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“This Is Most Worrying”: In One Year, Central Bank Liquidity Will Collapse From $2 Trillion To Zero
“This Is Most Worrying”: In One Year, Central Bank Liquidity Will Collapse From $2 Trillion To Zero Is it complacency, or simply trader paralysis? A question we first asked three months ago is getting a second wind this morning, when in a report by Deutsche Bank’s Alan Ruskin, the macro strategist points out that “the […]
Schäuble: Another Financial Crisis Is Coming Due To Spiraling Global Debt, “New Bubbles”
Schäuble: Another Financial Crisis Is Coming Due To Spiraling Global Debt, “New Bubbles” Following the disappointing for Angela Merkel and her CDU German election results, which propelled the populist AfD into Germany’s political establishment with 92 members of parliament, the first casualty was Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, who in a few days will relinquish […]
Eric Peters On Tipping Points: “It All Worked Incredibly Well, Until It Blew Up”
Eric Peters On Tipping Points: “It All Worked Incredibly Well, Until It Blew Up” Two years ago, long after we first suggested that the transformation of VIX from a measure of implied market volatility to a reflexive instrument that can be traded – and thus influence the underlying assets whose volatility it was supposed to […]
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change For the benefit of the elites; not the rest of us We can add a third certainty to the two standard ones (death and taxes): The rules will suddenly change when a financial crisis strikes. Why is this a certainty? The answer is complex, as it […]
The Courage to Normalize Monetary Policy
The Courage to Normalize Monetary Policy A decade after the onset of the global financial crisis, it seems more than appropriate for central bankers to move the levers of policy off their emergency settings. A world in recovery – no matter how anemic it may be – does not require a crisis-like approach to monetary […]
ECB Negative Rate Experiment May Lead to the Worst Financial Crisis in Modern History
ECB Negative Rate Experiment May Lead to the Worst Financial Crisis in Modern History QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Your proposition that the quantity of money theory is dead seems to be a true earth shattering proposition. It certainly disproves the Austrian School and the events post 2008 support your statement. The European Central Bank is supposed […]
The Forthcoming Global Crisis
THE FORTHCOMING GLOBAL CRISIS The global economy is now in an expansionary phase, with bank credit being increasingly available for non-financial borrowers. This is always the prelude to the crisis phase of the credit cycle. Most national economies are directly boosted by China, the important exception being America. This is confirmed by dollar weakness, which […]
You’re Likely A Lot Less Prepared For Crisis Than You Realize
rangizzz/Shutterstock You’re Likely A Lot Less Prepared For Crisis Than You Realize Lessons from the recent rash of natural disasters It seems as if Mother Nature is waking up. Either she’s trying to send humans an important warning, or perhaps she’s just out to kill us all. Massive storms across the globe, earthquakes, and collapsing ecosystems […]
Does the Central Bank Determine Interest Rates?
DOES THE CENTRAL BANK DETERMINE INTEREST RATES? According to mainstream thinking, the central bank is the key factor in determining interest rates. By setting short-term interest rates, the central bank, it is argued, through expectations about the future course of its interest rate policy can influence the entire interest rate structure. Thus according to the […]
Albert Edwards: “Citizen Rage” Will Soon Be Directed At “Schizophrenic” Central Banks
Albert Edwards: “Citizen Rage” Will Soon Be Directed At “Schizophrenic” Central Banks Perhaps having grown tired of fighting windmills, it was several weeks since Albert Edwards’ latest rant against central banks. However, we were confident that recent developments out of the Fed and BOE were sure to stir the bearish strategist out of hibernation, and […]
Why Economic Data No Longer Matters
Why Economic Data No Longer Matters Back in mid-2009, we said that with the Fed and central banks nationalizing capital markets, macro and even micro data and newsflow will matter increasingly less and less, and the only thing that does matter is the Fed’s weekly H.4.1 statement, showing the changes to the Fed’s balance sheet. […]
Fed’s Asset Bubbles Now At The Mercy Of The Rest Of The World’s Central Bankers
Fed’s Asset Bubbles Now At The Mercy Of The Rest Of The World’s Central Bankers “Like watching paint dry,” is how The Fed describes the beginning of the end of its experiment with massively inflating its balance sheet to save the world. As former fund manager Richard Breslow notes, however, Yellen’s decision today means the […]
When This Debt Bubble Bursts, Central Banks Will Turn to Money Printing… Again
When This Debt Bubble Bursts, Central Banks Will Turn to Money Printing… Again Let’s face the facts. The only reason the financial system has held together so well since 2008 is because Central Banks have created a bubble in bonds via massive QE programs and seven years of ZIRP/NIRP. As a result of this, the […]
Bubble Fortunes
Bubble Fortunes Wynn Bullock Child on a Forest Road 1958 A few days ago, former Reagan Budget Director and -apparently- permabear (aka perennial bear) David Stockman did an interview (see below) with Stuart Varney at Fox -a permabull?!-, who started off with ‘the stock rally goes on’ despite a London terror attack and the North […]
