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NIRP Arrives In The US: TBTF Banks Tell Customers To Move Their Cash Or Be Charged Fees | Zero Hedge
NIRP Arrives In The US: TBTF Banks Tell Customers To Move Their Cash Or Be Charged Fees | Zero Hedge. Back in June, the world was speechless when Goldman’s head of the ECB, Mario Draghi, stunned the world when he took Bernanke’s ZIRP and raised him one better by announcing the ECB would send deposit rates […]
Canadian Banks’ Revenue Threatened By Falling Oil Prices
Canadian Banks’ Revenue Threatened By Falling Oil Prices. TORONTO – Oil prices that reached a five-year low on Friday are starting to take a bite out of profits at TD Bank (TSX:TD) and raising concerns for the rest of the country’s top lenders. Canada’s biggest banks earn up to 20 per cent of their revenues […]
Australian Banks Seen Needing $25 Billion in Capital – Bloomberg
Australian Banks Seen Needing $25 Billion in Capital – Bloomberg. Commonwealth Bank of Australia and its three main competitors may need as much as A$30 billion ($25 billion) after a government-commissioned inquiry called for “unquestionably strong” capital levels, analysts said. The shortfall is based on lenders needing to boost levels to within the top quartile of […]
China Bad-Loan Level Seen Understated After Economy Slows – Bloomberg
China Bad-Loan Level Seen Understated After Economy Slows – Bloomberg. China’s bad-loan ratio may have been understated by at least a third in the second quarter as an economic slowdown weakened borrowers’ ability to repay debts. The level may have been 1.5 percent or above,China Orient Asset Management Corp. said in a report yesterday, citing its survey of […]
$178 Billion In Government Kickbacks: Meet The World’s Biggest Organized Crime Syndicate | Zero Hedge
$178 Billion In Government Kickbacks: Meet The World’s Biggest Organized Crime Syndicate | Zero Hedge. Once upon a time it was the Sicilian, or Russian, or Japanese, or Chinese mob that were some of the biggest sources of funding for corrupt government officials (incidentally, most of them). After all, the government is smart enough to […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 2: The Financialization of Oil
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 2: The Financialization of Oil. All the analysts chortling over the “equivalent of a tax break” for consumers are about to be buried by an avalanche of defaults and crushing losses as the chickens of financializing oil come home to roost. The pundits crowing about the stimulus […]
New G20 Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Hit Depositors AND Pensioners | WEB OF DEBT BLOG
New G20 Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Hit Depositors AND Pensioners | WEB OF DEBT BLOG. On the weekend of November 16th, the G20 leaders whisked into Brisbane, posed for their photo ops, approved some proposals, made a show of roundly disapproving of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and whisked out again. It was all so fast, […]
The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of The Debt Enslavement System That Dominates Our Lives
The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of The Debt Enslavement System That Dominates Our Lives. From the dawn of history, elites have always attempted to enslave humanity. Yes, there have certainly been times when those in power have slaughtered vast numbers of people, but normally those in power find it much more beneficial to […]
Continuing With The Insanity | Humanity’s Test
Continuing With The Insanity | Humanity’s Test. During the peak of the financial crisis during 2008 and 2009, there was a window of opportunity for a fundamental remaking and realignment of the massively over-sized and dysfunctional global financial system. Perhaps, also a questioning of the consensus that supports general deregulation and globalization. This opportunity was […]
Making the banks pay | The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright | CBC Radio
Making the banks pay | The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright | CBC Radio. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis we all had one question in our minds: How many leading bankers are going to jail and for how long? The answer of course was a) none and b) not applicable. The matter of […]
Japan Is Dying And We Still Don’t Get It?! – The Automatic Earth
Japan Is Dying And We Still Don’t Get It?! – The Automatic Earth. What is it with us? Don’t we WANT to understand? Japan announced on Monday that its economy is in hopeless trouble and back in recession (as if it was ever out). And what do we see? ‘Experts’ and reporters clamoring for more […]
How Central Banks Use Gold Swaps To “Boost” Their Gold Holdings | Zero Hedge
How Central Banks Use Gold Swaps To “Boost” Their Gold Holdings | Zero Hedge. With the specter of a “yes” outcome to the Swiss gold referendum finally being priced in by the market, and the frontrunning of the SNB’s potential 1,500 tons of gold purchases starting to move the price of gold higher, a question […]
Big Banks Are Fined $4.25 Billion in Foreign Exchange Scandal – NYTimes.com
Big Banks Are Fined $4.25 Billion in Foreign Exchange Scandal – NYTimes.com. Updated, 10:46 a.m. | LONDON — British, American and Swiss regulators fined some of the world’s biggest banks a combined $4.25 billion on Wednesday for conspiring to manipulate the foreign currency markets, the latest setback for an industry facing increased scrutiny and mounting legal […]
Russell Napier Declares November 16, 2014 The Day Money Dies | Zero Hedge
Russell Napier Declares November 16, 2014 The Day Money Dies | Zero Hedge. It is with regret and sadness we announce the death of money on November 16th 2014 in Brisbane, Australia ‘A mark, a yen, a buck, or a poundA buck or a poundA buck or a poundIs all that makes the […]
