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One Bank Finally Admits The Fed’s “NOT QE” Is Indeed QE… And Could Lead To Financial Collapse
One Bank Finally Admits The Fed’s “NOT QE” Is Indeed QE… And Could Lead To Financial Collapse After a month of constant verbal gymnastics (and diarrhea from financial pundit sycophants who can’t think creatively or originally and merely parrot their echo chamber in hopes of likes/retweets) by the Fed that the recent launch of $60 […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – Nov 15th 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – Nov 15th 2019 “Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” As it’s a Friday I am contractually entitled to have a rant and whine about whatever I want to write about. Which, today, isn’t really the cut and thrust of markets. To be brutally […]
New COMEX Pledged Gold – Shrinking the Pool of Registered Inventory
New COMEX Pledged Gold – Shrinking the Pool of Registered Inventory For those who have at times struggled to understand the difference between COMEX inventory categories ‘registered gold’ and ‘eligible gold’, now your head can spin even more, since the CME’s COMEX has just introduced a new category – ‘pledged gold’. This pledged category was […]
Swiss National Bank’s Monetary Racket, US Stock Holdings & the Wild Ride of its Own Shares
Swiss National Bank’s Monetary Racket, US Stock Holdings & the Wild Ride of its Own Shares We’ll also look at its garbage pile at the bottom. These folks don’t even pretend to be stock pickers. They buy and let it stick till it falls off on its own. The Swiss National Bank, which filed its […]
Global Supply Chains Imploding As Quarter Of German Firms Plan To Leave China
Global Supply Chains Imploding As Quarter Of German Firms Plan To Leave China The Bussiness Confidence Survey 2019/20 published by the German Chamber of Commerce in China, in cooperation with KPMG in Germany, finds that almost a quarter of German companies operating in China are preparing to relocate production facilities. The survey was conducted from late July through […]
Rob Kirby-U.S. Dollar Rejection to Accelerate
ROB KIRBY – U.S. DOLLAR REJECTION TO ACCELERATE Returning SBTV guest, Rob Kirby of Kirby Analytics, had a though-provoking conversation with us – he questioned the ridiculousness that the US has never had a failed bond auction given the poor fundamentals of the US dollar, even as de-dollarization sentiments are accelerating. Discussed in this interview: 02:07 Fed unwinding balance […]
World Debt Downgrade Warning – Moody’s
World Debt Downgrade Warning – Moody’s ◆ A World Debt Downgrade Warning (WDDW) has been issued by credit rating agency Moody’s due to deepening global geopolitical uncertainty and risks ◆ Moody’s has issued a debt downgrade warning to the entire world on fears that severe political turmoil from London to Hong Kong poses a threat […]
Russia To Reduce US Dollars In National Wealth Fund As Putin’s De-Dollarization Continues
Russia To Reduce US Dollars In National Wealth Fund As Putin’s De-Dollarization Continues Russia’s de-dollarization effort is full steam ahead, in line with President Putin’s commitment to reduce the country’s vulnerability to the continuing threat of US sanctions. Crossing the wires early Wednesday morning, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Kolychev, was quoted by Reuters as […]
The Fed Is Losing Control Over Rates Again, This Time In The Other Direction
The Fed Is Losing Control Over Rates Again, This Time In The Other Direction Starting in late March, something unexpected happened: as the Effective Fed Funds rate drifted higher, it broke above the implicit upper bound on the interest rate corridor defined by the Interest on Excess Reserves. It was not meant to do this. This loss of […]
Guess Who Is Preparing For A Major Stock Market Crash?
Guess Who Is Preparing For A Major Stock Market Crash? Pessimism is spreading like wildfire on Wall Street, and this is particularly true among one very important group of investors. And considering how much money they have, it may be wise to listen to what they are telling us. According to a very alarming survey […]
BC’s Drilling and Fracking Credits a $1.2 Billion Subsidy in Recent Years, Researcher Finds
BC’s Drilling and Fracking Credits a $1.2 Billion Subsidy in Recent Years, Researcher Finds Credits reduce future royalties that frackers owe the public for access to the resource. “It’s been quite a battle to get to this stage,” said Ben Parfitt, a resource policy analyst with the B.C. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy […]
“Panic, Pure Panic” – Chilean Peso Collapses To 800/USD, Blowing Through Record Lows
“Panic, Pure Panic” – Chilean Peso Collapses To 800/USD, Blowing Through Record Lows The Chilean peso extended a four-day losing streak on Tuesday, sinking by the most in eight years, to a new record low at 800/USD. Bearish market sentiment, political chaos, and a national strike intended to ratchet up pressure on the government and its plans to […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How the Fed Boosts the 1%, as Told by the Fed
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How the Fed Boosts the 1%, as Told by the Fed Even the upper middle class loses share of household wealth to the 1%. The bottom half gets screwed.
World’s Ultra-Rich Preparing For Market Crash, UBS Warns
World’s Ultra-Rich Preparing For Market Crash, UBS Warns A synchronized global slowdown, with no end in sight, has spooked some of the wealthiest investors around the world, according to a new survey from UBS Wealth Management, seen by Bloomberg. UBS polled wealthy investors, who are preparing for a significant stock market correction by the end of next […]
