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THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Is the Corporate-Debt Bubble Ripe Yet?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Is the Corporate-Debt Bubble Ripe Yet? What does it mean when the Fed and other central banks jointly bemoan the effects of their own policies? Worried about not being able to keep all the plates spinning? (11 minutes)
Every Bubble Eventually Finds its Pin
Every Bubble Eventually Finds its Pin The transfer of wealth from workers and savers to governments and big banks continued this week with Swiss-like precision. The process is both mechanical and subtle. Here in the USA the automated elegance of this ongoing operation receives little attention. NFL football. EBT card acceptance at Del Taco. Adam […]
Shale’s Debt-Fueled Drilling Boom Is Coming To An End
Shale’s Debt-Fueled Drilling Boom Is Coming To An End The financial struggles of the U.S. shale industry are becoming increasingly hard to ignore, but drillers in Appalachia are in particularly bad shape. The Permian has recently seen job losses, and for the first time since 2016, the hottest shale basin in the world has seen job […]
Debt Bubble to End All Bubbles – Michael Snyder
Debt Bubble to End All Bubbles – Michael Snyder Journalist and book author Michael Snyder says corporate debt is at record highs standing at $10 trillion. Snyder points out debt is setting records in every aspect of the economy and contends, “If you include all other forms of corporate debt not listed on the stock […]
Ex-BOJ Chief Regrets Not Hiking, Hated QE, Says Sub-1% Interest Rates Don’t Work
Ex-BOJ Chief Regrets Not Hiking, Hated QE, Says Sub-1% Interest Rates Don’t Work Things are going from bad to worse in Japan: 7 years after BOJ chief Kuroda launched QQE (subsequently with yield curve control) while monetizing tens of billions in ETFs, the central banks has failed to boost either Japan’s economy or its inflation, […]
What’s Behind the Subprime Consumer Loan Implosion?
What’s Behind the Subprime Consumer Loan Implosion? These are the good times, but why are subprime credit cards, auto loans, and short-term installment loans blowing out? This is the transcript from my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT: OK, we’ve got a situation in subprime consumer loans. The delinquency rate on credit-card loan balances at […]
Peak Irony: Fed Paper Admits Fed Policy Can Lead to Economic Ruin
Peak Irony: Fed Paper Admits Fed Policy Can Lead to Economic Ruin A paper by Scott A. Wolla and Kaitlyn Frerking for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis warns that the Fed’s own policy could lead to “economic ruin.” The paper titled “Making Sense of National Debt” explains the pros and cons of national […]
Chinese Media Stunner: China Will Be The Next Country To Cut Rates To Zero
Chinese Media Stunner: China Will Be The Next Country To Cut Rates To Zero One week ago, we showed in one chart why the global economic recovery that so many expect is just a few months away, won’t happen: as the chart below shows, China’s credit intensity since 1994 has exploded. This means that before the Global Financial […]
What Happens After The Economic Momentum Ends?
What Happens After The Economic Momentum Ends? At Some Point We Have Simply Overbuilt! The economic landscape before us continues to look like something out of “Alice And The Looking Glass”. A bizarre and unrecognizable land, a land that is distorted and papered over by ream after ream of paper. For over a decade this […]
Fed Fears Next Crash Fatal – John Rubino
Fed Fears Next Crash Fatal – John Rubino Financial writer and book author John Rubino says he can see the end of the economic expansion fueled by massive debt creation. Rubino explains, “Every sector of the U.S. economy is so over indebted I don’t see how we go on much longer. The Fed is desperately […]
Global Debt To Hit All Time High $255 Trillion, 330% Of World GDP
Global Debt To Hit All Time High $255 Trillion, 330% Of World GDP There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and that global debt will keep rising in perpetuity. Addressing the third, yesterday the Institute of International Finance reported that global debt has now hit $250 trillion and is expected to hit a record $255 trillion […]
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt In a very real way, MMT is already here Sure, it’s not admitting to this. And it’s using several technical jinks and jives to offer a pretense that things are otherwise. But it’s not terribly difficult to predict what’s going to happen next: the Federal Reserve will […]
World Debt Downgrade Warning – Moody’s
World Debt Downgrade Warning – Moody’s ◆ A World Debt Downgrade Warning (WDDW) has been issued by credit rating agency Moody’s due to deepening global geopolitical uncertainty and risks ◆ Moody’s has issued a debt downgrade warning to the entire world on fears that severe political turmoil from London to Hong Kong poses a threat […]
Now That We’ve Incentivized Sociopaths–Guess What Happens Next
Now That We’ve Incentivized Sociopaths–Guess What Happens Next As long as central banks create and distribute trillions in conscience-free credit to conscience-free financiers and corporations, the incentives for sociopathy only increase. “Sociopath” is a word we now encounter regularly in the mainstream media, but what does it mean? Here is a list of 16 traits, […]
Is The ‘Mother of all Bubbles’ About to Pop?
Is The ‘Mother of all Bubbles’ About to Pop? When the New York Federal Reserve began pumping billions of dollars a day into the repurchasing (repo) markets (the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other) in September, they said this would only be necessary for a few weeks. Yet, last Wednesday, almost […]
