How Long Can Central Banks Push Bonds to Absurdity? by Wolf Richter • Feb 4, 2015 • 14 Comments Throw enough money at anything, and you’ll kill it.
Immensely Concentrated Positions in “Fantastically” Overpriced Markets with “Unlimited Tolerance for Risk” by Wolf Richter • Feb 3, 2015 • 8 Comments What could go wrong? Hedge-Fund guru Paul Singer explains why they’re all doing it: a “wish not to be run over.”
Canada Mauled by Oil Bust, Job Losses Pile Up – Housing Bubble, Banks at Risk by Wolf Richter • Feb 1, 2015 • 28 Comments What ratings agency Fitch and the Bank of Canada had warned about has come to pass.
Oil Price Soars, Rig Count Plunges Worst Ever, But Bloodletting Just Beginning by Wolf Richter • Jan 30, 2015 • 8 Comments Oil companies are dead-serious about slashing costs. A matter of survival.
The American Dream Dissipates at Record Pace by Wolf Richter • Jan 30, 2015 • 7 Comments Instead of a home, let them buy toxic, rent-based, synthetic structured securities.
“Recipe for Disaster”: Canadian Government to Expand State Surveillance Powers (Again) by Wolf Richter • Jan 29, 2015 • 2 Comments The “spillover effects” of overbroad anti-terror legislation.
“Oil Capital of California” Declares Fiscal Emergency by Wolf Richter • Jan 29, 2015 • 3 Comments Oil bust, sins committed & false promises made in good times sink Kern Country.
Hounded by Evil Dollar & Collapsed Commodity Prices, Corporate America Clamors for Total Currency War by Wolf Richter • Jan 28, 2015 • 9 Comments Financial engineering can only do so much.
Junk-Bond Bubble Implodes Beyond Energy, Deals Scuttled, Yields Soar, Suddenly “Insufficient Demand” by Wolf Richter • Jan 27, 2015 • 12 Comments A sense of unwelcome reality hits non-energy junk-rated companies.
Debt and Fracking at Low Oil & Gas Prices: Wave of Defaults, “Outright Liquidations” Next by Wolf Richter • Jan 25, 2015 • 3 Comments Time and money are running out for junk-rated energy companies.
