Home » Posts tagged 'central banks' (Page 86)
Tag Archives: central banks
Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds
Central Banks Warn: Liquidity May Evaporate When Investors Finally Remove Blindfolds Companies are selling bonds like madmen. This year through Tuesday, investment-grade and junk-rated companies have sold $438 billion in new bonds, up 14% from the prior record for this time of the year, set in 2013, according to Dealogic. This quarter is already in […]
Will Cash Always Be Trash, Or Will It One Day Be King?
Will Cash Always Be Trash, Or Will It One Day Be King? When the phantom wealth evaporates and risk assets go bidless, cash will once again be king, for the simple reason there will be so little of it. Occasionally it’s a good idea to step away from the daily grind to consider the larger […]
What New Games Can Central Banks Play?
What New Games Can Central Banks Play? Does the Dollar Hold Enough Attraction to Break Out and Hold at Higher Levels? Now is the time to begin looking at the US dollar’s re-ascendance in a different light as we approach 1:1 against the euro. Shorter term we have to expect some possible panics around flat […]
Dumping American Junk in Europe, Draghi Asked for it
Dumping American Junk in Europe, Draghi Asked for it This is just the beginning, a new trend that may well turn into the next craze. ECB President Mario Draghi, in his infinite wisdom, asked for it: he’d driven the ECB deposit rate deeper into the negative, to -0.2%, and has promised to buy €60 billion […]
The Unraveling Is Gathering Speed
The Unraveling Is Gathering Speed Debt saturation and debt fatigue = diminishing returns on central bank tricks. Does anyone else have the feeling that things are not just unraveling, but that the unraveling is gathering speed? Though quantifying this perception is more interpretative than statistical, I think we can look at the ongoing debt crisis […]
Lenin Was Right …
Lenin Was Right … Bear Markets Do Happen Today… the second of the speech about the end of the world we recently gave at Doug Casey’s La Estancia de Cafayate. (You can catch up on the first part here.) As Yogi Berra would say, America is going to come to a fork in the road… and […]
Cracks In Washington’s Empire
Cracks In Washington’s Empire Washington’s EU vassals might be finding their backbone. Britain, Germany, France, and Italy are reported to have defied Washington’s orders and applied to join the Chinese-led Asian Investment Bank. Australia, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and Luxembourg might also join. Washington uses its development banks such as the Asian Development Bank, the […]
Financial Kamikazes At Work——Why The End is Kind of Nigh
Financial Kamikazes At Work——Why The End is Kind of Nigh All Good Things Must End Today, I’m going to tell you about the end of the world. Not the end of the world exactly. But the end of the fiat money system President Nixon gave birth to in 1971… when he cut the dollar loose […]
Currency Wars… Are Not Working
Currency Wars… Are Not Working While none of the current batch of currency-devaluing Central Bankers would admit that their policies are designed to weaken the currency, enhance competitiveness, and hail a new bright future of growth for their nation (by printing money), it is clear that is the chosen textbook-based path chosen. However, as the following […]
The ECB’s Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments
The ECB’s Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments Remember when the infamous Goldman Sachs delivered a thinly-veiled threat to the Greek Parliament in December, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or risk having central bank liquidity cut off to their banks? (See January 6th post here.) It seems the European Central Bank (headed by Mario […]
The End of the Great Debt Cycle
The End of the Great Debt Cycle “It’s the end of the great debt cycle,” says hedge fund manager Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, taking the words out of our mouth. Bond fund manager Bill Gross adds context: In the past 20 to 30 years, credit has grown to such an extreme globally that debt […]
A Patient Fed Considers Losing Patience
A Patient Fed Considers Losing Patience I have always argued that quantitative easing and zero percent interest rates were misguided policies to combat economic weakness. But as the years went on, misguided turned into irresponsible, which led to ridiculous, and then turned into dangerous. But lately, the only word that comes to mind is “surreal.” How should we […]
Happy 6th Birthday: The Day FASB Folded & “Mark-To-Fantasy” Was Born
Happy 6th Birthday: The Day FASB Folded & “Mark-To-Fantasy” Was Born The captured corporate MSM is celebrating the six year anniversary of when the stock market bottomed in March 2009. They will spin a false narrative of Bernanke, Obama and Geithner saving the world with TARP, QE, and the $800 billion Porkulus bill. What great heroes. […]
Central Banks Are Crack Dealers and Faith Healers
Central Banks Are Crack Dealers and Faith Healers The entire formerly rich world is addicted to debt, and it is not capable of shaking that addiction. Not until the whole facade that was built to hide this addiction must and will come crashing down along with the corpus itself. Central banks are a huge part […]
The ECB’s Lunatic Full Monty Treatment
The ECB’s Lunatic Full Monty Treatment Not Quite Right in the Head? The belief that the market economy requires “steering” by altruistic central bankers, who make decisions influencing the entire economy based on their personal epiphanies, has rarely been more pronounced than today. Most probably it has actually never been stronger. It is both highly amusing and […]
