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Economic and and financial news and analysis from respected observers. Because I publish it, doesn’t mean I agree with it.

The Cryptprecipice

FEEDAs I prepare to call it a night (and I’ve been deliberately avoiding looking at any futures quotes since today’s regular close), I’ll just say this: the crypto market is TEETERING right on the precipice, and it wants to fall. I ca…

Doug Noland’s Credit Bubble Bulletin: Putin & The Vigilantes

The main focus for the week was on a slew of central bank tightening measures. But Putin’s speech marked an alarming ratcheting up of geopolitical risk. It essentially guarantees months of Putin hardball and associated uncertainty.

And it’s unclear whether the Fed, ECB, or other central banks are prepared to abruptly shift course and orchestrate another concerted QE program to re-liquify liquidity-challenged global markets. And this is a huge issue. The world could now be in the early stage of history’s greatest globalized de-risking/deleveraging cycle – and a global central bank liquidity backstop is not a policy focus.