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China Changes Definition Of Aggregate Financing To Disguise Sharp Credit Slowdown
China Changes Definition Of Aggregate Financing To Disguise Sharp Credit Slowdown With investor attention increasingly focused on China’s credit pipeline to see if the recent crackdown on shadow lending has unlocked other sources of debt in a country where growth is always and only a credit phenomenon, and where both the housing and auto sectors […]
Saxo Q4 Outlook: A New Easing Cycle Based on Ugly Realities
Saxo Q4 Outlook: A New Easing Cycle Based on Ugly Realities Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, has today published its Q4 2018 Quarterly Outlook for global markets, including trading ideas covering equities, FX, currencies, commodities, and bonds, as well as a range of macro themes impacting client portfolios. “We are clearly at […]
The Market Isn’t The Economy: A Snapshot From The Depression
The Market Isn’t The Economy: A Snapshot From The Depression “We gathered on porches; the moon rose; we were poor. And time went by, drawn by slow horses. Somewhere beyond our windows shone the world. The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog.” – Pantoum of the Great Depression – Donald Justice. Wall Street insiders relish […]
Who Bought the $1.6 Trillion of New US National Debt Over the Past 12 Months?
Who Bought the $1.6 Trillion of New US National Debt Over the Past 12 Months? As a flood of US debt washes over the globe, someone has to buy. So far in this fiscal year, which just started on October 1, the US gross national debt – the total debt issued by the US government […]
Does Saudi Arabia Own Donald Trump?
DOES SAUDI ARABIA OWN DONALD TRUMP? ON TUESDAY MORNING, President Donald Trump tweeted: “For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!” ✔ For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi […]
Trump vs. The Fed: When Markets Crash, Who Is To Blame?
Trump vs. The Fed: When Markets Crash, Who Is To Blame? After a certain length of time examining history in-depth, anyone who is honest and relatively objective comes to understand that most of what we are told about our past in the mainstream is completely fabricated. We learn that much of “history” is not about […]
IMF Issues Dire Warning – ‘Great Depression’ Ahead?
IMF Issues Dire Warning – ‘Great Depression’ Ahead? – “Large challenges loom for the global economy to prevent a second Great Depression” warn IMF – Massive government debts and eroded fiscal buffers since 2008 suggest global dominos await a single market crash – 2008 crisis measures cast long, dark “terrifying” shadow Is another “Great Depression” on the horizon? […]
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson Photo Source Eli Christman | CC BY 2.0 “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” – President Andrew Jackson, Washington, July 10, 1832 They are three players, all problematic in their […]
Forced Buy-Ins Spark “Liquidity Crisis” In China’s ‘Nasdaq’
Forced Buy-Ins Spark “Liquidity Crisis” In China’s ‘Nasdaq’ Marking the worst year since 2008, China’s tech-heavy (Nasdaq-equivalent) Shenzhen Composite index is down a shocking 35% year-to-date, and it’s starting to become a self-feeding vicious circle… As Bloomberg reports, the most recent slump in the teach-heavy index comes despite regulators’ efforts to rein in risks of […]
The Great Depression II
The Great Depression II Whenever a movie has been a huge hit, the film industry tries to follow it up by doing a sequel. The sequel is almost invariably far more costly, as there’s the anticipation by those who create it that it will be an even bigger blockbuster than the original. The Great Depression […]
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros For International Trade
Venezuela Ditches US Dollar, Will Use Euros For International Trade Venezuela has just taken the next step in its quest to “free” itself from the tyranny of US dollar hegemony. One year after the country said it would stop accepting US dollars as payment for its (ever shrinking) oil exports (saying the country’s state-run oil […]
China & Japan Dump Treasuries As Dollar’s Reserve Status Slumps To 5 Year Lows
China & Japan Dump Treasuries As Dollar’s Reserve Status Slumps To 5 Year Lows Treasury International Capital flows showed Brazil the biggest buyer of Treasurys in August (followed by Ireland and France), but it was China and ‘ally’ Japan that dumped the most Treasurys in the month… Brazil is Steve Mnuchin’s best friend… As China […]
