Category: foreign exchange

The Takeaway …

The only revolution of any consequence is a bottom-up revolution. I’m not talking about changing the ass that sits in a seat in an oval office or legislative branch. Under that scenario you are merely changing personalities that run problematic institutions.

Let’s face it. Most voters don’t want change. Voters are one step above an audience at the Apollo asking for the MC to bring out the hook to cart the current act of stage. That’s not change. That’s merely comic relief.

A bottom-up change means no representative government. It means getting rid of the delusion that everyone has an opportunity merely because they exist. On the contrary, bottom up means each household is forced to create their own economic value and trade it with households that generate their own independent economic value.

Whereas under the current corporate-capitalism model, a small handful of investors create a business model and hire you to conduct some limited task that expires when that handful of investors deems it expired, it is the individual household, the one that masters technology and serves the needs of other value generating households, that controls its economy by trading goods and services that it creates.

No top-down control. Bottom up and horizontal. An organic system that weeds out those whose only claim to economic fame is due to a corporation giving them a job or some government institution bailing them out in exchange for a vote.

The bottom-up system, fortunately, is already here. Nascent, yes, but emerging steadfastly and preparing to wipe out, without mercy, those who hope that whiny calls for how much their lives matter can guarantee them a few more safety pins for their diapers.

The writing has been on the wall. The ink is beginning to dry.

For the independent, “severe libertarian” types, it will be business as usual. They have always understood that building “wealth” on a phony fiat currency has never been the way to go and that leveraging a bottom-up revolution means controlling and issuing a currency that is substantive.

No. This revolution won’t be televised …. but won’t be a surprise.

Links you should follow …

Interbank. China’s interbank money market transactions shrank in April, with the transaction volume declining 22.19 percent year on year to stand at 95.5 trillion yuan (about 14.9 trillion U.S. dollars), according to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2021-05/29/content_77535245.htm

Interdealer. EU antitrust regulators on Friday fined the world’s largest interdealer broker ICAP 6.45 million euros ($7.9 million) for taking part in several yen interest rate derivatives https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-icap-cartel-idUSKCN2D9143

Foreign exchange. Zambia’s central bank increased the amount of foreign exchange that people can buy or sell daily in an effort to draw business away from the parallel market, Governor Christopher Mvunga said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-27/zambia-lifts-foreign-exchange-limits-to-counter-parallel-market?sref=oriheOus

Remittances. With the rebound in economic growth, remittances to low-middle-income countries will increase 2.6 percent in 2021 to 553 billion dollars, the World Bank informed today. https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=67893&SEO=global-economic-rebound-will-increase-remittances

Remittances. The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s Businessmen Panel Chairman Mian Anjum Nisar has expressed the hope that Pakistan would receive record remittance inflows of up to $29 billion this year, as the government and central bank initiatives to facilitate overseas workers have started giving positive results amidst worldwide corona epidemic challenges. https://www.brecorder.com/news/40096468/remittances-only-hope-to-support-account-balance

Banks. Tensions between Deutsche Bank and the Federal Reserve are rising.  In recent weeks, the Fed has told Deutsche Bank to address flaws in its anti-money-laundering controls, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-fed-is-reportedly-weighing-fines-for-deutsche-bank-over-the-banks-insufficient-anti-money-laundering-controls/ar-AAKxBBT