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U.S. jobs and global gloom may mean more mortgage relief: Don Pittis
U.S. jobs and global gloom may mean more mortgage relief: Don Pittis Interest rate hikes fade into the future as economic recovery appears to go flat It seems a terrible thing to cheer about, but a new feeling of gloom may be good for Canadians weighed down by mortgage debt. A worse-than-expected U.S. jobs report and increasing fears […]
Low Interest Rates Cannot Save a House of Cards
Low Interest Rates Cannot Save a House of Cards When is the price of some marketable good or service at or near zero? When either the supply of it is so plentiful that virtually any demand, no matter how great, can be satisfied. Or when no matter how large or small the supply of it […]
The US Bond Market is far Larger than the Stock Market: If Even Part of it Blows, it’ll Dig a Magnificent Crater
The US Bond Market is far Larger than the Stock Market: If Even Part of it Blows, it’ll Dig a Magnificent Crater “So, if rates rise, we get nervous. If rates fall, we get nervous. If rates stay the same, we get nervous. When don’t we get nervous? Raise the rates already! We are talking […]
Bankers Threaten Fed with Layoffs if it Doesn’t Raise Rates
Bankers Threaten Fed with Layoffs if it Doesn’t Raise Rates “Let me assure you, if the revenue environment weakens or interest-rate structures don’t move up and the economy slows down, we’ll have to take out more costs,” Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said on Thursday at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference. And that […]
Will The Fed Pick A Winning Combination?
Will The Fed Pick A Winning Combination? It’s highly amusing to read all the ‘expert’ theories on a Federal Reserve hike or no hike tomorrow, but it’s also obvious that nobody really has a clue, and still feel they should be heard. Don’t know if that’s so smart, but I guess in that world being […]
Goldman Sachs——-Perpetuator Of The Fed’s Jihad Against Savers
Goldman Sachs——-Perpetuator Of The Fed’s Jihad Against Savers You can’t blame Janet Yellen entirely for the growing prospect that the Fed will take a powder on Wednesday and opt for the 81st straight month of ZIRP. After all, she’s basically a fuddy duddy school marm caught in a 1970s labor economics time warp—–a branch of the […]
This Is Actually Going To Happen Next Year
This Is Actually Going To Happen Next Year The intellectual groundwork is being laid for the next stage of the Money Bubble, and it’s going to be epic. Here are excerpts from two articles that appeared over the weekend (and which should be read in their entirety). Both deal with Japan, which went all-in on debt […]
A Question of Money – Interest – Bankers
A Question of Money – Interest – Bankers QUESTION: Mr Armstrong, interesting article today, the story of the store of value (at least long term) has always confused me. One can look at saving accounts also as an asset as it yields the interest payment and one relinquishes the access to the money. No difference […]
Financial Sector To Cut Credit Supply Lines For Oil And Gas Industry
Financial Sector To Cut Credit Supply Lines For Oil And Gas Industry More U.S. oil and gas companies could come under financial distress in the coming months as crucial hedging protection begins to expire. Many companies had locked in high prices for their oil sales last year, allowing them a degree of protection as oil […]
Will the Fed Have to Save Emerging Markets with QE4?
Will the Fed Have to Save Emerging Markets with QE4? The risk-off tide is rising, and sand castles of QE will only hold the tide back for a brief period of apparent calm. A funny thing happened on the way to permanently expanding global markets: unintended consequences. Borrowing cheap, abundant U.S. dollars seemed like a good […]
Russia Is Going To Pass A Law Formally Dumping The U.S. Dollar
Russia Is Going To Pass A Law Formally Dumping The U.S. Dollar Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced legislation that would deal a tremendous blow to the U.S. dollar. If Putin gets his way, and he almost certainly will, the U.S. dollar will be eliminated from trade between nations that belong to the Commonwealth of […]
Take The Opportunity To Bail Before Its Too Late
Take The Opportunity To Bail Before Its Too Late Last week ended with the cackling hens on CNBC and the spokesmodels on Bloomberg bloviating about the temporary pothole on the road to riches. They assured their few thousand remaining viewers the 11% plunge in the stock market was caused by China and the communist government’s […]
Wall Street and the Cycle of Crises
Wall Street and the Cycle of Crises Regular readers of the leftish press have recently been presented with a raft of pleas coming from intelligent and occasionally articulate economists that the Federal Reserve not to raise interest rates. The general point being argued is that interest rates are the price of borrowed money, that raising […]
China Is Pushing On A String Ensemble
China Is Pushing On A String Ensemble Look, it’s very clear where I stand on China; I’ve written a lot about it. And not just recently. Nicole Foss, who fully shares my views on the topic, reminded me the other day of a piece I wrote in July 2012, named Meet China’s New Leader : Pon […]
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us
Global Markets to Fed: No Rate Hike, the Strong Dollar Is Killing Us Global markets are puking at the prospect of higher yields in the U.S. There are many reasons for global markets to melt down, but one that doesn’t get enough attention is the strong dollar. In effect, global markets are telling the Federal Reserve: don’t […]
