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This Region Of The World Is Being Hit By The Worst Economic Collapse It Has Ever Experienced
This Region Of The World Is Being Hit By The Worst Economic Collapse It Has Ever Experienced The ninth largest economy in the entire world is currently experiencing “its longest and deepest recession in recorded history”, and in a country right next door people are being encouraged to label their trash so that the thousands […]
Playing Around With Prices Is a Bad Idea
Playing Around With Prices Is a Bad Idea Call me old fashioned, but I still think prices matter. I vividly recall the first time I studied those simple supply-and-demand graphs as a college freshman, and today, far too many years later, their basic logic remains undeniable. When prices are right, money flows to the most […]
The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture
The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture This interview with Michael Hudson was conducted by Finnish journalist Antti J. Ronkainen. Antti J. Ronkainen: The Federal Reserve is the most significant central bank in the world. How does it contribute to the domestic policy of the United States? Michael Hudson: The Federal Reserve supports the status […]
Lines Around the Block to Buy Gold in London…Banks Placing “Unusually Large Orders for Physical”
Lines Around the Block to Buy Gold in London…Banks Placing “Unusually Large Orders for Physical” First, let’s look at the improved fundamentals. Gold bugs will exasperatingly proclaim that fundamentals have been great for the past four years yet the price plunged anyway, so who cares about fundamentals? To this I would respond with two observations. First, large […]
Bank Counterparty Risk Surges To 4-Year High
Bank Counterparty Risk Surges To 4-Year High The TED Spread is the difference between the interest rates on interbank loans and on short-term U.S. government debt and as such offers a proxy for how banks themselves perceive the relative creditworthiness of the financial system. The last time TED spread was surging to this level was late […]
The Fed’s Risk to Emerging Economies
The Fed’s Risk to Emerging Economies MILAN – The US Federal Reserve has finally, after almost a decade of steadfast adherence to very low interest rates, hiked its federal funds rate – the rate from which all other interest rates in the economy take their cue – by 25 basis points. That brings the new rate up […]
The Rate Hike Stock Market Crash Has Thrown Gasoline Onto An Already Raging Global Financial Inferno
The Rate Hike Stock Market Crash Has Thrown Gasoline Onto An Already Raging Global Financial Inferno If the stock market crash of last Thursday and Friday had all happened on one day, it would have been the 7th largest single day decline in U.S. history. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 367 […]
Unintended consequences of lift-off in a world of excess reserves
Unintended consequences of lift-off in a world of excess reserves Bar a disastrous NFP print this coming Friday the US Federal Reserve will change the target range for the Federal Reserve (Fed) Bank’s Funds rate from the current level of zero – 25bp to 25 – 50bp on December 16th. The Fed will effectively raise […]
How Do People Destroy Their Capital?
How Do People Destroy Their Capital? I have written previously about the interest rate, which is falling under the planning of the Federal Reserve. The flip side of falling interest rates is the rising price of bonds. Bonds are in an endless, ferocious bull market. Why do I call it ferocious? Perhaps voracious is a better word, […]
The Essence of Interest Rate Determination
The Essence of Interest Rate Determination According to mainstream thinking the Central Bank is the key factor in determining interest rates. By setting short-term interest rates the Central Bank, it is argued through expectations about the future course of its interest rate policy influences the entire interest rate structure. (According to the expectations theory (ET) […]
China Cuts Benchmark Interest Rate By 25bps, Cuts RRR By 50bps
China Cuts Benchmark Interest Rate By 25bps, Cuts RRR By 50bps What China was supposed to do over the weekend, and waited until its stock market tumbled another 16%, it has just done, because as MarketNews, Reuters and Bloomberg all just blasted, moments ago the PBOC cut both the benchmark and RRR rates: CHINA PBOC […]
Stephen Poloz’s Zen Moment
Stephen Poloz’s Zen Moment To cut or not to cut, that is the question. And fortunately for Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, it was a pretty easy question. A lagging US recovery, China’s downturn, lower oil prices and “bad weather” all contributed to this interest rate cut. “I wouldn’t describe it as a close […]
