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Citigroup Chief Economist Thinks Only “Helicopter Money” Can Save The World Now
Citigroup Chief Economist Thinks Only “Helicopter Money” Can Save The World Now Having recently explained (in great detail) why QE4 (and 5, 6 & 7) were inevitable (despite the protestations of all central planners, except for perhaps Kocharlakota – who never met an economy he didn’t want to throw free money at), we found it fascinating […]
Citi Predicts Greek Hyperinflation Breaks Out In Two Years
Citi Predicts Greek Hyperinflation Breaks Out In Two Years Earlier, we showed that according to Citigroup (among many) for Greece to have any hope of surviving, it needs a masive debt haircut: the bigger, the better, with Citi tossing out numbers as high as €130 billion. Still, even if Greece does get debt relief, as long as […]
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid Consequences
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid Consequences Three top Democrats are accusing the Department of Housing and Urban Development of quietly removing a key clause in its requirements for taxpayer-guaranteed mortgage insurance in order to spare two banks recently convicted of federal crimes from being frozen out of the lucrative market. […]
Greek debt crisis: ‘Something awful’ this way comes
Greek debt crisis: ‘Something awful’ this way comes The next “final” twist in the exhausting Greek drama is upon us, and it’s looking like “something awful” is about to befall the country’s banking system, Citigroup analysts said yesterday. A deal was on the table Friday, but the ECB’s move over the weekend to freeze emergency loans […]
Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash
Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in London to Ban Cash At this point, anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention to the central planning economic totalitarians running the fraudulent global financial system is aware of the blatant push in the media to acclimate the masses to accepting a “cashless society.” In the mind […]
Why The Powers That Be Are Pushing A Cashless Society
Why The Powers That Be Are Pushing A Cashless Society We Can’t Rein In the Banks If We Can’t Pull Our Money Out of Them Martin Armstrong summarizes the headway being made to ban cash, and argues that the goal of those pushing a cashless society is to prevent bank runs … and increase their control: The […]
Another Shill for Statism and Central Planning Demands a Cash Ban
Another Shill for Statism and Central Planning Demands a Cash Ban Citigroup’s Chief Economist Joins the Cash Ban Bandwagon We have discussed the views of Citigroup’s chief economist Willem Buiter previously in these pages (see “A Dose of Buiternomics” for details), on occasion of his coming out as a supporter of assorted monetary cranks, such […]
Crony States of America – Wall Street Firms are Trying to Hide Payoffs Made to Employees Entering Government
Crony States of America – Wall Street Firms are Trying to Hide Payoffs Made to Employees Entering Government “There is a lot of work ahead for the management to recover its reputation.” – John Whitehead, Ex-Goldman Sachs Chairman, in a 2010 Wall Street Journal interview Goldman Sachs may need to work on its image. This year, the firm beat recall-riddled […]
Citi, Goldman, ICAP And Others Preparing For Grexit, Again
Citi, Goldman, ICAP And Others Preparing For Grexit, Again Every couple of years the same identical European drill repeats itself: 1) Greece makes loud noises as it approaches an election, 2) Europe says it couldn’t care what the outcome is and that Greece should stay in the Euro but if it exits it won’t be a disaster, 3) […]
Only War, Inflation And Financial Collapse Can End The Global “Plutonomy”, According To Citi | Zero Hedge
Only War, Inflation And Financial Collapse Can End The Global “Plutonomy”, According To Citi | Zero Hedge. The last time the market was as euphoric and as complacent as it is now, was in the happy go lucky days of 2006 when every day stocks surged without a care in the world, when Lehman bankers were looking […]
Wall Street Moves to Put Taxpayers on the Hook for Derivatives Trades | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Wall Street Moves to Put Taxpayers on the Hook for Derivatives Trades | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Wall Street has for some time attempted to put taxpayers on the hook for its derivatives trades. I highlighted this a year ago in the post: Citigroup Written Legislation Moves Through the House of Representatives. Here’s an excerpt: Five years after the […]
Citi: “The Limits Of Investors’ Faith That Central Banks Can Push Up Asset Prices, Are Increasingly On Display” | Zero Hedge
Citi: “The Limits Of Investors’ Faith That Central Banks Can Push Up Asset Prices, Are Increasingly On Display” | Zero Hedge. Some interesting insights by Citi’s Matt King recapping last week’s Citigroup credit conference. … [D]espite one panellist’s suggestion that “perhaps corporate bonds were never meant to be a liquid asset class in the first […]