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The Volcano of Debt
The Volcano of Debt Just as gravity propels the lava from Kilauea inexorably toward the sea, a mountain of public and private debt looms over today’s markets. Earlier this week, the Boards of Trustees for both U.S. Social Security and Medicare released their latest updates on the “solvency” of the programs. The advisories can be […]
Breslow: “If You Ever Needed Proof That Central Banks Have Crushed These Markets, There You Have It”
Breslow: “If You Ever Needed Proof That Central Banks Have Crushed These Markets, There You Have It” It’s been a while since we featured the grouchy version of Richard Breslow, Bloomberg’s “Trader’s Notes” author, who is back with a bang with his latest missive, explaining why “Ignoring Current Events Just Makes You a Slave” and […]
Italian Politics: The Calm Before the Next Storm
ITALIAN POLITICS: THE CALM BEFORE THE NEXT STORM Europe remains a potential source of angst for financial markets in the form of another existential crisis for the Eurozone. True, stock markets have relaxed over the past week in part because of relief that another Italian election has been avoided for now and in part because […]
An Unexpected Warning From Goldman Sachs: “Something Is Not Quite Right”
An Unexpected Warning From Goldman Sachs: “Something Is Not Quite Right” It was just over 9 years ago today when we wrote “The Incredibly Shrinking Market Liquidity, Or The Upcoming Black Swan Of Black Swans” in which we explained how as a result of the growing influence of HFT, quants and central banks, the market […]
Market Plummets if Global Central Banks Pull Plug – Nomi Prins
Market Plummets if Global Central Banks Pull Plug – Nomi Prins Two time best-selling book author Nomi Prins says the rescue policies of the 2008 financial crisis are still with us today. Prins is out with a brand new book called “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.” The enormity of our current global debt […]
Risk-Aversion Meets a Hypervalued Market
Risk-Aversion Meets a Hypervalued Market Sooner or later a crash is coming, and it may be terrific. – Roger Babson, September 5, 1929 Roger Babson’s first rule of investing was “keep speculation and investments separate.” He is remembered not only for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, but also for his speech at the National Business […]
BofA’s Striking Admission: Markets Will Soon Begin To Panic About Debt Sustainability
BofA’s Striking Admission: Markets Will Soon Begin To Panic About Debt Sustainability In the latest BofA survey of European fixed income investors (both IG and high yiled), the bank’s credit analyst Barnaby Martin writes that “after fretting about inflation at the start of the year, April’s credit survey shows that the biggest concern has reverted […]
Playing for All the Marbles
Playing for All the Marbles Global Plunge Protection Teams must be ordering take-out food; every night is a long one now. The current stocks/bonds game is for all the marbles, by which I mean the status quo now depends on valuations and interest rates remaining near their current levels for the system to function. If […]
The Risk of the Fed’s Continuous Rate Hikes
The Risk of the Fed’s Continuous Rate Hikes This past week, the Fed raised interest rates by 0.25%. The effective Fed fund rate is now 1.63% – the highest since the big market crash of 2008. However, it could get as high as 3.375% by 2020. The decade 2020 – 2029 could see a high-tech […]
Stocks Post WORST April Start Since The Great Depression
Stocks Post WORST April Start Since The Great Depression The S&P 500 closed down more than 2.4% Monday and the broad market index posted its worst April start since 1929. This slide in the markets caused the worst start since the Great Depression, sparking fears we are on the same path. The Dow Jones industrial average fell […]
Dow Plunges 600, Global Markets Tank After China Retaliates In All-Out Trade War
Dow Plunges 600, Global Markets Tank After China Retaliates In All-Out Trade War So much for yesterday’s Amazon bounce. Just before 4AM EDT, a Bloomberg headline hit which has not only unleashed a furious global selling wave, sending the S&P lower by nearly 2% and the Dow 600 lower, but may have changed the course […]
What Kind of Hyper-Enthusiastic Market is this that Blindly Keeps Pursuing Scams to Make a Fortune Overnight, even if They Already Crashed the First Time?
What Kind of Hyper-Enthusiastic Market is this that Blindly Keeps Pursuing Scams to Make a Fortune Overnight, even if They Already Crashed the First Time? It’ll take many more sell-offs and the collapse of many more iffy stocks before this hyper-enthusiasm, after nine years of central bank nurturing, is finally wrung out of the market. […]
