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Global Markets commentary and outlook
Global Markets commentary and outlook …..’Cause I’ve had the time of my life..and I owe it all to you.. The original song from Dirty Dancing is one of my all time favourites and somehow reminds me of the Global Markets performance this year.Every conceivable asset class (except cash) posted positive returns ,thanks to the LIQUIDITY […]
Peter Schiff: The 20’s Will Be An Explosive Decade for Gold
Peter Schiff: The 20’s Will Be An Explosive Decade for Gold In 2019, gold had its best year since 2010. Peter Schiff appeared on the RT Dec. 31 and said he thinks the yellow metal should have done even better. And given the current economic conditions, he believes the 20’s will be an explosive decade for gold. You […]
Dr. Fed Frankenstein Kept Alive by Zombies
Dr. Fed Frankenstein Kept Alive by Zombies Did you know Dr. Frankenstein created a monster that stays alive to this day by eating zombies? Neither did the zombies. Neither, apparently, did Dr. Frankenstein. In fact, the zombies, being braindead as zombies are, do not realize that they are also keeping alive the diabolical doctor who […]
A Major Bank Admits QE4 Has Started, And That Stocks Are Rising Because Of The Fed’s Soaring Balance Sheet
A Major Bank Admits QE4 Has Started, And That Stocks Are Rising Because Of The Fed’s Soaring Balance Sheet There was a period of about two months when some of the more confused, Fed sycophantic elements, would parrot everything Powell would say regarding the recently launched $60 billion in monthly purchases of T-Bills, and which […]
Shattering the Overton Window
Shattering the Overton Window Aim your rocks at glass houses. The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea’s political viability depends mainly on whether […]
Life Comes At Us Way Too Fast: One Banker’s Striking Explanation Why Nothing Makes Sense Any More
Life Comes At Us Way Too Fast: One Banker’s Striking Explanation Why Nothing Makes Sense Any More Deutsche Bank’s postmodern philosopher-cum-credit strategist Aleksandar Kocic, who missed his true calling and instead of writing a sequel to Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake or some other pomo stream of consciousness piece in the style of Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze (or […]
Guggenheim’s Minerd Warns Of A Nearing ‘Minsky Moment’ That Could “Reset” Asset Prices
Guggenheim’s Minerd Warns Of A Nearing ‘Minsky Moment’ That Could “Reset” Asset Prices Guggenheim Partners’ Scott Minerd warned in a new market outlook titled “From the Desk of the Global CIO: Risk and Reward of Successful ‘Mid-Cycle’ Rate Cuts” that recent 75bps rate cuts by the Jerome Powell–run Federal Reserve had created a similar environment today to 1998 when central […]
Repocalypse: The Second Coming
Repocalypse: The Second Coming This little monster that feeds beneath the surface of global banking at its core briefly raised one ugly eye out of the water as 2018 turned into 2019. I wrote back then that the interest spike we saw in the kind of overnight interbank lending known as repurchase agreements (repos) was […]
Can China Dethrone the US Dollar as Global Reserve
Can China Dethrone the US Dollar as Global Reserve As a result of this ‘trade war’ China has let the yuan slide versus the USD which is a warning to Trump, specifically Mnuchin. On the US dollar as reserve currency, that is a tough thing to break especially for China since the yuan is not […]
How Congress and the Federal Reserve Stole Christmas
How Congress and the Federal Reserve Stole Christmas The bickering over impeachment did not stop the president and Congress from coming together last week to avert a government shutdown by passing a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package. The bipartisan agreement has something for everyone — a 22 billion dollars increase to bring total spending on […]
It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like…
IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE… A BUBBLE! As the markets grind higher into the year-end the look of what is happening is becoming clear. The Fed is inflating a bubble. Valuation on the S&P is approaching 19x which is up from ~14-15x a year ago. Valuation isn’t a great tool for timing however […]
THE GLOBAL DEBT TICKING TIME-BOMB: The Reason To Own Gold & Silver
THE GLOBAL DEBT TICKING TIME-BOMB: The Reason To Own Gold & Silver As Global Debt reached a new record high of $250 trillion this year, gold and silver came briefly back on the radar for investors. After five long years, the precious metals finally broke through key technical levels this summer. However, after the Fed […]
Dave Collum’s 2019 Year In Review: “I Fought The Fed, And The Fed Won”
Dave Collum’s 2019 Year In Review: “I Fought The Fed, And The Fed Won” Authored by David B. Collum, Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology – Cornell University (Email: dbc6@cornell.edu, Twitter: @DavidBCollum), “I hope David comes to his senses.” ~ Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb), best-selling author and Professor at NYU Every year, David Collum writes a detailed […]
Paul Volcker: The Man Who Vanquished Gold
Paul Volcker: The Man Who Vanquished Gold The flood of obituaries that noted the passing of Paul Volcker (1927–2019) last week have almost all lauded his achievement as Fed chair (1979–1987) in reining in the double-digit inflation that ravaged the US economy during the 1970s. Volcker was referred to as the “former Fed chairman who […]
