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BofA: Even The Bubbles Are Becoming More “Bubbly” Thanks To Central Banks
BofA: Even The Bubbles Are Becoming More “Bubbly” Thanks To Central Banks Back in June, Citi’s credit strategist Hans Lorenzen pointed out that while QE had failed to spark inflation across the broader economy, it had achieved something else: “the principal transmission channel to the real economy has been… lifting asset prices.” That however has […]
ECB – Draghi & Tapering
ECB – Draghi & Tapering The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to begin reducing its bond purchases gradually tampering its stimulation program of Quantitative Easing (QE). Nevertheless, reliable sources tell of the ECB being extremely cautious fearing what will happen if buyers do not appear and rates begin to rise sharply. The difference between […]
Matt King: Global QE And “ETFs Everywhere” Have Created An Unstable, One-Way Market
Matt King: Global QE And “ETFs Everywhere” Have Created An Unstable, One-Way Market While the financial industry remains divided over what precisely is the cause of the malaise that affects modern markets, characterized by plunging volumes and trading activity, record low volatility and dispersion, a relentless ascent disconnected from fundamentals, and generally a sense of […]
Did the Economy Just Stumble Off a Cliff?
Did the Economy Just Stumble Off a Cliff? The signs are everywhere for those willing to look: something has changed beneath the surface of complacent faith in permanent growth. This is more intuitive than quantitative, but my gut feeling is that the economy just stumbled off a cliff. Neither the cliff edge nor the fatal misstep […]
Draghi: Trillions In QE Have Made Economies “More Resilient”
Draghi: Trillions In QE Have Made Economies “More Resilient” When last night we previewed this week’s annual Jackson Hole symposium at which Mario Draghi is scheduled to speak just before the market close on Friday, we said that the ECB head is warming up for the trip by speaking at the Lindau economics symposium in […]
Bill Blain: There Is A “Last Days Of Rome” Feel To The News These Days…
Bill Blain: There Is A “Last Days Of Rome” Feel To The News These Days… By Bill Blain of Mint Partners Blain’s Morning Porridge – August 22nd 2017 “”Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.… ” I’m wondering if I’ve stumbled into a parallel universe after coming back to the office yesterday. Its […]
Stock & Bond Markets in Denial about QE Unwind, but Banks, Treasury Dept Get Antsy
Stock & Bond Markets in Denial about QE Unwind, but Banks, Treasury Dept Get Antsy “Let markets clear.” It’ll be just “a financial engineering shock.” Stock and bond markets are in denial about the effects of the Fed’s forthcoming QE unwind, whose kick-off is getting closer by the day, according to the minutes of the […]
Why Quantitative Tightening Will Fail
Why Quantitative Tightening Will Fail After nine years of unconventional quantitative easing (QE) policy the Federal Reserve is now setting out on a new path for quantitative tightening (QT). QE was a policy of money printing. The Fed did this by buying bonds from the big banks. The banks would then deliver bonds to the […]
The Three Headed Debt Monster That’s Going to Ravage the Economy
The Three Headed Debt Monster That’s Going to Ravage the Economy Mass Infusions of New Credit “The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Something strange and somewhat senseless happened this week. On Tuesday, the price […]
The End of Quantitative Easing – Perhaps Now It Will Be Inflationary?
The End of Quantitative Easing – Perhaps Now It Will Be Inflationary? One of the greatest monetary experiments in financial history has been the global central bank buying of government debt. This has been touted as a form of “money printing” that was supposed to produce hyperinflation, which never materialized as predicted by the perpetual […]
Banks Are Evil
Barandash Karandashich/Shutterstock Banks Are Evil It’s time to get painfully honest about this I don’t talk to my classmates from business school anymore, many of whom went to work in the financial industry. Why? Because, through the lens we use here at PeakProsperity.com to look at the world, I’ve increasingly come to see the financial […]
China Accounts For Half Of All Global Debt Created Since 2005: Here Are The Implications
China Accounts For Half Of All Global Debt Created Since 2005: Here Are The Implications Over three years ago, in November 2013, when the world’s attention was still largely focused on what the “Big 4” central banks would do with QE and/or interest rates, we wrote an article showing in one simple chart “How In Five Short […]
Is an Inflation Comeback in the Works?
Is an Inflation Comeback in the Works? Exterminating Angel LOVINGSTON, VIRGINIA – Amid all the sound and fury of the Trump news cycle, hardly anyone noticed. There is a specter haunting this economy. It is the specter of inflation… See, if you want to whip inflation now, you don’t need to do any of the really […]
Harry Dent: Stocks Will Fall 70-90% Within 3 Years
Harry Dent: Stocks Will Fall 70-90% Within 3 Years Creating the buying opportunity of a lifetime Economist and cycle trend forecaster Harry Dent sees crushing deflation ahead for nearly every financial asset class. We are at the nexus of a concurrent series of downtrends in the four most important predictive trends he tracks. Laying out […]
