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It’s Official: China Confirms It Has Begun Liquidating Treasuries, Warns Washington
It’s Official: China Confirms It Has Begun Liquidating Treasuries, Warns Washington On Tuesday evening, we asked what would happen if emerging markets joined China in dumping US Treasurys. For months we’ve documented the PBoC’s liquidation of its vast stack of US paper. Back in July for instance, we noted that China had dumped a record $143 billion in US […]
Western Democracy Is An Endangered Species On Its Way To Extinction
Western Democracy Is An Endangered Species On Its Way To Extinction The British Labour Party no longer represents the working class. Under UK prime minister Tony Blair, the Labour Party became a vassal of the One Percent. The result has been a rebellion in the ranks and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, a principled Labourite […]
“Central Bankers Look Naked… & Investors Have Nothing Else To Believe In”
“Central Bankers Look Naked… & Investors Have Nothing Else To Believe In” Via RBS’ Alberto Gallo, “Policymakers responded to the financial crisis with easy monetary policy and low interest rates. The critics — including us — argued against ‘solving a debt crisis with more debt.’ Put differently, we said that QE was necessary, but not […]
China Is Pushing On A String Ensemble
China Is Pushing On A String Ensemble Look, it’s very clear where I stand on China; I’ve written a lot about it. And not just recently. Nicole Foss, who fully shares my views on the topic, reminded me the other day of a piece I wrote in July 2012, named Meet China’s New Leader : Pon […]
First the Miners, now the Banks, then Property? Going to be a Hard Landing for… Australia
First the Miners, now the Banks, then Property? Going to be a Hard Landing for… Australia A housing market set for the mother of all corrections. “I think it’s important that people don’t hyperventilate about these type of things.” With these words, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott tried to soothe the world’s rattled nerves today about the ongoing […]
China Loses All Control: Arrests Journalist, Financial Executive Over Market Crash
China Loses All Control: Arrests Journalist, Financial Executive Over Market Crash For two months, China has been on a quest to control both the stock market itself and the narrative around the stock market. After an unwind in the CNY1 trillion back alley margin lending complex sparked a late June selloff, China cobbled together a […]
China’s market woes could be chance to ‘reset’ Canadian economy
China’s market woes could be chance to ‘reset’ Canadian economy Canada should ‘rely less on commodity growth and put the emphasis on other sectors,’ analyst says China’s staggering economic growth has been, in many ways, a boon for Canada. Put simply, China need lots of the things we have to offer like wood, metals, and […]
The REAL Reason China’s Economy Is Crashing
The REAL Reason China’s Economy Is Crashing China 2015 = U.S. 2008 We noted in 2009, in a piece titled “China 2009 = America 2001 = Rome 11 BC“: One of the top experts on China’s economy – [economics professor] Michael Pettis – has a very long but interesting essay arguing that China is blowing a giant […]
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us Global markets are puking at the prospect of higher yields in the U.S. There are many reasons for global markets to melt down, but one that doesn’t get enough attention is the strong dollar. In effect, global markets are telling the Federal Reserve: don’t […]
BLACK MONDAY: The First Time EVER The Dow Has Dropped By More Than 500 Points On Two Consecutive Days
BLACK MONDAY: The First Time EVER The Dow Has Dropped By More Than 500 Points On Two Consecutive Days On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 588 points. It was the 8th worst single day stock market crash in U.S. history, and it was the first time that the Dow has ever fallen by more […]
It’s easy to deny a bubble but impossible to deny its implosion.
It’s easy to deny a bubble but impossible to deny its implosion. We’re having the kind of day when the New York Stock Exchange felt compelled toannounce very encouragingly before markets opened that it would halt trading for 15 minutes if the S&P 500 drops 7% to 1,833 before 3:25 p.m. Once trading restarts and the index plunges 13% […]
China Cuts Benchmark Interest Rate By 25bps, Cuts RRR By 50bps
China Cuts Benchmark Interest Rate By 25bps, Cuts RRR By 50bps What China was supposed to do over the weekend, and waited until its stock market tumbled another 16%, it has just done, because as MarketNews, Reuters and Bloomberg all just blasted, moments ago the PBOC cut both the benchmark and RRR rates: CHINA PBOC […]
Deutsche Bank Sums It Up “The Fragility Of This Artificially Manipulated Financial System Was Finally Exposed”
Deutsche Bank Sums It Up “The Fragility Of This Artificially Manipulated Financial System Was Finally Exposed” Today’s dose of vile tinfoil hattery magick comes straight from the bank with the cool $55 trillion or so in derivatives, Deutsche Bank: The fragility of this artificially manipulated financial system was exposed over the last couple of days of […]
How to Survive a Stock Market Crash
How to Survive a Stock Market Crash Last week, our stock market began to freefall. By Friday, August 21, the market was down more than 1300 points. Over the course of two days, it dropped further than any single-day crash in American history. But it wasn’t just the US stock market that had a bad week. According to […]
China share plunge drives selling in Asian, European markets
China share plunge drives selling in Asian, European markets Benchmark Shanghai Composite Index is down 38 per cent from its June 12 peak World stock markets plunged on Monday after China’s main index sank 8.5 per cent — its biggest drop since the early days of the global financial crisis — amid deepening fears over […]
