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The G-30 Group Of Central Bankers Warn They Can “No Longer Save The World”
The G-30 Group Of Central Bankers Warn They Can “No Longer Save The World” In a detailed report by the Group of Thirty, central bankers warned that ZIRP and money printing were not sufficient to revive economic growth and risked becoming semi-permanent measures. As Reuters reports, the flow of easy money has inflated asset prices like stocks and […]
“We Should Have Known Something Was Wrong”
“We Should Have Known Something Was Wrong” Remember when stuff such as the following was written exclusively on “conspiracy” tin-foil blogs by deranged lunatics who could not appreciate the brilliance of the neo-Keynesian system and central-planning by academics, in all its glory? Good times. Here is Bank of America’s Athanasios Vamvakidis channeling Tyler Durden circa […]
What’s The Worst That Could Happen?
What’s The Worst That Could Happen? Via ConvergEx’s Nicholas Colas, The 30 stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average currently trade for an average of 14.8x next year’s consensus earnings. But… Everyone knows Wall Street analysts are always too optimistic, so what if we just look at the lowest estimate for each company? That “Worst Case […]
China’s Central Bank Chief Admits “The Bubble Has Burst”
China’s Central Bank Chief Admits “The Bubble Has Burst” In a stunningly honest admission from a member of the elite, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China’s central bank, exclaimed multiple times this week to his G-20 colleagues that a bubble in his country had “burst.”While this will come as no surprise to any rational-minded onlooker, the fact […]
Insouciance Rules The West
Insouciance Rules The West Europe is being overrun by refugees from Washington’s, and Israel’s, hegemonic policies in the Middle East and North Africa that are resulting in the slaughter of massive numbers of civilians. The inflows are so heavy that European governments are squabbling among themselves about who is to take the refugees. Hungary is […]
The HFT “Treasure Map” – Presenting The Rigged Stock Market’s Full “Latency Abritrage” In One Chart
The HFT “Treasure Map” – Presenting The Rigged Stock Market’s Full “Latency Abritrage” In One Chart Last week, when poring through the SEC’s complaint over ITG’s criminal frontrunning of client order flow in a “experiment” prop trading group within its Posit dark pool known as “Project Omega”, we clearly laid out the “criminal fraud” that allowed […]
Citi Predicts Greek Hyperinflation Breaks Out In Two Years
Citi Predicts Greek Hyperinflation Breaks Out In Two Years Earlier, we showed that according to Citigroup (among many) for Greece to have any hope of surviving, it needs a masive debt haircut: the bigger, the better, with Citi tossing out numbers as high as €130 billion. Still, even if Greece does get debt relief, as long as […]
World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Deal With Iran, Oil Slides – Full Deal Text
World Powers Reach Landmark Nuclear Deal With Iran, Oil Slides – Full Deal Text It is only fitting that almost exactly 24 hours after the Greek “pre-deal”, which may and will end up crashing and burning in very short notice, another long expected “deal”, one which has been about a decade in the making, was […]
Darwin’s Casino
Darwin’s Casino Our age has no shortage of curious features, but for me, at least, one of the oddest is the way that so many people these days don’t seem to be able to think through the consequences of their own beliefs. Pick an ideology, any ideology, straight across the spectrum from the most devoutly […]
China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge
China Soars Most Since 2009 After Government Threatens Short Sellers With Arrest, Global Stocks Surge Here is a brief sample of some of the measures the Chinese government and the PBOC have unleashed in just the past ten days to prop up the crashing market include: a ban on major shareholders, corporate executives, directors from […]
Greece Caves, Formally Requests ESM Bailout: Full Headline And Next Steps Summary
Greece Caves, Formally Requests ESM Bailout: Full Headline And Next Steps Summary As we reported yesterday, following the latest European leaders summit, Greece was given until the end of the week to come up with a proposal for sweeping reforms in return for loans that will keep the country from crashing out of Europe’s currency […]
The Biggest Winner From The Greek Tragedy
The Biggest Winner From The Greek Tragedy Long after Greece has left the Eurozone and Germany is using the Deutsche Mark as its currency, the people of the two nations, antagonized to a level unseen since World War II, will be accusing each other of benefiting more from the brief but tumultuous period of the […]
The Biggest Issue Now Is “The Math”
The Biggest Issue Now Is “The Math” Some quick pre-market observations from Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow Just Don’t Nip Out for a Haircut The Greek citizenry voted and the handicappers got it very wrong. The result of the vote was called much earlier than anyone expected. It wasn’t close. Much was made last week of the […]
