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The Central Banks Face Unwelcome Realities: Their Policies Boosted Wealth Inequality and Failed to Generate “Growth”
The Central Banks Face Unwelcome Realities: Their Policies Boosted Wealth Inequality and Failed to Generate “Growth” Rather than be seen to be further enriching the rich, I think central banks will start closing the “free money for financiers” spigots. Take a quick glance at these charts of the Federal Reserve balance sheet and bank credit […]
The Noose Is Tightening Quickly On The Global Economy
The Noose Is Tightening Quickly On The Global Economy The investment world has an embarrassingly short attention span. But frankly, it is a necessity. If daytraders, hedge funds and other horses in the carousel actually had to look beyond the next week of market activity or study back on market history in comparison to today, […]
Sorry, Central Banks: Risk and Volatility Cannot be Extinguished
Sorry, Central Banks: Risk and Volatility Cannot be Extinguished Central bank market intervention doesn’t extinguish risk–it simply transfers it to the system itself. The unspoken claim of central bank policy is that risk can be extinguished by intervention/manipulation: once the Fed has your back, i.e. is supporting the market, risk disappears, and the easy profits flow to […]
Could the elimination of cash prevent an economic crisis?
COULD THE ELIMINATION OF CASH PREVENT AN ECONOMIC CRISIS? Given the still subdued economic growth many experts are of the view that the presence of cash has constrained central banks from setting negative rates to stimulate a subdued economic activity. In a future economic or financial crisis, current low rates would restrict the effectiveness of […]
Stanley Fischer’s Novel Idea: “We’d Be Better Off With A Price For Using Money”
Stanley Fischer’s Novel Idea: “We’d Be Better Off With A Price For Using Money” The end game of central bank lunacy is surely near. Even the Fed heads appear to be mumbling bits and pieces of truth in public. Former Philly Fed President Charles Plosser, for example, told Bloomberg TV this morning that central bankers “wring their hands all the […]
Hell To Pay
SkillUp/Shutterstock Hell To Pay The final condition for a market crash is falling into place Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever going to run out of new things to say about the economy. Nothing interesting has happened in a long time. Our liquidity-drunk “markets” remain over-priced due to the chronic intervention of the global central […]
How Much Longer Will Investors Trust the Central Banks?
How Much Longer Will Investors Trust the Central Banks? There is no simple, painless solution. The world has to reduce debt, shrink the financial part of the economy, and change the destructive incentive structures in finance. Individuals in developed countries have to save more and spend less. Companies have to go back to real engineering. […]
Traveling Circus
Traveling Circus After Wednesday’s policy statements by the Fed and Bank of Japan, a harsh light is being shined on the incredible nature of their communications. It would be wise in the current environment to structure investment portfolios with a pro-volatility bias. Central banks in G7 economies have been carrying a heavy load for a […]
Our uncomfortable ride with central bankers who can’t take us home again: Neil Macdonald
Our uncomfortable ride with central bankers who can’t take us home again: Neil Macdonald The great post-Great Recession money-printing bonanza was supposed to be temporary Chair Janet Yellen decided this week to keep the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate where it is, saying the U.S. economy isn’t yet ready to withstand a modest increase. (Gary […]
State Street: “Move Over Zero Hedge, There Is A New Bear In Town”
State Street: “Move Over Zero Hedge, There Is A New Bear In Town” By Mr. Risk – State Street Global Markets Unleash Volatility Beast Thanks for nothing, central banks! If central banks provided the prototypical inflection point, risk assets should get destroyed next week. Feast your eyes on a compendium of volatility charts. The beast […]
Why the Coming Wave of Defaults Will Be Devastating
Why the Coming Wave of Defaults Will Be Devastating Without the stimulus of ever-rising credit, the global economy craters in a self-reinforcing cycle of defaults, deleveraging and collapsing debt-based consumption. In an economy based on borrowing, i.e. credit a.k.a. debt, loan defaults and deleveraging (reducing leverage and debt loads) matter. Consider this chart of total credit […]
Beware Central Banks’ “Illusion Of Control”; Spitznagel Warns “If The Fed Hikes, Markets Will Go Down Very, Very Hard”
Beware Central Banks’ “Illusion Of Control”; Spitznagel Warns “If The Fed Hikes, Markets Will Go Down Very, Very Hard” Central banks have created a bubble in the stock market, which will come down “very, very hard” when it finally prices in a series of Fed rate hikes, said Universa’s Mark Spitznagel, warning that “the markets are […]
Central Banks May Choose Helicopter Money Over Negative Rates
CENTRAL BANKS MAY CHOOSE HELICOPTER MONEY OVER NEGATIVE RATES The US Federal Reserve (Fed) is considering raising rates. Is the “normalization” of interest rates about to happen which savers and investors have been yearning for? Most likely not. Policymakers are merely realizing that the policy of zero rates — or even negative rates as in the euro […]
The World Is Turning Ugly As 2016 Winds Down
The World Is Turning Ugly As 2016 Winds Down I have to say that the negative reverberations in our current economic and political environment are becoming so strong that it is impossible for people to not feel at least some uneasiness in their gut. I imagine this is the same kind of sensation many felt […]
Stock & Bond Bubbles Much Worse Than 1929-David Stockman
Stock & Bond Bubbles Much Worse Than 1929-David Stockman Economic expert and best-selling author David Stockman offers a dire view of the deep financial trouble America faces in his new book titled “Trumped!” Stockman warns, “I think we are on the very edge, but what is different this time and makes it scarier . . . is […]
