for Bloomberg, Stephen Mihm compared Trump's tariffs with the bad old days of Smoot-Hawley and the failure of Austrian bank, Credit-Anstalt, and the European liquidity crisis which followed.
While FDR finally backed off, Mihm, doesn't believe Trump will. "Donald Trump is no FDR," he writes. "Trump isn't going to get religion and suddenly work for international cooperation on trade and currency before things go off the rails. He's going to stay the course."
China will have no choice but to let the Yuan sink versus the dollar as "Beijing has found itself paralyzed and with zero credibly options how to kickstart the economy," writes ZH.
"The only thing that's left is for China to admit that this is indeed the case, so sit back, relax and watch as bank after bank on the list above fails and China's financial cancer spreads across the country with the $40 trillion in assets (which is certainly not bad news for either gold or Bitcoin)."
When Trump talked about winning, he must have been talking about holders of the yellow metal and its crypto cousin.
McCaffrey in Harvard Business Review
The Macro Problem of Microtransactions: The Self-regulatory Challenges of Video Game Loot Boxes by Matthew McCaffrey has been published as a case study for Harvard Business Review.
The video game industry has ignited a global controversy surrounding microtransactions in gaming, especially the use of loot boxes: randomized rewards with potential real-world value. Consumers and legislators are calling for the regulation of these revenue models on the grounds that they are unfair, predatory, or could be considered gambling. This article examines the controversy from a management perspective. First, I introduce current regulatory responses to the controversy and what they mean for business practices. Then, I explain ongoing industry-level and firm-level attempts to self-regulate as a way to placate consumers and governments. These tactics highlight a wide range of broader strategies that game developers and other stakeholders can pursue in order to improve customer relations and, more publicly, signal their commitment to self-regulation and avoiding consumer harm. These practices can be applied more broadly to firms that offer controversial products or services that do not yet fit within current regulatory frameworks.
Available for purchase here.
For more from McCaffrey on the topic on the Mises Wire:
Microtransactions and Loot Boxes: Can the Video Game Industry Regulate Itself?
The Looming Threat of Video Game Regulation
Happy Birthday Hans!
Today is Hans Hoppe's birthday. He is an outstanding libertarian theorist, in the tradition of Murray Rothbard, and his strikingly original work ranges widely over philosophy, history, and economics. Among his many contributions are a defense of self-ownership and property rights through argumentation ethics and a trenchant criticism of democracy. He is a scholar of the highest integrity and courage, and all lovers of liberty are in his debt.


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