via Reuters: The Federal Reserve’s policy twist on Wednesday might seem just what the White House ordered, with a hold put on what President Donald Trump termed “loco” interest rate hikes, and an openness to ending the monthly runoff of …
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics The post-Christmas stock rally extended through Wednesday as the small-cap and tech stocks led the way, with the Russell 2000 up 14.3% and the Nasdaq up 12.5%. The SPX and Dow are up 10.4% and 10.1% …
Do you believe that we will see banks on the brink of failure during the next financial crisis? Or are they safe now? In one of the most volatile years on record, we are see a story split in two. …
What would happen if a major bank failed or essentially was faced with failure? Bailout? Bail-in? IMF bailout? Restructuring? What would happen if a major bank failed? What would the systemic risk look like? There’s no telling how bad the …
via Bloomberg: A key regulator of Wall Street banks has joined the Federal Reserve in warning about risky corporate borrowing that has reached record levels as lender protections are eroded. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cautioned in its Semiannual …
Credit Suisse’s systemic risk score reaches the highest since 2006/2007. Credit Suisse's systemic risk score reaches the highest since 2006/2007. pic.twitter.com/NYjPB4w1pg — Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) December 2, 2018 In the last 5 days, the world just experienced a massive intervention …
This was was essentially breaking down the unseen danger. While one particular issue might be “small”, the counter-party risk could be great. It could pull everything down with it. One country owns the debt of the others. Suddenly, someone else’s …
by HomoSemiHabilis Hear me out on this because I think it’s the most empirical treatment of how things could very quickly go horribly wrong. Fact 1 : banks handle the very infrastructure of payment through credit card, checks, wire …
via @paranoidbull: People in 1987 bought insurance so they could bet permanently on unlimited upside…now in 2018 people SELL INSURANCE so tget can use the proceeds to bet on unlimited upside! People in 1987 bought insurance so they could bet permanently …
Where do you see the global ECONOMY in 6 months? Better or worse? Is the economy really bouncing back? Well it’s time we take a deeper look. If we accept mainstream thinking, we might as well believe anything. This however …
This is the largest systemic fraud of the century – dwarfing the mortgage crisis – the @federalreserve has deliberately induced it aswell as done nothing about it thanks to @OccupyWisdom and @LanceRoberts for focusing on it!!! pic.twitter.com/7dJXcNxiVk — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Emerging Markets turmoil: The price of cheap debt & misallocation of capital. “Excess liquidity usually leads to the misallocation of capital, masking any balance sheet constrains. As this tide of excess liquidity recedes, it reveals the …
So many people are waiting for a specific moment. They’re waiting for the grand reveal. “Look! There it is!” But it doesn’t work like that in all cases. This is an ASYNCHRONOUS disaster. What do you see? There are few …
by Brian Maher of Daily Reckoning Another crack forms in the globalist edifice… The Dow Jones plunged nearly 400 points yesterday. The S&P dropped 31… the Nasdaq, 37 Bank stocks took the mightiest wallops — J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; FX Street named you forecaster of the year for your Swiss franc euro peg forecast that also nobody else saw coming. I remember you were named here in Canada as Economist of the Decade for …
Chart of the Day: End Of The Liquidity Supernova An Unexpected Warning From Goldman Sachs: “Something Is Not Quite Right” via Zerohedge: We saw all of the above elements briefly come together when on February 5 the market finally did …
by Charles Hugh-Smith How do we explain our obsession with relatively low risk dangers and our collective blindness to manufactured/marketed scourges that kill tens of thousands of people annually? If you’ve bought a new vehicle recently, you may have noticed …
https://youtu.be/vFsFp46YiEs As President Trump’s war against human trafficking shifts into high gear, the CEO of Backpage.com has been arrested and his website shut down. Q has repeatedly said, these people are ‘PURE EVIL’. I wanted to take this opportunity to …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Solutions are only possible outside these ossified, self-serving centralized hierarchies. Correspondent Dan F. asked me to reprint some posts on solutions to the systemic problems I’ve outlined for years, most recently in How Much Longer Can We Get …
by Egon von Greyerz Gambling is according to Wikipedia the wagering of money (or something of value) on an event with an uncertain outcome. Three elements are required for gambling, Consideration, chance, and prize. Thus, you make a bet and …
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So who’s holding the hot potato of systemic risk now? Everyone. One of the greatest con jobs of the past 9 years is the status quo’s equivalence of risk and volatility: risk = …
by Jon Hall, Free Market Shooter Last week, CNN hosted a town hall with the survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting. Sheriff Israel and Dana Loesch. Among the attendees of the town hall were Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, Rep. Ted Deutch, …
by AMY S. Global Systemic Risk There is no better indicator of increasing globalization.The interdependence of massive global interactions and structures has caused systemic risk to increase exponentially in recent times. Tangible risks—in systems as diverse as energy exploration and production, …
Here is the IMF, talking about just a small percentage of the risks in China. Does this mean that China the only country with issues? No. Not even close. But where there are risks, we must identify them. In your …
by GoldCore – Bank of England warn that “bigger systemic risk” now than in 2008 – BOE, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) concerns re financial system – Banks accused of “balance sheet trickery” -undermining spirit of post-08 rules – EU & UK corporate bond …
by John Rubino It’s just common sense: Borrow too much money and the weight of this debt makes it hard to do things that used to be easy. This truism is now (finally!) hitting home, and blame is being apportioned. …
Umar Farooq Almost every one of us knows that we are on the brink of an imminent economic and market crash considering the surrounding circumstances. Here is a list of eight major systemic risks that vindicate this fear. …
by AMY S. This is a tough topic, because people either don’t won’t to believe it or are not capable because they lack the knowledge to comprehend what is being said. When you understand that our country can only operate …
by Viraj Shah Insurance sector is one of the key components of Eurozone. The sector employs over 1 million people directly. Eurozone holds more than 7.3 million euros in assets and growing bigger by the day. The scope of …