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Citi: “We Have A Problem”
Citi: “We Have A Problem” In his latest must read presentation, Citigroup’s Matt King continues to expose and mock the increasing helplessness and cluelessness of central bankers, something this website has done since 2009 knowing full well how it all ends (incidentally not in a deflationary whimper, quite the opposite). Take Matt King’s September 2015 piece in which he […]
Italy’s Banking Crisis Spirals Elegantly out of Control
Italy’s Banking Crisis Spirals Elegantly out of Control How to dump toxic waste on the public through the backdoor. Back during the euro debt crisis, while the ECB was buying government debt from Member States to keep Italian and Spanish government debt from imploding, German politicians fretted out loud about what exactly the ECB was buying. […]
637 Rate Cuts And $12.3 Trillion In Global QE Later, World Shocked To Find “Quantitative Failure”
637 Rate Cuts And $12.3 Trillion In Global QE Later, World Shocked To Find “Quantitative Failure” 2016 is shaping up to be the year that everyone finally comes to terms with the fact that the monetary emperors truly have no clothes. To be sure, it’s been a long time coming. For nearly 8 years, market […]
Negative-Interest-Rate Effect already Dead, Central Banks Lost Control over Stocks
Negative-Interest-Rate Effect already Dead, Central Banks Lost Control over Stocks And there’s a bitter irony. The Bank of Japan’s surprise Negative-Interest-Rate party for stocks set a new record: it lasted only two days. Today a week ago, the Bank of Japan shocked markets into action. As the economy has deteriorated despite years of zero-interest-rate policy […]
Meanwhile In Greece, Familiar Scenes Are Back: General Strike, Molotov Cocktails, Tear Gas
Meanwhile In Greece, Familiar Scenes Are Back: General Strike, Molotov Cocktails, Tear Gas Greece was fixed for a few months, when the so-called “anti-austerity” government of PM Tsipras which came to power just over a year ago did what each on its predecessors did by kicking the can and trading off what little sovereignty Greece […]
Negative Interest Rates Already In Fed’s Official Scenario
Negative Interest Rates Already In Fed’s Official Scenario Over the past year, and certainly in the aftermath of the BOJ’s both perplexing and stunning announcement (as it revealed the central banks’ level of sheer desperation), we have warned (most recently “Negative Rates In The U.S. Are Next: Here’s Why In One Chart”) that next in […]
What A Cashless Society Would Look Like
What A Cashless Society Would Look Like Calls by various mainstream economists to ban cash transactions seem to be getting ever louder, while central bankers have unleashed negative interest rates on economies accounting for 25% of global GDP, with $5.5 trillion in government bonds yielding less than zero. The two policies are rapidly converging. Bills and coins account for […]
Who Gets to Pay for the Italian Banking Crisis?
Who Gets to Pay for the Italian Banking Crisis? The missing Capital Buffer. Six years after Europe’s sovereign debt crisis began, the Eurozone’s third largest economy, Italy, has finally decided to do what just about every other country has done when facing a full-blown, almost out-of-control banking crisis: to set up a bad bank to […]
Why the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After Central Banks Have Pumped Trillions Into the Economy
Why the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After Central Banks Have Pumped Trillions Into the Economy Deflation Threatens to Swallow the World Many high-powered people and institutions say that deflation is threatening much of the world’s economy … China may export deflation to the rest of the world. Japan is mired in […]
Creditors Accuse Portugal Of “Unfair, Populist Short-Cut” In €2 Billion Bank Bail-In
Creditors Accuse Portugal Of “Unfair, Populist Short-Cut” In €2 Billion Bank Bail-In Two weeks ago, The Bank of Portugal shocked markets by bailing in senior Novo Banco bondholders. Novo Banco was the “good” bank forged from the ashes of Banco Espirito Santo which had to be bailed out by the state in August of 2014. The idea […]
Russell Napier Explains How The Decline Of The Yuan Destroys Belief In Central Banking
Russell Napier Explains How The Decline Of The Yuan Destroys Belief In Central Banking It’s Not a Pet, It’s a Falcon: How the decline of the RMB destroys belief in central banking and a successful reflation Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot […]
Bob Janjuah Warns The Bubble Implosion Can’t Be “Fixed” This Time
Bob Janjuah Warns The Bubble Implosion Can’t Be “Fixed” This Time Having correctly foreseen in September that “China’s devaluations are not over yet” it appears Nomura’s infamous ‘bear’ Bob Janjuah has also nailed The Fed’s subsequent actions (hiking rates into a fundamentally weakening economy in a desperate bid to “convince markets that strong growth and inflation are on their […]
Greece’s Two Currencies
Greece’s Two Currencies ATHENS – Imagine a depositor in the US state of Arizona being permitted to withdraw only small amounts of cash weekly and facing restrictions on how much money he or she could wire to a bank account in California. Such capital controls, if they ever came about, would spell the end of […]
The Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis and a Potential OTC Interest Rate Derivatives Crisis
THE EUROZONE SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS AND A POTENTIAL OTC INTEREST RATE DERIVATIVES CRISIS Summary After considering the alternative scenarios of Grexit, debt renegotiation, transferring of debt, a deflationary spiral and so on, it is concluded that this will either result (ceteris paribus) in an increase in sovereign debt yields or a decrease in the volume […]
European Dream Turns into Dystopian Nightmare
European Dream Turns into Dystopian Nightmare Why We Brits Should Vote for Brexit. As a Europhile British ex-pat who has spent most of his adult life living on “the continent,” as we Brits are fond of calling the non-British part of Europe, it might seem rather odd to be encouraging my fellow Brits to vote […]
