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THE WOLF STREET REPORT: American Debt Slaves in the Weirdest Economy Ever
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: American Debt Slaves in the Weirdest Economy Ever During the Financial Crisis, consumers deleveraged by walking away from their debts. And now, with 20 million people still claiming unemployment insurance? (You can also download THE WOLF STREET REPORT wherever you get your podcasts).
China Deleveraging Hits Corporate Bonds As Cascade Effect Begins
China Deleveraging Hits Corporate Bonds As Cascade Effect Begins Following the market lockdown during October’s Party Congress, many commentators were disturbed by the continued rise in Chinese government bond yields as we returned to “business as usual”, with the 10-year rising to 4%. At the beginning of this month, we discussed the sell-off (see “China: […]
Soaring Global Debt Sets Stage For “Unprecedented Private Deleveraging”
Soaring Global Debt Sets Stage For “Unprecedented Private Deleveraging” The UK’s Telegraph just published an analysis of global debt that pretty much sums up the coming crisis. Here’s an excerpt with a couple of the more hair-raising charts: Global debt explodes at ‘eye-watering’ pace to hit £170 trillion Global debt has climbed at an “eye-watering” […]
Why the Coming Wave of Defaults Will Be Devastating
Why the Coming Wave of Defaults Will Be Devastating Without the stimulus of ever-rising credit, the global economy craters in a self-reinforcing cycle of defaults, deleveraging and collapsing debt-based consumption. In an economy based on borrowing, i.e. credit a.k.a. debt, loan defaults and deleveraging (reducing leverage and debt loads) matter. Consider this chart of total credit […]
Why This Slump Has Legs
Why This Slump Has Legs We’ve only really been in two weeks of trading in the new year, things are looking pretty bad to say the least, so predictably the press are asking -and often answering- questions about when the slump will be over. Rebound, recovery, the usual terminology. When will we get back to […]
Everything’s Deflating And Nobody Seems To Notice
Everything’s Deflating And Nobody Seems To Notice Whenever we at the Automatic Earth explain, as we must have done at least a hundred times in our existence, that, and why, we refuse to define inflation and deflation as rising or falling prices (only), we always get a lot of comments and reactions implying that people […]
Deleveraging as a Biblical Plague
Deleveraging as a Biblical Plague Eventful days in the middle of summer. Just as the Greek Pandora’s box appears to be closing for the holidays (but we know what happens once it’s open), and Europe’s ultra-slim remnants of democracy erode into the sunset, China moves in with a one-off but then super-cubed renminbi devaluation. And […]
The Debt To GDP Ratio For The Entire World: 286 Percent
The Debt To GDP Ratio For The Entire World: 286 Percent Did you know that there is more than $28,000 of debt for every man, woman and child on the entire planet? And since close to 3 billion of those people survive on less than 2 dollars a day, your share of that debt is […]
I’m Not Buying It——Not The Wall Street Rip, Nor The Keynesian Rap | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
I’m Not Buying It——Not The Wall Street Rip, Nor The Keynesian Rap | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. First comes production. Then comes income. Spending and savings follow. All the rest is debt…….unless you believe in a magic Keynesian ether called “aggregate demand” and a blatant stab-in-the-dark called “potential GDP”. I don’t. So let’s start with a pretty […]
