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A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit Credit is not innately good or bad. Simplistically, productive Credit is constructive, while non-productive Credit is inevitably problematic. This crucial distinction tends to be masked throughout the boom period. Worse yet, a prolonged boom in “productive” Credit – surely fueled by some type of underlying monetary disorder – can […]
This Is What Central Bankers Think Of Retail Investors
This Is What Central Bankers Think Of Retail Investors We previously covered the recently burst mega-Ponzi scheme fraud, Ezubao, the biggest in Chinese history which conned more than 900,000 investors out of $7.6 billion in less than two years under the guise of being a P2P lending platform, in this is what happens when “Chinese […]
Why We Won’t Have a “Lehman Moment” in the 2016 Crash
Why We Won’t Have a “Lehman Moment” in the 2016 Crash What the central banks cannot do is create productive places to invest the credit they’ve generated in such excess, or force qualified borrowers to swallow more unproductive debt. One way to lose a war is to focus on preparing to fight the last war. Preparing […]
Hong Kong Housing Bubble Suffers Spectacular Collapse: Sales Plunge Most On Record, Prices Crash
Hong Kong Housing Bubble Suffers Spectacular Collapse: Sales Plunge Most On Record, Prices Crash Two months ago, we observed the record plunge in Hong Kong home sales when according to Land Registry data, a paltry 2,826 registered residential transactions were record, down 14.4% from October and what we thought was an amazing 41.7% less than in November […]
Glistening Gold & The Rumble In The Ruble – America’s “Tribute Scam” Is Unraveling Fast
Glistening Gold & The Rumble In The Ruble – America’s “Tribute Scam” Is Unraveling Fast Before we discuss The Empire of Chaos ongoing attacks on “The Assassin Putin” and The Master of the Universe attempts to topple any challenge to Washington’s global hegemony, we thought the following chart may give some much needed context for […]
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way Preserving your financial capital Given the brutal start to the markets in the first three weeks of 2016, we thought it a good time to check in with the team at New Harbor Financial. We have had them on our podcast periodically over the past […]
Consensual Hallucination Fades, Global Stocks Crushed
Consensual Hallucination Fades, Global Stocks Crushed Something big has changed. Stock markets around the world are getting crushed. Some markets are down 20%, 30%, 40%, or more, even those where central banks are pursuing a scorched-earth wealth-effect strategy of mega-QE and negative-interest-rate policies. Something big has changed. Early Thursday morning, I posted an article [When “Story […]
The Financial Apocalypse Accelerates As Middle East Stocks Crash To Begin The Week
The Financial Apocalypse Accelerates As Middle East Stocks Crash To Begin The Week It looks like it is going to be another chaotic week for global financial markets. On Sunday, news that Iran plans to dramatically ramp up oil production sent stocks plunging all across the Middle East. Stocks in Kuwait were down 3.1 percent, […]
Mid-East Massacre: Qatar Crashes, Saudi Stocks Plunge Most Since Black Monday
Mid-East Massacre: Qatar Crashes, Saudi Stocks Plunge Most Since Black Monday Broad middle-east and african stock markets crashed over 5%, erasing any gains back to November 2008 as the carnage from last week continues. From Kuwait (-4.3%) to Qatar (-8%) it was a bloodbath as Saudi Arabia Tadawul Index plunged 5.4% – the most since Black Monday (now down […]
What If There Is No “Fed Put” – Paul Brodsky Thinks Yellen Will Not Bailout Markets This Time
What If There Is No “Fed Put” – Paul Brodsky Thinks Yellen Will Not Bailout Markets This Time Earlier today, Art Cashin summarized most (very desperate) traders’ thoughts when he said that as a result of today’s market crash, “the Fed will try anything” to prop up the wealth effect it had so carefully engineered with seven […]
Last Bubble Standing
Last Bubble Standing EM debt bubble… emaciated, FX Carry… crucified, Crude…crushed, High yield bonds… burst, Chinese equities… blown, Trannies… trounced, Small Caps… slammed, Biotechs… busted, and FANGs finally FUBAR!But there is one big (very big) bubble left in the world that no one is talking about, and a rather large liquidity-busting pin beckons… In May 2015 we […]
Fed Official Confesses Fed Rigged Stock Market — Crash Certain
Fed Official Confesses Fed Rigged Stock Market — Crash Certain In a dynamite interview, Richard Fisher, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, gave what may be the biggest confession you’ll ever see and hear from a Federal Reserve insider: the Federal Reserveknowingly “front ran” the US stock market recovery (i.e., manipulated […]
7 Percent Crash Causes Emergency Shutdown Of Stock Markets In China For The 2nd Time In 4 Days
7 Percent Crash Causes Emergency Shutdown Of Stock Markets In China For The 2nd Time In 4 Days Did you see what just happened in China? For the second time in four days, a massive stock market crash has caused an emergency shutdown of the markets in China. On both Monday and Thursday, trading was […]
2015 Was The Worst Year For The Stock Market Since 2008
2015 Was The Worst Year For The Stock Market Since 2008 It’s official – 2015 was a horrible year for stocks. On the last day of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down another 178 points, and overall it was the worst year for the Dow since 2008. But of course the Dow […]
