NIRP Did It: I’m in Awe of How Central-Bank Policies Blind Investors to Risks by Wolf Richter • Jul 13, 2018 • 45 Comments “Reverse-Yankee” Junk Bond Issuance Hits Record.
Chasing Yield during ZIRP & NIRP Evidently Starved Human Brains of Oxygen. Now the Price Is Due by Wolf Richter • Jun 18, 2018 • 41 Comments See Argentina’s 100-year dollar-bond and emerging-market dollar “turmoil” as the Hot Money flees.
ECB Reacts (Unofficially) to NIRP’s Revenge in Italy by Wolf Richter • May 30, 2018 • 43 Comments Bond turmoil, no problem. But if Italy doesn’t stick to the rules, the ECB might let the bonds go, “safeguard the remaining Eurozone members,” and “merely control the disaster.”
NIRP’s Revenge: Italian Bonds Plunge, Worst Day in Decades by Wolf Richter • May 29, 2018 • 74 Comments Markets wail and gnash their teeth as “normalization” of Italian yields sets in.
Hilarity in NIRP Zone: Italian 2-Year Yield Still Near 0%, as New Government Proposes Haircut for Creditors and Alternate Currency, Markets on “Knife Edge” by Wolf Richter • May 21, 2018 • 93 Comments ECB’s Negative Interest Rate Policy has been the funniest monetary joke ever.
The Flattening US “Yield Curve”? NIRP Refugees Did it by Wolf Richter • Dec 14, 2017 • 69 Comments Sez Fitch & Yellen.
Government Bond & Mortgage “Meltdown” Crushes NIRP by Wolf Richter • Dec 2, 2016 • 105 Comments And the spike in mortgage rates will come in handy.
“Crazy Things” Happen with Bond Math at ZIRP & NIRP by Contributor • Sep 14, 2016 • 13 Comments Cross Asset Contagion & High Volatility in Manipulated Markets.
The 11 Bone-Chilling Things I Gleaned from Yellen’s Chart by Wolf Richter • Aug 27, 2016 • 106 Comments Who says the Fed can’t have fun at our expense?
Stocks Were Already Crashing the Last Two Times this Happened. So What Gives? by Wolf Richter • Jul 26, 2016 • 38 Comments The foundations have crumbled. All bets are off.
