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Get Ready For Negative Interest Rates In The US
Get Ready For Negative Interest Rates In The US With Fed mouthpiece Jon Hilsenrath warning – in no lesser status-quo narrative-deliverer than The Wall Street Journal – that The ECB’s actions (and pre-emptive collapse in the EUR) means the U.S. economy must deal with a rapidly strengthening dollar that will make American goods more expensive abroad, potentially slowing […]
Troika Punches Panic Button on Greece and Spain
Troika Punches Panic Button on Greece and Spain After four years of inflicting economic pain and misery on Europe’s semi-bankrupt periphery, the Troika (IMF, ECB and European Commission) is suddenly in a lather over the potential political consequences of its disastrous economic policies: “I wouldn’t like extreme forces to come to power. I would prefer […]
Axel Merk: Why Asset Prices Must Return To Lower Levels
Axel Merk: Why Asset Prices Must Return To Lower Levels It’s the price you pay for forcing capital to speculate Saying it’s been a busy week and half on the central bank front is perhaps a sizeable understatement. First, the Swiss National Bank stunned the world (and its brethren central banks) by removing its peg […]
Mario Draghi: Charlatan Of The Apparatchiks
Mario Draghi: Charlatan Of The Apparatchiks Well, he finally launched “whatever it takes” and that marks an inflection point. Mario Draghi has just proved that the servile apparatchiks who run the world’s major central banks will stop at nothing to appease the truculent gamblers they have unleashed in the casino. And that means there will eventually be […]
China shares plunge, Europe eyes crunch ECB meeting
China shares plunge, Europe eyes crunch ECB meeting (Reuters) – Chinese shares chalked up their biggest one-day slide in nearly seven years on Monday after regulators there took steps to rein in speculative lending, while investors everywhere braced for what is shaping up to be a critical week in the euro zone. Expectations are high that the […]
Exter’s Pyramid “In Play” (And Is Martin Armstrong Right?)
Exter’s Pyramid “in play” (and is Martin Armstrong right?) In a global debt bubble, it concerns us when the benchmark debt security still looks good value, albeit on a relative basis. In spite of this, the consensus is (once again) calling for higher US yields and FOMC “lift off.” The two-year Treasury yield has […]
The ECB Will Fail Given The “History Lessons Of US And Japan”, Warns Deutsche Bank
The ECB Will Fail Given The “History Lessons Of US And Japan”, Warns Deutsche Bank Recall that the stated purpose behind the reason why Mario Draghi’s ECB is about to launch a European government debt monetization program ranging between EUR500 and 1000 billion is to halt deflation, spark credit creation and rekindle inflation. Alas, if […]
Bubbles Always Pop—–And This One Will Be A Doozy
Bubbles Always Pop—–And This One Will Be A Doozy Pumping All Out The Dow rose 323 points on Thursday, or 1.8%. People come to think what they must think when they must think it. But what do they think now? Why do they think stocks are so valuable? Apparently, they believe that Janet Yellen, Mario […]
Citi, Goldman, ICAP And Others Preparing For Grexit, Again
Citi, Goldman, ICAP And Others Preparing For Grexit, Again Every couple of years the same identical European drill repeats itself: 1) Greece makes loud noises as it approaches an election, 2) Europe says it couldn’t care what the outcome is and that Greece should stay in the Euro but if it exits it won’t be a disaster, 3) […]
The Stimulus Monkeys Are Screeching And The Central Banks Are Pushing On A String
The Stimulus Monkeys Are Screeching And The Central Banks Are Pushing On A String Have you been at the zoo when the monkeys start rattling their cages and screeching in unison? That about sums up the last 24 hours since the euro zone’s December CPI printed at negative 0.2% versus prior year. Within minutes of the release, brokerage […]
ECB warns Greek funding access hinges on keeping bailout
ECB warns Greek funding access hinges on keeping bailout (Reuters) – Greek banks’ access to European Central Bank funding beyond February will depend on Athens successfully completing a final bailout review and reaching a deal on a follow-up plan with its EU/IMF lenders, the ECB said on Thursday. The statement was the clearest warning yet […]
The Deflation Calamity Howlers Are Dead Wrong—-In Europe And Everywhere Else
The Deflation Calamity Howlers Are Dead Wrong—-In Europe And Everywhere Else The calamity howlers of deflation are out in force this morning owing to an absolute economic non sequitur. Namely, that year-on-year consumer prices in the EU came in at negative 0.2% in December, implying that ECB printing presses need to go into immediate overdrive. Well, of course the CPI […]
EU Showdown: Greece Takes on the Vampire Squid
EU Showdown: Greece Takes on the Vampire Squid Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a “Cyprus-Style prolonged bank holiday” if they “vote wrong.” But they have been bullied for too long and are saying “no more.” […]
Eurozone economy enters deflation
Eurozone economy enters deflation In spite of all the warnings and the predictions to the contrary, the eurozone economy slipped into deflation in December, according to estimates published by Eurostat today (7 January). It estimated that inflation in the eurozone in December was -0.2%, dragged down in particular by falling oil prices. Energy costs fell by […]
The ECB’s risky crossing of the Rubicon | European Voice
The ECB’s risky crossing of the Rubicon | European Voice. Eurozone monetary officials are expected to make history when they gather for the European Central Bank’s next policy-setting meeting on 22 January. Observers expect that Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), and his colleagues will finally cross the Rubicon and announce the […]
