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Why I Think there Will Be a “Dollar Panic”
Why I Think there Will Be a “Dollar Panic” The Great American Credit Collapse Please remember this warning when you go to the ATM to get cash — and there is none. While we were thinking about what was really going on with today’s strange new money system, a startling thought occurred to us. Our financial system could […]
Next Shoe to Drop on Spanish Banks
Next Shoe to Drop on Spanish Banks “The mortgage ‘floor clauses’ are a fraud.” Thursday, April 7, 2016, could go down in history as a great day for Spanish mortgage holders and a very grim one for many Spanish banks, thanks to a new ruling that the so-called mortgage floor-clauses that were unleashed across the […]
Going Into Debt to Invest Into Debt…
Going Into Debt to Invest Into Debt… Bankers Hate It When You Hold Cash In an extraordinary turn of events, last week we were contacted by our local bankers. Since we were turned down for a mortgage in 1982 (our business finances were thought to be “too shaky”), we have had little truck with them. We pay […]
Western Mistakes, Remade in China
Western Mistakes, Remade in China SHANGHAI – The Chinese economy faces an enormously challenging transition. To achieve its goal of joining the world’s high-income countries, the government has rightly urged a “decisive role for the market.” But, while market competition works well in many sectors, banking is different. Indeed, over the last seven years, China’s […]
Danish Central Bank Warns Of “Risk Illusion”, Fears “Fire Sale” Plunge In Asset Prices
Danish Central Bank Warns Of “Risk Illusion”, Fears “Fire Sale” Plunge In Asset Prices Having slashed rates below zero and unleashed various rounds of asset-purchases, the Riksbank (Denmark’s central bank) recently warned the rest of the world that “we have reached the limits of monetary policy.” Now, however, Denmark’s Systemic Risk Council has raised the financial system warning […]
All is Not Well
All is Not Well The 1987 stock market crash raised concerns for the dangers associated with mounting U.S. “twin deficits.” Fiscal and trade deficits were reflective of poor economic management. Credit excesses – certainly including excessive government borrowings – were stimulating demand that was reflected in expanding U.S. trade and Current Account Deficits. Concerns dissipated […]
Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop?
Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop? Booming auto sales have more to do with low rates and easy financing than they do with the urge to buy a new vehicle. In the last few years, car buyers have borrowed nearly $1 trillion to finance new and used autos. Unfortunately, much of that money was lent to borrowers who have less-than-perfect credit and […]
The Subprime Auto Loan Meltdown Is Here
The Subprime Auto Loan Meltdown Is Here Uh oh – here we go again. Do you remember the subprime mortgage meltdown during the last financial crisis? Well, now a similar thing is happening with auto loans. The auto industry has been doing better than many other areas of the economy in recent years, but this […]
Auto loan delinquency spikes in Alberta, Saskatchewan
Auto loan delinquency spikes in Alberta, Saskatchewan Credit agency TransUnion points to non-mortgage debt defaults in oil-producing provinces Pickup truck sales have grown rapidly in the past five years, but with job losses in Alberta and Saskatchewan, the debt from auto loans is hanging over some consumers. There has been enormous sales growth of pickup trucks […]
Cashless Crisis: “With Digital Payments, Civilization Comes To An End Until Power is Restored”
Cashless Crisis: “With Digital Payments, Civilization Comes To An End Until Power is Restored” The coming brave new world may also be a fragile one. As most of the Western world is pushed into abandoning cash and embracing a fully digital cashless grid, it is apparent how vulnerable populations will become in times of crisis. If the […]
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe”
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe” Trying to simply hold onto the standard that you’ve got has become a new normal for financial challenges. Equity erodes away when interest rates go negative… then everything starts to sour. China’s economy and stock market are effectively in the toilet, or poised […]
How to Defeat Your Government
How to Defeat Your Government In a recent article, “How to Defeat Your Enemies,” SLL maintained that governments and their people were natural enemies, and that the most powerful adversarial tactic is “getting one’s enemies to fool themselves.” The article detailed the effective use of this tactic by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. The […]
Meridian credit union offers 1-year mortgage at 1.69%
Meridian credit union offers 1-year mortgage at 1.69% Spring mortgage wars start early, as member-owned lender makes new low offer to homebuyers Meridian credit union just offered a one-year mortgage at 1.69 per cent. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters) Alternative lender Meridian has launched the first shot in the spring mortgage wars with a one-year fixed mortgage rate […]
Square Holes and Currency Pegs
Square Holes and Currency Pegs When David Bowie died, everybody, in what they wrote and said, seemed to feel they owned him, and owned his death, even if they hadn’t thought about him, or listened to him, for years. In the same vein, though the Automatic Earth has been talking about deflation (for 8 years, […]
Davos, Dalio, and a Depression?!
Davos, Dalio, and a Depression?! So, how does a deflationary depression resolve itself? When Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, referred to a possible economic depression as he was being interviewed at the World Economic Forum at Davos, it does not mean what most people think it means. Most of […]
