Archive - Jan 2015 - Blog entry

January 31st

EconMatters's picture

The German 10 Year Bund Effectively a Call Option at 30 Basis Points





At 30 basis points yield, a short on this German Bund via the futures market is basically a call option on the utter destruction of this Massive Yield Chasing Strategy on behalf of financial institutions...

 

williambanzai7's picture

DuMB AND DuMBKoPF...





Whatever it takes!

 

GoldCore's picture

Greeks Turn to Gold on Bank Bail-in and Drachma Risks





We are witnesses to an epic failure of planning, statecraft and social justice. Regardless of where your politics be, these elements are critical for a modern globally connected economy to function.

Sadly, the geopolitical backdrop is one of suspicion and hostility in the form of a festering proxy war between western and Russian interests in Ukraine and regional crisis and humanitarian catastrophe in the middle east as Syria and Iraq descend into stateless anarchy. These factors reduce the odds of a successful solution in Greece being found in time.

 

January 30th

EconMatters's picture

The Bond Market Has Reached Tulip Bubble Proportions





The Tulip Lunacy in the Bond market is just off the charts stupidity at its finest!  The U.S. 2-Year Bond is currently pricing in no rate hike, and in fact, a negative rate of inflation over the next two years.... 

 

Cognitive Dissonance's picture

Friday Humor - Playing Possum





Sometimes reality is NOT what we expected.

 

Phoenix Capital Research's picture

Why Are Central Banks Terrified of Debt Restructuring?





... because debt restructuring would burst the $100 trillion bond bubble... and implode the big banks.

 

Pivotfarm's picture

RISK OFF TRADE in the S&P Futures





Why its important to understand the macro picture when  trading the markets

 

Sprott Money's picture

U.S. Retail Sector Begins Massive Collapse





The quick-and-easy way to categorize the retail sector of the U.S. economy would be to use the metaphor of “falling off a cliff”. However, such a characterization would be overly simplistic. A more accurate analogy would be to consider someone sliding halfway down the side of a mountain – and then falling off a cliff. This represents the retail sector of the largest “consumer economy” the world has ever seen.

 

January 29th

Bruno de Landevoisin's picture

Greece should Ice the Troika!





Threaten to go all Icelandic on the Troika's Medieval ass, or go home, and certainly don't bring a knife to a gunfight!

 

Pivotfarm's picture

No Consensus on Rate Environment, Alibaba Misses





How will the FOMC handle the rate environment? What's the impact from Alibaba's Miss

 

January 28th

ilene's picture

What Would You Do?





Suppose you could print up counterfeit dollars, euros or yen that were identical to the real things. Fun, you think? Here's how it plays out. 

 

Phoenix Capital Research's picture

An Entire Generation of Fund Managers is Unprepared For the Next Crisis





Forget rate hikes… an entire generation of investors and money managers (anyone under the age of 55) has been investing in an era in which risk has generally gotten cheaper and cheaper. What happens when the bond bubble bursts?

 
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