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The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First Back in August 2012, when negative interest rates were still merely viewed as sheer monetary lunacy instead of pervasive global monetary reality that has pushed over $6 trillion in global bonds into negative yield territory, the NY Fed mused hypothetically about […]
Japan Hits Demographic Tipping Point With First Official Population Decline In History
Japan Hits Demographic Tipping Point With First Official Population Decline In History As troubling as Japan’s deflationary, and now negative interest rate, economic quagmire is, the biggest threat facing Japan has little to do with its balance sheet and everything to do with its demographics, for the simple reason that not only is Japan’s population […]
The FX Mexican Standoff
The FX Mexican Standoff Theodor Horydczak Lincoln Memorial 1925 There has been quite a bit of talk lately over the need for a new Plaza Accord, something several parties saw happening during this weekend’s G20 summit in Shanghai -hence the term ‘Shanghai Accord’-. (On September 22, 1985 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, France, West […]
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns Two days ago, the man who now signs your Federal Reserve notes threw cold water on hopes for a so-called “Shanghai Accord.” Over the past month or so, anticipation has built among market participants for some manner of coordinated policy response at this weekend’s G20 summit […]
Satyajit Das: This Is Why You Can Expect Another Global Stock Market Meltdown
Satyajit Das: This Is Why You Can Expect Another Global Stock Market Meltdown Authored by Satyajit Das’, author of the new book “The Age Of Stagnation” (via MarketWatch), The mispricing of assets across world markets has reached epidemic proportions. Stock prices have made strong advances over the past several years, yet market analysts see further gains, arguing that […]
Demand For Big Bills Soars As NIRP-Fearing Japanese Stuff Safes With 10,000-Yen Notes
Demand For Big Bills Soars As NIRP-Fearing Japanese Stuff Safes With 10,000-Yen Notes Earlier this week, we were amused but not at all surprised to learn that Japanese citizens are buying safes like they’re going out of style. The reason: negative rates and the incipient fear of a cash ban. “Look no further than Japan’s […]
Everything Changes At Zero
EVERYTHING CHANGES AT ZERO “Then said Jesus, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”” – Luke 23:34. For the benefit of non-subscribers, there are two versions of the Financial Times newspaper. One of them is the hard copy edition, still printed on pink paper, an exact digital replica of which is available on […]
Citi: “We Have A Problem”
Citi: “We Have A Problem” In his latest must read presentation, Citigroup’s Matt King continues to expose and mock the increasing helplessness and cluelessness of central bankers, something this website has done since 2009 knowing full well how it all ends (incidentally not in a deflationary whimper, quite the opposite). Take Matt King’s September 2015 piece in which he […]
How Italy will fail and drag down the European Project
How Italy will fail and drag down the European Project Italy is big enough to matter (it is the eight largest economy on the planet), but so uneventful that most does not pay any attention to what is going on there. We contend that Italy will, during the next year or two, be on everyone’s […]
Safes Sell Out In Japan, 1,000 Franc Note Demand Soars As NIRP Triggers Cash Hoarding
Safes Sell Out In Japan, 1,000 Franc Note Demand Soars As NIRP Triggers Cash Hoarding Negative rates may not have found their way to bank deposits in most locales (yet), but that doesn’t mean the public isn’t starting to see the writing on the wall. At first, NIRP was an anomaly. An obscure policy tool […]
Wikileaks Releases Proof Of NSA Spying On Merkel, Netanyahu, Berlusconi And Others
Wikileaks Releases Proof Of NSA Spying On Merkel, Netanyahu, Berlusconi And Others In a shocking new set of cables released by Julian Assange’s Wikileaks organization, highly classified documents show that the NSA bugged meetings between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (over climate change); between Israel prime minister Netanyahu and Italian prime minister Berlusconi (begging for […]
Fukushima – Deep Trouble
Fukushima – Deep Trouble The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster may go down as one of history’s boundless tragedies and not just because of a nuclear meltdown, but rather the tragic loss of a nation’s soul. Imagine the following scenario: 207 million cardboard book boxes, end-to-end, circumnavigating Earth, like railroad tracks, going all the […]
Missiles Just the Latest Chapter in the South China Sea Saga
Missiles Just the Latest Chapter in the South China Sea Saga With the recent placement of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) on Woody Island, a subset of the Paracel Islands, China has taken a major step toward militarization of the South China Sea. The action was taken during the recent US-ASEAN “Sunnylands” Summit, where economics, […]
Revolt against NIRP Breaks out, Bank of Japan “Baffled”
Revolt against NIRP Breaks out, Bank of Japan “Baffled” Meanwhile, exports collapse at fastest rate since 2009. This would be hilarious, if it weren’t so serious: Frazzled politicians, during a parliamentary session, lambasting the governor of their central bank over its new negative interest rate policy. But this is what happened in Japan. Central-bank imposed […]
NIRP Won’t Work – What Ray Dalio Thinks Central Banks Will Do Next
NIRP Won’t Work – What Ray Dalio Thinks Central Banks Will Do Next Just as we first warned in September 2013, so it seems the view of “helicopter money” being imminent is now becoming more mainstream as the powers that be slowly propagandize the benefits. If dropping interest rates to zero was Unorthodox Policy #1 and […]
