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Blain’s Morning Porridge – May 11th 2020 – Bond Triggers Tumble
Blain’s Morning Porridge – May 11th 2020 – Bond Triggers Tumble “When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re going to see some serious…. “ After last night’s Boris announcement on not reopening the economy, it clearly doesn’t need any further explanation.. (US Readers – complex sarcasm alert.) Over the course of the lockdown, I’ve been […]
Someday They Are Going To Write Books About This!
Someday They Are Going To Write Books About This! What is occurring today is absolutely mind-boggling. Someday they are going to write books about this! While there have been some messed up financial conundrums over the years none rival the current situation now before us. The dilemma before us is a fast-moving enigma wrapped in a gossamer […]
This Isn’t Just Another Crash
This Isn’t Just Another Crash Like addicts who cannot control their cravings, financial analysts cannot stop themselves from seeking some analog situation in the past which will clarify the swirling chaos in their crystal balls. So we’ve been swamped with charts overlaying recent stock market action over 1929, 1987,2000 and 2008 — though the closest […]
Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March
Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March Fed shed MBS. Loans to “SPVs” flat for fifth week. Repos in disuse. Fed still hasn’t bought junk bonds, stocks, or ETFs. But it sure sent Wall Street dreaming. Total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet rose by only $83 billion […]
Broken System
Broken System The Fed poisons everything, and I mean everything. From markets, the economy, and I will even go as far as politics. Sounds far fetched? Let me make my case below. But as much as the Fed poisons everything this crisis here again reveals a larger issue: The system is completely broken, it can’t […]
Gold Is Set to Crash? No Way!
Gold Is Set to Crash? No Way! The mainstream is a fickle place. On the one hand, we had Bank of America raising its 18-month price projection for gold to $3,000. On the other hand, some people argue the price of gold could crash later in the year. Gold is up over 13% on the year, but […]
Fed Cut Back on Helicopter Money for Wall Street & the Wealthy
Fed Cut Back on Helicopter Money for Wall Street & the Wealthy Tapered QE-4 Further, Still Hasn’t Bought Junk Bonds or ETFs, Was Just Jawboning. Total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet rose by $205 billion during the week ending April 22, to $6.57 trillion. Since the week ending March 11, when the bailout of the Everything […]
Eric Peters: ‘Fed Isn’t Just Delaying The Inevitable Reckoning…It’s Making It Worse’
Eric Peters: ‘Fed Isn’t Just Delaying The Inevitable Reckoning…It’s Making It Worse’ As investors in the US and around the world confront the fact that the Federal Reserve is never really out of ammo, One River Asset Management Founder Eric Peters joined Erik Townsend for an interview on Townsend’s weekly MacroVoices podcast, which features in-depth interviews with […]
What Happens When The Pandemic Ends?
What Happens When The Pandemic Ends? Let’s assume that by the end of this year a combination of social distancing and some new and effective treatments convert covid-19 from existential threat to chronic nuisance and the economy starts to assume an air of normalcy. Which is to say that people go back to traveling and […]
Wall Street Has Now Morphed Into A Full Blown Soviet Sausage Factory
Wall Street Has Now Morphed Into A Full Blown Soviet Sausage Factory To paraphrase the police officer who told me my old neighborhood had burned down during the 2017 NorCal fires, “the markets are no more.” After the Fed announced it is bailing out junk bonds today, Wall Street has now morphed into a full-blown “Soviet […]
The worst economic collapse ever?
The worst economic collapse ever? Country after country has reported extremely dark economic numbers. The gigantic jobless claims, 6.6 million from the U.S. last week, are just the tip of the iceberg. For example, the service sector PMIshave been simply ghastly across the globe. We are now in a crisis of epic proportions. But, how massive […]
Yellen Blames “Enormous Debt And Buybacks” For Coming Default Wave; Morgan Stanley Says It’s All The Fed’s Fault
Yellen Blames “Enormous Debt And Buybacks” For Coming Default Wave; Morgan Stanley Says It’s All The Fed’s Fault In June 2017, Janet Yellen decided to wave a red flag before the bulls of fate, and responding to a question on financial system stability, the then-Fed chair said post-crisis regulations had made financial institutions much “safer […]
