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How People Turn into “Debt Slaves?”
How People Turn into “Debt Slaves?” Wolf Richter with Jim Goddard on This Week in Money: The Price of Easy Money, Low Interest Rates, and Debt Bubbles: After the party, the hangover. Read… The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q1 2018.
Weekly Commentary: Disequilibrium
Weekly Commentary: Disequilibrium Much to the consternation of our allies, President Trump withdraws from the Iran nuclear deal. WTI crude adds another 1.5% (up 17% y-t-d) this week to the high since November 2014. Iran and Israel moved closer to direct military confrontation. With even 40% rates unable to staunch the bleeding, a stunned Argentine […]
Beware of the Coming Economic Debt Bomb
Beware of the Coming Economic Debt Bomb Investors should start paying attention to the nation’s growing debt. Here’s why. “There is a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of every American. Sadly, it is about to drop.” Sorry for the drama, but I need to get your attention. We know that the Fed has […]
Argentina Seeks IMF Financing Following Yesterday’s Hike in Rates to 40%.
Argentina Seeks IMF Financing Following Yesterday’s Hike in Rates to 40%. Argentina once again seeks help from the IMF following yesterday’s 40% interest rate hike. Last year, Argentina was a favorite destination for investors. This year, Argentina is facing yet another currency crisis. A run on the Peso started last month as investors soured on […]
EM FX Plunges: Argentine Peso Re-Crashes, Turkish Lira Tumbles To Record Low
EM FX Plunges: Argentine Peso Re-Crashes, Turkish Lira Tumbles To Record Low Just hours after Fed Chair Jay Powell implied that ’emerging markets are on their own’, EM FX is re-collapsing… with Argentina (despite a 1275bp rate hike) and Turkey both crashing to new record lows… “There is good reason to think that the normalization […]
Fed Chair Powell To Emerging Markets: You Are On Your Own
Fed Chair Powell To Emerging Markets: You Are On Your Own Over the weekend, when commenting on the ongoing rout in emerging markets, Bloomberg published an article titled “Rattled Emerging Markets Say: It’s Over to You, Central Bankers.” Well, overnight the most important central banker of all, Fed Chair Jay Powell responded to these pleas […]
Is the US Exporting a Recession?
IS THE US EXPORTING A RECESSION? The Federal Reserve continue to raise rates as S&P earnings beat estimates The ECB and BoJ maintain QE Globally, corporations rely on US$ financing, nonetheless Signs of a slowdown in growth are clearer outside the US After last week’s ECB meeting, Mario Draghi gave the usual press conference. He confirmed […]
Russell Napier: The Rising Dollar Will Trigger The Next “Systemic Banking Crisis”
Russell Napier: The Rising Dollar Will Trigger The Next “Systemic Banking Crisis” Fresh off his successful call earlier this year that the US dollar would strengthen in the coming months, macroeconomic strategist and market historian Russell Napier joined MacroVoices host Erik Townsend to discuss why he favors deflation and why he has such a bullish […]
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 […]
Effects of Monetary Pumping on the Real World
Effects of Monetary Pumping on the Real World As long time readers know, we are looking at the economy through the lens of Austrian capital and monetary theory (see here for a backgrounder on capital theory and the production structure). In a nutshell: Monetary pumping falsifies interest rate signals by pushing gross market rates below […]
Taking the Pulse of a Weakening Economy
Taking the Pulse of a Weakening Economy Corporate buybacks provide the key analogy for the economy as a whole. Central banks have been running a grand experiment for 9 years, and now we’re about to find out if it succeeds or fails. For 9 unprecedented years, central banks have pushed the pedal of monetary stimulus […]
Wave of Corporate Bankruptcies Coming: GE Warns About its Subprime Mortgage Unit
Wave of Corporate Bankruptcies Coming: GE Warns About its Subprime Mortgage Unit Earlier today I commented to a friend about corporate bankruptcies. A few hours later, another friend Emailed about GE. Earlier today a friend pinged me with this story: U.S.Personal Spending Outpaces Income Growth For 26th Straight Month. He commented: “Hey, a lot of […]
There is Over $7.5 Trillion In Debt That’s Highly Vulnerable To Rising Rates – Here’s What To Expect
There is Over $7.5 Trillion In Debt That’s Highly Vulnerable To Rising Rates – Here’s What To Expect The 10-year interest rate hit the critical level of 3% this morning. And this is the highest level it’s been since 2014 – four years ago. . . A couple months back, I highlighted the correlation of […]
Japan Expects to Hit 2% Inflation in 5 Years, Aggressive Easing Will Continue
Japan Expects to Hit 2% Inflation in 5 Years, Aggressive Easing Will Continue The BOJ thinks Japan may hit its 2% inflation target in 5 years. Kuroda says risks are to the downside. It may take Japan five more years to reach its 2% inflation targetaccording to BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda. “Sometime within the next […]
Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising
Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising On March 31stthe Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time in 3 years and signaled its intention to raise rates twice more in 2018, aiming for a fed funds target of 3.5% by 2020. LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate) has […]
