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What Comes After The Commodities Bust?
What Comes After The Commodities Bust? The days of E&P companies using external debt financing to fuel growth have most likely come to a close. The one thing executives should have learned in 2015 is that Wall Street can for long periods of time remain disconnected from fundamentals and can swing to extremes. Another lesson […]
“We Frontloaded A Tremendous Market Rally” Former Fed President Admits, Warns “No Ammo Left”
“We Frontloaded A Tremendous Market Rally” Former Fed President Admits, Warns “No Ammo Left” In perhaps the most shocking of mea culpas seen in modern financial history, former Dallas Fed head Richard Fisher unleashed some seriously uncomfortable truthiness during a 5-minute confessional interview on CNBC. While talking heads attempt to blame China for recent US […]
This Time Isn’t Different
THIS TIME ISN’T DIFFERENT Last year ended with a whimper on Wall Street. The S&P 500 was down 1% for the year, down 4% from its all-time high in May, and no higher than it was 13 months ago at the end of QE3. The Wall Street shysters and their mainstream media mouthpieces declare 2016 […]
Janet Yellen Fights the Tide of Falling Interest
JANET YELLEN FIGHTS THE TIDE OF FALLING INTEREST On Wednesday Dec 16, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced that the Fed was raising the federal funds rate by 25 basis points. Let’s get one thing out of the way. This is not a move towards free markets. Whether the Fed sets interest lower, or whether it sets […]
Money Market Distortions at Year-End
Money Market Distortions at Year-End Major Window Dressing Exercises and a Dead Federal Funds Market Many of our readers are probably aware of the quarterly spike in reverse repos, which has previously been amply documented and discussed elsewhere. The Fed has introduced these overnight reverse repos two years ago, and has made them accessible to […]
Fed Vice Chair Explains Why The Fed Is Still Obsessing With Negative Interest Rates
Fed Vice Chair Explains Why The Fed Is Still Obsessing With Negative Interest Rates Two months ago, and roughly 6 weeks before the Fed’s first rate hike in 9 years, Janet Yellen warned that if the “outlook worsened, the fed might weight negative rates” adding that “negative rates could help encourage banks to lend.” Moments ago, in […]
The Damage Has Been Done And The Consequences Will Be Suffered: “Have a Healthy Storage of Food, Precious Metals and Necessary Supplies”
The Damage Has Been Done And The Consequences Will Be Suffered: “Have a Healthy Storage of Food, Precious Metals and Necessary Supplies” While the band plays on and Americans celebrate New Year’s many have no idea what may be in store in 2016. Mainstream financial pundits like to paint a rosy picture of the current […]
Time For Torches & Pitchforks——-The Little Guy Is About To Get Monkey-Hammered Again
Time For Torches & Pitchforks——-The Little Guy Is About To Get Monkey-Hammered Again The reputations of Ben and Janet are going to be eviscerated in 2016. That’s because the US economy will slide into recession in defiance of every claim they have made for their snake oil monetary policies. The plain fact is, massive falsification of financial markets via […]
The New Cartel Running the Oil Sector
The New Cartel Running the Oil Sector As oil prices wallow near multi-year lows, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the new cartel controlling oil prices is not OPEC but world credit markets. From Saudi Arabia’s record $100 billion deficit to shale oil’s continuing reliance on cheap credit funding, it’s clear that no major oil producer or company in the […]
“Fed Policy Is Toxic,” Michael Burry Warns “The Little Guy Will Pay” For The Next Crisis
“Fed Policy Is Toxic,” Michael Burry Warns “The Little Guy Will Pay” For The Next Crisis We are sure, just as many of the so-called “smartest men in the room” ignored him last time, so every status-quo-maintaining, asset-gathering, commission-taker will be quick to dissonantly shrug off Michael Burry’s (the economic soothsayer from Michael Lewis’ book […]
The Credit Crunch Is Back: Banks Scramble To Collateralize Loans To Record Levels
The Credit Crunch Is Back: Banks Scramble To Collateralize Loans To Record Levels One of the biggest quandaries of this cycle for the US economy has been the amount and growth of commercial bank loans. Virtually non-existent for the first three years of the centrally-planned new normal, something changed in 2012 at which point US […]
David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner
David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner With very few places for capital to hide For those who enjoyed his encyclopedic 2015: Year In Review, this week we spend an hour with David Collum to ask: After processing through all of that information, what do you think the future is most likely to bring? Perhaps it […]
Oil Bankruptcies Hit Highest Level Since Crisis And There’s “More To Come”, Fed Warns
Oil Bankruptcies Hit Highest Level Since Crisis And There’s “More To Come”, Fed Warns “Two things become clear in an analysis of the financial health of US hydrocarbon production: 1) the sector is not at all homogenous, exhibiting a range of financial health; 2) some of the sector indeed looks exposed to distress [and] lifelines […]
