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China Is Just Another Front in the Zombie War
China Is Just Another Front in the Zombie War LONDON – This morning, a desperate message from our analyst in Beijing puts us in a lighthearted mood: I’m sure you must have heard about the recent disaster in the Chinese stock market. It’s my first time experiencing something like this. And it shocked me. It’s […]
Why China’s Market Isn’t Fixed And The Global Bubble Will Keep Imploding
Why China’s Market Isn’t Fixed And The Global Bubble Will Keep Imploding China’s stock market is purportedly all fixed and the last two day’s 10% bounce is just the beginning. Indeed, Goldman Sachs has already reiterated that the whole thing is on the level, and that the red chips will again be taking flight: China’s biggest stock-market rout since 1992 […]
Mapping The World’s “Grey Swans”
Mapping The World’s “Grey Swans” As H2 2015 begins, Goldman looks at so-called “grey swans” – known market risks that could prove particularly disruptive. From China credit risks to Russia and from rate volatility to Russia with Middle East tensions, cyber threats, and illiquidity-induced ‘flash-crashes’, the known-but-not-priced-in risks are rising… because – simply put – central bank omnipotence […]
Maintaining the Illusion of Stability Now Requires Ever-Greater Extremes
Maintaining the Illusion of Stability Now Requires Ever-Greater Extremes This much-needed re-set to an economy that serves the many rather than the few is what the Powers That Be are so fearful of. On the surface, everything still looks remarkably stable in the core industrial economies. The stock markets in Japan, Germany and the U.S. are […]
Losing Control
Losing Control Markets are beginning to signal that policy makers are losing control. Many second-order-effects of the unprecedented and experimental global actions taken since the 2008 crisis are beginning to manifest. There are always causes and effects that develop; but they do so at different speeds. Many actions in recent years have prioritized ‘benefits today’ […]
China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge
China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge Here is a brief sample of some of the measures the Chinese government and the PBOC have unleashed in just the past ten days to prop up the crashing market include: a ban on major shareholders, corporate executives, directors from […]
SoT #41 – Wolf Richter: How Will The Global Asset Bubbles Unfold?
SoT #41 – Wolf Richter: How Will The Global Asset Bubbles Unfold? Stock bubble, credit market bubbles and housing market bubbles. Unfettered money printing by Central Banks globally have created massive bubbles of unprecedented proportions across all asset classes. Once Government and the Central Banks lose the power to stop markets from going down, you’ll […]
A Fine Balance: China’s Need for Resources and Stability in the South China Sea
A Fine Balance: China’s Need for Resources and Stability in the South China Sea The shift in demographic and economic weight from Europe to East Asia has intensified over the past 20 years, which makes East Asia and its coastal areas increasingly important – a critical shift in current and future international relations dynamics underscored […]
The Chilling Thing Gartner Just Said About a Once Hot Engine of Global Growth
The Chilling Thing Gartner Just Said About a Once Hot Engine of Global Growth Hope took another hit from the reality of fickle, strung-out consumers. Apple sold 1.5 million watches during the first week, about 200,000 a day, its most successful product launch ever. Before the launch, media hype had become a total-immersion program. No […]
The Crash in China Continues – and is Engulfing Hong Kong
The Crash in China Continues – and is Engulfing Hong Kong Efforts of Potent Directors Ignored When we first commented on the emerging problems with China’s market bubble, we warned that although a bounce from oversold levels was the most likely outcome, it wasn’t set in stone. It appeared to us that Chinese investors were especially prone […]
Panicked Chinese Government Imposes Desperate Measures to “Aggressively” Rescue a Lot More Than Just Crashing Stocks
Panicked Chinese Government Imposes Desperate Measures to “Aggressively” Rescue a Lot More Than Just Crashing Stocks Stock-market rescue measures, concocted by the government, have been hailing down for days, including an interest rate cut by the People’s Bank of China a week ago. But the collapse proceeded with brutal relentlessness. So now, Premier Li Keqiang […]
Greece, China, and Russia – a Plan B for Greece
Greece, China, and Russia – a Plan B for Greece If the Greeks were to vote ‘No’ what would happen next? Well no one can say. But here is a quick thought on what I hope the Greek government might have been exploring if they are excluded from the euro. It’s just food for thought […]
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Chinese Stock Market Crashed Like This?
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Chinese Stock Market Crashed Like This? The second largest stock market in the entire world is collapsing right in front of our eyes. Since hitting a peak in June, the most important Chinese stock market index has plummeted by well over 20 percent, and more than 3 trillion […]
