Ben Bernanke: We need new rules of the game

Posted: 3rd Aug 2015
Author: Willem Middelkoop

Jim Rickards had the privilege of spending time with Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System, in Seoul, South Korea recently, because both were keynote speakers at an international financial forum. According to Rickards Ben Bernanke was explicit that a financial reset is needed to end the dysfunction of the current system. I will quote Read the full article…

Larry Summers: U.S. may just have lost its role as underwriter of the global economic system

Posted: 9th May 2015
Author: Willem Middelkoop

After China made public 57 countries would become founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) the Wall Street Journal reported that the US ‘had lobbied hard against Chinese plans for a new infrastructure development bank […] including during teleconferences of the Group of Seven major industrial powers.’ The news that the UK would Read the full article…

U.S. loses allies to China

Posted: 17th Mar 2015
Author: Willem Middelkoop

Now Europe (incl. UK) openly joins the new BRICS-bank and Germany says to be alarmed about NATO/US aggression Washington must have a feeling they are losing control over a carefully designed dollar-centred world quickly. As the second Wold War drew to a close and after two and a half years of planning for postwar reconstruction, Read the full article…