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The Global Distortions of Doom Part 1: Hyper-Indebted Zombie Corporations
The Global Distortions of Doom Part 1: Hyper-Indebted Zombie Corporations The defaults and currency crises in the periphery will then move into the core. It’s funny how unintended consequences so rarely turn out to be good. The intended consequences of central banks’ unprecedented tsunami of stimulus (quantitative easing, super-low interest rates and easy credit / […]
Marketing War: the Incessant Drumbeat of Mortal Danger
Marketing War: the Incessant Drumbeat of Mortal Danger Photo Source The National Guard | CC BY 2.0 The claim that the national security of the United States requires that more than half the nation’s discretionary budget must be devoted to the maintenance of armies, global strategic bases and massive armaments is false. Until we can […]
Spain: IMF Highlights Rising Risks
Spain: IMF Highlights Rising Risks The International Monetary Fund can be criticized for many things, but its analysis of countries’ debt risk tends to be worth a read. In this case, the International Monetary Fund has once again warned Spain of the risk of reversing reforms and increasing imbalances. It asks to deepen in the labor reform […]
Italian Stocks, Bonds Collapse After EU Rejects Rome’s Budget Plans
Italian Stocks, Bonds Collapse After EU Rejects Rome’s Budget Plans Italian stocks tumbled with the FTSE MIB dropping 2.3% – the worst performer among major European markets on Monday – and hitting its lowest level since April 2017, while the country’s bonds plunged to the lowest level since February 2014 amid what now appears to […]
“Waiting For The World To End” – Bond Rout Bodes Badly For Exuberant Equity Investors
“Waiting For The World To End” – Bond Rout Bodes Badly For Exuberant Equity Investors It was a tough week for stock market investors but the primary driver of the chaotic crumble in small caps and tech stocks was not one of the usual suspects and even for those who consider themselves ‘hedged’ or balanced […]
Italy’s Debt Crisis Flares Up, Banks Get Hit, as Showdown with the EU Intensifies
Italy’s Debt Crisis Flares Up, Banks Get Hit, as Showdown with the EU Intensifies Who will blink first? A serious showdown is brewing in the Eurozone as Italy’s anti-establishment coalition government takes on the EU establishment in a struggle that could have major ramifications for Europe’s monetary union. The cause of the discord is the […]
Sydney playing risky and costly metropoly games amid oil price fears (part 1)
Sydney playing risky and costly metropoly games amid oil price fears (part 1) Sydney must be the only city in the world which closes its most modern heavy rail tunnel, 12.5 kms, designed for its ubiquitous double deckers and used by long distance commuters for an unacceptable long period of 7 months, only to be […]
Inverted Global Yield Curve Creates “The Perfect Cocktail For A Liquidity Crunch” As The IMF Warns Of “A Second Great Depression”
Inverted Global Yield Curve Creates “The Perfect Cocktail For A Liquidity Crunch” As The IMF Warns Of “A Second Great Depression” Why would the IMF use the phrase “a second Great Depression” in a report that they know the entire world will read? To be more precise, the IMF stated that “large challenges loom for […]
Danske Bank – Who helped them Launder?
Danske Bank – Who helped them Launder? A couple of days ago the always good Francis Coppola wrote a piece for Forbes entitled, The Banks That Helped Danske Bank Estonia Launder Russian Money In it she made the simple but essential point that while Danske Bank, through its Estonian branch, had laundered $234 billion, …Danske Bank […]
China Cuts Reserve Ratio, Releases 1.2 Trillion Yuan Amid Rising Trade War, Record Defaults
China Cuts Reserve Ratio, Releases 1.2 Trillion Yuan Amid Rising Trade War, Record Defaults China’s central bank announced it would cut the Required Reserve Ratio (RRR) for most banks by 1.0% effective October 15 for the fourth time in 2018, a little over three months after the PBOC announced a similar cut on June 24, […]
Former Fed Governor Warns Of “Several Decade Cold War” With China
Former Fed Governor Warns Of “Several Decade Cold War” With China Former Fed governor Kevin Warsh warned on Thursday that the US-China relationship is “probably as poor as” it has ever been since former President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger developed strategic relations between both countries in the early 1970s. “We’re at the risk of a […]
Most Bearish of Economic Charts Are Reason To Be Most Bullish on Financial Assets
Most Bearish of Economic Charts Are Reason To Be Most Bullish on Financial Assets In the land of the blind (economics), the one eyed man is king. So, forget everything you know (or don’t know) about economics and follow some very simple math that economists (and financiers, Fed chiefs, and administration after administration) are unwilling to […]
Macquarie: “There Is A Growing Possibility That The Plot Might Go Terribly Wrong”
Macquarie: “There Is A Growing Possibility That The Plot Might Go Terribly Wrong” EMs in the crosshairs: Between war games, fake news and bonds From military exercises to trade wars, the fury is intensifying. At the same time, global liquidity is compressing while rates are rising. Growing uncertainty, contracting liquidity & rising cost of capital […]
The US Spent A Record $523 Billion On Debt Interest In Fiscal 2018
The US Spent A Record $523 Billion On Debt Interest In Fiscal 2018 Earlier this week, when the US closed fiscal 2018 on September 30, we reported that US gross national debt jumped by $84 billion on September 28, the last business day of fiscal year 2018; with this last push higher, total gross national […]
