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Where Negative Interest Rates Will Lead Us
WHERE NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES WILL LEAD US Despite zero-interest-rate-policy (ZIRP) and multiple quantitative easing programs — whereby the central bank buys large quantities of assets while leaving interest rates at practically zero — the world’s economies are stuck in the doldrums. The central banks’ only accomplishment seems to be an increase in public and private […]
The G-20s Big Fat Zero——Now Comes The Bubble’s Demise!
The G-20s Big Fat Zero——Now Comes The Bubble’s Demise! The tens of millions of taxpayer money wasted at the G-20’s Shanghai soirée had a silver lining. The assembled masters of world finance came up with a big fat zero on the coordinated global stimulus front. So doing, they essentially admitted that their money printing central banks are out of dry powder (“…but monetary […]
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First
The Global Run On Physical Cash Has Begun: Why It Pays To Panic First Back in August 2012, when negative interest rates were still merely viewed as sheer monetary lunacy instead of pervasive global monetary reality that has pushed over $6 trillion in global bonds into negative yield territory, the NY Fed mused hypothetically about […]
HSBC Looks At “Life Below Zero,” Says “Helicopter Money” May Be The Only Savior
HSBC Looks At “Life Below Zero,” Says “Helicopter Money” May Be The Only Savior In many ways, 2016 has been the year that the world woke up to how far down Krugman’s rabbit hole (trademark) DM central bankers have plunged in a largely futile effort to resuscitate global growth. For whatever reason, Haruhiko Kuroda’s move […]
Day of Reckoning Imminent
Day of Reckoning Imminent Fudging Numbers It all seems so systematic, arranged, and orderly. Sixty seconds make a minute, 60 minutes make an hour, 24 hours make a day, and one day equals one complete rotation of the planet earth. Roughly every 30 days the moon orbits the earth – which is one month. Then […]
Fear The Smell Of (Monetary) Napalm In The Morning
Fear The Smell Of (Monetary) Napalm In The Morning Via ConvergEx’s Nick Colas, Warm up the choppers and put some Wagner on the loudspeakers – “Helicopter money” is a hot economic topic. That’s where central banks print money and either hand it to the government for things like infrastructure investment or just send it out […]
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns Two days ago, the man who now signs your Federal Reserve notes threw cold water on hopes for a so-called “Shanghai Accord.” Over the past month or so, anticipation has built among market participants for some manner of coordinated policy response at this weekend’s G20 summit […]
Demand For Big Bills Soars As NIRP-Fearing Japanese Stuff Safes With 10,000-Yen Notes
Demand For Big Bills Soars As NIRP-Fearing Japanese Stuff Safes With 10,000-Yen Notes Earlier this week, we were amused but not at all surprised to learn that Japanese citizens are buying safes like they’re going out of style. The reason: negative rates and the incipient fear of a cash ban. “Look no further than Japan’s […]
Everything Changes At Zero
EVERYTHING CHANGES AT ZERO “Then said Jesus, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”” – Luke 23:34. For the benefit of non-subscribers, there are two versions of the Financial Times newspaper. One of them is the hard copy edition, still printed on pink paper, an exact digital replica of which is available on […]
According To Morgan Stanley This Is The Biggest Threat To Deutsche Bank’s Survival
According To Morgan Stanley This Is The Biggest Threat To Deutsche Bank’s Survival Two weeks ago, on one of the slides in a Morgan Stanley presentation, we found something which we thought was quite disturbing. According to the bank’s head of EMEA research Huw van Steenis, while in Davos, he sat “next to someone in policy […]
Your Do-It-Yourself Page Financial Armageddon Story
YOUR DO-IT-YOURSELF FRONT PAGE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON STORY “The media select, they interpret, they emotionalize and they create facts.. The media not only reduce reality by lowering information density. They focus reality by accumulating information where “actually” none exists.. A typical stock market report looks like this: Stock X increased because.. Index Y crashed due to.. […]
Financial Time Bombs Hiding In Plain Sight
Financial Time Bombs Hiding In Plain Sight The bear will soon be arriving in earnest, marauding through the canyons of Wall Street while red in tooth and claw. Our monetary central planners, of course, will once again—for the third time this century——be utterly shocked and unprepared. That’s because they have spent the better part of two decades deforming, distorting, denuding and destroying what were once […]
Safes Sell Out In Japan, 1,000 Franc Note Demand Soars As NIRP Triggers Cash Hoarding
Safes Sell Out In Japan, 1,000 Franc Note Demand Soars As NIRP Triggers Cash Hoarding Negative rates may not have found their way to bank deposits in most locales (yet), but that doesn’t mean the public isn’t starting to see the writing on the wall. At first, NIRP was an anomaly. An obscure policy tool […]



