Unemployment
2015 creating many analogies with the period running up to 2008 crisis
Submitted by zenkick2000 on 12/15/2015 05:21 -0500
Despite the low interest rate regime, there are a number of similarities between now and the period running up to the 2008 crisis……
Will The Fed Hike Rates This Week? The Only 'Data' That Matters
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/14/2015 23:00 -0500The real "data" that The Fed is "dependent" on...
Martin Armstrong Slams "Myopic" Policymakers' Ignorance That Lower Rates Fuel Deflation
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/14/2015 21:00 -0500Those in power never understand markets. They are very myopic in their view of the world. The assumption that lowering interest rates will “stimulate” the economy has NEVER worked, not even once. Nevertheless, they assume they can manipulate society in the Marxist-Keynesian ideal world, but what if they are wrong?
These Are Deutsche Bank's Two Top Trades After A Fed Rate Hike
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/14/2015 18:28 -0500"either the Fed achieves its goals quickly to a very low terminal Funds rate. Buy bonds. Or they need to be even more aggressive. Buy even longer duration bonds. The choice is more about where to put the long leg of the curve flattener not about whether to steepen or flatten the curve."
Will The Market Force Yellen Into 'None-And-Done'?
Submitted by Secular Investor on 12/14/2015 18:23 -0500Jim Cramer - of all people - warned about this in 2007: watch the video inside!
Fed, ECB “Monetary Insanity” Is “Frightening” - Gold Rigged … For Now
Submitted by GoldCore on 12/14/2015 11:17 -0500- Watch video - “Monetary insanity” of ECB and Fed is “frightening”
- “Absolutely nothing has been learned” since financial crisis
- “Financial hypocrisy on a grand scale”
- Ireland was vassal of Bank of England and now ECB
- Ireland needs to get “financial and monetary independence”
- Huge demand for gold and yet prices manipulated lower
- Real unemployment is U.S. probably 15-20%
- Dollar may rally in short term but vulnerable in long term
- Russia, China may monetise gold as geopolitical weapon
- Gold and silver are “hedges for you in local currency terms”
Hilsenrath Just Reset Market Expectations: "Fed Is Worried Rates Will End Up Right Back At Zero"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/13/2015 23:18 -0500"In short, the age of unconventional monetary policy begun by the 2007-09 financial crisis might not be ending."
- Jon Hilsenrath
About That Rate Hike...
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/13/2015 15:55 -0500This is where the Fed. now finds itself. Here they were. Just holding policy lines doing what they in their Ivory Tower contemplated and the so-called “smart crowd” insisted they do. And now the saying of “Between a rock and a hard place” might be an understatement. The world sits atop a tinderbox fueled by monetary policies that created them and awaits a match that could set it off in a blaze of who knows what. All in short order. Unless they don’t do anything except try their best Draghi impersonation and declare, “They too are once again at the ready to do what ever it takes!” Except – just not now.
The Next Domino: CANADA
Submitted by Secular Investor on 12/13/2015 08:45 -0500Canada will be in an extremely horrible shape from next year on...
Weekend Reading: Risk - That Is All
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/11/2015 16:30 -0500While the world patiently waits for Janet Yellen to raise interest rates this month, the markets have been unable to decide as of yet whether such an event is good or bad thing.
Australian Media Throws Up All Over 'Stellar' Jobs Report, Again
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/11/2015 15:33 -0500"Presented with official employment figures that were literally incredible (impossible to believe), she took them at face value and trumpeted them in tweets and in a press conference as a triumph for her government. But it's not the real thing"
Jeremy Grantham Urges "Easily Manipulated" Americans To "Become More Realistic" About World's Demise
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/10/2015 23:10 -0500Americans have a broad and heavy bias away from unpleasant data. We are ready to be manipulated by vested interests in finance, economics, and climate change, whose interests might be better served by our believing optimistic stuff "that just ain’t so." We are dealing today with important issues, one so important that it may affect the long-term viability of our global society and perhaps our species. It may well be necessary to our survival that we become more realistic, more willing to process the unpleasant, and, above all, less easily manipulated through our need for good news.
Brazil Faces Disastrous Downgrade Debacle: Here's What You Need To Know
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/10/2015 17:00 -0500
Charles Gave: "I Cannot Remember A Time When Less Thinking Has Ever Been Done In The Financial Markets"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/10/2015 09:48 -0500"What I find most hilarious is that some serious commentators have been pontificating at considerable length about what the market’s participants think. These days, some 70% of market orders are generated by computers, and many of the rest by indexers. And computers do not think... I cannot remember a time when less thinking has ever been done in the financial markets, which is why I find today’s financial markets infinitely boring."
- Charles Gave
Amid Commodity Collapse, World's Most Resource-Driven Economy Posts Greatest Jobs Gain In 15 Years
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/09/2015 20:18 -0500When Australia released its October jobs data a month ago (printing an astonishing 58k increase - almost 6 times expectations of a 10k increase), the media threw up all over the farce of the best jobs gain in 3 years (amid commodity price collapses, mining industry bankruptcy fears, and China trade implosions) saying simply "don't believe the jobs figure for October." So we cannot wait to see what the men from downunder make of November's print. With expectations of a 10k drop, Australia added a mind-numbing 71,400 jobs - the most in 15 years!! This is equivalent to the US adding almost 1.75 million jobs in 2 months... They just don't care anymore!





