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It’s Official: China Confirms It Has Begun Liquidating Treasuries, Warns Washington
It’s Official: China Confirms It Has Begun Liquidating Treasuries, Warns Washington On Tuesday evening, we asked what would happen if emerging markets joined China in dumping US Treasurys. For months we’ve documented the PBoC’s liquidation of its vast stack of US paper. Back in July for instance, we noted that China had dumped a record $143 billion in US […]
Saudi Arabia Faces Another “Very Scary Moment” As Economy, FX Regime Face Crude Reality
Saudi Arabia Faces Another “Very Scary Moment” As Economy, FX Regime Face Crude Reality “They are working for their market share, not for the price,” Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov told Bloomberg on Saturday, during the same interview in which he predicted that sooner or later, dollar pegs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE would […]
These Currencies Could Be The Next To Tumble In Global FX Wars
These Currencies Could Be The Next To Tumble In Global FX Wars Earlier this week, Kazakhstan moved to a free float for the tenge, prompting the currency to plunge by some 25%. The move came after the country’s exporters could no longer stand the pain from plunging crude prices and the RUB’s relative weakness. China’s move to […]
Turkey On The Brink As Calls For Martial Law, Civil War Send Lira Plunging Again
Turkey On The Brink As Calls For Martial Law, Civil War Send Lira Plunging Again For anyone who might have missed it, Turkey is quickly descending into chaos on all fronts. The lira is putting to new lows against the dollar on a daily basis as confidence suffers from a worsening political crisis which began […]
In Latest Market Rigging Scandal, Wall Street Now Sued For Treasury Market Manipulation
In Latest Market Rigging Scandal, Wall Street Now Sued For Treasury Market Manipulation “Defendants used electronic chatrooms, instant messaging, and other electronic and telephonic methods to exchange confidential customer information, coordinate trading strategies.” “Traders at some of these primary dealers talked with counterparts at other banks via online chatrooms and swapped gossip.” Sound familiar? Those […]
Euro-sclerosis
Euro-sclerosis There appears to be little or nothing in the monetarists’ handbook to enable them to assess the risk of a loss of confidence in the purchasing power of a paper currency. Furthermore, since today’s macroeconomists have chosen to deny Say’s Law1, otherwise known as the laws of the markets, they have little hope of […]
Why the Bank of Japan Can’t Stop a Sudden Collapse of the Yen
Why the Bank of Japan Can’t Stop a Sudden Collapse of the Yen On Friday morning in Tokyo, the Nikkei stock index was up again, at 20,600, highest in 15 years. Since “Abenomics” has become a common word in December 2012, the Nikkei has soared 128% on a crummy economy, terrible government deficits, and an insurmountable […]
What New Games Can Central Banks Play?
What New Games Can Central Banks Play? Does the Dollar Hold Enough Attraction to Break Out and Hold at Higher Levels? Now is the time to begin looking at the US dollar’s re-ascendance in a different light as we approach 1:1 against the euro. Shorter term we have to expect some possible panics around flat […]
China Completes SWIFT Alternative, May Launch “De-Dollarization Axis” As Soon As September
China Completes SWIFT Alternative, May Launch “De-Dollarization Axis” As Soon As September One of the recurring threats used by the western nations in their cold (and increasingly more hot) war with Russia, is that Putin’s regime may be locked out of all international monetary transactions when Moscow is disconnected from the EU-based global currency messaging […]
The Global Dollar Funding Shortage Is Back With A Vengeance And “This Time It’s Different”
The Global Dollar Funding Shortage Is Back With A Vengeance And “This Time It’s Different” The last time the world was sliding into a US dollar shortage as rapidly as it is right now, was following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The response by the Fed: the issuance of an unprecedented amount of […]
Ukraine Enters The Endgame
Ukraine Enters The Endgame Back in March 2014 we forecast that it in the aftermath of the US State Department-sponsored military coup in Kiev, it was only a matter of time before Ukraine (all of its sovereign gold having since “vaporized“) succumbed to full blown hyperinflation and economic implosion. Less than a year later, precisely this outcome has […]
Ten Banks, Including JPM, Goldman, Deutsche, Barclays, SocGen And UBS, Probed For Gold Rigging
Ten Banks, Including JPM, Goldman, Deutsche, Barclays, SocGen And UBS, Probed For Gold Rigging No matter how many times the big banks are caught red-handed manipulating precious metals, some failed former Deutsche Bank prop-trader (you know who you are) will take a vociferous stand based on ad hominem attacks and zero facts that no, what you see […]
Why Does Fiat Money Seemingly Work?
Why Does Fiat Money Seemingly Work? Introducing Money Imagine three men living on a small island. Toni is mining the local salt mine, and apart from him there are Pete the fisherman and Tom the apple grower and their families. They have a barter trading system set up: Toni exchanges his salt for Pete’s fishes […]
Nigeria, Belarus Halt All FX Trading As Central Bank Urges “Don’t Panic” | Zero Hedge
Nigeria, Belarus Halt All FX Trading As Central Bank Urges “Don’t Panic” | Zero Hedge. Just because Russia has managed to stabilize its currency for the time being as crude tries to find a floor, that certainly does not mean the soaring dollar tantrum-cum-crude crash episode is anywhere near over, nor that stability has returned to the […]
