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The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area
The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area We were told we needed to bail out Wall Street in order to save Main Street. Well the results are in… Wall Street has never done better, and Main Street has never done worse. From the Huffington Post: Low-income workers and their […]
The Central Bankers’ Malodorous War On Savers
The Central Bankers’ Malodorous War On Savers Well, that didn’t take long! After just three days of market turmoil the monetary politburo swung into action. This time they sent out B-Dud to promise still another monetary sweetener. Said the head of the New York Fed, “From my perspective, at this moment, the decision to begin the normalization process […]
Why QE4 Is Inevitable
Why QE4 Is Inevitable One narrative we’ve pushed quite hard this week is the idea that China’s persistent FX interventions in support of the yuan are costing the PBoC dearly in terms of reserves. Of course this week’s posts hardly represent the first time we’ve touched on the issue of FX reserve liquidation and its […]
Trouble South Of The Border
Trouble South Of The Border Mexico’s vulnerabilities pose a huge risk to the U.S. Too big to fail is a seven-year phenomenon created by the most powerful central banks to bolster the largest, most politically connected US and European banks. More than that, it’s a global concern predicated on that handful of private banks controlling […]
Lies You Will Hear As The Economic Collapse Progresses
Lies You Will Hear As The Economic Collapse Progresses It is undeniable; the final collapse triggers are upon us, triggers alternative economists have been warning about since the initial implosion of 2008. In the years since the derivatives disaster, there has been no end to the absurd and ludicrous propaganda coming out of mainstream financial […]
Jackson Hole – Meeting of the Physics Envy Brigade
Jackson Hole – Meeting of the Physics Envy Brigade Planners Meet to Discuss the Impossible The Jackson Hole pow-wow takes place this weekend. A more revolting get-together of actual and armchair central planners (i.e., the advisors to the planners, many of whom see themselves as planners-in-waiting) could hardly be imagined. One has to wonder how […]
It’s easy to deny a bubble but impossible to deny its implosion.
It’s easy to deny a bubble but impossible to deny its implosion. We’re having the kind of day when the New York Stock Exchange felt compelled toannounce very encouragingly before markets opened that it would halt trading for 15 minutes if the S&P 500 drops 7% to 1,833 before 3:25 p.m. Once trading restarts and the index plunges 13% […]
Central Banks Have Become A Corrupting Force
Central Banks Have Become A Corrupting Force Are we witnessing the corruption of central banks? Are we observing the money-creating powers of central banks being used to drive up prices in the stock market for the benefit of the mega-rich? These questions came to mind when we learned that the central bank of Switzerland, the […]
Why the Bear of 2015 Is Different from the Bear of 2008
Why the Bear of 2015 Is Different from the Bear of 2008 Are there any conditions now that are actually better than those of 2008? It’s tempting to see similarities in last week’s global stock market mini-crash and the monumental meltdown that almost took down the Global Financial System in 2008-2009. The dizzying drop invites comparison […]
Is This Black Monday Crash The BIG ONE? It Doesn’t Matter
Is This Black Monday Crash The BIG ONE? It Doesn’t Matter After losing 11% last week, Shanghai this morning was down almost -9% at one point, after lunch went back up to -6.5%, and ended its day at -8.49%. A Black Monday for sure, but is this the BIG ONE? It really doesn’t matter one […]
What the Heck is Going on in the Global Markets?
What the Heck is Going on in the Global Markets? This wasn’t supposed to happen. The week was already on a crummy downhill path globally, and emerging-market currencies were blowing up, when on Friday in China the Caixin’s Purchasing Manager’s Index hit the worst level since March 2009; manufacturing is sinking deeper into the mire. So the […]
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge
Making Sense Of The Sudden Market Plunge Are you prepared for further turmoil? The global deflationary wave we have been tracking since last fall is picking up steam. This is the natural and unavoidable aftereffect of a global liquidity bubble brought to you courtesy of the world’s main central banks. What goes up must come […]
Plunge Protection Teams of the World, Unite!
Plunge Protection Teams of the World, Unite! The herd must be turned away from selling by any means available, and at this point, that means coordinated buying by all the world’s Plunge Protection Teams. Central bankers are watching Marx’s dictum all that is solid melts into air play out in global stock markets with a terror informed […]
German Newspaper Accuses Spain’s Central Bank of Hiding Collateral Risks from ECB
German Newspaper Accuses Spain’s Central Bank of Hiding Collateral Risks from ECB Shoddy collateral labeled “ECB-eligible” is a great deal for banks. Since the financial sectors of Southern Europe and Ireland hit the rocks during the height of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, many of their respective banks have grown dependent on the generosity of the ECB – […]
