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History Being Made: Negative Rates, Fake Markets, & The Imminent “Daily Liquidity” Crisis
History Being Made: Negative Rates, Fake Markets, & The Imminent “Daily Liquidity” Crisis Transformational Markets: History Being Made No-Bond World And The Risk Of A Daily Liquidity Crisis Rates hit new lows this month. Symbolically, the 50-year swap rate in Europe dived into negative territory. Bonds as an asset class are in extinction, a major […]
Save The World By First Saving Yourself
Save The World By First Saving Yourself We each have a role to play in how the world recovers from the coming crisis Ripped from today’s headlines: Negative Interest Rates Are Coming And They Are Downright Terrifying (Yahoo! Finance) Earth’s Lungs Are Burning: Amazon Rainforest Which Contributes 20% Of Planet’s Oxygen Is On Fire What’s […]
12 Reasons Why Negative Rates Will Devastate The World
12 Reasons Why Negative Rates Will Devastate The World It has been a thesis over 20 years in the making, but with every passing day, SocGen’s Albert Edwards – who first coined the term “Ice Age” to describe the state of the world in which every debt issue ends up with a negative yield as […]
IMF Recommends “DEEP” Negative Interest Rates as the Next Tool
IMF Recommends “DEEP” Negative Interest Rates as the Next Tool The IMF has continued to assume that the zero-bound on interest rates can be a serious obstacle for fighting recessions on the part of the central banks. The IMF maintains that the zero-bound is not a law of nature; it is a policy choice. The latest in […]
Global Central Banks “Are Trapped By Their Own Inflation Targets”
Global Central Banks “Are Trapped By Their Own Inflation Targets” Negative Rates Would Lead To #Chaos Central bankers attending the G-7 meeting are sounding remarkably coordinated in their message. The global economy is growing but inflation isn’t. And that, along with the oft-cited global headwinds, means they’re ready and able to add more liquidity to the system. […]
Negative Interest Rates Spread To Mortgage Bonds
Negative Interest Rates Spread To Mortgage Bonds There are trillions of dollars of bonds in the world with negative yields – a fact with which future historians will find baffling. Until now those negative yields have been limited to the safest types of bonds issued by governments and major corporations. But this week a new […]
The Terrifying Truth About Negative Interest Rates
The Terrifying Truth About Negative Interest Rates Pushing interest rates below zero is both an act of desperation and something that in theory should have a huge, immediate impact of the behavior of borrowers and savers. The fact that negative rates have become the new normal in big parts of the world but haven’t caused […]
Economic Iliad & Odyssey
Economic Iliad & Odyssey The term “iliad” in Greek mean a series of miseries or disastrous events and “Odyssey” meant a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune. Welcome to the Economic Iliad & Odyssey. What we are facing is truly extraordinary. There is absolutely NO economic theory from Adam Smith to Keynes […]
Don’t Be So Negative
DON’T BE SO NEGATIVE “FED’S WILLIAMS SAYS IN A DOWNTURN WE COULD CONSIDER QUANTITATIVE EASING, NEGATIVE RATES.” Tweet by Reuters’ Jennifer Ablan, reporting on a speech by John Williams of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at the Economic Club of New York, 6 March 2019. “Because NIRP worked so well in Europe and […]
Europe is so weak it can’t even handle 0% interest rates
Europe is so weak it can’t even handle 0% interest rates Europe’s leading economic policy makers have officially thrown in the towel. Last week, the European Central Bank admitted economic conditions are so dire that it already has to reverse its monetary policy. I’ll get back to that in a minute… Following the Great Financial Crisis in […]
The Dangers of Negative Interest Rates and a Cashless Economy
THE DANGERS OF NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES AND A CASHLESS ECONOMY The recent gyrations in the stock market and the uncertainties surrounding American trade policies with China and other parts of the world have raised the question of when the next recession will inevitably follow the current economic recovery from the 2008-9 financial crisis. In the […]
Central Banks Looking at Creating Their Own Cryptocurrencies
Central Banks Looking at Creating Their Own Cryptocurrencies The IMF has recommended that all Central banks should issue their own cryptocurrencies. Indeed, they are looking at using Block Chain to keep track of taxes and to enforce negative interest rates with cryptocurrencies which would allow them to impose negative interest rates whenever necessary. With adopting cryptocurrencies that governments would […]
Transparent citizens, negative interest rates and other crazy ideas of economic experts
Transparent citizens, negative interest rates and other crazy ideas of economic experts In a March paper, Alexei Kireyev of the International Monetary Fund advises abolishing cash without having the citizens aware of the process. First, large banknotes are to be withdrawn from circulation, next limits on cash transactions are to be imposed, then computerization of […]
Too Safe to Fail: Implied Default Rate for European Junk Bond is Negative 1.1%
Too Safe to Fail: Implied Default Rate for European Junk Bond is Negative 1.1% Apparently, European junk bonds are too safe to fail. Fundstrat Global Advisors’ Thomas Lee says the market-implied default rate for a European junk bond sits at a negative 1.1%. Please consider Investors Price European Junk Debt as Too Safe to Fail, […]
Hard Assets In an Age of Negative Interest Rates
Hard Assets In an Age of Negative Interest Rates Time is the soul of money, the long-view — its immortality. Hard assets are forever, even when destroyed by the cataclysms of history. It is the outlook that perpetuated the most competent and powerful aristocracies in continental Europe, well up through World War I and, in […]
