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China Sold Second-Largest Amount Ever Of US Treasurys In December: And Guess Who Comes To The Rescue
While we will have more to say about the disastrous December TIC data shortly, which was released early today, and which showed a dramatic plunge in foreign purchases of US securities in December - the month when the S&P soared to all time highs and when everyone was panicking about the 3% barrier in the 10 Year being breached and resulting in a selloff in Tsy paper - one thing stands out. The chart below shows holdings of Chinese Treasurys (pending revision of course, as the Treasury department is quite fond of ajdusting this data series with annual regularity): in a nutshell, Chinese Treasury holdings plunged by the most in two years, after China offloaded some $48 billion in paper, bringing its total to only $1268.9 billion, down from $1316.7 billion, and back to a level last seen in March 2013!
This was the second largest dump by China in history with the sole exception of December 2011.
That this happened at a time when Chinese FX reserves soared to all time highs, and when China had gobs of spare cash lying around and not investing in US paper should be quite troubling to anyone who follows the nuanced game theory between the US and its largest external creditor, and the signals China sends to the world when it comes to its confidence in the US.
Yet what was truly surprising is that despite the plunge in Chinese holdings, and Japanese holdings which also dropped by $4 billion in December, is that total foreign holdings of US Treasurys increased in December, from $5716.9 billion to 5794.9 billion.
Why? Because of this country. Guess which one it is without looking at legend.
That's right: at a time when America's two largest foreign creditors, China and Japan, went on a buyers strike, the entity that came to the US rescue was Belgium, which as most know is simply another name for... Europe: the continent that has just a modest amount of its own excess debt to worry about. One wonders what favors were (and are) being exchanged behind the scenes in order to preserve the semblance that "all is well"?
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They used to call this the kiting of cheques .
Because of instant communications the only ones who can do it now are central bankers:-(
This little game could be played out forever whilst our pockets get picked for 5.276% per year of the total transactions kited.
Disagree with money will not the source. The glue "holding" this shit sandwich together is confidence - the confidence in the dollar, which is weaking every day, backed by the weaking US MIC. Once the confidence goes, so does the dollar.
One probable break in confidence will stem from the extreme divergence of the physical and paper gold markets (NOT on COMEX or LBMA, etc.)
As long as Treasury notes are still backed by the MIC why would you expect a loss of confidence? I mean people have been preaching the dollars ens since at least the 70's and it hasn't happened. As for some grand default I doubt it will happen we've been defaulting for forever through inflation and all it seems to do is keep all the hamsters in the wheel running to keep up just like TPTB want them to. Goldbugs view has always seemed nonsensical to me outside of a full on SHTF scenario. And even then it is unlikely to be more than what it has been throughout most history, a medium of exchange market valued against the commodities people really need.
The only relevant issue to me is how TPTB can manage the consequences of foolishly pulling demand forward for almost 30 years. The questions they seem to face is does pulling forward just a little more demand flaten the inevitable downward trajectory of not and how to preserve TPTB through the process. I think tapering stays and the malaise truly sets in. The FED nor any of the other banks weild absolute control so My guess is they quit while they're ahead after saving the largest financial institutions and let the inevitable process continue. There will be bubblicious spikes in the economy here and there to keep the BIg Club folks enriched but most everyone will just slog along. Not as exciting as the Mad Max apocalypse but I think it's probable. A major breakthrough in energy will be the thing that eventualy pulls us out. Who knows exactly how close we are to such a thing. Nuclear Fusion would be a world wide game changer however...
I can see the future as Mad Max, but probably not The Road Warrior.
Well said my cinephile friend. Mad Max didn't see half bad to me. Sure the sate funded police were impotent in the face of crime, but they were also impotent at policing everything else. As long as you had the guts to protect yourself and "community organize" you had an arnarchist paradise :-)
I see 2 options. The first is we slog along like you say, Pump & Dump, Rinse & Repeat. But with a very more militant security state keeping tabs on everyone (under the guise of "it's for their own protection" of course) in an effort to control them completely and keep them subserviant to the ever expanding crony capitalist state. Evidence of this is all around us. Rogue cops terrorizing citizens. NSA spying. 0zer0care, SNAP, amnesty, BATF gun running to Mexico. IRS targeting tea partry groups, DHS buying billions of rounds of ammo, Shadow Courts approving domestic security abuses in the name of the Patriot Act, and on and on and on. Eventually, the govt will over reach on this front in a spectacular fashion and the blowback will be cataclismic. The second option is the world will continue to disintegrate into haves and have nots as central banks continue in the race to devalue their own currency to keep the debt ponzi growing. This will place unsusteinable burdens on commodity prices, especially fuel and food. That will cause revolutions in unstable countries that will eventually drag "stable" countries into the mix in unforseen ways. Think Arab Spring 2.0 but on a global scale. Absent these 2 options, I don't see anything stopping TPTB in their quest for the New Feudal World Order. Scenario 2 is probably the more likely outcome because it is harder for TPTB to control.
You make a compelling argument, though I think option one is more likely because TPTBs ONLY concern is control. This is what so many stock, gold and RE bulls and bears fail to grasp in my opinion. They think "Oh the FED won't allow a stock crash so gold will go up" or "RE can't crash because wealth effect..." TPTB have one goal, to retain their power by maintaining the system that provides it. That systems requirements are fluid because it isn't a "market" but series of rigged games of differing components and players. TPTB will fuck over any and all components and players in any way needed to ensure the system remains intact. Both the most optimistic Bulls and doomsayer Bears miss this simple fact.
The loss of confidence is a PROCESS, not an event. And the process does not follow human calendar time, so the fact that it has not happened in the past is irrelevant for the near future. But, your argument is of no surprise because of the mathematical illiteracy of people. Exponential functions govern the fiat system, not linear calendar time. The room for the TPTB to move levers around to keep the system, as we know it, afloat is getting smaller and smaller at an exponential rate. There is not enough growth (read cheap energy) to keep the system going.
The fact that you mention ”Goldbugs”, upon the talk of gold markets identifies you as a fool. I never mentioned anything about buying gold. I just mentioned the stress created between the physical and paper markets as a probable source of loss of confidence.
And while we're here. There is a *big* difference between currency and money, which you lack the knowledge of.
So you've managed to call me illiterate, foolish and lacking in money knowledge while claiming I said you were a goldbug when I didn't. You also fail to to give me credit for acknowledging energy problems for the world economy and labeling a breakthrough in that field as the only thing to bring us out of the malaise.
All in response to a post that did not attack you or your position as much as offered an alternative viewpoint.
Thanks for being my Dick Comment of the Week, and it's only Tuesday :-)
For cripes sakes. We are not dealing with money. We are dealing with currency, and there is a major difference.
None whatsoever. The value of money (or currency) is via only the agreement of parties.
The value of oil is joules, and no agreement or disagreement is relevant.
I think a whole economic "school" was built around that idea. And it failed.
Its the difference between parties trading something for something, or something for nothing. Big difference IMO.
Correct. Which is why "Don't fight the Fed" still holds true for all individuals and companies.
Only when a combination of crises puts the Fed into the IC unit or onto its deathbed, is it safe to "pile on" as an individual. Until then... proceed at own risk/peril, lest you become the Useful Fool and a Statistic (roadkill).
Bonds= bondage. CB are creating a huge tar baby and everything that gets thrown at it sticks to it and makes it bigger.
Monetary stimulus= desperation and fear of losing power by bankers.
Dead presidents should all have worried brows on the notes.
You are ablsolutely right, Doc.
Yes I agre oil will be. Gail tverberg crunched some numbers, interesting graph she made
oil and food.
Quite right, Crash......All currency is simply a proxy, a symbolic representation, of the value of labor and the value of whatever real, tangible natural commodity was used in the course of said labor along with the value (added) of the output of said labor using said commodity.
Oil is THE PRIMARY REASON for the magical world we live in today and it's peak ( in terms of the cheap stuff ) is THE PRIMARY REASON that the global Ponzi Scheme has been created and is marching towards full retard mode.....( some would say it's already there ).
Note....I said PRIMARY REASON.....not ONLY reason. After the inevitable collapse to equilibrium....(which will involve the inevitable pendulum swing from greatest height to lowest depth until the waveform relaxes)....and the amount of labor's output is matched to the new energy reality.......(lot less magic.....lot more hard labor.....much less new stuff every six months.....much more prudence in how labor is used and for what purpose)....there will STILL BE MONEY......and it will still be exchanged for other types of money and the money changers will STILL be trying to scam their cut. And MOST CERTAINLY the effects of the rate of flow in and out of countries and economies during this collapse will carve out certain economies worse than others.....much like the wave action ON TOP of a tsunami. But remember.....it's the TSUNAMI ( aka Peak Cheap Energy) that does the overall damage......the wave action on top ( money destruction) just makes matters worse for only certain areas.
And to follow up.....seeing as how money is defined as credit. and vice versa.....then it's not really money that is being destroy at all but credit......which as someone above rightly stated.....it's all about "confidence".
Quite right.....the paper money in your wallet is an I.O.U......a symbolic representation of credit......that is no longer backed by something tangible like gold or silver....but the "Full Faith and Credit" of the United States of America.
Faith....and Credit ( ie....credibility).........in other words......it's all a confidence game. A sham and a scam.
But one that can keep on going as long as the inputs to the global system are cheap enough to keep the wheels of the Ponzi machine cheaply greased.....namely.....cheap energy.
That's is now coming to an end. When you have to scrape the sides of the toilet bowl to get something that kinda looks and acts like oil (keragens from shale) or scrape off the top layers of what used to be the floor of a shallow pre-historic sea (Canadian tar sands) just to keep up with the real and demonstrable declines in light, sweet crude......you know that Peak Cheap Energy is here and here to stay. Once the price of the PRIMARY SOURCE OF ALL GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL LABOR goes up thus forcing the costs of ALL GLOBAL VALUE ADDED OUTPUT to go up as well.....while the incomes of most of the world, particularly in America are stagnate or NOT increasing enough to match or exceed the increase in the costs of the end value added product.......then the ability to repay and extend credit further and at the rate we have been doing so....which FAR EXCEEDS the natural and real costs of the inputs.....starts to collapse......and naturally the entire, bubblelicious world we have brought forward through time.....(which is what credit does.....allows you to buy things now that would otherwise take you a long time to save up for).....starts to stagnate and collapse to equilibrium to match the real cost of labor which is tied to the real cost of the inputs needed for said labor......namely energy in the form of fossil fuels.....and more to the point....cheap oil.
Yesteryear...........100 barrels of oil for every barrel of oil used in order to get said oil out of the ground.
http://www.tylertexasonline.com/images/postcards/east-texas-oil-field.jpg
http://www.enopetroleum.com//images/files/Spindletop1.jpg
Today....scraping the sides of the toilet bowl.........less than 20 barrels for every 1 used.....some estimates have it down below 10 to 1.
http://www.dcmudcleaningequipment.com/upload/image/20131016/201310161405...
http://www.agreenamerica.org/images/Mining_Estonia14.JPG
not to mention Canadian Tar Sands......
http://www.awarmerworld.com/images/tar-in-hand.jpg
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/Global/canada/image/2010/4/teaser/tar%2...
Yet we are told we are AWASHED in oil.....DROWNING IN OIL.......America is a NET EXPORTER of oil.
Really.........what are you paying for gas ? Is it cheaper in either real terms or inflation adjusted terms as it was 10 or 20 years ago? How about the cost of food ? Lots of energy needed for Big Ag. How's that working out for you ?
Look at the uprisings over the last few years from Tunisia to Eygpt Turkey to Brazil the PIIGS Thailand the list goes on but at the core of it cost of living the divide between the haves and have nots.
There are alot of smart people on ZH who have there heads buried up there own arses on this issue Jumbotron
"There are alot of smart people on ZH who have there heads buried up there own arses on this issue Jumbotron "
No doubt looking for oil.
A year or so ago I publicly coined the term "Peak EROI", I don't know if it has been used before though. My point was in reference to the fact that the exponential growth in human population turned in 1961 to negative growth, and inflection point when graphed. Keeping in mind the Seneca effect, 1961 was Peak EROI. Energy underwrites all economic activity. http://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/
water, food, energy
basics can become extremely simple very fast
I don't understand the down votes "CrashhisOptimistic". You are pointing out the basic seperation between real wealth and money. This fact escapes some people, obviously. But money, fiat, that is printed by the trillions. What we can not escape is the limits on real wealth. Energy is at the core of real wealth, it is why we live in the modern world, it IS the wealth of nations. Any rising price of production for energy will impact the economy negatively. Any energy crisis would crash the world economy. And as we know, food is now a product of enery input.
I think your post is right on the money +100. No negatives votes needed for a fact like you pointed out!
I'm not sure a lot of readers on this thread realize the circle jerk nature of this.
The article stated Belguim was a net buyer of most of this. Where did they get the dollars? From the Fed who just bought EU paper - what ever the fuck collateral quality of that was, who knows?
It's like a toilet bowl swishing around - until it doesn't any more.
Store you wealth in some real asset and hunker down. They'll be wiping their ass with that paper .... someone will be. Probably the pension funds.
your Admin didn't "bail them out", they helped spread the state DEBT disease around first world.
In France alone the Goverment debt SPIKED by 500 billion <Euro to support the banking sector OVERNIGHT in 2009.
All the FED did was to provide swap lines to allow convertibility of USD to Euros directly via CB, so that those Euro banks, which were dead in the water until the local country BAILED them out, had SWAP lines in place to do their USD trades which were IMPOSSIBLE, as their US PD counterparts (Citi, BOA, JPM) were ALL constrained by the Lehman collapse and had closed all foreign transaction thru total internal gridlock.
You seem to forget this shit storm began in US PRIVATE banks + shadow banking, and spread to their Euro counterparts, dragging down EUro zone states to bail out the whole euro zone caboodle just like the FED did with their US couterparts.
We ALL got poorer as a result and its getting worse all the time.
US tax payers are not the only loosers 'cos as CONSUMERS they have won bigtime all the while the party lasted, and its still going on under the RESERVE currency umbrella. Not so much in Eurozone where the austerity hits those whose economy is not under German umbrella running the Euro.
Umm they did a bit more than just provide swap lines:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhiOhcEEaBHudEZHY0VtUXBOR0x...
Source: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/reform_mbs.htm
So the FED bought a lot of that toxic MBS issued by their own banks.
It only goes to show that the SYSTEMIC risk spread by the City-WS cabal was what led to Lehman et al collapse.
And the deal was that every COUNTRY's CB clean out the LIABILITES of its own banks to the extent these banks ISSUED the toxic stuff on to the market.
I'm sure there was a lot of switching behind the scenes where ECB and FED imposed their own countries to reign in toxic MBS on the market issued by their PDs.
Assuredly the US had the biggest amount to pull back, whence the FED roll of having the biggest vacuum cleaner.
Cause and effect of the global CB deal.
Works for me I guess, doesn't really matter. The FED bought junk for dollars from foreign banks through their PD's, it wasn't just CB swap deals.
after China offloaded some $48 billion in paper,
$48 billion buys alot of Gold!
probably a factor in the recent upswing in PM prices; it's not a vote of confidence in the dollar. there's no reason at all to expect the dollar to change it's 100year old pattern of losing purchasing power; things like this cause significant players to go, hmmm. And then they divert more holdings into PM's.
about 1130 tons
OMT and unsterilized QE by the EU is the next shell under which the red ball is going to be hidden in this 3 card monti scam.
ECB has a lot of tentacles aka EU states to create the illusion of independence and choice to hide behind while propping up this dead horse a little longer.
Who wants to bet where the MONEY came from to support the European purchases?????
The US finanical institutions fooled everybody else with the MBS. Europeans bought a lot of that stuff so Europe bailed the US financials institutions out in the first place. But yes, this is part of the cycle, rubbing eachothers backs. It proves the ties between the US and Europe versus the rest of the world.
But, won't Bitcoin solve the world's monetary crisis? At least according to "The World According To Garp, er, fonestar".
/s
Exactly, deals where struck and Belgium was used as the front man to buy debt in order to hide who is buying it (hell it could be the US buying it via a shell in Belgium). When this whole system implodes, it will change the power structure of the West, trust me.
JPM Brussells ?
Dollar just broke beneath 80. Be interesting to see if the PPT has enough hair left to push it back up.
Iron ore must be preferable to US paper.
China has it own debt problems. Then there's the shadow banks where additional public debt is - the Chinese Ministry of Finance owns the majority shares in them. Central Banks scratching each others backs it seems to me anyway.
Not a Run on China, But a Brisk Walk
Chinese bad loan manager Cinda sits on its own debt mountain
The $15 trillion shadow over Chinese banks
Presenting China's Largest Shadow BankThey can do much better than that. DUMP YOU LITTLE BITCHEZ!
That one was on the tip of my tongue. Belgium.
Must be Sudden Debt sinking away his gains?
This whole shitshow is coordinated. Next month the household sector will pick up the tab. After that, we will make a deal with some other CB.
Swaps, repos, and a dozen other complicated scams will keep this alive a lot longer than I have thought.
The weakest will fall first. You can see the cracks already in SA. The printing is overwhelming everyone, a bit at a time.
Fucking bankers are worse than kudzu.
pods
"This whole shitshow is coordinated."
that's all you need to know.
My clothes are coordinated too. Some might call them a shitshow.
Doc you are all I have left on here to talk to QE about. It was QE4eva Doc, but the fed is landing the fuckin plane. I am astonished.
This report (contrary to big headlines) illustrates that if the fed wants to cut back on purchases, they have have willing buyers.
Even if you cancel out Belgium it would have been the highest recorded UST holdings.
around and around and around it goes.....where (and when) it stops nobody knows
and O so desperately wanted larry summers at his helm
Collateral Fonz. In a highly levered system everybody needs collateral, and as the reserve currency U.S. treasuries are collateral good. It doesn't matter how much they inflate away the buying power when everybody else is doing it too.
Edit. They all know that the first one to sell brings the whole shitshow down. Who wants to take the blame for that? Somebody will always pick up the printing slack.
best liquid collateral in the paper besed system......but as someone on here once said "when the shit storm hits, i believe that gold/silver/pms will be left standing. what form or how we get to that shitstorm i dont know"....thats paraphrased (shhhh,,i know fonz said it...its good advice)
I still believe that, if/when that storm hits, that will hopefully be the case. But I thought that storm was supposed to hit a long time ago, and it seems to be getting further away by the day.
sure does seem further.....but my son's onboard and if i dont need my silver....he will (i like silver because it is lower denomination and makes you less of a target than the pretty yellow stuff)
many pounds of silver and a few of gold
Fonz, if I might interject, I think that 2008 is still fresh in our minds. Days of 500 point losses and bank stocks sinking into penny status.
What might be the model is Japan, with a long slow grind down. The long and slow grind doesn't get the heart pumping like seeing the DOW down 500, but that might be the case.
The FED has held up well over this time period. Maybe they are putting freshly minted FRNs in every Congress critters stocking for Xmas, idk. But public confidence in the FED has not dropped. Shit, most of the public has no clue about the FED. They have been taught to leave that up to the smart people. That is why Ben can lie about printing and there are no repercussions. But the FEDs survival depends on public acceptance of it.
The FED printing in reality also must mirror government deficits or it will drain the system of good collateral. With deficits dropping (not promises but yearly operating costs), the FED has to taper.
I think that now we must at least entertain the thought of a long, generations long, slow grind down into 3rd world status, with some big hiccups along the way.
pods
eating a few percent to inflation each year is the grind we are in. global competition was inevitable. too many people now share the less bountiful earth. i have no solution except to live debt free and under consume the average joe.
the largest priority of our FED is too keep the wealth effect elevated. and that rewards bad behavior. we are a stupid people.
I am basically posing a question here. Can the markets continue to operate on their own and possibly even climb higher while we witness the "economy" continue to sink. No one is doubting we are witnessing the death of the middle class really begin to pick up pace. However that reality does ot necessarily have to bleed into the markets anytime soon. Especially when reports like this show the world is in on this together.
Personally I'm beginning to think that there are certain areas where the excess liquidity is allowed to go, but if you deviate too far from those areas the Fed brings a hammer down on you. Stocks, bonds, and real estate are good regardless of the economic reality, precious metals and other tangibles are bad.
While I continue to respect your point that there is a worldwide, coordinated effort to keep the economy afloat (if not somewhat stable), I still maintain that the system is breaking down already, and that there will be an event (or series of events) that greatly accelerate the process in the near future.
Those who argue that TPTB can continue this charade for many years are, in my view, deluded. The situation today is radically different than the '70's, or '80's Japan, etc. The world is far more unstable. The masses have been lied to for many years, and the papering over with false recovery memes through captured media is rapidly coming to an end. There is already serious unrest in a number of countries around the world, currency wars are heating up rapidly, and the gold suppression efforts appear to be increasingly ineffectual.
I'm not nearly smart enough to pinpoint a precise inflection point (see Martin Amstrong for that), but I can't imagine that things won't begin to unravel in a serious way sometime over the next couple of years.
Fonz I have been reading you for quite some time and respect your thinking ability. What I am going to suggest to you, and I expect and answer when you do :-) is that there is a currently a divergence in place that will grow exponentially. That divergence is the difference between real assets, and claimns over those assets. Frame it like that and see where your imagination takes you.
Govt deficits will soon return with a vengence. They only dropped because of the sequester, and that is gone. Congress has caved and given 0zer0 the green light. Now 0zer0 can raise the debt ceiling at will, so no way there will be ANY deficit cuts of ANY kind. Just look at the Farm Bill that was just passed. Full of pork for everyone. Next up will be 0zer0care, costing trillions more than expected, and generating nothing because no one is signing up because it's too expensive. That will lead to bailouts of the Insurance Companies, which will be more deficit spending. Finally, granting amnesty to 10+million illegals will push the govt dole percentage to 50%. No, the little blip in decreasing deficits is over.
PODS - I see it more like several years of stagflation until much of the Boomers retire and trade has rebalanced. In real terms we already have had 13 years of stagflation. Twenty years not rough enough for ya?
I'll never get my 20 years of labor that was siphoned off back. Worst? The criminals got away with. As in completely. Finding out how the world works differently then taught in Sunday school can be a rude awakening.
The middle class has been destroyed. While I am optimistic life will go on the damage from all this will make all of us work harder until we're dead. Maybe millennial's get there break in 2020's but by then it past the time for family formation. There is much to grieve over and be upset about but Bernanke landing the plane to me isn't one of them. This service is bery valuable because robbers still abound and while this may decrease eventually, they will always be some.
I encourage people here to get out into the local community, make friends and have fun, because it is at the local level the economy will rebuild. And if your looking for work it mainly still is on who you know for better chances at prosperity.
I hear you, Raging Debate. +1. For me it has always been the local community. Most of us shop local, grow some of our own food, barter and trade that, and shop at farms for meats and produce we don't grow. We may pay a little more for shopping locally but the stores we rely on are still there and so far we don't sport any of our own abandoned strip malls. We have a huge influx of tourists for the summer that support our restaurants and shops on the docks that were built mainly with them in mind. Our local fishermen work all year round as do our farmers. There are more and more contractors moving into the area and even they are turning their pristine perfect back yards into vegetable and fruit gardens.
I agree with you completely. Its at the local level that economies will be rebuilt or survive in the first place. I wish you well.
No storm. Tiny papercuts over the next thirty or so years.
I see small businesses bleeding to death every day.
Think in terms of an excellent juggler. You keep throwing him objects to toss into the mix. At some point it will fail, but it could go along for quite some time, then it won't. You'll wake up one morning and it'll have collapsed. I saw it happen in Vietnam on October, 21, 1968.
On October, 21, 1968, in Vietnam, Military Payment Certificate (MPC) series #641 was changed to series #661, overnight. That next morning the entire Vietnamese population's currency disappeared, and became worthless. Their whole livelihood had been depending on that old series 641, and that morning it was totally worthless. Outside my compound Vietnamese civilians were tossing bundles of the old series 641 over the fence crying/swearing in anger, wanting us to exchange the worthless currency for the new one. We couldn't, as, when we woke up that fateful morning, we were given one chance to exchange our own currency. Bingo, their fate was sealed. It could happen here in a heartbeat. That was the best kept secret that I saw during the war.
*UST* paper used to be the best liquid collateral (before ZIRP) now excess reserves *FRB* paper are the best liquid collateral (outside of certain short term price shocks in certain markets for specific collateral).
I'm sure some enterprising central banker will use that logic to demand MOAR printing (or have a staffer convey the same message through their Meat Puppet Schumer at some hearing in proper CYA SOP).
But once TSHTF it really comes down to what TPTB and TBTF can accomplish in one weekend- if you feel lucky punk... (and are diversified across both institutions and jurisdictions) it could be the buying opportunity of a lifetime, or a complete wipe-out. But if you have physical gold or silver in your possession-- you don't have to worry about any of that.
I only sleep 4 hrs a night, so when I do sleep- I prefer to sleep well.
Are you actually watching what is happening around the globe.
If this reaches critical mass here with the mob mentality you better be well armed and don't think your fucking gold or your pm's will make much difference it'll be pure and simply survival of the fittest.Everything brakes down and we revert to primeval savagery and all your learned intellect counts for fucking nothing as you beg for your miserable life as this repressed anger manifests itself in a bloodlust orgy.
There is no salvation for the hypocrite,never had to be this way but its the path we've chosen.
Collateral Doc, that is the bottom line so keep working on that train of thought. I know mine isn't available to them anymore :-) As that of a few others I have given advice to.
This "shitshow" is incredibly controlled on a global level. There maybe unforseen burps and whorls, but in the long run power will not be denied.
It's not controlled-- it's a frankenfreak GMO creation that has certain engineered traits which facilitate the perception of control, but the end result will be no different that of Shelley's.
Swaps, repos, and a dozen other complicated scams will keep this alive a lot longer than I have thought.
Imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
Three card monty on an industrial scale
NATO (headquartered in Brussels) is our "friend" - yeah right.
sure we are...
we come in peace...
http://youtu.be/rMdC45S79uQ
It was astonishing to watch France Bomb Libya; in the interests of "human rights"; apparently, I lived too long.
with a central bank installed and oil being shipped half way through the campaign. But, hey, now we can pay our fair share of NATO's expenses
So it's true then, we are becoming more like China every day.
This should end well.
Hedge accordingly.
Agenda 21. Planned self-destruction based on sustainability, aka neo-feudalism.
Read it and weep.
The readvent of slavery. This time in the form of debt slavery.
Worldwide bond circlejerk. Purchased no doubt with FED money. Essentially the FED buying their own debt.
Yes, just like the PBoC. (and every other central bank on the planet)
hedge accordingly.
Thanks LOP, I've been hedged accordingly for the past 4 years. They've trimmed my hedges but they're growing back.
That's odd, all my ounces/grams are still very much intact.
Well I was referring as being measured in FED fiat toilet paper, which is mainly what most of the world accepts. But you already knew that.
Wonder how long it will be before the paper wrapping around Belgium chocolates will be worth more than an American IOU (or a French, British, Spanish, Italian Japanese IOU etc)
what word describes fiat printing and buying back debt?? I am sure Ben said it would never happen at the FED never seems to need clarification as in what the meaning of is, is?
I didn't vote for that level of insanity..
Gold purchases appear to be increasing and US Treasuries purchases appear to be decreasing......
connect the ................
That's a lot of waffles.
Yes, it is.
"bye, bye Miss America Pie......"
Belgium?!
I did not see that one coming!
I OWN YOU BITCHEZ!!!!!
MOVE OFF MY LAND!!!
THE EMPIRE OF BELGIUM WILL SOON INVADE AND TAKE ALL!!!!
I think you should try the DeCaf, for awhile; it tastes alright, and you avoid the sudden mental storms.
nah... than the voices take over and they tell me to do bad stuff...
You have to seek some help man.
Hang on, the dog is sayin somethin.
pods
Belgium, the Mouse that Roared.
I thought the Fed came to the rescue lol
MORE PAPER ON THE FED'S BOOKS!!
AHA!!
WE LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER!!!
that was the plan right?....
"I didn't vote for that level of insanity.."
Actually, if you vote at all you consent to the rape in progress.
Political party A : Anally raped
Political party B: Orally raped.
Agree. But I told you I didn't vote
Voting conveys a claim to legitimacy. Stop clapping and tinkerbell will fade away and die.
<-- Mayo with your freedom fries.
<-- I'll buy your worthless paper if you buy mine.
Ah so! Sum ting wong. Wei too lo. Ho lee fuk.
90% of the bank's are insolvent! They've been extenting on bad loans , then repackaging them for another grade D investment ! The world is in debt of megalithic proportion s!
Eat you peas. Just make sure you leave one, so the shell game to continue.
Round and round she goes.... where is the debt bomb? Nobody knows.
While we were asleep at the swich, minding our own lives, the debt bomb was slipped like a noose around our necks.
Take heart, death will be nearly instantanious.
Rock on Doc.
so the Fed is buying $60bn but the Chinese are selling $48bn. I believe China just dropped a check mate. If the Chinese increse sales, then the fed will have to increase buying to offset interest rate increases. But all this does is allow China to sell all their Treasuries at high prices. Or, the Fed continues to Taper and interest rates start to singificantly rise.
keep low rates and bail out china, or let rate rise and harm the economy. bang up job guys.
The fed is tapering because the rest of the world, in aggregate, can't get enough UST's for themselves. That's all that happened here.
Pretty much, yes.
.. and can I posit this has less to do with coordinating to shore up treasuries market and more to do with demand for high-quality* repo'able/collaterable assets... just ask Basel
*don't shoot the messenger
Starting today the Reverse Repo facility will increase rate to 4 basis points from 3.
Who are those counterparties again? http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/expanded_counterparties.html
Keep your eyes on Japan and the ECB. The game keeps up until the printing press of last resort aka the FED has no other presses to outsource the job to.
WWIII commences once the Federal Government can't service debt and will default unless they give up power and control.
Power and control doesn't relinquish itself without a violent outburst in it's last gasps for life.
Disolution of the Euro if not the whole EU is probably going to be the trigger of the real collapse when all is said and done. What black swan event causes it, I don't know but if I was a betting man I'd put my chips on one of the former Iron Curtain states now part of EU/Nato as being a likely culprit that starts the chain reaction.
Certainly a logical way to look at this which is why one might consider abandoning that viewpoint. The Fed is SAYING that they are tapering. We have absolutely no idea if this is true in a literal sense. They jawbone taper and jerk each other off (Yellen goes first of course) with CNBChitchatters and talk about how "everything is fine" and they can draw down QE. Yet, behind the scenes lord only knows how many new scams are put into motion each month or quarter. Globally the printfest is increasing and not decreasing.
gold/BTC/silver
The entire bond market is distorted with the Fed only controling 1/3 of it. Imagine what will happen when the Fed, controls 51%. Bond Vigilantes neutralized, ZIRP forever, no threat of debt service collapse - Game over. That's their plan. Actually, this China sells, Belgium buys article proves it. The Fed, through their CB proxies around the world, already controls the bond market. Wake up. It's all just a paper shuffle to keep the flow going. All ponzis are dependent on flow. But when the Fed controls the printing press AND the bond market, the ponzi is self perpetuating. This will only collapse by revolution from the people, and the people are sheeple. This isn't going anywhere for years.
Nothing to see here, low-information types.
Move on and continue to ignore at your own peril.
How do you say 'we own you USA' in Chinese?
Cha-ching?
Sum Ting Wong
Ho Lee Fuk
No favors needed. The US, London and EU banksters are one Except for the physical location all national budgets are one. My FAFSA comes from Belgium and our taxes are paid to the Europe.
Our elected officials have committed treason.
Don't forget Kansas City...greatest SNL skit ever...
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76mappeal.phtml
What's the big deal? If China wants to diversify from their USD$ holdings, and procure some Euro exposure, wouldn't this be a natural trade that does not expose the ECB to yuan?
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/...
"One wonders what favors were (and are) being exchanged behind the scenes in order to preserve the semblance that "all is well"?"
It's not favors it's sexual blackmail : the whole EU staff is held on a leash with some sex scandals involving minors. Google "Regina Louf" to unveil a part of the story.
Looks like two old whores giving each other oral relief.
US promises EU no oil shortages due to Ukraine destabilization.
EU purchase UST and seals the deal. Short-term thinking as usual.
XXX000! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOONEY TUNES!
Award for best blackmailer across all genres in media goes to the United States of America!!!!!
Accepting the award for the USA will be the new Israeli troll chairing the FED Kabbalah, Janet "the non-gentile" Yellen!
CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!
I've often thought this must be the case with half the US Senators and Congressmen the way they grovel up to Israel.
It is good to know Belgium will buy all of it when China dumps all of it.
Is it a trend? January?
The fed is buying its own debt? The fed is buying treasury debt with income freely available from productive carbon based lifeforms. The idea that it is buying its own debt is simplistic. The income it generates by throwing good money after bad is the reason everything is good and not bad? In the future as EM currencies collapse and real rates collapse you will find comfort in treasuries at the expense of your way over valued stacks of ancient PM?
Termites eat what they can but when the structure is about to come down, they hold hands for dear life.
US & NATO vs. Russia & China tag-team wrestling.
Tot for tat or perhaps a warning shot. Or perhaps a sign forthe rest of us that we are getting clser to the drain hole.
The main event cannot hide behind the preliminary PROXY matches for much longer.
I hate opening acts! Burn the Christians already! I want the GLADIATORS!
The fraud never ends with this trash in the Federal Reserve and these auctions.
China needs the money to prop up their banking sector which is on the verge of collapse. So instead of the USD collapsing we may see the Chinese Yuan take a huge dump. This may be an event that is talked about for centuries.....lol.
You want to see a real panic? Wait until a Chinaman thinks his money is gonna be stolen by a bank......these people will go insane.....
Bingo! And guess who they will blame?
The west.
JP Morgan is acting like a NGO in China. Hire the Chinese and hope their greed and laziness will keep them in check.
I wouldn't call that a very good strategy. Promise China the world and they may want to collect.
Sounds treasonous to offer China my won tons.
I wonder how much of Europe's sudden willingness to hold US paper is related to the new MyRA announcement, and to the suspicion (or knowledge) that it will be foisted on lots of people whether they want it or not?
Yawn, Selling 3% of their holding is hardly headline worthy ZH. Wake me when it's 10% or more
Fuck the EU, right?
That probably marks the intermediate bottom!!!
Once governments decide that throwing money at a problem isn't working they soon run out of ideas except "let the free market decide"! Without intervening by applying more capital the free market is left to be free to market valuables? As the price of valuables collapse more are offered at lower prices and the past excess liquidity is absorbed. Money being free of the rock adds instant inflation which at this point is badly needed. Money liberated from the rock reinflates the world!
There is only one central bank in the world....USA, Europe, Japan are just regional offices. Big bankers have always had one goal...enslave the people so you can control the game. I think they are doing a swell job for themselves.
My only interest is what will happen when they call the loans to China. From what I see, the ruling class in China has been bought off and is merrily living the good life around the world buying the fanciest, most expensive trinkets available. When the bankers pull the plug on that game it will get ever so interesting....
I guess we know why it got a bit quiet over those new territory demands by China.
The Golden Rule: Those with the gold make the rules. Those that need to beg are dead.
Obozo is too busy posing for a selfie in Michael's, I mean Michelle's $12,000 dress.
Out there in the vast ignorance of the world it festers and spreads. A shadow that grows in the dark. A sleepless malice as black as the on coming wall of night. So it ever was, so will it always be. IN TIME ALL FOUL THINGS COME FORTH.