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Europe’s Banks Are Still Drowning in Bad Loans
Europe’s Banks Are Still Drowning in Bad Loans A “Major Concern” The European Banking Authority EBA, which (we guess) is fighting for its survival after the ECB has become the sole supervisor of Europe’s “systemically relevant” banks, has recently issued a comprehensive report on the European banking system (this included the unintended revelation that its […]
US Money Supply Growth Finally Begins to Crack
US Money Supply Growth Finally Begins to Crack Breaking Below the Shelf In our recent missive on junk bonds, we inter alia discussed the fact that the growth rate of the narrow money supply aggregate M1 had declined rather noticeably from its peak in 2011. Here is a link to the chart. As we wrote: “We also […]
“One Big Shock Away from a Global Downturn…”
“One Big Shock Away from a Global Downturn…” Zombies vs. Cronies DUBLIN – Most elections these days are contests between cronies and zombies. The left favors the zombies. The right favors the cronies. In yesterday’s presidential elections in Argentina the zombies lost. It’s time for the cronies to take over. New Argentine president Mauricio Macri […]
The Long, Cold Winter Ahead
The Long, Cold Winter Ahead Not Immune Cold winds of deflation gust across the autumn economic landscape. Global trade languishes and commodities rust away like abandoned scrap metal with a visible dusting of frost. The economic optimism that embellished markets heading into 2015 have cooled as the year moves through its final stretch. Photo credit: David […]
Is Judgment Day At Hand?
Is Judgment Day At Hand? What is Judgment Day? It is like ancient times that the Feds, under Greenspan, somehow decided that US needed to follow a zero interest rate policy, a policy now known as the ZIRP. It was 2008 when Bernanke gave birth to the term Quantitative Easing, QE. QE was followed by Operation […]
Why Do We Let Other People Tell Us What to Do?
Why Do We Let Other People Tell Us What to Do? Lame Theories of Government We have been disappointed with political ideas and theories of government. They are nothing but scams, justifications, and puffery. One tries to put something over on the common man… the other claims it was for his own good… and the […]
The Next Level of John Law Type Central Planning Madness
The Next Level of John Law Type Central Planning Madness Cries for Going Totally Crazy are Intensifying What are the basic requirements for becoming the chief economist of the IMF? Judging from what we have seen so far, the person concerned has to be a died-in-the-wool statist and fully agree with the (neo-) Keynesian faith, […]
How China Broke the World’s “Bubble Machine”
How China Broke the World’s “Bubble Machine” Magical Money System U.S. stocks still going up. What does Mr. Market know that we don’t know? Plenty. He knows everything. Millions of facts. Millions of opinions. Millions of guesses. A damned know-it-all. Mr. Market is always right; there is no higher authority except God Himself So, if […]
Garbage In Garbage Out Economics
Garbage In Garbage Out Economics “On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine the wrong figures, will the right answers come out? …I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” – Charles Babbage, Passages from the […]
What’s Next: Deflation, Inflation, or Hyperinflation?
What’s Next: Deflation, Inflation, or Hyperinflation? Divided Opinions POITOU, France – Last week, young colleagues at Bonner & Partners HQ in Delray Beach, Florida, put us on the spot. “What do we stand for as a publishing business?” they asked. “Who are we? How are we different from anyone else? What do we think that […]
Haruhiko Kuroda – The Pressure to “Do More” Rises
Haruhiko Kuroda – The Pressure to “Do More” Rises BoJ Leaves Policy Unchanged, but What Comes Next? The Bank of Japan has employed QE programs since March of 2001 (in February of 2001, it still claimed that “QE will be ineffective” – it was right then, for the last time). These have had no effect […]
Time to Keep Your Cash in the Microwave?
Time to Keep Your Cash in the Microwave? The Fed’s Big Pivot NORMANDY, France – “Now, I think I’ve seen everything” is an expression that – like “this is the end of history” and “I’ll never leave you” – usually turns out to be premature. But it is what we found ourselves saying yesterday. Not […]
The Latest (and Dumbest) Central Bank Fraud
The Latest (and Dumbest) Central Bank Fraud A Financial Reckoning You go for a nice picnic on the slopes of Vesuvius… You spread out your tablecloth. You open your picnic hamper. You prepare for a relaxing afternoon in the warm October sun. And then someone comes running down the mountain, warning that the volcano is […]
Lost in Extrapolation
Lost in Extrapolation Phillips Curve Fail In the late 1970s the impossible happened. Inflation and unemployment simultaneously went vertical. The leading economists of the day were flummoxed. Larry Summers favors us with his “eternal stagnation” shrug. The man is a sheer inexhaustible fount of truly atrocious ideas. As we have previously pointed out, when he’s […]
Can the Fed Print Money?
Can the Fed Print Money? Every morning is the dawn of a new error – Anonymous It Can and it Does In light of the upcoming October Fed (non-)decision, we want to briefly revisit a subject that still appears to be causing some confusion. We most recently encountered this confusion again in a quarterly update by […]
