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637 Rate Cuts And $12.3 Trillion In Global QE Later, World Shocked To Find “Quantitative Failure”
637 Rate Cuts And $12.3 Trillion In Global QE Later, World Shocked To Find “Quantitative Failure” 2016 is shaping up to be the year that everyone finally comes to terms with the fact that the monetary emperors truly have no clothes. To be sure, it’s been a long time coming. For nearly 8 years, market […]
This Is The NIRP “Doom Loop” That Threatens To Wipeout Banks And The Global Economy
This Is The NIRP “Doom Loop” That Threatens To Wipeout Banks And The Global Economy Remember the vicious cycle that threatened the entire European banking sector in 2012? It went something like this: over indebted sovereigns depended on domestic banks to buy their debt, but when yields on that debt spiked, the banks took a […]
Why NIRP (Negative Interest Rates) Will Fail Miserably
Why NIRP (Negative Interest Rates) Will Fail Miserably What NIRP communicates is: this sucker’s going down, so sell everything and hoard your cash and precious metals. The last hurrah of central banks is the negative interest rate policy–NIRP. The basic idea of NIRP is to punish savers so severely that households and businesses will be compelled […]
Are You Ready for a Crack-Up Boom?
Are You Ready for a Crack-Up Boom? Crack Up! BALTIMORE – The Dow rose on Wednesday morning… after Janet Yellen made soothing remarks about a “gradual” return to normal interest rates. Then investors must have realized that returning to normal is not on the Fed’s agenda. The Dow finished the day down 99 points. We […]
Janet Yellen Admits Fed Is Evaluating Possibility Of Negative Rates
Janet Yellen Admits Fed Is Evaluating Possibility Of Negative Rates One week before the BOJ shocked the world by adopting negative interest rates and unleashed the next leg lower in global risk assets, it warned everyone “please not to worry, all is under control” Moments ago at least Yellen had the courtesy of “warning” market […]
Who Will Raise Rates? The Market or the Fed?
Who Will Raise Rates? The Market or the Fed? Some people are confused by what I mean when I say that rates will rise as we move into the sovereign debt crisis, which will pick up steam in 2017 moving into 2020. We are NOT talking about central banks raising rates; we are looking at […]
Why Markets Are Crashing: “Faith In Central Banks Fails”
Why Markets Are Crashing: “Faith In Central Banks Fails” While Citigroup’s Eric Lee thinks its “ridiculous” to talk fo a US recession, it appears the macro data and markets would strongly disagree: as Bloomberg reports: Signals by central banks from Europe to Japan that additional stimulus is at the ready are failing to ease investor […]
Something Very Disturbing Spotted In A Morgan Stanley Presentation Slide
Something Very Disturbing Spotted In A Morgan Stanley Presentation Slide With central bankers losing credibility left and right, and failing outright to boost the “wealth effect” no matter what they throw at it, the next big question is when will central planners around the world unveil the cashless society which is a necessary and sufficient […]
Rising Systemic Risk for all Markets
Rising Systemic Risk for all Markets We are on the precipice of what can only be described as rising systemic risk for all markets. The Fed is now hinting that banks should prepare for NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES and this insanity of following the crowd is undermining the entire world economy. The increasingly unstable footing that we find ourselves […]
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe”
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe” Trying to simply hold onto the standard that you’ve got has become a new normal for financial challenges. Equity erodes away when interest rates go negative… then everything starts to sour. China’s economy and stock market are effectively in the toilet, or poised […]
Interview With Dr. Benn Steil, Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations
INTERVIEW WITH DR BENN STEIL, DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AT THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Dr. Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a top scholarly economics journal, and lead writer of the Council’s Geo-Graphics economics blog. […]
Central Bank Soap Opera Hides Financial Globalization
Central Bank Soap Opera Hides Financial Globalization Stock markets suspect Federal Reserve has interest rate jitters … Hints that the Fed won’t raise interest rates in March are proving to be good news for miners and oil producers’ share prices The Federal Reserve’s William Dudley said further strengthening in the dollar could have ‘significant consequences’ […]
Fear Hits Japanese Banks, Nikkei Plunges, 10-Year Yield Negative for First Time Ever
Fear Hits Japanese Banks, Nikkei Plunges, 10-Year Yield Negative for First Time Ever A banking crisis radiating out from Europe? While China, Hong Kong, and some other Asian markets celebrated the lunar New Year and wisely kept their markets closed, all heck is breaking loose in Japan. The Nikkei had risen 1% on Monday and […]
Falling Oil Prices Not the Reason for U.S.’s Economic Woes
Falling Oil Prices Not the Reason for U.S.’s Economic Woes Why Should a Decline in Oil Prices be Bad? The dramatic fall in the global price of oil is being cited by the financial press, government officials, and academia as the catalyst for the recent abysmal U.S. economic data which shows that the economy is, […]
Negative-Interest-Rate Effect already Dead, Central Banks Lost Control over Stocks
Negative-Interest-Rate Effect already Dead, Central Banks Lost Control over Stocks And there’s a bitter irony. The Bank of Japan’s surprise Negative-Interest-Rate party for stocks set a new record: it lasted only two days. Today a week ago, the Bank of Japan shocked markets into action. As the economy has deteriorated despite years of zero-interest-rate policy […]
