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Funding Freeze Getting Worse: Dealers Demand Record $216BN In Liquidity From Fed Repo
Funding Freeze Getting Worse: Dealers Demand Record $216BN In Liquidity From Fed Repo Yesterday, when showing the sudden spike in the FRA/OIS spread – a key gauge of banking-sector risk which measures dollar shortages – we warned that liquidity in the market is virtually nil quoting a host of traders who confirmed that it was next to […]
Peter Schiff: Fed’s Response To Coronavirus Is Just “Delaying The Day Of Reckoning”
Peter Schiff: Fed’s Response To Coronavirus Is Just “Delaying The Day Of Reckoning” Peter Schiff appeared on the Quoth the Raven podcast (iTunes, Spotify, YouTube) on Friday, where he and host Chris Irons discussed the impact of the coronavirus on the economy, gold, bitcoin and why he thinks the Fed is not going to be able to stop […]
Fed Chairman Confirms Fed’s Role As The Great Enabler
Fed Chairman Confirms Fed’s Role As The Great Enabler As questions swirl about the Fed’s independence Fed Chair Powell has been busy trying to explain his reason for the “emergency” 50bps rate cut. Regardless of what he says Fed Chair Powell has confirmed the Fed plans to continue its role as the great enabler. This […]
Peter Schiff: They’re Going to Need a Bigger Rate Cut!
Peter Schiff: They’re Going to Need a Bigger Rate Cut! Stop and pause for a moment and think about what just happened. The Federal Reserve says the US economy is strong, but it just initiated emergency monetary policy last seen during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Something doesn’t add up. The Fed […]
The Fed “Is Complicit In Creating Fragilities In The System”
The Fed “Is Complicit In Creating Fragilities In The System” When the Fed cut interest rates this week, everyone had an opinion about it. The economy needs it to fend off recession. The economy has been hanging in well and they shouldn’t have rushed to spend dwindling monetary policy resources. They were responding to the […]
This Wasn’t Supposed To Happen: One Day After Fed Rate Cut, Repos Signal Record Liquidity Shortage
This Wasn’t Supposed To Happen: One Day After Fed Rate Cut, Repos Signal Record Liquidity Shortage Yesterday morning, when we discussed the sudden spike in liquidity shortage that resulted in both a (record) oversubscribed term repo and the first oversubscribed overnight repo since the start of the repo crisis, we said that “if going solely by the […]
Bill Fleckenstein: Coronavirus Will Cause A “Confidence Crisis” In The Fed
Bill Fleckenstein: Coronavirus Will Cause A “Confidence Crisis” In The Fed Money manager and metals specialist Bill Fleckenstein appeared on the Quoth the Raven Podcast on Sunday to give his thoughts about gold, the market’s reaction to coronavirus and the Fed’s coming “confidence crisis”. Gold First, talking about last week’s move in gold, Fleckenstein says he doesn’t […]
Equity & Oil Futures Crash As Market Opens Without Fed Bailout
Equity & Oil Futures Crash As Market Opens Without Fed Bailout After Friday afternoon’s combination of Jay Powell’s statement and a major rebalancing flow sent stocks soaring into the close, a lack of the much-demanded ‘coordinated global easing’ this weekend has spoiled the party and futures are opening down hard. Friday’s almost 1000 point surge […]
There Is Just One Question: Will The Fed Activate A Coordinated Central Bank Bailout On Sunday
There Is Just One Question: Will The Fed Activate A Coordinated Central Bank Bailout On Sunday With global markets in freefall, the S&P opening 3% lower and cementing its worst week since the global financial crisis; the Dow (or is thar Down Joanes) plunging more than 4,000 points this week, traders (especially levered ones) are […]
Schiff: “US Is In A Gigantic Bubble… & Covid-19 Is Going To Be The Pin”
Schiff: “US Is In A Gigantic Bubble… & Covid-19 Is Going To Be The Pin” While yesterday’s collapse in stocks has been broadly blamed on worsening Covid-19 headlines; Peter Schiff, the CEO and chief global strategist at Euro Pacific Capital, dug a little deeper into the real problems behind the market’s fragility on RT’s Boom Bust […]
No, The Fed Will Not “Save the Market”–Here’s Why
No, The Fed Will Not “Save the Market”–Here’s Why The greater the excesses, speculative euphoria and moral hazard, the greater the reversal. A very convenient conviction is rising in the panicked financial netherworld that the Federal Reserve and its fellow dark lords will “save the market” from COVID-19 collapse. They won’t. I already explained why […]
The Collapse Of This Historic Correlation Suggests A Major Crisis Is Imminent
The Collapse Of This Historic Correlation Suggests A Major Crisis Is Imminent A lot of digital ink has been spilled in recent days over the perplexing reversal of the Yen, which for years was seen by the market as a “flight to safety” trade (as unexpected crisis events would prompt capital repatriation into Japan or […]
BofA: We Are Witnessing The Biggest Asset Bubble Ever Created By A Central Bank
BofA: We Are Witnessing The Biggest Asset Bubble Ever Created By A Central Bank Back in March 2018, when commenting on what was then the 2nd longest central-bank induced bull market of all time (it is now the longest ever) Bank of America’s CIO Michael Hartnett pointed out that “bull market leadership has been in assets that […]
The Violent Collision of Market Fantasy and Viral Reality
The Violent Collision of Market Fantasy and Viral Reality When the stampede tumbles off the cliff, buyers vanish and markets go bidless. The shock wave unleashed in China on January 23 is about to hit the U.S. economy and shatter everything that is fragile and fantasy, starting with the U.S. stock market. The shock wave is […]
Gold: A Modern Investment Framework For An Ancient Asset
Gold: A Modern Investment Framework For An Ancient Asset Gold no longer serves as an official money in the modern financial system, yet it is still considered an important asset due to its established diversification and store of value properties. But what framework(s) should we use to understand the role that gold should play in […]
