Are Germans About to Be Made to Pay for Their Love of Cash? by Don Quijones • Mar 12, 2017 • 48 Comments The ECB would do so at its own peril.
Are We About to See a “European Monetary Fund?” by Don Quijones • Mar 9, 2017 • 14 Comments There’s an air of furtive desperation about the proceedings.
Are 100-Year Mortgages Next? Effects of Negative Real Interest Rates on Nordic Housing Bubble by Contributor • Mar 4, 2017 • 37 Comments Wage Growth vs. Housing Price Growth.
Debt Boom in China Could Lead to “Financial Crisis,” But Maybe Not Yet: New York Fed by Wolf Richter • Feb 27, 2017 • 25 Comments The data points can give you the willies.
Is that Desperation Hanging Over Europe’s Banking System? by Don Quijones • Feb 25, 2017 • 41 Comments Turns out, Italy’s banking crisis is not fixed.
The Unthinkable Just Happened in Spain by Don Quijones • Feb 18, 2017 • 17 Comments Six central bankers and a financial regulator get dragged to court.
Foreign Governments Dump US Treasuries as Never Before, But Who the Heck is Buying Them? by Wolf Richter • Feb 9, 2017 • 44 Comments There’s now a special math for NIRP refugees in Europe.
What Would it Cost a Country to Leave the Euro? That’s What Everyone Suddenly Wants to Know by Wolf Richter • Feb 7, 2017 • 47 Comments It’s the closest the Eurozone has come to falling apart.
Italy’s “Bad Banks,” Created to Save the Financial System, Are Themselves on Verge of Collapse by Don Quijones • Feb 4, 2017 • 33 Comments “The €20 billion the government set aside is starting to look like small beer.”
Markets Smell a Rat as Central Banks Dither by Wolf Richter • Feb 2, 2017 • 61 Comments NIRP is dying.