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ECB Minutes Reveal Fears About Currency Wars, Euro Slides
ECB Minutes Reveal Fears About Currency Wars, Euro Slides There were two distinct reactions in the Euro to today’s ECB Minutes, released this morning. At first, the EUR jumped following initial headlines that the ECB acknowledged that revisiting the guidance would be “part of a the regular reassessment” going forward, but noting that any changes […]
The Irresponsible ECB
Daniel Roland/AFP/Getty Images The Irresponsible ECB Ultra-loose monetary policy stopped being appropriate long ago, and is especially inadvisable now, with the global economy – especially the developed world – experiencing an increasingly strong recovery. As recent stock-market turbulence shows, refusal to normalize policy faster is drastically increasing the risks to financial stability. FRANKFURT – The Dow […]
Latvia Bank Crisis: Central Bank In Chaos As ECB Blocks Payments By Third Largest Bank
Latvia Bank Crisis: Central Bank In Chaos As ECB Blocks Payments By Third Largest Bank One day after we reported that the central bank governor and ECB Governing Council member Ilmars Rimsevics was detained by Latvia’s anti-corruption authority on Saturday on suspicion of accepting a bribe of more than €100,000, prompting both Latvia’s Prime Minister […]
Central Banks Will Let The Next Crash Happen
Central Banks Will Let The Next Crash Happen If you have been following the public commentary from central banks around the world the past few months, you know that there has been a considerable change in tone compared to the last several years. For example, officials at the European Central Bank are hinting at a […]
Conflict between Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Conflict between Fiscal & Monetary Policy We are moving into a crisis of monumental proportions. There has been a serious fundamental problem infecting economic policy on a global scale. This conflict has been between monetary and fiscal policy. While central banks engaged in Quantitative Easing, governments have done nothing but reap the benefits of low-interest rates. This […]
Don’t Expect A Central Bank Bailout This Time, ECB’s Nowotny Warns
Don’t Expect A Central Bank Bailout This Time, ECB’s Nowotny Warns To all those hoping for a sign or signal from central bankers that the recent correction in US stocks was necessary and sufficient for intervention, here are some disappointing examples of what they have said recently: “If stock prices or asset prices more generally […]
ECB Forced to postpone New Stricter Credit Rules Indefinitely
ECB Forced to postpone New Stricter Credit Rules Indefinitely The ECB’s was forced to suspend its new stricter credit rules indefinitely concerning bad loans. The banks were screaming “you idiot” for it would have pushed way too many banks over the edge, particularly in Italy. With the Italian elections coming in March, the new rules would […]
Our Outlook For 2018 Interest Rates to Stay Low. The Consensus View is That Europe’s Banks Are Recovering But We Are Not So Sure.
OUR OUTLOOK FOR 2018 INTEREST RATES TO STAY LOW. THE CONSENSUS VIEW IS THAT EUROPE’S BANKS ARE RECOVERING BUT WE ARE NOT SO SURE. The Interest Rate Outlook Despite their shortcomings, European banks do not seem on the verge of collapse and few commentators, analysts or policymakers think that there will be any systemic wobbles […]
ECB Spawned Mass Culture of Financial Dependency that’s Now Very Hard to Undo
ECB Spawned Mass Culture of Financial Dependency that’s Now Very Hard to Undo Right at the front of the monetary welfare queue is the government of Italy. As the Eurozone economy continues to grow, pressure is rising on Europe’s biggest bond buyer, the ECB, to withdraw from the market, a process it has already begun. […]
Stressful Year Ahead for Spanish Banks
Stressful Year Ahead for Spanish Banks The “spillover effects.” Just how much more stress Europe’s banking system can bear will be one of the big questions of 2018. This year was already a pretty stressful year, what with two major Italian banks being put out of their misery while, another, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, […]
Stranger Things
Stranger Things The hidden agenda in the so-called tax reform bill is to act as stop-gap quantitative easing to plug the “liquidity” hole that is opening up as the Federal Reserve (America’s central bank) makes a few gestures to winding down its balance sheet and “normalizing” interest rates. Thus, the aim of the tax […]
It’s More Than Just the Absences of Acceleration, It’s the Synchronization Where There Should Be None
IT’S MORE THAN JUST THE ABSENCE OF ACCELERATION, IT’S THE SYNCHRONIZATION WHERE THERE SHOULD BE NONE BY JEFFREY P. SNIDER According to the latest ECB figures, as of yesterday total “liquidity” added to the European banking system for that central bank’s ongoing monetary “stimulus” was just shy of €2 trillion. The outstanding balance in the […]
ECB and the Coming Banking Crisis
ECB and the Coming Banking Crisis QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Your post of November 16th where you state that the ECB is looking to freeze accounts in a banking crisis, does that mean they will no longer honour the claimed insurance of €100,000 per account? PH ANSWER: No. They will not pretend to eliminate that […]
Protect Your Savings With Gold: ECB Propose End To Deposit Protection
Protect Your Savings With Gold: ECB Propose End To Deposit Protection – Protect Your Savings With Gold: ECB Propose End To Deposit Protection – New ECB paper proposes ‘covered deposits’ should be replaced to allow for more flexibility – Fear covered deposits may lead to a run on the banks – Savers should be reminded […]
Weekly Commentary: “Not Clear What That Means”
Weekly Commentary: “Not Clear What That Means” November 15 – Bloomberg (Nishant Kumar and Suzy Waite): “Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn said the problems that caused the global financial crisis a decade ago still haven’t been resolved. ‘Have we learned our lesson? It depends what the lesson was…’ Einhorn said he identified several issues at the […]
