Archive - Jul 2, 2013 - Blog entry

Supply and demand matters. We need only look to an average schoolyard for proof. Central bankers should take heed.

Portgual stuck with austerity even after the orthodoxy changed.  The finance minister resigned and was replaced by someone who promises continuity.  This led to the resignation of the head of the jr coalition partner leader.  Still, snap elections are not the most likely scenario.  

This does NOT open the door to more QE now. If the Fed tapers QE in the future then yes, it might engage in more QE later down the road. But the idea that the Fed will increase QE when it’s already running $85 billion a month is misguided.

So maybe we should take Bernanke at face value.

As India continues to wage war with gold, investors are seeking out the yellow metal through any means available. Reports today suggest that there is not enough room on commercial flights into Dubai for all those investors seeking to purchase gold.

Tell Angela Merkel that the guy that warned of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers AND Anglo Irish of which she laments, is also warning of Anglo Irish Bank among other Irish institutions - all funded by Germans through Irish austerity!

The volatility of recent weeks is but a mere small taste of the volatility in store for all markets in the coming months and years. The global debt crisis is likely to continue for the rest of the decade as politicians and central bankers have merely delayed the day of reckoning. They have ensured that when the day of reckoning comes it will be even more painful and costly then it would have been previously.