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China’s Credit Creation Unexpectedly Collapses At The Worst Possible Time
China’s Credit Creation Unexpectedly Collapses At The Worst Possible Time Over the weekend, we observed that China’s slumping wholesale inflation, or PPI, which is so critical for corporate profits and sparking benign, demand-driven inflation in the economy, and which in October tumbled to a three year low assuring that Chinese dumping and exports of deflation will only further […]
“Not QE”, Monetization, & “Definitely Asset Inflation”
“Not QE”, Monetization, & “Definitely Asset Inflation” Chart below shows the Federal Reserve holdings of Treasuries, a weekly change (black columns) and total holdings (red line) during QE1, QE2, Operation Twist, QE3, QT, and “Not QE”. Got it?!? This current “Not QE” explosion in QE is like some kind of old time vaudeville act (like […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – November 11th 2019
BLAIN’S FINANCIAL PORRIDGE – NOV 11TH 2019 “Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well. He rained us with bullets and showered us with shell. In five minutes flat he’d blown us all to hell. . ” Last week stock markets staged a spectacular rally off the back of the “improved” trade outlook. Bonds […]
Morgan Stanley: “Climate Will Be A Key Driver Of Asset Prices In The Months And Years Ahead”
Morgan Stanley: “Climate Will Be A Key Driver Of Asset Prices In The Months And Years Ahead” “Sunday Start”, authored by Morgan Stanley equity strategist, Jessica Alsford In three weeks, the world’s leaders will begin to gather in Madrid for the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference. The intensity of the global climate strikes this […]
Broke Bond Markets Mounting: Italy Surpasses Greece As Europe’s Riskiest Sovereign
Broke Bond Markets Mounting: Italy Surpasses Greece As Europe’s Riskiest Sovereign As yields soar optimistically around the world, pushing negative-yielding debt below $12 trillion – the lowest since June, but hey, it’s still $12,000,000,000,000 of insanity, central-planners’ incessant meddling with global markets has sparked another WTF-moment in capital market history. A mere twelve trillion dollars worth […]
Bankers Going for Broke Because They Know it’s Broke – G. Edward Griffin
Bankers Going for Broke Because They Know it’s Broke – G. Edward Griffin Edward Griffin, author of the wildly popular book about the Federal Reserve “The Creature from Jekyll Island,” is holding a conference this weekend called “Red Pill Expo.” It is all about waking people up from the illusions they are being told. Griffin […]
Plans for a global Dystopia
Plans for a global Dystopia Global policy planners intend to deliver replacements for both dollar hegemony and fossil fuels. Plans may appear uncoordinated and in their early stages, but these issues are becoming increasingly linked. A monetary reset incorporating state-sponsored cryptocurrencies will enable exchange controls to be introduced between nations by separating cross-border trade payments […]
Global Debt Is Up To $188,000,000,000,000 – This Is Officially The Biggest Debt Bubble The World Has Ever Seen
Global Debt Is Up To $188,000,000,000,000 – This Is Officially The Biggest Debt Bubble The World Has Ever Seen The world is now 188 trillion dollars in debt, and that number continues to grow rapidly each year. It is a form of enslavement that is deeply insidious, because most of those living on the planet […]
The Fed’s Dilemma Is Our Problem!
The Fed’s Dilemma Is Our Problem! Pundit Bill Bonner predicts: “Most likely, the stock market will crash sometime before the 2020 election. We can’t know when. …. The end of the stock market boom, too, is unpredictable. But each passing day brings us a day closer to when it will crash and burn.” Bonner’s prediction is […]
Fed Goes Nuts with Repos & T-Bills but Sheds Mortgage Backed Securities
Fed Goes Nuts with Repos & T-Bills but Sheds Mortgage Backed Securities The fastest increase in assets for any two-month period since the post-Lehman freak show in late 2008 and early 2009. Total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet, released today, jumped by $94 billion over the past month through November 6, to $4.04 trillion, after […]
Fed Warns Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The Economy
Fed Warns Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The Economy What is a good way for the Fed to deflect attention from the fact that after a decade of liquidity injections it has created the world’s largest asset bubble? Why point to another, even bigger – in its view – threat. And with green […]
The Economic Crash So Far: A Look At The Real Numbers
The Economic Crash So Far: A Look At The Real Numbers There are many problems when attempting to track a faltering economy. For one, the people in government generally do not want the public to know when the system is in decline because this looks bad for them. They prefer to rig statistical indicators as […]
Grant Williams: A Reset Of The System Is Inevitable
Grant Williams: A Reset Of The System Is Inevitable We need to clear the malinvestment that never got addressed during the GF While at the New Orleans Investment Conference this past weekend, Chris and I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Grant Williams, publisher of the economic blog Things That Make You Go Hmmm and […]
Crashing The Financial System For Fun And Profit
Crashing The Financial System For Fun And Profit Huge Fortunes Can Be Made In Falling Markets It would be wise to remember we are in uncharted waters and this market could reverse on a dime. The stories flowing out of companies such as WeWork that are burning through cash screams danger ahead! This means we […]
When Was I Radicalized? (Boeing edition)
When Was I Radicalized? (Boeing edition) Dick Fuld never saw a courtroom, much less a jail cell. When was I radicalized? When Dick Fuld walked away scot-free from Lehman with half a billion dollars in cash comp and stock sales during his tenure. I thought of Dick Fuld today when I saw this picture and […]
