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Euro Forecasters See Pain After Worst Year Since 2005
Euro Forecasters See Pain After Worst Year Since 2005 Midway through European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s May press conference in Brussels, the euro rose to its strongest level during his tenure. Then he said the ECB was ready to introduce more stimulus measures, sending it into a slide that strategists say will extend into […]
As It Turns Out Deflation Is Good After All | Zero Hedge
As It Turns Out Deflation Is Good After All | Zero Hedge. Earlier today, in typical German fashion, the chief of the Bundesbank poured cold water on Europe’s latest round of demands that Germany carry the weight of the rebound from the triple-dip on its shoulders, as usual, when Buba President Jens Weidmann Friday rejected […]
Another Keynesian Debt Boondoggle: How Brussels Plans To Turn Zero New Cash Into A $400B Stimulus | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
Another Keynesian Debt Boondoggle: How Brussels Plans To Turn Zero New Cash Into A $400B Stimulus | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. The desperation and fraud of the Keynesian policy apparatus gets more stunning by the day. Apparently, the pettifoggers in Brussels will soon be announcing a new $400 billion bazooka to blast the euro-economy out of its […]
QE isn’t dying, it’s morphing – Thoughts – Nomi Prins
QE isn’t dying, it’s morphing – Thoughts – Nomi Prins. A funny thing happened on the way to the ‘end’ of the multi-trillion dollar bond buying program known as QE – the Fed chronicles. Aside from the shift to a globalization of QE via the European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan (BOJ) as I wrote […]
Deep Divisions Emerge over ECB Quantitative Easing Plans – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Deep Divisions Emerge over ECB Quantitative Easing Plans – SPIEGEL ONLINE. At first glance, there’s little evidence of the sensitive deals being hammered out in the Market Operations department of Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank. The open-plan office on the fifth floor of its headquarters building, where about a dozen employees are staring at their […]
Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins – PaulCraigRoberts.org
Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins – PaulCraigRoberts.org. Nomi Prins in the article below addresses the destruction of the market-based Western financial system and its replacement with a casino underwritten by taxpayers. Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins The recent spike in global political-financial volatility that was […]
Life Lessons To Derive From QE And Stress Tests – The Automatic Earth
Life Lessons To Derive From QE And Stress Tests – The Automatic Earth. I already proposed a few days ago that the recent ECB stress test exercise was such a shambles, it may well have been designed to fail on purpose. In order for Mario Draghi and his Goldman made men to be freed from […]
Errors Found In The ECB’s “Confidence-Boosting” Stress Test | Zero Hedge
Errors Found In The ECB’s “Confidence-Boosting” Stress Test | Zero Hedge. Just when you thought the humor out of the central bank that just released a stress testwhose adverse scenario did not even assume the most likely Eurozone outcome, i.e., deflation, couldn’t get any better, moments ago we learned that the test, which was supposed to […]
The Scariest Number Revealed Today: $1.114 Trillion In Eurozone Bad Debt | Zero Hedge
The Scariest Number Revealed Today: $1.114 Trillion In Eurozone Bad Debt | Zero Hedge. As we previously reported, the ECB’s latest stress test was once again patently flawed from the start. Why? Because as we noted earlier, in its most draconian, “adverse” scenario, the ECB simply refused to contemplate the possibility of deflation. And here’s why. Buried deep […]
ECB Announces Stress Test Results: Here Are The 25 Banks That Failed | Zero Hedge
ECB Announces Stress Test Results: Here Are The 25 Banks That Failed | Zero Hedge. As was leaked on Friday, when the market surged on news that some 25 banks would fail the ECB’s third stress test (because in the New Normal more bank failures means more bailouts, means the richer get richest, means more […]
Don’t Be Distracted by the Pass Rate in ECB’s Bank Exams – Bloomberg
Don’t Be Distracted by the Pass Rate in ECB’s Bank Exams – Bloomberg. For investors, the European Central Bank’s yearlong evaluation of the region’s banks isn’t just about who passes and who fails. The bigger question will be how much the ECB marks down lenders’ capital during its balance sheet inspection known as the asset quality […]
