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Blain’s Morning Porridge – October 21st 2019

October 21, 2019

Blain’s Morning Porridge  – October 21st 2019  “If you wake up on a Casper mattress, work out with a Peloton before breakfast, Uber to your desk at a WeWork, order DoorDash for lunch, take a Lyft home, and get dinner through Postmates, you’ve interacted with seven companies that will collectively lose nearly $14 billion this […]

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Happy Anniversary

September 21, 2018

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY “They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” Attributed to Talleyrand. Since everybody else in financial media has been indulging in an orgy of self-reflection, selective recollection and brazen virtue-signalling on the back of the 10 year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in September 2008, and in steadfast keeping with our principle of ‘no […]

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This is What it Looks Like When Credit Markets Go Nuts

October 20, 2017

This is What it Looks Like When Credit Markets Go Nuts Pricing of risk kicks bucket in record central-bank absurdity. As the days pass, the perverse effects of central bank policies on the financial markets are getting more and more amazing. This includes the record-setting nuttiness now reigning in the European bond market, compared to […]

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The Three Headed Debt Monster That’s Going to Ravage the Economy

June 10, 2017

The Three Headed Debt Monster That’s Going to Ravage the Economy Mass Infusions of New Credit “The bank is something more than men, I tell you.  It’s the monster.  Men made it, but they can’t control it.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Something strange and somewhat senseless happened this week. On Tuesday, the price […]

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Junk Bonds Under Pressure

November 18, 2015

Junk Bonds Under Pressure  While the Stock Market is Partying … There are seemingly always “good reasons” why troubles in a sector of the credit markets are supposed to be ignored – or so people are telling us, every single time. Readers may recall how the developing problems in the sub-prime sector of the mortgage […]

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At the Fed in 2009, Rolling Dice in a Crisis

March 8, 2015

At the Fed in 2009, Rolling Dice in a Crisis Ben Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Board have earned accolades from all corners for the extraordinary actions they took to rescue the financial system in 2009. While 2008 was the Fed’s annus horribilis, exposing how unaware the central bank had been of the risks building […]

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