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“Dollar Is King”: Indonesia Joins India In Begging Fed To Stop Shrinking Its Balance Sheet
“Dollar Is King”: Indonesia Joins India In Begging Fed To Stop Shrinking Its Balance Sheet It’s getting a little tight around the neck for emerging market central bankers. On the same day that the governor of Malaysia’s central bank quit, and just days after Urjit Patel, governor of the Reserve Bank of India, took the […]
Ron Paul: “A Cashless Society Is Very, Very Dangerous”
Ron Paul: “A Cashless Society Is Very, Very Dangerous” As the global war on cash continues to accelerate, outspoken libertarian Ron Paul summarizes the effort to eliminate cash perfectly – as an “attack on individual freedom.” Restricting and discouraging the use of cash, suggests Paul, has always been a goal of statists as a means […]
‘Something’s Wrong’: The Fed’s Creating Risks – But The Markets Ignoring It
‘Something’s Wrong’: The Fed’s Creating Risks – But The Markets Ignoring It The other day I published an article calling out the markets denial of rising risks. Even with everything that’s happening in Italy and with the Emerging Markets blowing up – expected volatility has actually decreased. . . Basically, the stock markets pricing everything […]
Why India’s Surprise Rate Hike May Lead To The Next Emerging Market Crisis
Why India’s Surprise Rate Hike May Lead To The Next Emerging Market Crisis Following RBI governor Urjit Patel’s Op-ed earlier this week, in which he lamented the growing dollar shortage as a result of the Fed’s ongoing tightening, it is perhaps not surprising that this morning India became the latest central bank to “surprise” markets […]
Central Banker Observes Sudden “Evaporation” Of Dollar Funding, Warns Of Global Turmoil
Central Banker Observes Sudden “Evaporation” Of Dollar Funding, Warns Of Global Turmoil Last October, just as the Fed started shrinking its balance sheet, we published yet another article on what is arguably the biggest threat to not only risk assets, but also the global economy: “The Dollar Funding Shortage: It Never Went Away And It’s […]
Banking System Has Huge Problem – Peter Schiff
Banking System Has Huge Problem – Peter Schiff Money manager Peter Schiff says even though Deutsche Bank is the most systemically dangerous bank in the world (according to the IMF), that is just the tip of severe global financial problems. Schiff explains, “I think it’s a problem, and it’s not just Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank […]
Weekly Commentary: Italian Drama
Weekly Commentary: Italian Drama As I see it, cracks are opening in the greatest Bubble of all time. Serious fissures have developed in EM, Europe and China. Meanwhile, the stimulus-driven U.S. economic boom runs unabated. Global fragilities place downward pressure on U.S. market yields, while faltering Bubbles elsewhere stoke (self-reinforcing) outperformance – and speculative excess […]
The Relevance of Hayek’s Triangle Today
THE RELEVANCE OF HAYEK’S TRIANGLE TODAY Most of us are aware of the inflationary pressures in the major economies, that so far are proving somewhat latent in the non-financial sector. But some central banks are on the alert as well, notably the Federal Reserve Board, which has taken the lead in trying to normalise interest […]
Fed’s Dilemma: Debt-to-GDP Ratios Dramatically Understate the Debt Problem
Fed’s Dilemma: Debt-to-GDP Ratios Dramatically Understate the Debt Problem Reader Lars writes Debt-to-GDP ratios understate the true nature of the problem. He uses Greece as an example. Reader Lars from Oslo, the capital of Norway, and a long-time reader of this blog, questions the widespread use of debt-to-GDP as the true measure of the debt […]
Canadian Banks See Mortgage Growth Stall As Interest Rates Rise
Canadian Banks See Mortgage Growth Stall As Interest Rates Rise As anybody who was around for the housing collapse will remember, nothing bursts a bubble in home prices faster than rising mortgage rates. And while US home prices have surpassed their pre-crisis peak, Canadian home prices have risen much more quickly than home prices in […]
When Rates Go Up, Stuff Blows Up
When Rates Go Up, Stuff Blows Up I’ve said the title of this issue a few times before in The 10th Man, here and here. When rates go up sharply, stuff blows up, because lots of people are negatively exposed to higher rates. Households, corporates, and governments are all negatively exposed to higher rates, in […]
A Summer Of Disappointments Will Lead To An Extended Economic Crash
A Summer Of Disappointments Will Lead To An Extended Economic Crash The summer season is often about renewed hope and revelry in comfort, and this goes for economic comfort as much as anything else. In parallel to the old tale of The Ant And The Grasshopper, we are all tempted to act like the grasshopper, […]
The Rigged Stock Market Is Guaranteed to Crash Again, But When?
The Rigged Stock Market Is Guaranteed to Crash Again, But When? In this podcast, I talk about monetary policy as a whole – why I think its insane and why our current policy ensures that we are going to have another financial crisis much larger than the one we had in 2008. I talk about […]
America’s long-term challenge #3: destruction of the currency
America’s long-term challenge #3: destruction of the currency On April 2, 1792, George Washington signed into law what’s commonly referred to as the Mint and Coinage Act. It was one of the first major pieces of legislation in the young country’s history… and it was an important one, because it formally created the United States […]
Debt Deflation Italian Style
Debt Deflation Italian Style New York – This week The IRA will be at the MBA Secondary Market Conference & Expo, as always held at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The 8th floor reception and bar is where folks generally hang out. Attendees should not miss the panel on mortgage servicing rights at 3:00 […]
