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Goldman Warns Of A Default Wave As $1.3 Trillion In Debt Is Set To Mature
Goldman Warns Of A Default Wave As $1.3 Trillion In Debt Is Set To Mature Ten years after the Lehman bankruptcy, the financial elite is obsessed with what will send the world spiraling into the next financial crisis. And with household debt relatively tame by historical standards (excluding student loans, which however will likely be […]
Leveraged Loan Demand Is Off The Charts As Dangers Mount
Leveraged Loan Demand Is Off The Charts As Dangers Mount Ten years after the crisis, demands for leveraged loan offerings is once again off the charts. Portfolio managers who are seeking rising yields as the Federal Reserve hikes rates have shown unprecedented demand for recent deals, despite repeated warnings that they may be buying “at the wrong […]
This ‘Deflationary’ Bull Markets Ending – And Here’s What’s Coming Next For Investors
This ‘Deflationary’ Bull Markets Ending – And Here’s What’s Coming Next For Investors After many years of cheap money and asset bubbles – it looks like the upside is finally over. That is – the potential upside against the amount of risk taken on – is over. I often write about investors needing to find […]
By the Time the Fed Hits Its Goals, the Markets Will Be Crashing
By the Time the Fed Hits Its Goals, the Markets Will Be Crashing The Powell Fed has set one goal and one goal only for its policy… Hitting the “neutral rate of interest.” The neutral rate of interest is when the Fed has rates equal to the pace of inflation. While this is technicallywhat the Fed […]
Mortgage Rates Head to 6%, 10-Year Yield to 4%, Yield Curve Fails to “Invert,” and Fed Keeps Hiking
Mortgage Rates Head to 6%, 10-Year Yield to 4%, Yield Curve Fails to “Invert,” and Fed Keeps Hiking Nightmare scenario for the markets? They just shrugged. But homebuyers haven’t done the math yet. There’s an interesting thing that just happened, which shows that the US Treasury 10-year yield is ready for the next leg up, […]
How the Trade War Helps Hide Central Bank Sabotage Of The Economy
How the Trade War Helps Hide Central Bank Sabotage Of The Economy Almost every aspect of the global economic downturn, which started ostensibly in 2007-08 and is still ongoing to this day, can be traced back to the actions and policies of central banks. The Federal Reserve, for example, used artificially low interest rates and […]
The Committee to Destroy the World: The Federal Reserve
The Committee to Destroy the World: The Federal Reserve The general belief among average citizens is that the purpose of central banks is to help the economy by fighting inflation and mitigating financial crisis. It’s a fairy tale that politicians like to encourage. If there were any truth to it, however, where was the Federal […]
BCA: The “Bubble In Everything” Threatens $400 Trillion In Assets
BCA: The “Bubble In Everything” Threatens $400 Trillion In Assets By now, it’s a very familiar question: how high can the Fed hike rates before it causes a major market “event.” Two weeks ago, Stifel analyst Barry Banister became the latest to issue a timeline on how many more rate hikes the Fed can push […]
Yellen Wants Fed to Commit to Future Booms to Make Up for Busts
Yellen Wants Fed to Commit to Future Booms to Make Up for Busts Former Fed Chair Yellen promotes “Lower for Longer”, a policy in which the Fed knowingly keeps interest rates too low. Here’s the asinine policy proposal of the day: Fed Should Commit to Future ‘Booms’ to Make Up for Major Busts. The U.S. […]
As The Fed Raises Rates, The Ghost of Lehman Bros Lingers
As The Fed Raises Rates, The Ghost of Lehman Bros Lingers In just two days – September 15 – it will be the 10-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers collapse. The date they filed bankruptcy. With nearly $620 billion in debts, it was the largest bankruptcy in history. Now, a decade late – it appears the […]
The Makings of a 2020 Recession and Financial Crisis
Carl Court/Getty Images The Makings of a 2020 Recession and Financial Crisis Although the global economy has been undergoing a sustained period of synchronized growth, it will inevitably lose steam as unsustainable fiscal policies in the US start to phase out. Come 2020, the stage will be set for another downturn – and, unlike in […]
Think That Governments Won’t Default? Think Again
Think That Governments Won’t Default? Think Again The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just reported that the U.S. budget deficit is widening in a ‘big way’. And what’s even worse – last month the net interest on public debt jumped 25% compared to last August. . . I wrote last January about the soaring cost of interest […]
“Monetary Buffers Depleted” Boston Fed: Concerns Over Next Recession Mount
“Monetary Buffers Depleted” Boston Fed: Concerns Over Next Recession Mount In a recession, the Fed typically slashes interest rates 5 PP. No such buffer exists. A Fed study looks at the impact. One of the reason the Fed seems desperate to hike rates is they want ammunition to cut rates when the recession hits. Typically, […]
U.S. Government Financial Balance Sheet One Step Closer To Blowing Up
U.S. Government Financial Balance Sheet One Step Closer To Blowing Up The U.S. Government’s balance sheet is one step closer to blowing up as its debt, and interest expense hit new record highs. And when I say “new record highs,” I am not exaggerating. It’s been a while since I checked the data on the […]
The End Of Cheap Debt: The Fall & Rise Of Interest Rates
Creativa Images/Shutterstock The End Of Cheap Debt: The Fall & Rise Of Interest Rates Perhaps the greatest single trend impacting the next decade Total debt (public + private) in America is currently at a staggering $67 trillion. That number has been rising fast over the past 47 years, following the US dollar’s transformation into a […]
