Last week we reported that as part of a rapidly deteriorating banking crisis in Latvia, which culminated with the detention of central bank head Ilmars Rimsevics on suspicion of accepting a bribe of more than €100,000 ...
Last week's twin 1,000 point plunges on the Dow were not errors. Instead, these close-coupled massacres, which wiped out $4 trillion of global market cap in two days, marked the beginning of a bear market that will be generational, not a temporary cy
Technocracy's goal to convert the world to digital currency is finally under scrutiny in Sweden, which is the most 'cash free' nation in Europe. They are also waking up to the fact that it is their Central Bank that is responsible, and are star
The drip-drip-drip death spiral of what was once the world's most systemically dangerous bank continues as Bloomberg reports Deutsche Bank has started cutting at least another 250 jobs at its corporate and investment bank units.
Think of cryptocurrency developers and names like Satoshi Nakamoto, Gavin Andresen, and Nick Szabo spring to mind. Individuals who place principles ahead of profit and are more aligned with open source principles than filing patents and closely guard
The BIS is the central bank to central banks and is at the very heart of Technocracy. It's Technocrats have deemed open digital currencies to be anathema to the financial system; however, they are themselves working on their own digital currency wh
Russian financial institutions are prepared to survive without access to SWIFT (The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) - the global dollar-based interbank payments network - should the US and European Union follow through wi
Last Friday, just before the market imploded on the higher than expected hourly earnings print, we published a Bank of America note titled "Our Sell Signal Was Triggered On Jan 30, S&P 2686 Is Next"...
"Terrible Store of Value" is a great piece of work if you're a collector of crypto art that sticks it to the man whilst providing a side order of utility. Formed out of repurposed credit cards and molded in the likeness of Jamie Dimon, who insp
In a shocking moment of frankness, and perhaps desperation, European Central Bank Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny commented in an interview with Wiener Zeitung this morning that: (via Google Translate)
Two weeks after Goldman reported its worst revenue growth in two years - driven by a 50% plunge in bond trading - the push by the FDIC-backed hedge fund, which has realized that traditional trading just won't cut it any more in a low vol world - into
Last July, Morgan Stanley's Chris Metli, executive director of the bank's institutional equity division, wrote an article - posted here - looking at what would happen "if the VIX goes bananas" which previewed yesterday's results with eerie accuracy.
In a double whammy of panic about the fate of the artificial "wealth effect" created thanks to $20 trillion in central bank liquidity, officials at both the White House and Europe's largest hedge fund expressed concerns about the market rout that saw
It s safe to say that one of the most popular, and important, charts of 2017, was the one showing the ongoing and projected decline across central bank assets, which from a record expansion of over $2 trillion in early 2017 is expected to turn negati
The Russian Central Bank added 300,000 ounces (9.3 tons) of gold to its reserves in December, bringing the total acquisitions of the precious metal in 2017 to a record 223 tons.
Two time, best-selling author Nomi Prins says central bankers have no idea how to stop the easy money policies that they started after the financial meltdown of 2008.
Goldman Sachs used to seem invincible. In the fourth quarter, it lost money. The Wall Street firm on Wednesday reported its first quarterly loss since 2011. It was the result of a one-time $4.4 billion charge stemming from the new tax law. But even
In Bank of America's latest monthly survey of Fund Managers which polls 183 participants with $526bn in AUM, BofA Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett found what many had expected...
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