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How to deal with doom burnout
How to deal with doom burnout In the intro to a recent post on TBP, admin said the following: I love Denninger’s ability to be outraged day after day and his continuous rage against the machine. I’ve lost that fire. After nine years of this, I’m burnt out. I no longer have that passion driving […]
Facebook Really Is Bad For You, Researchers Say
Facebook Really Is Bad For You, Researchers Say Apparently, Chamath Palihapitiya was on to something when he revealed earlier this week that he felt “tremendous guilt” for the role that he played in Facebook’s success as a social-media company. To wit, Facebook’s director of research David Ginsberg and research scientist Moira Burke published a blog […]
Chinese Navy Begins Live-Fire Drills Off Korean Peninsula
Chinese Navy Begins Live-Fire Drills Off Korean Peninsula Earlier this week, Seoul asked the US to delay joint military exercises with Japan until after the Winter Olympics, ostensibly to avoid provoking North Korea ahead of the 2018 Winter Games. The timing of the request is suspicious – having coincided with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s […]
Swedish Housing Bubble Pops As Stockholm Apartment Prices Crash Most Since June 2009
Swedish Housing Bubble Pops As Stockholm Apartment Prices Crash Most Since June 2009 Even though Sweden’s property bubble is not the longest running (that accolade goes to Australia at 55 years), it is probably the world’s biggest with prices up roughly 6-fold since starting its meteoric rise in 1995. Of course, as we noted last […]
New Russian Hacker Claims Putin Ordered Theft Of Clinton’s Email, After First One Refused FBI Bribe To Lie
New Russian Hacker Claims Putin Ordered Theft Of Clinton’s Email, After First One Refused FBI Bribe To Lie A Russian hacker has reportedly confessed that he hacked the DNC and stole Hillary Clinton’s emails under the direction of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), claims Russian news outlet The Bell. Konstantin Kozlovsky – a Russian citizen with […]
Global Deflation Alert: Chinese Credit Creation Tumbles To 27 Month Low
Global Deflation Alert: Chinese Credit Creation Tumbles To 27 Month Low At the end of November, we showed a troubling observation for China – and global – macro watchers from Axiom’s Gordon Johnson: for the first time ever, record Chinese credit creation had failed to stimulate the economy, and in fact the exact opposite appeared […]
“Loonie Longs Are Set For A Painful Dose Of Reality”: Trader
“Loonie Longs Are Set For A Painful Dose Of Reality”: Trader Is all hell about to breaks loose for Loonie longs? Yesterday, Bank of America released a note titled simply enough “CAD longs at risk”, in which it said that “according to our liquid cross border flow (LCBF) data, hedge funds and real money now […]
What Causes Asset Bubbles?
What Causes Asset Bubbles? As we showed yesterday, the price of bitcoin has finally surpassed “Tulips” in the global bubble race. Overnight the former Bridgewater analysts Howard Wang and Robert Wu, who make up Convoy Investments, released their thoughts on what happens next… and most importantly, what causes asset bubbles… When we see a dramatic […]
China Regulators Complete Final ‘Drill’ In Preparation For Petro-Yuan Futures Trading
China Regulators Complete Final ‘Drill’ In Preparation For Petro-Yuan Futures Trading Amid all the chatter of Venezuela and Russia potentially creating oil-backed cryptocurrencies, the “huge news” of China’s launch of the Petro-Yuan has fallen off the front page… until now. This week saw the Shanghai Futures Exchange complete its fifth yuan-back oil futures contract trading […]
OPEC Reports Lowest Oil Output In Six Months; Fears Shale Production Surge
OPEC Reports Lowest Oil Output In Six Months; Fears Shale Production Surge True to its perpetually optimistic form, OPEC, which last month for the first time conceded the threat posed by rising US shale production… … sharply raised its demand forecast for cartel oil in 2018, ahead of the OPEC meeting at the end of […]
Huge Hub Explosion Sparks Surge In UK NatGas Prices
Huge Hub Explosion Sparks Surge In UK NatGas Prices It has been a tough week already for those that heat their homes in Britain (and those that trade Natural Gas). Following extreme weather warnings and the forties pipeline crack shutdown, an explosion at one of the Europe’s biggest gas hubs further tightened supplies sending gas […]
Mark Carney Forced To Explain Surge In UK Inflation To Highest In Almost 6 Years
Mark Carney Forced To Explain Surge In UK Inflation To Highest In Almost 6 Years The market expected Mark Carney to avoid it but it was just not meant to be. The BoE Governor will suffer the ignominy of a bizarre tradition of having to write a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer explaining […]
100,000 Still Stranded Amid California Fires; Giant Thomas Fire Only 20% Contained
100,000 Still Stranded Amid California Fires; Giant Thomas Fire Only 20% Contained In an unexpected run of good fortune, a shift in the powerful winds that have fanned the SoCal wildfires over the past week and a half has pushed the Thomas Fire – the largest of the six uncontained blazes – away from nearby […]
Chinese Banks Push Back On Shadow Banking Regulations – Expose “Catch-22” For Financial System
Chinese Banks Push Back On Shadow Banking Regulations – Expose “Catch-22” For Financial System In November, we discussed how the post-Party Congress measures to deleverage and crackdown on the worst abuses in China’s credit bubble took an important step forward with the announcement of a new era of regulation for China’s $15 trillion shadow banking […]
The SoCal Wildfires Are Now Larger Than New York City And Boston Combined
The SoCal Wildfires Are Now Larger Than New York City And Boston Combined It’s been nearly a week since the first stirrings of the wildfires ripping across Southern California sprang to life, and firefighters are still struggling to contain the blazes. The two largest and most destructive fires are growing despite firefighters’ best efforts at […]
