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Which Side Are You On?

December 30, 2018

Which Side Are You On? You had to love the narrative that the financial media put over about the 1000-plus point zoom in the DJIA on Wednesday: that pension funds were “rebalancing” their portfolios. It dredged up the image of a drowning man at the bottom of the deep blue sea with an anchor in […]

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What Is Behind The Market’s Record Liquidity Collapse

December 30, 2018

What Is Behind The Market’s Record Liquidity Collapse One week ago, when we first previewed this week’s infamous $60 billion pension fund rebalancing out of equities and into bonds which resulted in historic market gyrations, and a violent snapback in the S&P from what was shaping up to be the worst December on record for […]

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Necessity is the Mother of Invention–Retirees Desperate Reach for Yield

October 27, 2017

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION – RETIREES DESPERATE REACH FOR YIELD Ben Bernanke’s creativity inspired a generation of economists and central bankers. QE, ZIRP and NIRP established a new class of economics that is mathematically sound but practically disastrous. Billions of dollars were transferred from savers to investors to boost the economy, but the […]

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The Pension Storm Is Coming To Europe—It May Be The End Of Europe As We Know It

October 7, 2017

The Pension Storm Is Coming To Europe—It May Be The End Of Europe As We Know It I’ve written a lot about US public pension funds lately. Many of them are underfunded and will never be able to pay workers the promised benefits—at least without dumping a huge and unwelcome bill on taxpayers. And since […]

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The Ticking Time Bomb That Will Wipe Out Virtually Every Pension Fund In America

March 31, 2017

The Ticking Time Bomb That Will Wipe Out Virtually Every Pension Fund In America Are millions of Americans about to see the big, juicy pensions that they were counting on to fund their golden years go up in flames in the biggest financial disaster in U.S. history? When Bloomberg published an editorial entitled “Pension Crisis […]

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Pension “Armageddon” Got Closer Today

October 21, 2015

Pension “Armageddon” Got Closer Today The IMF fears underfunded pension funds could be encouraged to chase returns through riskier investments such as direct credit exposure or by engaging in securities lending in order to improve their funding ratios….The IMF’s comments echoed similar warnings from the OECD in May, when the Paris-based body said pension funds’ move towards […]

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Banks Rig Treasury Market

July 26, 2015

Banks Rig Treasury Market Boston’s public sector pension fund accuses all of the biggest US banks  – the so-called “primary dealers” which transact directly with the United States Treasury Department and “have a special obligation to ensure the efficient function” of the American treasury bond market – of colluding to manipulate the $12.5 trillion U.S. Treasury market.  […]

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