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This Is The Endgame, According To Deutsche Bank
This Is The Endgame, According To Deutsche Bank DB’s Jim Reid lays out the “endgame” scenario, one which this website first said is inevitable back in 2009. With Citi and Macquarie already on board, expect what was once merely the figment of a “deranged tinfoil conspiracy-theory blog’s” imagination, to become global monetary policy. And yes, the real endgame is the one […]
From ZIRP to NIRP
From ZIRP to NIRP The sudden end of the Fed’s ambition to raise interest rates above the zero bound, coupled with the FOMC’s minutes, which expressed concerns about emerging market economies, has got financial scribblers writing about negative interest rate policies (NIRP). Coincidentally, Andrew Haldane, the chief economist at the Bank of England, published a […]
India “Surprises” 51 Out Of 52 “Experts”, Slashes Rates More Than Expected As Easing Bonanza Continues
India “Surprises” 51 Out Of 52 “Experts”, Slashes Rates More Than Expected As Easing Bonanza Continues Late last month, we asked how long it would be before the RBI hit back in the wake of China’s yuan deval. The Indian government’s chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian had just told ET Now television that India may need to […]
The Next Thing Might Be Helicopter Money
The Next Thing Might Be Helicopter Money «I dare to say that we have not yet seen the most radical brainwaves of the mandarins running our central banks.» (Bild: Roderick Aichinger) James Grant, Wall Street expert and editor of the investment journal «Grant’s Interest Rate Observer», warns of ever more extreme central bank policies and bets […]
“Everyone’s Praying But No One’s Believing” – The ‘Fed Put’ Is Dead
“Everyone’s Praying But No One’s Believing” – The ‘Fed Put’ Is Dead Chalk Outline Yellen’s detailed speech initially triggered an out-sized market reaction. Unfortunately, it was mainly due to shallow market depth and weak-hand positions. The ‘risk-on’ trades that ensued seem driven by positional unwinds from short-term traders. These markets will likely reverse back to lower prices […]
Goldman Warns On Limits Of Central Bank Policy: “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions”
Goldman Warns On Limits Of Central Bank Policy: “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions” Back in May, we noted that minutes from the ECB’s April 14-15 policy meeting seem to reveal that the central bank is either obtuse or else suffering from a frightening bout of willful ignorance. Here’s are the excerpts which led […]
The Fed Can’t Fix It: “All That’s Left is a Reset, Shutdown of the System”
The Fed Can’t Fix It: “All That’s Left is a Reset, Shutdown of the System” Did Janet Yellen make the right decision in delaying a Federal Reserve rate hike? Did the United States dodge a bullet? Of course not. And the system is on course for a dangerous, hard landing. As far as many experts […]
3 Means of Waging Personal Financial Revolution Against the Banksters
3 Means of Waging Personal Financial Revolution Against the Banksters The world is enslaved to an economic system designed to create tremendous power and wealth for those who own the system, while forcing the rest of us into mathematically insurmountable debt and the stagnation, austerity and poverty that comes with it. Corrupt and patently unsustainable, the […]
A Currency War That Few Economists and Analysts Notice, Much Less Understand
A Currency War That Few Economists and Analysts Notice, Much Less Understand “The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.” Michael Parenti Most economists and financial analysts think that ‘currency war’ merely […]
Yellen Is Trapped in the Worst Nightmare Ever
Yellen Is Trapped in the Worst Nightmare Ever Yellen has inherited a complete nightmare. Thursday’s decision to delay yet again the long-awaited liftoff from zero interest rates is illustrating that the world economy is totally screwed. There is a lot of speculation about why the Fed seems so reluctant to“normalize monetary policy”. There are of course […]
This Is Actually Going To Happen Next Year
This Is Actually Going To Happen Next Year The intellectual groundwork is being laid for the next stage of the Money Bubble, and it’s going to be epic. Here are excerpts from two articles that appeared over the weekend (and which should be read in their entirety). Both deal with Japan, which went all-in on debt […]
Why The Keynesian Chorus Is Cackling Like Chicken Little
Why The Keynesian Chorus Is Cackling Like Chicken Little This is getting way too stupid. The Keynesian Chorus has launched a full blast trilling campaign, emitting a shrill cackle of warnings against a Fed rate hike. Yes, 80 months of pumping free money into the canyons of Wall Street is not enough. Why? Well, this is hard to type with a straight […]
Global Economy Nearing a “Structural Recession”
Global Economy Nearing a “Structural Recession” And monetary policies will be “ineffective” To the never-ending astonishment of our economists, global growth has been much weaker since the Financial Crisis than before it, despite enormous global stimulus from years of extreme central-bank monetary policies and record amounts of government deficit spending. This should not have happened, according […]
Buiter: Only “Helicopter Money” Can Save The World From The Next Recession
Buiter: Only “Helicopter Money” Can Save The World From The Next Recession It is to be expected that economists – even economists working for the same team – have different views about the likelihood of different future outcomes. Economics isn’t rocket science, and even rockets frequently land in the wrong place or explode in […]
