Archive for March 2020
“A Multitrillion Dollar Helicopter Credit Drop”: How The Fed Turned $454 Billion Into $4.5 Trillion
Force is now the only rule remaining in deep state-controlled America. Everything has collapsed, no free speech, no fair trial, no system of justice, no reasonable expectation of human rights anywhere, no fair elections, no trustworthy news, no legitimate Wall Street operations, no real public education, no clean food, and threats from the elitist. The…
Read MoreGold’s Gone Wild!
The headline’s gone wild today. For example, one public gold company CEO tweeted: “Today, some banks failed to deliver physical in the COMEX bar EFP. As a result, these banks suffered large losses…There remains a big shortage in physical in the COMEX denomination. So, rumors are, the COMEX will announce a force majeure…” Ignoring his…
Read MoreGet Ready For World Money
Since Federal Reserve resources were barely able to prevent a complete collapse in 2008, it should be expected that an even larger collapse will overwhelm the Fed’s balance sheet. That’s exactly the situation we’re facing right now. The specter of a global debt crisis suggests the urgency for new liquidity sources, bigger than those that…
Read MoreGoldman On Gold: “Time To Buy The Currency Of Last Resort”
A month ago, Goldman Sachs suggested there is more to come for precious metals as with rates getting closer to their lower bound, gold looks increasingly like the safest haven. At the start of March, Goldman’s head of commodity strategy said there is one commodity that will be safe: gold “which – unlike people and our economies – is…
Read MoreRonin Capital Blows Up, Unable To Meet CME Capital Requirements After VIX Trade Goes Wrong
We have certainly had our share of dismal fund returns in the past two weeks, in the aftermath of a market crash that is now worse than the Great Depression, so far one thing was missing: a big blow-up, where a fund is margined out and forced to liquidate Friday morning. Think “Duke & Duke.“ Well,…
Read MoreNoted Investor Warns Trump If He Doesn’t “Shut Down” Entire Country for 30 Days
Due to coronavirus, we will lose “America as we know it”… While a number of experts have already warned that the impact of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) on the United States is expected to be tremendously negative, a respected hedge fund manager sounded an even louder alarm on Wednesday. In an interview with CNBC, Bill Ackman,…
Read MoreMidtown Manhattan Bank Runs Out Of $100 Bills Amid Corona Panic
With the stock market plummeting as the realities of the COVID-19 outbreak sink in, nervous New Yorkers flooded a Midtown Manhattan Bank of America – taking out large sums of cash into the tens of thousands of dollars at a time. So much so, in fact, that the branch at 52nd St. and Park Avenue ran…
Read MoreThe Blood Bath Has Begun
Don’t forget, the Spanish Flu pandemic lasted from January 1918 to December 1920. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Fear of the coronavirus is causing shutdowns on a global scale like we have never seen before. Just about every major sporting event that you can think of has been either canceled or postponed, schools and universities are keeping students away,…
Read MoreBlain: “Step Back, Hunker Down, Get Ready…”
“Vulgar, but not a vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.” Perhaps it’s time to think about the unthinkable and close markets for a few weeks? Today we might be seeing a rash of desperate new efforts by central banks to promise liquidity to Treasuries, to pump money into stocks and shares in Norway and Japan……
Read MoreWe Just Witnessed The Largest Single Day Stock Market Point Crash In History (Again)
It has happened again. On Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2,352 points, which was the largest single-day stock market point crash in history. Of course, the old record only lasted for three days, because on Monday the Dow dropped 2,013 points. And on Wednesday, we actually witnessed the third-largest single-day stock market point…
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