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Central Banks/Banking

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http://www.myrmikan.com, Daniel Oliver

Myrmikan's May letter discussed how the Fed had already begun to ease financial conditions, though the method was so subtle that few understood what the central bank was doing.

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https://www.corbettreport.com

Five years ago in the pages of this very column I examined "The Ratings Game: Rating agencies as weapons of economic warfare." In that article I explained how the major credit ratings agencies--Standard & Poor's (S&P), Moody's, and Fitch Rat

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https://northmantrader.com, By Sven Henrich

Markets keep flirting with new highs following the recent rate cuts by the ECB and the Fed and keep rallying on trade optimism in the face of disappointing global economic data.

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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tom Luongo

Last year I asked whether Turkey would be "City Zero in Global Contagion." That question was based on the crisis unfolding in the Turkish lira which materially threatened a number of major European banks, especially those in Italy.

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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden

A week after the death of Robert Mugabe, and just a few months after the re-introduction of the ZimDollar, Zimbabwe faces another hyperinflation scare as inflation soars and the central bank hikes rates drastically to stall the currency's collapse.

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https://www.zerohedge.com by Jon Hellevig

Last week was full of portentous events. Only somebody who has not been awake for the last few years will fail to realize how these at first sight unconnected events are part of the same matrix.

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