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The Great Taking: The Latest “Anti-Mainstream” Conspiracy
The Great Taking: The Latest “Anti-Mainstream” Conspiracy A new book has exploded on the alternative / conspiracy / fringe landscape over the past few weeks – I don’t mean that in a derogatory sense. Zerohedge, Bombthrower Media, et al, we all occupy this space. Let’s call it, “anti-mainstream”. The book is called “The Great Taking” […]
China Threatened By “Vicious Circle Of Panic Selling” From Marketwide Margin Call
China Threatened By “Vicious Circle Of Panic Selling” From Marketwide Margin Call Two weeks ago, when commenting on the PBOC’s latest required reserve ratio cut, we pointed out that one of the more prominent risks facing the Chinese stock market, and potentially explaining why the Shanghai Composite simply can’t catch a bid during the recent […]
The Inescapable Reason Why the Financial System Will Fail
girardatlarge.com The Inescapable Reason Why the Financial System Will Fail Credit cannot expand faster than fundamentals forever Modern finance has many complex moving parts, and this complexity masks its inner simplicity. Let’s break down the core dynamics of the current financial system. The Core Dynamic of the “Recovery” and Asset Bubbles: Credit Credit is the […]
Fed Taking Emergency Crisis Measures … Shoving Collateral Onto Banks’ Balance Sheets
Fed Taking Emergency Crisis Measures … Shoving Collateral Onto Banks’ Balance Sheets Mike Maloney with an insightful analysis:
Global Financial Meltdown Coming? Clear Signs That The Great Derivatives Crisis Has Now Begun
Global Financial Meltdown Coming? Clear Signs That The Great Derivatives Crisis Has Now Begun Warren Buffett once referred to derivatives as “financial weapons of mass destruction“, and it was inevitable that they would begin to wreak havoc on our financial system at some point. While things may seem somewhat calm on Wall Street at the […]
We Need a Crash to Sort the Wheat from the Chaff
We Need a Crash to Sort the Wheat from the Chaff Once the phantom collateral vanishes, there’s no foundation to support additional debt and leverage. When a speculator bought a new particle-board-and-paint McMansion in the middle of nowhere in 2007 with nothing down and a $500,000 mortgage, the lender and the buyer both considered the […]
Is Greece a Template for U.S. State & Local Government Debt Crises?
Is Greece a Template for U.S. State & Local Government Debt Crises? The template of over-indebtedness as a response to soaring obligations is scale-invariant, and it always ends the same way: default. When you can’t pay your bills, you can either cut expenses, borrow money or if you’re extraordinarily privileged, print money. If you borrow money […]
The Lesson In China: Don’t Go Bubble In the First Place
The Lesson In China: Don’t Go Bubble In the First Place There can be no mistaking that Chinese stocks are in a bubble. Since November 21, the Shanghai SSE Composite index has risen more than 100%. Going back to July 22, the gain is nearly 145%. Those dates are not random coincidence, as they mark […]
ECB Prepares To Sacrifice Greek Banks With 50% Collateral Haircut
ECB Prepares To Sacrifice Greek Banks With 50% Collateral Haircut In what seems like a coincidental retaliation for Greece’s pivot to Russia (and following Greece’s initiation of capital controls), the supposedly independent European Central Bank has decided suddenly that – after dishing out €74 billion of emergency liquidity to the Greek National Bank to fund […]
