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The FX Mexican Standoff
The FX Mexican Standoff Theodor Horydczak Lincoln Memorial 1925 There has been quite a bit of talk lately over the need for a new Plaza Accord, something several parties saw happening during this weekend’s G20 summit in Shanghai -hence the term ‘Shanghai Accord’-. (On September 22, 1985 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, France, West […]
Here Comes The Red Swan And Other Reasons To Be Very Afraid
Here Comes The Red Swan And Other Reasons To Be Very Afraid The Red Chip casino took another one of its patented 6.5% belly flops last night. In fact, more than 1,300 stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen fell by 10%—the maximum drop permitted by regulators in one day—–implying that the real decline was far deeper. This renewed carnage was the […]
Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns “We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons”
Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns “We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons” Less than two years ago, news of Russia test-firing an ICBM just as the east Ukraine civil war was heating up, was sufficient to send the stock market into a brief tailspin. Since then, the launches of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic […]
As China’s Economy Craters, Economic Data Starts to “Disappear”
As China’s Economy Craters, Economic Data Starts to “Disappear” For several years now, I’ve periodically observed that China’s increasingly aggressive crackdown on dissent serves as a harbinger of far more difficult times ahead. The thinking goes that if anyone is privy to the severe fragility of the country’s economic situation, it would be Chinese leadership. As such, desperate moves by Chinese leadership should foretell drastically worse […]
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns
G-20 Needs To “Man Up” Or Risk Sparking Market Chaos, Citi Warns Two days ago, the man who now signs your Federal Reserve notes threw cold water on hopes for a so-called “Shanghai Accord.” Over the past month or so, anticipation has built among market participants for some manner of coordinated policy response at this weekend’s G20 summit […]
Satyajit Das: This Is Why You Can Expect Another Global Stock Market Meltdown
Satyajit Das: This Is Why You Can Expect Another Global Stock Market Meltdown Authored by Satyajit Das’, author of the new book “The Age Of Stagnation” (via MarketWatch), The mispricing of assets across world markets has reached epidemic proportions. Stock prices have made strong advances over the past several years, yet market analysts see further gains, arguing that […]
According To Morgan Stanley This Is The Biggest Threat To Deutsche Bank’s Survival
According To Morgan Stanley This Is The Biggest Threat To Deutsche Bank’s Survival Two weeks ago, on one of the slides in a Morgan Stanley presentation, we found something which we thought was quite disturbing. According to the bank’s head of EMEA research Huw van Steenis, while in Davos, he sat “next to someone in policy […]
Citi: “We Have A Problem”
Citi: “We Have A Problem” In his latest must read presentation, Citigroup’s Matt King continues to expose and mock the increasing helplessness and cluelessness of central bankers, something this website has done since 2009 knowing full well how it all ends (incidentally not in a deflationary whimper, quite the opposite). Take Matt King’s September 2015 piece in which he […]
Wikileaks Releases Proof Of NSA Spying On Merkel, Netanyahu, Berlusconi And Others
Wikileaks Releases Proof Of NSA Spying On Merkel, Netanyahu, Berlusconi And Others In a shocking new set of cables released by Julian Assange’s Wikileaks organization, highly classified documents show that the NSA bugged meetings between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (over climate change); between Israel prime minister Netanyahu and Italian prime minister Berlusconi (begging for […]
Missiles Just the Latest Chapter in the South China Sea Saga
Missiles Just the Latest Chapter in the South China Sea Saga With the recent placement of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) on Woody Island, a subset of the Paracel Islands, China has taken a major step toward militarization of the South China Sea. The action was taken during the recent US-ASEAN “Sunnylands” Summit, where economics, […]
Cameron Unleashes ‘Project Fear’ – UK Military Leaders Warn Against Brexit Threat To National Security
Cameron Unleashes ‘Project Fear’ – UK Military Leaders Warn Against Brexit Threat To National Security Just as the government did in the lead up to The Scottish Referendum in 2014, it appears David Cameron is already unleashing resorting to the so-called Project Fear. As The Telegraph reports, following Boris Johnson’s lack of acquiescence to Cameron’s call for no Brexit, more […]
Bert Dohmen Is Uber-Bearish and Here’s Why
Bert Dohmen Is Uber-Bearish and Here’s Why Bert Dohmen, founder of Dohmen Capital Research, is uber-bearish and believes that it is time for investors to panic (before everyone else does) given a potential collapse of the stock market greater than what we saw in 2008. Here’s what he had to say on Thursday’s podcast: “Over a […]
Why According To One Bank, Massive Central Bank Intervention Is Imminent
Why According To One Bank, Massive Central Bank Intervention Is Imminent Any time the relative performance of global financials to US Treasuries has stumbled as far as it has, as shown in the chart below, it has meant one thing – a major central bank intervention was imminent. At least that’s the interpretation of BofA’s Michael […]
The New Global Financial Cold War
The New Global Financial Cold War The Guns and Butter Interview Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not going […]
