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Kass: High Anxiety In The Markets
Kass: High Anxiety In The Markets “Brophy: I got it. I got it. I got it. [thump] Brophy: I ain’t got it.” – Mel Brooks, High Anxiety Arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, Dr. Richard Thorndyke has several odd encounters (such as a flasher impersonating a police officer, and a passing bus with a full orchestra playing inside it). Dr. Thorndyke […]
Fed To Ease Liquidity Requirements For Regional Banks As Brainard Warns Of More Bailouts
Fed To Ease Liquidity Requirements For Regional Banks As Brainard Warns Of More Bailouts On Wednesday the Federal Reserve is set to vote on proposals that would further ease capital requirements for banks with assets of $700 billion or lower, expanding on Trump’s promise to deregulate Wall Street. The biggest benefits will come to banks […]
Emerging Markets Face a New Problem as Trillions in Bonds Mature – and Soon
Emerging Markets Face a New Problem as Trillions in Bonds Mature – and Soon The U.S. dollar continues being the single most important factor for the Emerging Markets. And as the dollar keeps getting stronger – it will continue crippling them. “But isn’t a strong dollar supposed to be better for Emerging Markets by making […]
“We’re Back In The Real World Where Bad News Is Bad News”: To $1 Trillion Fund Manager, Turmoil Is “New Normal”
“We’re Back In The Real World Where Bad News Is Bad News”: To $1 Trillion Fund Manager, Turmoil Is “New Normal” For nearly a decade stocks enjoyed an environment of unprecedented bullishness, where good news was good news, and bad news was even better as it suggested central bank intervention via monetary stimulus, boosting asset […]
China Vows More Stimulus With Economy On Verge Of Contraction
China Vows More Stimulus With Economy On Verge Of Contraction Overnight, China revealed the latest confirmation that its economy is slowing more conventional wisdom realizes when the National Bureau of Statistics reported that the manufacturing PMI fell to 50.2 in October – on the verge of a sub-50 contraction – down from 50.8 in September […]
Why’s France so Worried about Italy’s Showdown with Brussels?
Why’s France so Worried about Italy’s Showdown with Brussels? The French megabanks are on the hook. France was just served with a stark reminder of an inconvenient truth: €277 billion of Italian government debt — the equivalent of 14% of French GDP — is owed to French banks. Given that Italy’s government is currently locked […]
The Corporate Debt Bubble
The Corporate Debt Bubble The largest asset bubbles occur while economic growth and inflation remain positive, but subdued, for extended periods of time. According to its dual mandate, the Federal Reserve focuses primarily on growth and price stability, and tends to ignore the creation of asset bubbles as long as economic activity is not running […]
Contagion
Contagion The word contagion is easy enough to understand. Whether the spread of disease or disaster, sometimes it is difficult if not impossible to contain. In financial terms, contagion is often thought of along the lines of 2011; Greece started it and it spread throughout the rest of Southern Europe. The euro was coming apart, […]
Is Cliffhanger Market Just Beginning?
Is Cliffhanger Market Just Beginning? The following is an example of the type of research we provide members of The Lyons Share— on top of daily commentary covering our outlook on the markets and analysis of all the pertinent current charting developments. Swift corrections from market highs have, at times, marked the beginning of longer-term […]
Peter Schiff: The Rising Interest Rates Will Collapse The Stock Market
Peter Schiff: The Rising Interest Rates Will Collapse The Stock Market Economic guru Peter Schiff is sounding more economic alarms. This time, without mincing words, he says that the Federal Reserve’s raising of the interest rates will cause a stock market collapse. Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff and Steven Quirk, the executive vice president […]
Degrowth: A Call For Radical Abundance
DEGROWTH: A CALL FOR RADICAL ABUNDANCE When orthodox economists first encounter the idea of degrowth, they often jump to the conclusion that the objective is to reduce GDP. And because they see GDP as equivalent to social wealth, this makes them very upset. Nothing could be further from the truth. I reject the fetishization of […]
Iran’s Worst Nightmare Is Coming True
Iran’s Worst Nightmare Is Coming True In what must seem like a nightmare scenario for Iran, not only is another U.S. president leveling sanctions against its economy, and particularly that economy’s lifeblood, its oil sector, but the current U.S. president has admittedly made it his mission to drive Tehran to its knees over what he […]
Not Waving But Drowning–Stocks, Debt and Inflation?
NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING – STOCKS, DEBT AND INFLATION? The US stock market is close to being in a corrective phase -10% off its highs Global debt has passed $63trln – well above the levels on 2007 Interest rates are still historically low, especially given the point in the economic cycle Predictions of a bear-market […]
Hitler’s Economics
Hitler’s Economics For today’s generation, Hitler is the most hated man in history, and his regime the archetype of political evil. This view does not extend to his economic policies, however. Far from it. They are embraced by governments all around the world. The Glenview State Bank of Chicago, for example, recently praised Hitler’s economics […]
