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.
Italy’s Banking Crisis Is Even Worse Than We Thought by Don Quijones • Feb 8, 2017 • 33 Comments The insider blame game has begun.
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.
Things Just Got Serious in Europe’s War on Cash by Don Quijones • Jan 28, 2017 • 73 Comments To protect citizens from threats as defined by apparatchiks in Brussels.
ECB’s Insider Connections Under Scrutiny Again by Don Quijones • Jan 25, 2017 • 20 Comments Necessary to “maintain a dialogue” with external actors, says ECB.
Nightmare Before Christmas for Spanish Banks by Don Quijones • Dec 21, 2016 • 30 Comments The European Court of Justice refused to listen.
Here Are the Multinationals whose Bonds the ECB is Discreetly Buying by Don Quijones • Dec 15, 2016 • 27 Comments Its new role as “debt-buyer of first resort” raises a whole litany of concerns.
Currency Armageddon? A Word about the Hated Dollar by Wolf Richter • Dec 15, 2016 • 69 Comments The “death of the dollar” will have to be rescheduled.
Italians Vote “No,” Renzi to Resign, Banking Crisis Now Looking for Taxpayers by Wolf Richter • Dec 4, 2016 • 73 Comments Teetering Eurozone banks exposed to flying shrapnel.