China’s Devaluation is Just the Beginning of Systemic Risk, by Tyler Durden
From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com: Last year we predicted that the world had reached peak centralization and that going forward things would begin to fracture. What is centralization? Centralization...
View ArticleOpinion: Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are on the ropes, by Paul Brandus
From Paul Brandus at marketwatch.com: Three huge, vastly important countries on the world stage are in deep economic and political trouble—far worse than we may realize. I’m talking about Russia, China...
View ArticleSquare Holes and Currency Pegs, by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
From Raúl Ilargi Meijer at theautomaticearth.com: When David Bowie died, everybody, in what they wrote and said, seemed to feel they owned him, and owned his death, even if they hadn’t thought about...
View ArticleChina Warns “Social Stability Threatened” As 400,000 Steel Workers Are About...
From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com: In late September, we were stunned to read (and report) that in the first mega-layoff in recent Chinese history, the Harbin-based Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding...
View ArticleIs China About To Drop A Devaluation Bomb? by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
From Raúl Ilargi Meijer at theautomaticearth.com: Though she had no intention of being funny, we laughed out loud, as undoubtedly many did with us, when incumbent and wannabe IMF head Christine Lagarde...
View ArticleChina’s 3 Trillion Yuan Margin Call Time Bomb Is About To Explode, by Tyler...
From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com: Make no mistake, investors didn’t need any more reasons to be bearish on Chinese equities. Mainland markets are veritable casinos dominated by retail investors who...
View ArticleGround Control to Captain Zhou Xiaochuan, by James Howard Kuntsler
Most blog writing is serviceable, some of it is atrocious, and once in while you find a gem. James Howard Kunstler’s piece won’t tell you anything you probably don’t already know about China, but the...
View ArticleA Little Trump Irony, from The Burning Platform
From the administrator at theburningplatform.com: I got up as usual yesterday morning and got dressed for work. I picked a tie off the rack. There are probably 100 ties on the rack. I never throw...
View ArticleThe Chart of Doom: When Private Credit Stops Expanding… by Charles Hugh Smith
It really is just about as simple as Charles Hugh Smith makes it in this article. From Smith at oftwominds.com: Once private credit rolls over in China and the U.S., the global recession will start its...
View ArticleShorting the yuan is dangerous, by Alasdair Macleod
The trading world is short the yuan, expecting a substantial devaluation of the yuan as the Chinese spend down their foreign exchange reserves. The financial press and blogosphere are filled with...
View ArticleIs This Debt’s Last Rattle? by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
By Raúl Ilargi Meijer at theautomaticearth.com: What we see happening today is why we called our news overview the “Debt Rattle” 8 years ago. The last gasps of a broken system ravished by the very much...
View ArticleHounded by NIRP: Global Bear Market Progress Report, by Wolf Richter
From Wolf Richter at wolfstreet.com: Those Sinking Banks That the rest of the world didn’t follow Asia into another Friday stock-market abyss caused a worldwide sigh of relief. In many markets, short...
View ArticleAre Asian Central Bankers Even Crazier Than Our Own? by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
From Raúl Ilargi Meijer at theautomaticearth.com: That the world’s central bankers get a lot of things wrong, deliberately or not, and have done so for years now, is nothing new. But that they do...
View ArticleHere Comes The Red Swan And Other Reasons To Be Very Afraid, by David Stockman
From David Stockman at davidstockmanscontracorner.com: The Red Chip casino took another one of its patented 6.5% belly flops last night. In fact, more than 1,300 stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen fell by...
View ArticleThe FX Mexican Standoff, by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
This was posted before the G20 comminique was issued today, but Raúl Ilargi Miejer’s prediction has been borne out. From Meijer at theautomaticearth.com: There has been quite a bit of talk lately over...
View ArticleChina’s Currency And Economy Are Imploding, by Michael Pento
SLL WILL BE ON A BUSINESS TRIP FROM 3/2 TO 3/6 AND WILL BE UNABLE TO POST. POSTING WILL RESUME 3/7. By Michael Pento at Pento Portfolio Strategies via davidstockmanscontracorner.com: A little over six...
View ArticleChina: A 5-Year Plan And 50 Million Jobs Lost, by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
From Raúl Ilargi Meijer at theautomaticearth.com: China never had an actual economic model or growth model. It simply printed an obscene amount of money, especially after 2008, and used it to build...
View ArticleDesperate “Dumb Money” from China Arrives in the US, by Wolf Richter
From Wolf Richter at wolfstreet.com: Every now and then we get a sign. Money creation in China has gone bonkers. Authorities have opened the valves, and new credit is surging through money pipelines,...
View ArticleChina Proposes Unprecedented Nationalization Of Insolvent Companies: Banks...
From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com: In what may be the biggest news of the day, and certainly with far greater implications than whatever Mario Draghi will announce in a few hours when we will again...
View ArticleMeet the Controversial Hong Kong Indie That China Doesn’t Want You to See, by...
Let’s hope this film goes global. From Patrick Brzeski at hollywoodreporter.com: Communist Party mouthpiece Global Times has called ‘Ten Years,’ comprising vignettes that reveal a dystopic vision of...
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