How Long Can Central Banks Push Bonds to Absurdity? by Wolf Richter • Feb 4, 2015 • 14 Comments Throw enough money at anything, and you’ll kill it.
Immensely Concentrated Positions in “Fantastically” Overpriced Markets with “Unlimited Tolerance for Risk” by Wolf Richter • Feb 3, 2015 • 8 Comments What could go wrong? Hedge-Fund guru Paul Singer explains why they’re all doing it: a “wish not to be run over.”
The American Dream Dissipates at Record Pace by Wolf Richter • Jan 30, 2015 • 7 Comments Instead of a home, let them buy toxic, rent-based, synthetic structured securities.
Hounded by Evil Dollar & Collapsed Commodity Prices, Corporate America Clamors for Total Currency War by Wolf Richter • Jan 28, 2015 • 9 Comments Financial engineering can only do so much.
Junk-Bond Bubble Implodes Beyond Energy, Deals Scuttled, Yields Soar, Suddenly “Insufficient Demand” by Wolf Richter • Jan 27, 2015 • 12 Comments A sense of unwelcome reality hits non-energy junk-rated companies.
Debt and Fracking at Low Oil & Gas Prices: Wave of Defaults, “Outright Liquidations” Next by Wolf Richter • Jan 25, 2015 • 3 Comments Time and money are running out for junk-rated energy companies.
Germany: ‘Got Gold?’ – Draghi: ‘Try Some Bananas’ by Wolf Richter • Jan 23, 2015 • 1 Comment Germany had a self-inflicted bad-hair day, you’d think. With a hilarious cartoon.
Why the Great American Oil Bust Will Be Long & Painful by Wolf Richter • Jan 22, 2015 • 11 Comments BHP Billiton, perhaps unwittingly, explains the irony: despite oil glut, collapsed prices, layoffs… US oil production will continue to soar.
Manufacturing Hit by Oil-Price Plunge? Southeast Worst Since Financial Crisis by Wolf Richter • Jan 21, 2015 • 10 Comments The Atlanta Fed begins to fret.
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.”
