Global central bank assets just reached $31T for the first time. Insurers warn of ‘zombie company’ debt time bomb. Intangible assets make up as much as 70% of S&P 500’s total book value

Global central bank assets just reached $31T for the first time. No end in sight. pic.twitter.com/7WE2d6nYfE — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 16, 2021 The Fed's balance sheet grew by $84 billion in the past week, the most in a …

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When a central bank loses control bad things happen:

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1373947607890939905 *TURKEY CREDIT-DEFAULT SWAPS JUMP MOST ON RECORD TO 472BPS — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) March 22, 2021 OUCH! #Turkey 10y yield jumps to 17%. pic.twitter.com/2zR3Q8WGdi — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) March 22, 2021 Without foreign exchange earnings from tourism, without much …

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Central Bank Continued Surrender

by confoundedinterest17 As I wrote at the beginning of The Fed’s quantitative easing (QE)  ventures back in 2008, The Fed will never be able to “normalize” monetary policy. As we have seen, The Fed has all but quit rate hikes and …

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