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“God Help Us” – British Army Readied In Case Of Hard Brexit
“God Help Us” – British Army Readied In Case Of Hard Brexit Just as was extremely evident prior to the actual vote in 2016, scaremongering around Brexit (deal or no deal) is escalating among the cognoscenti or desperate Remain ‘told you so’-ers. Britain’s Sunday Times reports that UK ministers have drawn up plans to send […]
Robert Fisk: “I Traced Al-Qaeda Missile Casings In Syria Back To Their Original Sellers”
Robert Fisk: “I Traced Al-Qaeda Missile Casings In Syria Back To Their Original Sellers” Finally, a journalist for a mainstream UK media outlet is methodically tracking weapons shipment serial numbers and English-language paperwork recovered from al-Qaeda groups in Syria, and he’s literally showing up at arms factories and questioning arms dealers, including officials at the Saudi […]
BOJ Intervenes For Third Time In A Week: Offers To Buy Unlimited Bonds To Stabilize Markets
BOJ Intervenes For Third Time In A Week: Offers To Buy Unlimited Bonds To Stabilize Markets Ahead of the potentially dramatic BOJ decision tonight, the Japanese bond market is becoming increasingly jittery. After 10Y JGBs sold off early in the session, with yields rising as high as 0.11% – the highest level in almost a […]
US Preparing To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report
US Preparing To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report As the White House convenes a policy meeting on Iran Thursday involving senior Pentagon officials and cabinet advisers under national security adviser John Bolton, and after a week of intense saber-rattling by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, a new […]
China Announces New Stimulus Measures
China Announces New Stimulus Measures Another day, another stimulus announcement by China. One day after Beijing threw in the towel, and in addition to monetary easing announced it would be far more “proactive” in fiscally stimulating the country, Chinese banks received notice from regulators on Wednesday that a core capital requirement will be eased in […]
Radioactive Cesium-137 From Fukushima Found In California Wine
Radioactive Cesium-137 From Fukushima Found In California Wine Following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan – which left Japanese residents contending with toxic water and radioactive wild boars, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said that particles of radioactive fallout which made its way to the Western United States and elsewhere was […]
Kass: “Downside Risk Dwarfs Upside Reward”
Kass: “Downside Risk Dwarfs Upside Reward” ‘The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.’ – Brian Greene * A pivot in monetary policy, a further rise in the risk free rate of return, policy and profit uncertainty and a softening in soft and hard high frequency economic […]
China Caves: The Full Details Behind Beijing’s Launch Of Fiscal Easing
China Caves: The Full Details Behind Beijing’s Launch Of Fiscal Easing Last week we documented several instances of China’s most recent monetary easing, from the expanded usage of the Medium-Term Lending Facility to purchase China’s equivalent ot junk bonds, to the barely noticed 103bps cut in China’s 3-Month Treasury rate, even as the PBOC had […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Will Run Country Singlehandedly, “Dissenters Will Be Fired”: Top Advisor
Turkey’s Erdogan Will Run Country Singlehandedly, “Dissenters Will Be Fired”: Top Advisor In the aftermath of the recent presidential election which granted Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan executive powers, it appears the president wasted no time to make himself into a dictator. Speaking to Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper, Mehmet Uçum, one of Erdogan’s chief advisers, Erdogan “will […]
Ignore Tariffs, According To Goldman This Is The Biggest Risk From A Global Trade War
Ignore Tariffs, According To Goldman This Is The Biggest Risk From A Global Trade War One month ago, when previewing the potential fallout from an “all out” global trade war, which for simplicity’s sake many have equated with an across-the-board 10% tariff on all US imports and exports, we presented an analysis from Barclays, according […]
Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans
Twitter Caught Censoring Conservative Journalists With Site-Wide Shadowbans Two days after Twitter told Congress that they aren’t politically biased when censoring content, several prominent conservatives discovered that the social media giant automatically includes them in a site-wide “Quality Filter Discrimination” shadowban which prevents anyone not already following them from viewing their posts. While the filters have been around since […]
China Launches Quasi QE To Support Banks And Sliding Bond Market
China Launches Quasi QE To Support Banks And Sliding Bond Market With the ECB’s QE coming to an end at the end of the year (absent some shock to the market or economy), some traders have already been voicing concerns which central bank will step in and provide a backstop to the global fixed income […]
Bernanke, Geithner & Paulson Warn: “We’ve Forgotten The Lessons Of The Financial Crisis”
Bernanke, Geithner & Paulson Warn: “We’ve Forgotten The Lessons Of The Financial Crisis” Late last month, the Fed declared that six of the country’s biggest banks needed to scale back their plans for returning cash to shareholders to strengthen their capital buffers, a striking reminder that banks shouldn’t be overeager to put the legacy of […]
Russia Liquidates Its US Treasury Holdings
Russia Liquidates Its US Treasury Holdings Last month we showed that as Trade Wars began in April, the world’s central banks and other official institutions dumped more Treasuries than in any month since January 2016, some $48.3BN, perhaps over concerns of others selling first, and precipitating a sharp move higher in yields. Fast forward one […]
Record Deficits, Stronger Dollar Equals Record China Trade Deficit
Record Deficits, Stronger Dollar Equals Record China Trade Deficit Sometimes math is a real bitch. Donald Trump is a smart guy. I know he knows math. Too bad he’s ignoring it. Here’s the gig. The title says it all. Government spending is rising rapidly. More actual money is flowing into the US economy. Where is that […]
