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China Unveils A Housing Market Bailout: Here’s What’s In It, And Why It Is Still Not Enough
China Unveils A Housing Market Bailout: Here’s What’s In It, And Why It Is Still Not Enough More than four years ago, when China first launched its latest “deleveraging” campaign targeted at bursting the country’s housing bubble in a controlled fashion, which coincidentally was the single largest asset for China’s massive middle class, we – and many […]
Lies, Lies & More Lies from the Financial Press
Lies, Lies & More Lies from the Financial Press COMMENT: Marty; the Fed quietly published the banks it was funding in the Repo Crisis. I just wanted to say, you are always right. The press claimed it was tax time, but you said it was the crisis in European banks. Your sources are always spot on. […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Nothing’s Fixed – What’s Behind the Corporate Debt Bailout
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Nothing’s Fixed – What’s Behind the Corporate Debt Bailout Over the past two years, nobody knew what would trigger the next financial crisis, but just about everyone knew it would involve the record pile of corporate debt. And so it happened. Now the Fed fixed it…
The Lockdown Wouldn’t Be So Devastating If Our Economy Wasn’t So Rigged, Brittle and Exploitive
The Lockdown Wouldn’t Be So Devastating If Our Economy Wasn’t So Rigged, Brittle and Exploitive An economy of rackets designed to enrich the few at the expense of the many is brittle because self-serving rackets snuff out competition, accountability and transparency. What’s remarkable about the lockdown isn’t the hue and cry about the economic damage–it’s […]
There Is Just One Question: Will The Fed Activate A Coordinated Central Bank Bailout On Sunday
There Is Just One Question: Will The Fed Activate A Coordinated Central Bank Bailout On Sunday With global markets in freefall, the S&P opening 3% lower and cementing its worst week since the global financial crisis; the Dow (or is thar Down Joanes) plunging more than 4,000 points this week, traders (especially levered ones) are […]
China Braces For December D-Day: The “Unprecedented” Default Of A Massive State-Owned Enterprise
China Braces For December D-Day: The “Unprecedented” Default Of A Massive State-Owned Enterprise Something is seriously starting to break in China’s financial system. Three days after we described the self-destructive doom loop that is tearing apart China’s smaller banks, where a second bank run took place in just two weeks – an unprecedented event for a country where until […]
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Fed’s Bailout of the Repo Market?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Fed’s Bailout of the Repo Market? Whose Bets are Getting Bailed Out by the Fed’s Repos & Treasury Bill Purchases?
Argentina Is Officially In Default Again: S&P Downgrades Credit Rating To SD
Argentina Is Officially In Default Again: S&P Downgrades Credit Rating To SD The IMF just broke its own record of incompetence: less than a year after its record, $57 billion bailout of Argentina was finalized, S&P just downgraded the country from B- to Selective Default – the equivalent to a default rating – following the […]
Peter Schiff Explains “What Happens Next” In 47 Words
Peter Schiff Explains “What Happens Next” In 47 Words Outspoken critic of The Fed and one of the few that can see through the endless barrage of bullshit to how this really ends, has laid out in a tweet “what happens next”… Likely sequence of events: 1. Bear market; 2. Recession; 3. Deficits explode; 4. […]
Greece Planning Bad Debt Bailout For Its Banks After Market Crash
Greece Planning Bad Debt Bailout For Its Banks After Market Crash It seems like it was just yesterday that Greek banks, which carry some €89BN of bad loans on their balance sheets, passed the ECB’s latest confidence building exercise, known as the “stress test.” In retrospect that may have been premature, because as Bloomberg reports, […]
Argentina Gets Record $57 Billion As IMF Boosts Bailout, Creates “No Intervention” Zone For The Peso
Argentina Gets Record $57 Billion As IMF Boosts Bailout, Creates “No Intervention” Zone For The Peso Just a few months after the IMF announced in June what was a record-setting $50 billion, 36-month bailout agreement with Argentina, the International Monetary Fund said it would expand the credit line to $57 billion in an attempt to […]
Peso Set To Disintegrate After IMF Tells Argentina To Stop Supporting Currency
Peso Set To Disintegrate After IMF Tells Argentina To Stop Supporting Currency On May 11, three days after Argentina secured a $50 Billion IMF bailout – the largest in the fund’s history – we jokingly noted that with the peso resuming its slide, an indication the market did not view the IMF backstop as credible, […]
Turkey Rules Out Capital Controls As Germany Says IMF Bailout “Would Be Helpful”
Turkey Rules Out Capital Controls As Germany Says IMF Bailout “Would Be Helpful” During this morning’s conference call organized by Citi, HSBC and other banks with “thousands” of investors, Turkey’s Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak – the Jared Kushner of Turkey – eased nerves when in an attempt to bolster confidence, said that capital controls […]
We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Bailout – Argentine Peso Plummets To New Record Low
We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Bailout – Argentine Peso Plummets To New Record Low The Argentine Peso collapsed again today – plummeting below last week’s record low to 29/USD. Desk chatter suggests that no one turned up this morning as the central bank announced it would increase its daily spot auctions to USD150mn on Thursday […]
