Central Banks

Roll Out the Fire Hoses (Here Comes QE4)

by Bill Bonner • Oct 17, 2014 • 9 Comments

Never before in the long, comic history of mankind and its money have central bankers taken such a keen interest in asset prices. Now they create money, out of nowhere, for the express purpose of pushing them up.

What the Heck just Happened in Global Stock Markets?

by Wolf Richter • Oct 12, 2014 • 30 Comments

Bitter ironies are piling up – with very crummy consequences.

Debt Serf Ireland Gets Paid To Borrow Even More

by David Stockman • Oct 1, 2014 • 3 Comments

Bizzzaro world of maniacal central banking and crackpot financial engineering.

Standard & Poor’s Warns on Germany Triggering the Next Debt Crisis, Investors Would Lose their Shirts

by Wolf Richter • Sep 24, 2014 • 5 Comments

A true debacle is unfolding. Just when we thought the euro was finally safe.

Minsky Moment for Markets Driven by “Relentless Bids”

by Contributor • Sep 3, 2014 • 1 Comment

“We run carelessly to the precipice after we have put up a façade to prevent ourselves from seeing it.”

The Committee to Blow Up the World!

by Bill Bonner • Aug 27, 2014 • 1 Comment

Why would this bullishness extend to practically the entire globe?

Investment Bank Discovers the “Redistributive Effects” of QE

by Wolf Richter • Jul 28, 2014 • 2 Comments

How the Fed and other central banks channel wealth and income to rich households and companies at the expense of wage earners and the young.

European Banks Begin to Sweat As ECB Promises Scalps

by Don Quijones • Jul 21, 2014 • 2 Comments

European bankers have begun sweating, not because of the harsh heat, but fear – of what could happen as battalions of bank auditors take up temporary residence at the headquarters of the biggest banks.

Chinese Construction Company Threatens To Default, Debt Dominoes Are Lined Up

by Wolf Richter • Jul 17, 2014 • 2 Comments

It’s so bad a trusty Communist Party newspaper exhorts the people to buy homes in a ghost city because there’s “no downside for home prices.”

Why Are TBTF Banks So Happy With The EU Banking Union?

by Don Quijones • Jul 10, 2014 • 2 Comments

According to the official story, the people of Europe will benefit enormously from the banking union; it imposes greater control and tighter regulation of the banks and saves taxpayers from having to bail them out. Or so it would seem.

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