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Nobody Knows Anything
Nobody Knows Anything The more I read and observe the clearer the message: Nobody knows anything. And by that I mean nobody truly knows how any of this will turn out and I think this point needs to be driven home more clearly. Tons of projections of this, that and the other. Just stop. I happen […]
COMEX can’t find a 400 oz bar for its new 400 oz gold futures contract
COMEX can’t find a 400 oz bar for its new 400 oz gold futures contract Update 31 March After this article was published early morning March 31, New York Time (NYT), the CME has now completely removed the 400 oz gold bar category from its COMEX daily gold inventory report dated March 30, and reissued […]
Atlas Is Shrugging
Atlas Is Shrugging “Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… The only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” – Ayn Rand Congress has just approved an economically bloated $2.2 trillion spending relief bill, an amount more substantial than the GDP of all […]
Maersk Crew Hospitalized In First Ever COVID-19 Cases On Board A Container Ship
Maersk Crew Hospitalized In First Ever COVID-19 Cases On Board A Container Ship Despite one of the the world’s largest shipping lines, Maersk, recently suspending all crew changes aboard its container vessels for up to one month in order to shield crew and operations from the coronavirus and keep them “as normal as possible,” this weekend witnessed the first ever confirmed cases […]
Fed Launches Repo Facility To Provide Dollars To Foreign Central Bank
Fed Launches Repo Facility To Provide Dollars To Foreign Central Bank With US dealers no longer using the Fed’s repo facilities (this morning we had another “no bid” overnight repo with just $250MM in MBS submitted for a $500 billion op) as the Fed soaks up all securities via its aggressive QE which is still […]
“The Biggest Decline Ever”: Goldman Now Sees US GDP Crashing 34% In Q2
“The Biggest Decline Ever”: Goldman Now Sees US GDP Crashing 34% In Q2 Just over a week ago, when we reported on the ongoing feud between Goldman and JPM to come up with the most terrifying GDP forecast for the US, and when we asked if a Second Great Depression has begun after Goldman’s chief economist Jan […]
“This Could Turn Violent” – Italian Officials Fear South Turning Into A Powder Keg
“This Could Turn Violent” – Italian Officials Fear South Turning Into A Powder Keg Signs of social unrest in major Western cities could be developing over the next few weeks, and as we previously warned last Friday, a global depression with high unemployment could unleash a “social bomb” in European countries and or North America. […]
Will Coronavirus End the Fed?
Will Coronavirus End the Fed? September 17, 2019 was a significant day in American economic history. On that day, the New York Federal Reserve began emergency cash infusions into the repurchasing (repo) market. This is the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other. The New York Fed acted after interest rates in […]
Peter Schiff: Americans Are in For a Rude Awakening
Peter Schiff: Americans Are in For a Rude Awakening All eyes have been on the stock market in recent weeks as it has reflected the fears about the coronavirus-induced economic shutdown and the hopes of massive stimulus. It’s been quite a rollercoaster ride. But in his podcast on March 27, Peter Schiff said there’s an […]
Jim Grant Warns Fed’s ‘All-In’ Actions Are A “Clear-And-Present-Danger” To US Creditors
Jim Grant Warns Fed’s ‘All-In’ Actions Are A “Clear-And-Present-Danger” To US Creditors In a veritable treatise on all that was wrong with The Fed’s actions, Jim Grant – founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer – was somehow allowed nine minutes on CNBC’s Squawk Box to put America straight on what we are facing […]
Energy Collapse, Earnings Ennui, & Consumer Credit Cracks
Energy Collapse, Earnings Ennui, & Consumer Credit Cracks Summary: The energy sector has lost extraordinarily $1.15trn in market value this year as oil prices have plunged to almost unimaginable levels. In this equity update we provide investors with different ways to play the havoc in the energy sector. We also take a look at earnings this week […]
What Will Be the Unintended Consequences of Printing Trillions of Dollars to Backstop the Entire System?
What Will Be the Unintended Consequences of Printing Trillions of Dollars to Backstop the Entire System? Stocks are up somewhat this morning. This marks the second Monday stocks will open in the green (last Monday was a green open as well) following two horrifically bad weekend sessions that saw stocks open limit down or close […]
“This Is The Largest Economic Shock Of Our Lifetimes”: Goldman Sees Negative Prices Amid Oil Devastation
“This Is The Largest Economic Shock Of Our Lifetimes”: Goldman Sees Negative Prices Amid Oil Devastation Over the weekend, we reported that with the oil industry oversupplied by a mindblowing 20 million barrels daily as roughly 20% of total global output ends up unused in a world economy that has ground to a halt, and instead has to be […]
