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The Poison of Central Planning
The Poison of Central Planning As is well known, central banks around the world have deployed a range of “unconventional policies” in recent years, ranging from imposing zero to negative interest rates, to outright money printing (QE). Photo via americanpatriotdaily.com We have seen a number of people argue that “QE” does not really involve “money […]
It Begins: Desperate Finland Set To Unleash Helicopter Money Drop To All Citizens
It Begins: Desperate Finland Set To Unleash Helicopter Money Drop To All Citizens With Citi’s chief economist proclaiming “only helicopter money can save the world now,”and the Bank of England pre-empting paradropping money concerns, it appears that Australia’s largest investment bank’s forecast that money-drops were 12-18 months away was too conservative. Over the last few months, in a prime […]
This Is What Happened The Last Time The Fed Hiked While The U.S. Was In Recession
This Is What Happened The Last Time The Fed Hiked While The U.S. Was In Recession Back on June 17, Bank of America started its 66-day countdown to the moment it was convinced the Fed would hike rates, September 17, 2015. We, correctly, said that “we disagree entirely” with BofA’s conclusion that the Fed would hike rates, and […]
ECB & The Failed QE Stimulus
ECB & The Failed QE Stimulus The central banks are simply trapped. They have bought in bonds under the theory that this will stimulate the economy by injecting cash. But there are several problems with this entire concept. This is an elitist view to say the least for the money injected does not stimulate the […]
Dollar-Denominated Corporate Time Bomb Set to Blow
Dollar-Denominated Corporate Time Bomb Set to Blow Emerging economies around the world are already feeling the first pangs of withdrawal as fast yield-chasing investors send their funds back to the U.S. in anticipation of higher Treasury yields and a further appreciating dollar. In Mexico, the central bank has just published its balance of payments data […]
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot? Remember those old ads showing a senior couple lounging on […]
Swiss Bank “Goes There”, Applies Negative Rates To Retail Deposits
Swiss Bank “Goes There”, Applies Negative Rates To Retail Deposits Back in September in “How Mario Draghi Can Force The Swiss National Bank To Go ‘Nuclear On Depositors,” we discussed the implications of the ECB’s (likely) decision to plunge further into NIRP-dom at the bank’s December meeting. In short, DM central banks – with the […]
Here Is The Complete Scenario In Which The Fed Hikes Rates, Starts A Recession, And Launches QE4
Here Is The Complete Scenario In Which The Fed Hikes Rates, Starts A Recession, And Launches QE Seven years after the Fed unleashed ZIRP and QE to “fix the economy”, it has finally admitted that ZIRP and QE failed to do that (although they certainly succeeded in blowing the biggest asset bubble ever), and for […]
Oil Prices Testing August Lows As Inventories Swell
Oil Prices Testing August Lows As Inventories Swell As Mike D from the Beastie Boys turns fifty today, WTI is trying to fight for its right to party on in forty-dollardom. (but failing). Brent is being more successful in trying to ‘get it together’, holding somewhat steady, but the ongoing swelling-inventory, tanker traffic-jammed nature of […]
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot? Remember those old ads showing a senior couple lounging on […]
The Mad Euro Project Just Got A Lot Madder
The Mad Euro Project Just Got A Lot Madder Feeding a Monstrous Pile of Debt. Under Mario Draghi’s radical stewardship, the ECB seems determined to push the limits of monetary experimentation. And by all accounts, it’s succeeding. This week saw numerous eurozone governments sell bonds at negative rates, an economic anomaly that has no place […]
The Federal Reserve, Interest Rates and Triffin’s Paradox
The Federal Reserve, Interest Rates and Triffin’s Paradox There is no way Fed policy can be win-win-win for all participants. One result of the global dependence on central bank interventions is a unhealthy fixation on the slightest changes in those interventions, oops I meant policies. Since the slightest pull-back in central bank inflation of asset bubbles […]
Weekly Commentary: Risk Off?
Weekly Commentary: Risk Off? The “Granddaddy of All Bubbles” thesis rests upon the view that the world is in the midst of the precarious grand finale of a multi-decade global Credit and financial Bubble. When a Bubble bursts, system reflation requires an even larger fresh new Bubble. This has repeatedly been the case going back […]
