The NIRP Refugees Are Coming to America by Wolf Richter • May 26, 2016 • 10 Comments Negative interest rate policies elsewhere hit US Treasury yields.
Manufacturing Recession Goes Global as Demand Withers by Wolf Richter • May 24, 2016 • 29 Comments References to 2009 & the Global Financial Crisis keep popping up in the reports because that’s how bad it has gotten.
What the Heck is Going on With the Dollar and “Fear?” by Wolf Richter • May 1, 2016 • 76 Comments “Speculators are losing faith.”
World’s Worst Sinkhole-Government Sports World’s Most Negative-Yielding Debt by Wolf Richter • Apr 22, 2016 • 61 Comments NIRP Absurdity Soars to New Heights.
Peak Negative-Interest-Rate Absurdity? Hilarity Ensues by Wolf Richter • Apr 13, 2016 • 27 Comments Among the goodies, “reverse Yankee” landmines.
BlackRock CEO Fink: Negative & Low Interest Rates Eat into Consumer Spending at Worst Possible Time by Wolf Richter • Apr 11, 2016 • 39 Comments “A hostile landscape.”
BOJ’s Kuroda Threatens More Easing, Stocks Tank, Absurdity Reigns by Wolf Richter • Apr 5, 2016 • 31 Comments “Negative interest expense” or some such absurdity yet to be coined.
NIRP Kills Off All Money Market Funds in Japan by Wolf Richter • Mar 9, 2016 • 16 Comments And the Bitter Irony?
Revolt against NIRP Breaks out, Bank of Japan “Baffled” by Wolf Richter • Feb 19, 2016 • 28 Comments Meanwhile, exports collapse at fastest rate since 2009.
As War on Cash Escalates, Cash Lovers Fight Back by Don Quijones • Feb 18, 2016 • 62 Comments “It would be fatal if citizens got the impression that cash is gradually taken away from them”: Bundesbank President Weidmann.