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The Banking Turmoil Spreads—-Massive Banking Crisis Brewing In Singapore
The Banking Turmoil Spreads—-Massive Banking Crisis Brewing In Singapore By Singapore Business Review The three biggest banks are losing capital. A crisis of staggering proportions is looming in China, and tiny Singapore will be caught right in the middle of the storm once the disaster finally erupts. Speaking at the annual Barron’s roundtable, Swiss billionaire […]
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. […]
One Third Of Energy Companies Could Go Bankrupt Deloitte Warns As Credit Risk Hits Record High
One Third Of Energy Companies Could Go Bankrupt Deloitte Warns As Credit Risk Hits Record High At 1600bps, the extra yield investors are demanding to take on US energy credit risk has never been higher. However, if a new report from Deloitte proves true, this is far from enough as they forecast roughly a third of oil producers […]
Repricing Reality
Repricing Reality It ought to be a foregone conclusion that Mr. Obama’s replacement starting January 20, 2017 will preside over conditions of disorder in everyday life and economy never seen before. For the supposedly thinking class in America, the end of reality-optional politics will come as the surprise of their lives. Where has that hypothetical […]
Where Deflation Comes From
Where Deflation Comes From Financial bubbles blown on the back of massive amounts of debt, of necessity lead to debt deflation (it’s just entropy, really). Fighting this is futile, and grossly costly to boot. The only sensible thing to do is to guide the process as best you can and try to minimize the damage, […]
A Market Collapse Is On The Horizon
A Market Collapse Is On The Horizon What is ahead for 2016? Most people don’t realize how tightly the following are linked: 1. Growth in debt 2. Growth in the economy 3. Growth in cheap-to-extract energy supplies 4. Inflation in the cost of producing commodities 5. Growth in asset prices, such as the price of […]
Is This Debt’s Last Rattle?
Is This Debt’s Last Rattle? Crowd outside Wall Street Stock Exchange on BlackThursday Oct 24 1929 What we see happening today is why we called our news overview the “Debt Rattle” 8 years ago. The last gasps of a broken system ravished by the very much cancer-like progress of debt. Yes, it took longer than it […]
Why NIRP (Negative Interest Rates) Will Fail Miserably
Why NIRP (Negative Interest Rates) Will Fail Miserably What NIRP communicates is: this sucker’s going down, so sell everything and hoard your cash and precious metals. The last hurrah of central banks is the negative interest rate policy–NIRP. The basic idea of NIRP is to punish savers so severely that households and businesses will be compelled […]
America’s National Debt Bomb Caused By the Welfare State
AMERICA’S NATIONAL DEBT BOMB CAUSED BY THE WELFARE STATE The news is filled with the everyday zigzags of those competing against each other for the Democrat and Republican Party nominations to run for the presidency of the United States. But one of the most important issues receiving little or no attention in this circus of […]
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe”
Negative Interest Rates Destroying World Economy: “Doom-and-Gloom Outlook for Banks in Europe” Trying to simply hold onto the standard that you’ve got has become a new normal for financial challenges. Equity erodes away when interest rates go negative… then everything starts to sour. China’s economy and stock market are effectively in the toilet, or poised […]
The Negative Rates Club
The Negative Rates Club BRUSSELS – For the better part of a decade, central banks have been making only limited headway in curbing powerful global deflationary forces. Since 2008, the US Federal Reserve has maintained zero interest rates, while pursuing multiple waves of unprecedented balance-sheet expansion through large-scale bond purchases. The Bank of England, the […]
The Return Of Crisis
The Return Of Crisis Suddenly banks everywhere are in deep, deep trouble Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future — one that has possibly started now. Our reason for expecting a market crash is simple: Bubbles always burst. […]
How to Defeat Your Government
How to Defeat Your Government In a recent article, “How to Defeat Your Enemies,” SLL maintained that governments and their people were natural enemies, and that the most powerful adversarial tactic is “getting one’s enemies to fool themselves.” The article detailed the effective use of this tactic by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. The […]
Horror Stories Emerge After A Cursory Look At Chinese Corporate Leverage
Horror Stories Emerge After A Cursory Look At Chinese Corporate Leverage By now it is common knowledge that China has a major debt problem at the macro level, one which may be even bigger than expected because according to at least one analysis by Rabobank, China’s most recent debt has soared from the infamous McKinsey level of […]
