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“This Is Insanity!” – Jim Rogers Warns Of “Horrible Time” Ahead
“This Is Insanity!” – Jim Rogers Warns Of “Horrible Time” Ahead The Fed has increased its balance sheet over 500% in the past decade; The Bank of Japan is printing money to buy bonds and stock ETFs; and The European Central Bank is mired in insane negative interests. And, according to legendary investor Jim Rogers, they […]
Hedge Fund CIO: Will The Fed Ever Be Held Accountable For Turbocharging Inequality That Poisons America
Hedge Fund CIO: Will The Fed Ever Be Held Accountable For Turbocharging Inequality That Poisons America “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the […]
Central Bankers Are Quietly Freaking Out About How To Fight The Next Recession
Central Bankers Are Quietly Freaking Out About How To Fight The Next Recession The world’s top central bank officials are rightly concerned that politicians in rich economies missed one key lesson of the last recession: Interest rate cuts can help to moderate a downturn, but aggressive fiscal policy is key to a healthy recovery. It […]
Some Other People Do Some Other Things
Some Other People Do Some Other Things An almighty bafflement befogs the nation as the first full business week of 2020 commences and events pile up like smashed vehicles on a weather-blinded highway. Before we even smoked that Iranian bird on the Baghdad airport tarmac, something ominous was tingling away in the financial markets, in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Monetary Looting
Monetary Looting The United States has historically bragged about its free and transparent markets. But what the Fed is doing today is pulling a dark curtain around the financing of this so-called free and transparent market. The public has no idea which Wall Street firms have received this $3 trillion or why they can’t borrow […]
“It’s Nuts” – The Fed Has Created A “Monstrous Beast Of Over-Inflated Valuation”
“It’s Nuts” – The Fed Has Created A “Monstrous Beast Of Over-Inflated Valuation” “Own risk assets…everywhere… everywhere” says Embark Group’s CIO Peter Toogood, exclaiming that “this is nothing to do with fundamentals anymore, fill your boots, why not?” After The Fed entirely flip-flopped from last year, the clearly frustrated manager notes the facts behind the so-called market, “flooding […]
George Selgin on Frozen Money Markets & Competing With the Fed in Payments
George Selgin on Frozen Money Markets & Competing With the Fed in Payments New York | In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we feature a timely conversation with Dr. George Selgin, senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics at […]
