Morning Call For March 11, 2015
OVERNIGHT MARKETS AND NEWS March E-mini S&Ps (ESH15Â +0.37%) this morning are up +0.44% as the market recovers from yesterday’s plunge and European stocks are up +1.74% after a plunge in …
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“Unprecedented” JGB Supply/Demand Imbalance If Inflation Stays Muted In Japan, Morgan Stanley Says
Another day, another sign that all is not well in the Land of the Rising Sun. It was just yesterday when we noted that BoJ’s number two Hiroshi Nakaso suggested …
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Why Understanding Money Matters In Greece
by Rob Parenteau, NewEconomicPerspectives.org As Greece staggers under the weight of a depression exceeding that of the 1930s in the US, it appears difficult to see a way forward from what …
Read More Is There A US$ Shortage? Will It Sink The Global Economy? Again?
Reader Patricia is wondering about a recent ZeroHedge article, The Global Dollar Funding Shortage Is Back With A Vengeance And “This Time It’s Different”.  The last time the world was sliding …
Read More We’ll Know It When We See It
Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW – 332 = 17,662SPX – 35 = 2044 NAS – 82 = 4859 10 YR YLD – .07 = …
Read More E A Great Country, A Great ETF, And A Great Price!
Commodities and basic materials are not exactly a popular investment theme these days. Citicorp analysts predict oil is vulnerable to $20, the demand for industrial metals has plummeted, chemical companies …
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Six Days Until Bond Market Crash Begins
 Run for the Exits Today early in the morning when the ‘smart money’, i.e., the big banks, investments banks, hedge funds and the like realized this was going to …
Read More The ECB’s Noose Around Greece: How Central Banks Harness Governments
Remember when the infamous Goldman Sachs delivered a thinly-veiled threat to the Greek Parliament in December, warning them to elect a pro-austerity prime minister or risk having central bank liquidity …
Read More Merger Monday In The Casino: Why SPG’s Paying 56X For Macerich’s Going Nowhere Malls
Now comes a prime example of central bank financial repression at work. It’s downright ugly and crystalizes how the Fed and other central banks are generating massive mis-allocations of capital and …
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