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China Targets Dollar, Washington Has Conniptions
China Targets Dollar, Washington Has Conniptions Now even Israel – joined at the hip to the US though the relationship has run into rough waters – has applied to become a founding member of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Despite US gyrations to keep them from it, over 40 countries, including bosom buddies Australia, […]
What New Games Can Central Banks Play?
What New Games Can Central Banks Play? Does the Dollar Hold Enough Attraction to Break Out and Hold at Higher Levels? Now is the time to begin looking at the US dollar’s re-ascendance in a different light as we approach 1:1 against the euro. Shorter term we have to expect some possible panics around flat […]
US Hegemony, Dollar Dominance Are Officially Dead As China Scores Overwhelming Victory In Bank Battle
US Hegemony, Dollar Dominance Are Officially Dead As China Scores Overwhelming Victory In Bank Battle It’s official: everyone has caught onto the fact that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank story is extremely important. We’ve covered this exhaustively over the past month, but to summarize, the China-led development bank essentially marks an epochal shift away from traditionally […]
Dollar Demand = Global Economy Has Skidded Over the Cliff (March 18, 2015)
Dollar Demand = Global Economy Has Skidded Over the Cliff Borrowing in USD was risk-on; buying USD is risk-off. There is a lively debate about the global demand for U.S. dollars: Global finance faces $9 trillion stress test as dollar soars (Telegraph.co.uk) Is There a US$ Shortage? Will it Sink the Global Economy? Again? (Mish) The Dollar […]
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters
Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters Contra Corner is not about investment advice, but its unstinting critique of the current malignant monetary regime does not merely imply that the Wall Street casino is a dangerous place for your money. No, it screams get out of harms’ way. Now! Yet I am […]
From Bubble-Blower To Energy Expert, Alan Greenspan Warns “Oil Hasn’t Bottomed Yet”
From Bubble-Blower To Energy Expert, Alan Greenspan Warns “Oil Hasn’t Bottomed Yet” Having recently explained why the stock market is extremely overvalued (in his own words by Fed-driven multiple expansion alone), Alan Greenspan – seemingly brimming over with the need to remedy his years of lies/mistruths with some uncomfortable truthiness – is now taking on the […]
What Happens to the Stock Market if the U.S. Follows the World into Recession?
What Happens to the Stock Market if the U.S. Follows the World into Recession? History is rather unkind to blind faith in central banks, just as the rising U.S. dollar and stagnant sales are being very unkind to corporate profits. The quasi-religious faith that central banks can push stock markets ever higher regardless of real-world […]
Insider Alan Greenspan Warns of Explosive Inflation: “Tinderbox Looking For a Spark”
Insider Alan Greenspan Warns of Explosive Inflation: “Tinderbox Looking For a Spark” Last month it was revealed that former federal reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, the architect of U.S. monetary policy under four Presidents, is anticipating a significant market event as a result of the trillions of dollars that have been pumped into the system over the last several […]
The Global Dollar Funding Shortage Is Back With A Vengeance And “This Time It’s Different”
The Global Dollar Funding Shortage Is Back With A Vengeance And “This Time It’s Different” The last time the world was sliding into a US dollar shortage as rapidly as it is right now, was following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The response by the Fed: the issuance of an unprecedented amount of […]
The Threat to the Dollar as the World’s Primary Reserve Currency
The Threat to the Dollar as the World’s Premier Reserve Currency …but does it really matter? By Patrick Barron My answer is that, “Yes”, it really matters. And that is why we need to take action today to protect all of our interests. The source of the threat may surprise you. We refer […]
Just How Low Will The Loonie Go?
Just How Low Will The Loonie Go? The Canadian dollar fell to below 80 cents on Friday, battered by bad news at home and good news south of the border, leaving economists scrambling to predict just how low it could go. The loonie ended the week at 79.3 cents U.S., sinking after a report showed […]
Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World
Central Banks Have Lost Control Of The World With the world’s oldest central bank – Sweden’s Riksbank – taking the plunge into negative rates, there have been 19 ‘eases’ by central banks this year, Morgan Stanley warns of “ghosts of the 1930s.” With competitive ‘easing’ stoking fears of international currency wars,The Telegraph notes however that looser monetary policy is […]
Two More Harbingers Of Financial Doom That Mirror The Crisis Of 2008
Two More Harbingers Of Financial Doom That Mirror The Crisis Of 2008 The stock market continues to flirt with new record highs, but the signs that we could be on the precipice of the next major financial crisis continue to mount. A couple of days ago, I discussed the fact that the U.S. dollar is experiencing […]
Will China’s Currency Peg Be the Next to Fall?
Will China’s Currency Peg Be the Next to Fall? I suspect China’s leadership is wary of unpegging the RMB for one reason: the FX market is too large to manipulate for long. What is China’s currency the renminbi (RMB, a.k.a. yuan) really worth? Nobody knows, because price discovery has been thwarted by the RMB’s peg to the […]
Something Rotten Is Piling Up in this Economy
Something Rotten Is Piling Up in this Economy Total US business inventories balloon to Lehman-Moment levels “We do have more work to do in the US,” admitted John Bryant, CEO of Kellogg’s which makes Pringles, Pop Tarts, Kashi Cereal, and a million other things that consumers are increasingly reluctant or unable to buy. He was […]
