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Is the U.S. Banking System Safe?–15 Years Later
IS THE U.S. BANKING SYSTEM SAFE? – 15 YEARS LATER “We’ve got strong financial institutions…Our markets are the envy of the world. They’re resilient, they’re…innovative, they’re flexible. I think we move very quickly to address situations in this country, and, as I said, our financial institutions are strong.” – Henry Paulson – 3/16/08 “I have full confidence […]
Weekly Commentary: Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again
Weekly Commentary: Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again WSJ: “Ten Years After the Bear Stearns Bailout, Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again.” Myriad changes to the financial structure have seemingly safeguarded the financial system from another 2008-style crisis. The big Wall Street financial institutions are these days better capitalized than a decade ago. There are […]
Carmot Capital: “The Next Crisis Won’t Be A Flash Crash; It Will Be A Flash Flood”
Carmot Capital: “The Next Crisis Won’t Be A Flash Crash; It Will Be A Flash Flood” THE STRAIGHT FLUSH CRASH AN ILLUSION OF SIMPLICITY, AN ENTANGLEMENT OF COMPLEXITY Lately, there has been talk of so-called “elevated” markets. Equity markets, real estate markets and bond markets are indeed reaching new highs regularly. But how long will […]
First Post-Brexit Bailout Looms As Bank Of England Mulls UK Property Fund ‘Measures’
First Post-Brexit Bailout Looms As Bank Of England Mulls UK Property Fund ‘Measures’ Who could have seen that coming? While many have questioned the “suitability of daily-traded, open-ended property funds that are giving investors access to an illiquid asset,” all the time the price is rising, no one wants to rock the boat. However, now that Brexit […]
Charting The Epic Collapse Of The World’s Most Systemically Dangerous Bank
Charting The Epic Collapse Of The World’s Most Systemically Dangerous Bank It’s been almost 10 years in the making, but the fate of one of Europe’s most important financial institutions appears to be sealed. After a hard-hitting sequence of scandals, poor decisions, and unfortunate events,Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes that Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank shares are now down -48% on […]
Here We Go Again——August 2007 Redux
Here We Go Again——August 2007 Redux Nearly everywhere on the planet the giant financial bubbles created by the central banks during the last two decades are fracturing. The latest examples are the crashing bank stocks in Italy and elsewhere in Europe and the sudden trading suspensions by three UK commercial property funds. If this is […]
Deranged Central Bankers Blowing Up the World
DERANGED CENTRAL BANKERS BLOWING UP THE WORLD It is now self-evident to any sentient being (excludes CNBC shills, Wall Street shyster economists, and Keynesian loving politicians) the mountainous level of unpayable global debt is about to crash down like an avalanche upon hundreds of millions of willfully ignorant citizens who trusted their politician leaders and […]
637 Rate Cuts And $12.3 Trillion In Global QE Later, World Shocked To Find “Quantitative Failure”
637 Rate Cuts And $12.3 Trillion In Global QE Later, World Shocked To Find “Quantitative Failure” 2016 is shaping up to be the year that everyone finally comes to terms with the fact that the monetary emperors truly have no clothes. To be sure, it’s been a long time coming. For nearly 8 years, market […]
After Crashing, Deutsche Bank Is Forced To Issue Statement Defending Its Liquidity
After Crashing, Deutsche Bank Is Forced To Issue Statement Defending Its Liquidity The echoes of both Bear and Lehman are growing louder with every passing day. Just hours after Deutsche Bank stock crashed by 10% to levels not seen since the financial crisis, the German behemoth with over $50 trillion in gross notional derivative found […]
The Big Short is a Great Movie, But…
The Big Short is a Great Movie, But… Paris — Michael Lewis is the chronicler of Wall Street. He takes the complexity behind which the inhabitants of the financial world hide and weaves a tale that is both understandable and compelling. Starting with the classic “Liars Poker” (1989), Lewis has produced a number of books about […]
The Fed Induced Farce
The Fed Induced Farce The minutes from the last Fed meeting were released on Wednesday afternoon. The minutes, along with a squadron of jabbering Fed heads lying about the economy doing great, pretty much locked in the most talked about .25% interest rate increase in world history. Evidently the Wall Street titans of greed have […]
