Category Archives: Bank of England
VAR Shocks!
By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at How much money can you lose on any given day according to an entire squadron of dynamic variable factors? It’s called value at risk (VAR), and because every hedge fund, investment bank, prop house, and algo firm wants to assess their own risk — while at the same time sneakily wanting to know […]
Soros’ Worst Trade
Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog, There is this Canadian rock star who retired a few years back and took up hosting an afternoon drive-home radio show on a local Toronto station. Sometimes his program includes a segment called, “Damn! I wish I wrote that.” This ex-rock star will play a famous […]
Nomi Prins: A Decade Of G7 Central Bank Collusion… And Counting
Authored by Nomi Prins, Since late 2007, the Federal Reserve has embarked on grand-scale collusion with other G-7 central banks to manufacture a massive amount of money. The scope and degree of this collusion are historically unprecedented and by admission of the perpetrators, unconventional in approach, and – depending on the speech – ineffective. Central […]
Bernanke Flip-Flops: Will Be Keynote Speaker At Blockchain Conference
Echoing his predecessor Greenspan's shift to the 'dark side' (fully supportive of a gold standard after leaving office), former Fed Chair Bernanke now appears to be full-heartedly supportive of cryptocurrencies having warned in 2015 of "serious problems" with bitcoin due to its "instability" and "anonymity." As CoinTelegraph reports, in an interesting turn of events, former […]
UK Opposition Leader Calls For “People’s QE” – It’s Venezuela With Tea & Cakes
Authored by Daniel Lacalle via The Mises Institute, It is sad to see that, facing the evidence of the failure of demand-side policies and money printing, many commentators propose some of the most outdated and failed policies in modern economic history. In the UK, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the Labour Party, believes […]
Shocking Admission From Global Head Of Strategy: “Our Clients Have Given Up On Valuation As A Metric”
For all the recent concerns about an “imminent” nuclear war with North Korea (not happening, according to the head of the CIA), which prompted a stunned reaction from Morgan Stanley which earlier today observed the “70% rise in the VIX index over three days, 2% drop in global equities, and more than a few holidays […]
“None Of It Was True”: 103 Years Later, The FT Admits It Lied And Colluded With The Bank of England
When one strips away the lies about central banks’ “inflation and employment” mandates and focuses on what they really do – which is to keep asset prices artificially supported and volatility suppressed – the motive behind virtually every central bank act becomes readily apparent: preserve (and increase, if possible) confidence in the market and economy, […]
The Most Important Chart For Stocks
We have previously shown the chart below on countless occasions, so we are content to see that increasingly more banks are showcasing it as the biggest potential threat to the future of the market’s artificial levitation. Here is BofA’s Martin Mauro explaining why “investors may be well served by locking in some profits in US […]
The Madness Is Back: Homeowners Take Out Mortgages To Buy Bitcoin, Cars And Wine
It’s been about a decade since the term “mortgage arbitrage” made headlines. It’s back. In the clearest sign yet of just how late far the investing cycle the developed world finds itself, the FT writes that wealthy British homeowners are again borrowing against their property to invest in bonds, equities, alternative investments or commercial property […]