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Eurointelligence Displays Stunning Ignorance Regarding Target2
Eurointelligence Displays Stunning Ignorance Regarding Target2 On two recent days, Eurointellence made stunningly bad comments about the escalating capital flight from Italy. The latest Target2 Chart from the ECB is from May. Newer totals are available in some individual countries. Debtors, primarily Italy and Spain, now owe Germany close to €1 trillion. Realistically, this money […]
Italian debt; a financial disaster waiting to happen
Italian debt; a financial disaster waiting to happen The new Italian government will increase public spending and public debt. It promised to reduce taxes, introduce basic security and reform pensions. Italy’s Northern League’s leader Mateo Salvini surged in the polls and the party is now the strongest in Italy. A couple of years ago it […]
The Biggest Monetary Experiments in History: Part 1
The Biggest Monetary Experiments in History: Part 1 … and all at the same time. Last week was a humdinger. Three things happened: One Firstly, our pasta-eating friends, after having experienced firsthand a blizzard of accelerating violent crime… and watching their previously gentrified neighbourhoods reconfigured into ghettos resembling the Maghreb, decided enough was enough and said […]
Global Stocks Dive On Fears Of “Irreversible” Trade War; Italian Bonds, Turkish Lira Tumble
Global Stocks Dive On Fears Of “Irreversible” Trade War; Italian Bonds, Turkish Lira Tumble Bulletin Headline Summary from RanSquawk: Trump is said to be planning new restrictions on tech exports to China PBoC says they are to cut the re-lending rate for SME loans by 50bps, following the RRR cut over the weekend Looking ahead, […]
Italy and the Repricing of European Government Debt
ITALY AND THE REPRICING OF EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT DEBT The yield spread between 10yr BTPs and Bunds widened 114bp in May Populist and anti-EU politics were the catalyst for this repricing of risk Spain, Portugal and Greece all saw yields increase as Bund yields declined The ECB policy of OMT should help to avoid a repeat […]
Italy challenges the Western order
Italy challenges the Western order The EU is under a lot of strain With a massive influx of immigrants from across Africa and the Middle East, and growing poverty, Italy voted in a populist government representing policies which would seem to virtually overturn the postwar European order. The austerity measures which have been imposed upon […]
Italian Politics: The Calm Before the Next Storm
ITALIAN POLITICS: THE CALM BEFORE THE NEXT STORM Europe remains a potential source of angst for financial markets in the form of another existential crisis for the Eurozone. True, stock markets have relaxed over the past week in part because of relief that another Italian election has been avoided for now and in part because […]
Trump Says Russia Should Be Back In The G7; Italy Backs Trump
Trump Says Russia Should Be Back In The G7; Italy Backs Trump Update: and just like that, G6+1 became G5+2 ITALY PREMIER CONTE BACKS TRUMP ON RUSSIA’S G-8 READMISSION CONTE: RUSSIA’S G8 READMISSION WOULD BE IN EVERYBODY’S INTEREST And when Germany and France, which have already been making moves to get back in Putin’s good […]
Return of the Euro Crisis: Italy Quakes, Rest of the World Shakes and Merkel’s Empire Breaks
Return of the Euro Crisis: Italy Quakes, Rest of the World Shakes and Merkel’s Empire Breaks Europe’s many fault lines are spreading once again, bringing the endless euro crisis saga back in 3-D realism. Italy gained a new anti-establishment government last week, even as Spain elected a new Socialista government that could crack Catalonia off from the […]
Italy: The Center Cannot Hold
Italy: The Center Cannot Hold For a generation, acceptance of the neoliberal doctrine that “there is no alternative” has paralyzed politics in the West. But what is the meaning of politics if there’s no alternative to the resulting Authoritarian Center, asks Diana Johnstone. The traditional governing parties, center “left” and center “right” all follow the […]
Italian Elections: Destroying Democracy to Protect the Globalist Elite
Italian Elections: Destroying Democracy to Protect the Globalist Elite Recent events in Italy show that the country is getting the same type of treatment meted out to other countries whose election results do not agree with the neoliberal globalist elite and so must be stymied. The attitude shown by this transnational elite towards the winning forces […]
Weekly Commentary: Italian Drama
Weekly Commentary: Italian Drama As I see it, cracks are opening in the greatest Bubble of all time. Serious fissures have developed in EM, Europe and China. Meanwhile, the stimulus-driven U.S. economic boom runs unabated. Global fragilities place downward pressure on U.S. market yields, while faltering Bubbles elsewhere stoke (self-reinforcing) outperformance – and speculative excess […]
This is Italy. This is not Sparta.
This is Italy. This is not Sparta. Nikolay Dubovsky Became Silent 1890 “European Stocks Surge Celebrating New Spanish, Italian Governments”, says a Zero Hedge headline. “Markets Breathe Easier As Italy Government Sworn In”, proclaims Reuters. And I’m thinking: these markets are crazy, and none of this will last more than a few days. Or hours. […]
One Word: Contagion
One Word: Contagion Terrible news, I’m afraid. The trainwreck that is Italian politics has always been a hoot to watch. But this time around the implications to what happens in Rome are, as Trump would say, yuuuge. You’ve probably seen the news-flow out of Europe. Tasked with finding a suitable candidate to head a coalition […]
