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NY Fed Warns about Booming Subprime Mortgages, now Insured by the Government
NY Fed Warns about Booming Subprime Mortgages, now Insured by the Government “Astronomical” default rates and losses. The New York Fed just warned about the ticking mortgage subprime time bombs once again being amassed, and what happens to them when home prices decline. But unlike during the last housing bust, a large portion of these time […]
Bondholders Stunned As Puerto Rico Finds $4.4 Billion In Outstanding Debt “Unconstitutional”
Bondholders Stunned As Puerto Rico Finds $4.4 Billion In Outstanding Debt “Unconstitutional” After Puerto Rico defaulted on its $422 million debt payment in May, governor Padilla begged congress to step in and help out, which happened shortly thereafter when a House committee cleared legislation that provided Puerto Rico with a way forward on restructuring its debt. As it […]
Heretical Thoughts And Doing The Unthinkable
Heretical Thoughts And Doing The Unthinkable Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man’s Pater Tenebrarum), Heresy! The Dow rose 222 points on Tuesday – or just over 1% – and everyone was exuberant…but things have not turned out well since. We agree with hedge-fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller: This is not a good time […]
The real oil limits story; what other researchers missed
The real oil limits story; what other researchers missed For a long time, a common assumption has been that the world will eventually “run out” of oil and other non-renewable resources. Instead, we seem to be running into surpluses and low prices. What is going on that was missed by M. King Hubbert, Harold Hotelling, and by […]
Corporations Are Defaulting On Their Debts Like It’s 2008 All Over Again
Corporations Are Defaulting On Their Debts Like It’s 2008 All Over Again The Dow closed above 18,000 on Monday for the first time since July. Isn’t that great news? I truly wish that it was. If the Dow actually reflected economic reality, I could stop writing about “economic collapse” and start blogging about cats or […]
Peak Negative-Interest-Rate Absurdity? Hilarity Ensues
Peak Negative-Interest-Rate Absurdity? Hilarity Ensues Among the goodies: “reverse Yankee” landmines. When a central bank like the ECB imposes negative interest rates along with QE on its bailiwick, funny things start to happen. Investors become so eager to get any kind of visible yield that they will do the craziest things. They’re now chasing €3 […]
SocGen: “Now We Know Why The Fed Desperately Wants To Avoid A Drop In Equity Markets”
SocGen: “Now We Know Why The Fed Desperately Wants To Avoid A Drop In Equity Markets” With the ECB now unabashedly unleashing a bond bubble in Europe of which it has promised to be a buyer of last resort with the stronly implied hint that European IG companies should issue bonds and buy back shares, and promptly […]
Former IMF Chief Economist Admits Japan’s “Endgame” Scenario Is Now In Play
Former IMF Chief Economist Admits Japan’s “Endgame” Scenario Is Now In Play Back in October 2014, just after the BOJ drastically expanded its QE operation, we warned that the biggest risk facing the BOJ (and the ECB, and the Fed, and all other central banks actively soaking up securities from the open market) was a lack […]
Going Into Debt to Invest Into Debt…
Going Into Debt to Invest Into Debt… Bankers Hate It When You Hold Cash In an extraordinary turn of events, last week we were contacted by our local bankers. Since we were turned down for a mortgage in 1982 (our business finances were thought to be “too shaky”), we have had little truck with them. We pay […]
Governor Of Puerto Rico Set To Impose Capital Controls
Governor Of Puerto Rico Set To Impose Capital Controls Yesterday, in the latest plot twist surrounding the inevitable Puerto Rico default, we observed that after the commonwealth island’s Senate passed a surprising bill to impose a debt moratorium on any future debt repayment, its bonds – predictably – tumbled. We also noted that the legislation addressed the […]
Wikileaks Reveals IMF Plan To “Cause A Credit Event In Greece And Destabilize Europe”
Wikileaks Reveals IMF Plan To “Cause A Credit Event In Greece And Destabilize Europe” One of the recurring concerns involving Europe’s seemingly perpetual economic, financial and social crises, is that these have been largely predetermined, “scripted” and deliberate acts. This is something the former head of the Bank of England admitted one month ago when Mervyn King […]
How Stupid Do You Have To Be To Let This Happen?
How Stupid Do You Have To Be To Let This Happen? Europe is the birthplace of Western civilization and the source of most of the trends and bodies of knowledge that define modernity. The average European speaks several languages versus sometimes less than one for Americans. They are, in short, a well-schooled people with vast […]
Jeff Rubin: Oil Sands Are ‘Hemorrhaging Red Ink,’ Doomed to Shutter
Jeff Rubin: Oil Sands Are ‘Hemorrhaging Red Ink,’ Doomed to Shutter Former CIBC chief economist outlines latest predictions at ‘Carbon Talks.’ Former CIBC world markets economist Jeff Rubin at SFU’s ‘Carbon Talks’ panel. On the right is Vancity’s mutual fund manager Dermot Foley. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa. The oil sands are downsizing. Alberta’s Big Oil CEOs […]
