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Juncker Warns ‘The EU Cannot Survive Without Italy’
Juncker Warns ‘The EU Cannot Survive Without Italy’ Ignoring warnings from the European Commission, the ECB and the European Commission (as well as practically every other supranational organization in Europe), the populist-led Italian government managed to submit their draft budget to the Commission before a midnight deadline – an outcome that was cheered by BTP […]
Zero-Down Subprime Mortgages Are Back, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Zero-Down Subprime Mortgages Are Back, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, banks are once again taking bets on the same type of loans that nearly collapsed the economy amid a flurry of emergency bailouts and unprecedented consolidations. Bank of America has backed a $10 billion program from Boston-based brokerage […]
Forget Oil, Here’s Saudi Arabia’s Other ‘Weapons’
Forget Oil, Here’s Saudi Arabia’s Other ‘Weapons’ There are not one, not two, but three ‘weapons’ on the “nuclear option” menu for Saudi Arabia to strike back at any US sanctions stemming from its alleged murder and dismemberment of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in what is now being reported as a “botched interrogation.” The first […]
US Spending On Interest Hits All Time High As Budget Deficit In Trump’s First Year Soars To $779 Billion
US Spending On Interest Hits All Time High As Budget Deficit In Trump’s First Year Soars To $779 Billion One month ago we already knew that the U.S. budget deficit for the 2018 fiscal year – Trump’s first full year in office – would be jarring after the August deficit soared to $211 billion, nearly […]
Peter Schiff: The Next Economic Crash Will Be “Far More Painful” Than The 2008 Recession
Peter Schiff: The Next Economic Crash Will Be “Far More Painful” Than The 2008 Recession Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff is sounding the alarm after this week’s market selloff, saying Wall Street and the U.S. economy are on the verge of a recession. “I think as Americans lose their jobs, they are going to see the […]
Saudi Blowback Wipes Billions From Softbank Shares
Saudi Blowback Wipes Billions From Softbank Shares Refusing to be cowed by a flurry of cancellations that have effectively gutted Riyadh’s Future Investment Initiative – colloquially known as “Davos in the Desert” – Saudi Arabia has lashed out at the US and its Western allies, warning that there will be hell to pay if anybody […]
Hedge Fund CIO: “Some See Parallels Between Today And The Late-1930s, Which Led To World War II”
Hedge Fund CIO: “Some See Parallels Between Today And The Late-1930s, Which Led To World War II” The future is unknowable. Yet never has capital been so concentrated in strategies that depend on the future closely resembling the past. The most dominant of these strategies requires bonds to rally when stocks fall. For decades, both […]
Shocktober’s Not Over – McElligott Sees More “Rolling Minsky Moments” As “Pseudo-Stability” Unravels
Shocktober’s Not Over – McElligott Sees More “Rolling Minsky Moments” As “Pseudo-Stability” Unravels Just before last week’s interest-rate driven market selloff entered its most acute phase, we cited CTA positioning data from Nomura showing that systematic funds had not yet begun the painful process of deleveraging as certain “triggers” had not yet been met. But […]
Saudi Stocks Crash Most Since 2016 As Riyadh Threatens US With “Very Strong” Retaliation
Saudi Stocks Crash Most Since 2016 As Riyadh Threatens US With “Very Strong” Retaliation Saudi Arabia warned on Sunday it would respond to any “threats” against it as its stock market crashed the most since 2016 after President Trump’s warning of “severe punishment” over the disappearance of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. On Saturday, Trump […]
Meet The Finance Professor Exposing Rigged Markets One Academic Paper At A Time
Meet The Finance Professor Exposing Rigged Markets One Academic Paper At A Time Finance professor John Griffin, along with his doctoral student companion, Amin Shams, were the two academics that drew market-moving conclusions about bitcoin last year, while the digital currency was trading around $20,000. After sifting through 2 terabytes of trading data, they alleged that […]
‘Trump Wants To Have Me Killed’, Says Venezuela’s Maduro
‘Trump Wants To Have Me Killed’, Says Venezuela’s Maduro As the US continues to send not-so-subtle signals that it could be open to a military invasion of Venezuela after a US-supported coup plot involving Venezuelan military officers fizzled, Nicolas Maduro – who only a few months ago evaded a bizarre assassination attempt involving C4-laden drones […]
US Officials Say Russia To “Seize” Syria’s Oilfields As Moscow Presses Europe On Reconstruction
US Officials Say Russia To “Seize” Syria’s Oilfields As Moscow Presses Europe On Reconstruction Russia is attempting to woo European countries like Germany into a program of reconstruction cooperation in Syria, where broad swathes of the country have been destroyed through seven years of grinding proxy war; however, Pentagon officials have charged Russia with wanting […]
Peter Schiff Explains “What Happens Next” In 47 Words
Peter Schiff Explains “What Happens Next” In 47 Words Outspoken critic of The Fed and one of the few that can see through the endless barrage of bullshit to how this really ends, has laid out in a tweet “what happens next”… Likely sequence of events: 1. Bear market; 2. Recession; 3. Deficits explode; 4. […]
Wednesday’s Rout Was An 8-Sigma Event: The 5th Largest Tail Event In History
Wednesday’s Rout Was An 8-Sigma Event: The 5th Largest Tail Event In History With markets in rebound mode today, the sellside’s fascination with Wednesday’s sharp, unexpected selloff continues. In the latest “hot take” on Wednesday’s dramatic drop, Goldman’s derivatives strategist Rocky Fishman takes on a different approach to the Wednesday rout, looking at it in […]
“An Atomic Bomb Has Hit Our City”: ‘Apocalyptic’ Post-Michael Scenes From Mexico Beach
“An Atomic Bomb Has Hit Our City”: ‘Apocalyptic’ Post-Michael Scenes From Mexico Beach If the nine-foot storm surge didn’t get them, the 150+ mph winds did. As Michael, the third-most-powerful hurricane to ever make landfall in the Continental US, prepares to make its exit into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, many residents of the Florida […]
