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THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Fed’s Bailout of the Repo Market?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Fed’s Bailout of the Repo Market? Whose Bets are Getting Bailed Out by the Fed’s Repos & Treasury Bill Purchases?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends What’s astonishing is how long it lasts (9 minutes).
The Crisis in Catalonia & What I Saw in Our Neighborhood in Barcelona
The Crisis in Catalonia & What I Saw in Our Neighborhood in Barcelona As separatist region is rocked by violence, businesses sound alarm. Two of Catalonia’s biggest business associations, Foment de Treball and Pimec, have called for calm and dialogue after ten days of non-stop political and civil unrest in the separatist region of Spain. At a […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How the SoftBank Scheme Rips Open the Tech Bubble
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How the SoftBank Scheme Rips Open the Tech Bubble The biggest force behind the startup bubble in the US has been SoftBank. But the scheme has run into trouble, and a lot is at stake (12 minutes).
US Gross National Debt Jumps by $1.2 Trillion in Fiscal 2019, to $22.7 Trillion, Hits 106.5% of GDP
US Gross National Debt Jumps by $1.2 Trillion in Fiscal 2019, to $22.7 Trillion, Hits 106.5% of GDP But what happens if there’s actually a recession? The US gross national debt jumped by $110 billion on the last two business days of Fiscal Year 2019, and by a breath-taking $1.2 trillion during the entire fiscal […]
Metro Bank Teeters after Bond Sale Fails. Shares Collapsed 95%
Metro Bank Teeters after Bond Sale Fails. Shares Collapsed 95% Hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen and Michael Bloomberg are among those ruing the day they bought the crushed shares of the UK bank touted as a “bargain.” Even by its own recent standards, Metro Bank has had a torrid week. On Monday, shares of the British […]
Use of “Hidden Debt Loophole” Spreads Among Australian Corporations
Use of “Hidden Debt Loophole” Spreads Among Australian Corporations Situation already so bad that hiding debt becomes a priority? Australian engineering group UGL, which is working on large infrastructure projects such as Brisbane’s Cross River Rail and Melbourne’s Metro Trains, recently sent a letter to suppliers and sub-contractors informing them that as of October 15, they will […]
Here’s What I’m Worried About. And It’s Not a Recession
Here’s What I’m Worried About. And It’s Not a Recession A rout in the hyper-inflated bond market can blow up everything at this point. The locker room at my swim club has become the litmus test. When a complex topic, after years of being absent or ignored, suddenly crops up in conversation, and not just […]
How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy
How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy Now they’re clamoring for this NIRP absurdity in the US. How will this end? Now there is talk everywhere that the United States too will descend into negative interest rates. And there are people on Wall Street and in the media that are hyping this absurd condition […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Giant Sucking Sound of Financial Repression
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Giant Sucking Sound of Financial Repression In the US alone, it impacts nearly $40 trillion. And there are consequences for the real economy (10 minutes). Enjoy reading WOLF STREET and want to support it? Using ad blockers – I totally get why – but want to support the site? You can […]
Markets Might Hafta Grapple with “Patient”: Fed Rate Cut in July After This Inflation?
Markets Might Hafta Grapple with “Patient”: Fed Rate Cut in July After This Inflation? Not a rate-cut economy. The inflation index that the Fed has anointed to be the yardstick for its inflation target – the PCE price index without the volatile food and energy components – rose 0.19% in May from April, according to […]
No, Rate Cuts Were Not Discussed: ECB Insiders Out Draghi as Fabricator & Schemer, and Talk to Reuters
No, Rate Cuts Were Not Discussed: ECB Insiders Out Draghi as Fabricator & Schemer, and Talk to Reuters Draghi’s shenanigans get hilarious, months before his term ends. So here’s ECB President Mario Draghi, whose term ends in October, and he’s at the ECB Forum in Portugal, and in a speech on Tuesday titled innocuously, “Twenty Years of […]
“New Economic or Financial Crisis” in the Eurozone Could Start in Italy: French Government Frets
“New Economic or Financial Crisis” in the Eurozone Could Start in Italy: French Government Frets French banks are heavily exposed to Italy. “Don’t underestimate the impact of the Italian recession.” This was the stark warning from French Economy Minister Bruno Le Marie in an interview with Bloomberg News. “We talk a lot about Brexit, but we don’t […]
We’re Flying with Eyes Partially Closed into Turbulent Markets & Economy
We’re Flying with Eyes Partially Closed into Turbulent Markets & Economy But for the markets: “No Data is Good Data” “NOTICE: Due to a lapse in federal funding this website is not being updated,” it says in big lettering against a bright red background at the top of the data sites of the Department of […]
Stock-Market Margin Debt Plummets Most Since Q4 2008
Stock-Market Margin Debt Plummets Most Since Q4 2008 Wow, that was fast. Margin calls. During the ugly stock-market December, whose ugliness bottomed out on Christmas Eve, a nasty November, and the ugliest October anyone can remember, margin debt plunged by a combined $93.8 billion, the most since Q4 2008, after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. […]
