From the excellent Binyamin Applebaum at the NY Times: One part of the economy that’s growing rapidly is the Federal Reserve. These are boom times…
US-owned Ally’s mortgage unit files bankruptcy (via AFP) Troubled US Treasury-owned lender Ally Financial said Monday its was placing its mortgage unit into bankruptcy protection…
Now… Matt Zames… Matt Zames… where have we heard that name before… OH YES: he just happens to be the Chairman of the Treasury Borrowing…
Lee Adler argues that the idea that US economic growth and European economic crisis proves that austerity is a bad thing is false. The US only looks good in comparison, because capital is flowing out of Europe to the last Ponzi game standing, the US Treasury market. The US Treasury magically and instantly converts foreign capital inflows into current spending creating the illusion that austerity is bad and profligacy and stealing from the future income of US taxpayers is good. Russ Winter chimes in on the flight of small investors out of US stocks, and away from the propaganda of mainstream TV financial infomercialism. This is a subscriber only podcast. If you are not a subscriber, click here to access the most recent free podcast posted on Monday, April 23. Subscribers can click the player at the bottom of this post (visible on Radio Free Wall Street main site only) to listen to today’s podcast, or use this link to download. If you are not a subscriber and would like to hear not only today’s podcast but all 8-10 podcasts each month, click here to start here to start your subscription. It takes less than a minute to complete the signup form and start […]
Job one for the US Treasury and its Primary Dealer enforcers is to keep yields low during weeks when the Treasury has a big load…
These two articles point in a bad direction:
China’s 2011 total trade surplus was $183B. The surplus with the USA was $270B; the US was 150% of China’s total surplus. China imports lots of “stuff.” Crude oil is high on that list. I…
Three weeks ago (Link) I put on a short EURUSD position at 1.3115. It worked for a few hours, and then went south. I sucked wind and damn near got to where I had to cut it at a loss. Today the market got back to where I entered, so I dumped it. While I…
One of the biggest frauds of the past few years took place yesterday. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) confirmed that no “event of default” has occurred with the Greek debt restructuring, therefore no payouts on any outsta…
Apparently seeing revenues falling well short of forecasts, the US Treasury today announced a surprise $20 billion Cash Management Bill (CMB). This bill was not…
On October 25 I wrote about what, at the time, looked like an overvalued EURUSD (it was 1.3950). Zero Hedge had an article attributing the strength to ongoing capital repatriation by EU (primarily French) banks. My words:
As long as there is Euro repa…