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For The First Time Ever, Bank Of Japan Total Assets Surpass Japan’s GDP
For The First Time Ever, Bank Of Japan Total Assets Surpass Japan’s GDP For the first time in history, a central bank has managed to print enough money to buy enough assets to surpass the nation’s annual GDP. Under the watchful eye of Kuroda, and the overseeing (but independent) hand of Abe, The Bank of […]
World Finance Leaders Scramble For A Solution To Escalating Trade War, Rising Rates
World Finance Leaders Scramble For A Solution To Escalating Trade War, Rising Rates The main takeaway from the IMF and World Bank Group annual meeting in Bali, which hosted financial ministers and central bank governors from around the world this weekend, was that global trade tensions were having a profound effect on global growth and […]
Watch Live: The World’s Top 3 Central Bankers Discuss What’s Next
Watch Live: The World’s Top 3 Central Bankers Discuss What’s Next Update: Powell has maintained his hawkish tone from last week’s press conference with his comments in Sintra on the labor market and monetary policy. He expressed confidence in the US economy and said “the case for continued gradual rate hikes is strong.” According to […]
Japan Expects to Hit 2% Inflation in 5 Years, Aggressive Easing Will Continue
Japan Expects to Hit 2% Inflation in 5 Years, Aggressive Easing Will Continue The BOJ thinks Japan may hit its 2% inflation target in 5 years. Kuroda says risks are to the downside. It may take Japan five more years to reach its 2% inflation targetaccording to BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda. “Sometime within the next […]
Kuroda Shocks Markets Hinting At QE End; Nikkei, USDJPY Tumble
Kuroda Shocks Markets Hinting At QE End; Nikkei, USDJPY Tumble In addition to the suddenly escalating global trade war, overnight traders had one more thing to worry about: another central bank unwinding its QE program. This happened shortly after midnight ET, when BOJ Governor Kuroda unexpectedly announced that the Bank of Japan will start thinking […]
Weekly Commentary: Arms Race in Bubbles
Weekly Commentary: Arms Race in Bubbles The week left me with an uneasy feeling. There were a number of articles noting the 30-year anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. I spent “Black Monday” staring at a Telerate monitor as a treasury analyst at Toyota’s US headquarters in Southern California. If I wasn’t completely in […]
Nonsensical Global Worries Over Subdued Inflation: Yellen, Draghi, Kuroda
Nonsensical Global Worries Over Subdued Inflation: Yellen, Draghi, Kuroda Central bank presidents at the Fed, the ECB, and Bank of Japan are all concerned over low inflation. The Fed wants to hike anyway, but the Bank of Japan will keep pursuing aggressive monetary easing. Meanwhile, asset prices are in the biggest ever bubble. Bank of […]
Just Because the Hedge Fund Wise Guys Have Forgotten
JUST BECAUSE THE HEDGE FUND WISE GUYS HAVE FORGOTTEN Today’s post will be about Japanese yen vol, but I am sure to bore some readers with that topic, so I am starting with something a little more interesting. As many of you know, I am a little bit of a bitcoin skeptic. At the end […]
Both ECB And BOJ Are Just Months Away From Running Out Of Bonds To Buy
Both ECB And BOJ Are Just Months Away From Running Out Of Bonds To Buy With the Fed contemplating whether to hike again next month and start “normalizing ” its balance sheet before the end of 2017, the two other major central banks are facing far bigger problems. * * * Two months after the […]
Going… Going… Gone! The EU Begins to Splinter
Going… Going… Gone! The EU Begins to Splinter Dark Social Mood Tsunami Washes Ashore Early this morning one might have been forgiven for thinking that Japan had probably just been hit by another tsunami. The Nikkei was down 1,300 points, the yen briefly soared above par. Gold had intermittently gained 100 smackers – if memory […]
Turning Stones Into Bread – The Japanese Miracle
Turning Stones Into Bread – The Japanese Miracle Stuffing the Futon Our friend Ramsey Su just asked what Haruhiko Kuroda and Shinzo Abe are going to do now in light of the strong yen (aside from perhaps doing the honorable thing). Isn’t it time to just “wipe out some debt with the stroke of a pen”? The […]
Kuroda-San in the Mouth of Madness
Kuroda-San in the Mouth of Madness Deluded Central Planners Zerohedge recently reported on an interview given by Lithuanian ECB council member Vitas Vasiliauskas, which demonstrates how utterly deluded the central planners in the so-called “capitalist” economies of the West have become. His statements are nothing short of bizarre (“we are magic guys!”) – although he is […]
“We Aren’t Thinking About It At All”, Or How Kuroda Just Assured That Helicopter Money Is Coming To Japan
“We Aren’t Thinking About It At All”, Or How Kuroda Just Assured That Helicopter Money Is Coming To Japan On Friday, courtesy of a Deutsche Bank report laughably titled Helicopter Money 101, we showed how to trade the coming helicopter money paradrop that will be provided by central banks in the very near future. When asking the […]
Yellen, Draghi, Kuroda: Deranged Lab Rats
YELLEN, DRAGHI, KURODA: DERANGED LAB RATS The stock market has regained all of its loses year to date as economic indicators continue to flash red, corporate profits continue to plunge, consumers continue to spend less at retailers, real wages continue to fall, and housing sales continue to decline. The entire dead cat bounce has been […]
Draghobert the Terrible Strikes Again
Draghobert the Terrible Strikes Again A Whiff of Panic Ahead of Thursday’s ECB meeting, there was a widespread consensus that Europe’s chief printing press supervisor would make up for the alleged “mistake” of under-delivering on monetary lunacy last time around. Therefore, a sizable dose of fresh absurdities had to be expected, with only small disagreements on […]
