Financial Repression

Keep Pushing Until Something Really BIG Breaks?

by Wolf Richter • Apr 9, 2015 • 13 Comments

Fed clueless how to unscramble omelet, fears “outsized market reaction.” Other central banks keep adding to omelet. Absurdity reigns.

Look Who’s Dragging Down the Global Economy Though No One Is Allowed to Say it

by Wolf Richter • Jan 20, 2015 • 12 Comments

“Social cohesion is at risk.”

The Greater Abomination: Washington’s Lies About TARP’s “Success” Are Worse Than The Original Bailouts

by David Stockman • Dec 23, 2014 • 1 Comment

The Fed’s “No Banker Left Behind” Program.

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.

Money Manager’s Warning: ‘The Bull Move Has Lasted So Long Nobody Can See Its End’

by Wolf Richter • Aug 21, 2014 • 9 Comments

“Here’s when US equity and bond markets will change direction: when investors come to fear the next Fed-talk.”

Financial Bomb Blows up, Margin Calls Hit Hedge Funds

by David Stockman • Aug 11, 2014 • 1 Comment

They’d piled into the new “risk sharing RMBS bonds” issued by Fannie and Freddie. Wall Street provided 80% leverage. Buying frenzy ensued. But it didn’t last long.

Junk-Bond Turmoil just Preliminary, “The Real Panic Will Come With…”

by Wolf Richter • Aug 8, 2014 • 9 Comments

Junk bond investors are running for the hills. But there are no hills.

The Fed Rules, Metrics and Ratios Are Just for Decoration

by Wolf Richter • Jun 19, 2014 • Comments Off on The Fed Rules, Metrics and Ratios Are Just for Decoration

The fundamental and largely invisible shift in Western economies from the markets to central management.

QE, Bailouts, And Families Struggling to Buy Food

by Wolf Richter • Jun 2, 2014 • Comments Off on QE, Bailouts, And Families Struggling to Buy Food

It was a very basic question: Have there been times when you did not have enough money to buy the food you or your family needed? In wealthy countries, the percentages should be small, and given all the money-printing, it should be zero, you’d think.

When $1.2 Trillion In Foreign Bank Funds In The US Dissipate

by Wolf Richter • May 9, 2014 • Comments Off on When $1.2 Trillion In Foreign Bank Funds In The US Dissipate

It fits the pattern of gratuitous bank enrichment perfectly. This time, the big beneficiaries of the Fed are foreign banks. An unintended consequence, with big impact on the “recovery.”

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