    LifeStraw Personal Water Filter - $19.95 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: $10.00 from: Eartheasy.com   | globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / By Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Monday, May 9, 2013, 3:08 AM In an effort to stimulate small and medium (SME) lending the ECB considers acquiring banks toxic debt of the periphery. Via mish-modified translate from Spanish Libre Mercado. The European Central Bank (ECB) could “soon” start buying bad debts [...] dailyreckoning.com / By Bill Bonner / May 7, 2013 A kiss is still a kiss. A sigh is still a sigh… And a bubble is still a bubble. When a kiss is over, it’s over. When a bubble pops…well…that’s all she wrote! All kisses end – even the wettest “French” kisses. And so do all [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 05/05/2013 19:35 The clear message from the doctors this week is that they plan to keep administering the pills, in larger quantities if necessary, until the donkey turns into a butterfly. Citi’s Matt King reminds us though that they failed to mention the associated risk that the donkey dies [...] charleshughsmith.blogspot.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / May 5, 2013 What is “obvious” to those embedded in the conventional, MSM/state-manufactured worldview is not the same as what is obvious to those outside the asylum. Longtime readers know my analytic perspective is based on what psychiatrist/author R.D. Laing called the Politics of Experience. Survival+ 6: [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 2, 2013, 07:49 -0400 While the ECB’s refinancing rate cut of 25 bps was very much expected, and just took place pushing the main refi rate to a record low 0.50% (because more liquidity is just what Europe’s collapsing economy needs), what was unanticipated was that the Marginal [...] silverdoctors.com/ By Deepcaster / April 27, 2013 Submitted by Deepcaster: “When the Fed’s fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 04/26/2013 11:55 Gold and silver prices are plunging after the European equity markets closed. It seems someone got the tap on the shoulder and needed to fund some liquidity. Given the ‘unusual’ strength in high-beta European assets this week, it would suggest someone (or many someones) were short and [...] armstrongeconomics.com / By Martin Armstrong / April 23, 2013 Some people are just so hung up on this idea of selling paper gold they do not have as being the source of gold’s decline. Sorry – it does not matter! A farmer hedges a crop and sells it “forward” before he [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / April 23, 2013, 13:24 -0400 Presented with little comment aside to note that based on a tweet, the ‘deeply liquid’ US equity market collapsed instantaneously as all those liquidity-providing ‘algos’ jumped ship… The lower pane shows the market depth disappearing courtesy of Nanex. READ [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / April 22, 2013, 11:54 -0400 Between an 87-year-old Italian, a bearded American, two Japanese sociopaths, and a world in desperate search of ‘yield’, the yields on Spanish 10Y debt have collapsed in recent days to 4.50% – its lowest since November 2010 (and Italy at around 3.54% also close [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / April 22, 2013, 08:57 The liquidity tsunami that started in September of 2012 in the Marriner Eccles building and continued with the BOJ’s own epic QEasing expansion three weeks ago, has so far provided the impetus for Europe to kick the can of its inevitable dissolution for a few [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / April 17, 2013, 11:10 -0400 Back in 2010, Goldman’s Jan Hatzius, fresh on the heels of QE2, committed rookie Economist mistake 101, and mistook a centrally-planned market response to what then was a record liquidity infusion, for an improvement in the economy (a move we appropriately [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / April 15, 2013, 10:41 -0400 Europe remains in a critical state – despite the protestations of its leadership and the indications of its nepotistic bond markets. Unconventional monetary operations have enhanced liquidity, but have done little-to-nothing to solve the real issue – insolvency. As Jassaud and [...] One French banker told Les Echos that the Tobin Tax was ‘a weapon of mass destruction that is going to ruin our financial sector’ telegraph.co.uk / By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / April 10, 2013, 7:40PM BS France’s experiment with the Tobin Tax has proved a spectacular flop. Its finance ministry admits [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 04/07/2013 20:49 Confused by the day to day happenings in the land of the rising sun, and liquidity tsunami? Don’t be, instead read the following series of papers (pdf) by former SocGen strategist Dylan Grice who predicted everything that is currently happening nearly three years ago. The titles of [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / April 5, 2013, 21:26 -0400 Courtesy of Nanex, here are several depth of market charts showing how today’s NFP number looked like through the eyes of the kneejerk response algos, and how quantized, sub-millisecond jumps in the “market” appear like in a day and age when virtually all the [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / April 3, 2013, 07:52 -0400 A rather skewed distribution in asset returns Year to Date (through March 31), with the winners so far i) the Nikkei, in both JPY and USD terms, on endless jawboning out of the Japanese political apparatus that it may do virtually anything – although [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 03/27/2013 19:59 Via Nanex, Below are portions of a comment letter submitted by R.T. Leuchtkafer to the SEC on April 16, 2010, just 3 weeks before flash crash. The second paragraph in the excerpt below, unknowingly describes exactly how the flash crash was started. The letter goes on [...] marctomarket.com / By Marc Chandler / March 26, 2013 During the Asian financial crisis, the chief economist of the IMF, Michael Mussa, once explained that there were three kinds of crises; liquidity, solvency and stupidity. The crisis in Europe continues to morph. European officials have succeeded in stabilizing the situation with words of assurances. [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 03/24/2013 19:06 As liquidity started to come back into FX markets this evening, it is very clear that humans and algos are reacting to every headline, rumor, and bloviation from Europe. In the last two hours, as this chart of EURUSD shows, while the range is small, the reactions [...] SOCGEN PREDICTS GOLD WILL CRASH TO $1300, CYPRUS “WILL LOSE EMERGENCY LIQUIDITY IF NO BAILOUT AGREEDsilverdoctors.com/ By THE DOC / March 21, 2013 The dollar gold price hovered just below $1610 an ounce Thursday morning, while stocks and commodities fell along with Euro as disappointing economic data was added to news that Cyprus’s banks will remain closed until next Tuesday. “We forecast the gold price to have [...] theeconomiccollapseblog.com / By Michael Snyder / March 21st, 2013 European officials are openly admitting that the two largest banks in Cyprus are “insolvent“, and it is now being reported that Cyprus Popular Bank only has “enough liquidity to cover the next few hours“. Of course all banks in Cyprus are officially closed until [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / March 21, 2013, 07:46 -0400 As reported yesterday, Cyprus banks are now expected to reopen next Tuesday. We would boldly go ahead and take the under following overnight news that the ECB has once more escalated its political interventions (remember the lies about “apolitical, independent” Central Banks – good [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 03/19/2013 – 15:18 We were waiting for the ECB response, and seconds ago we got it, when the ECB uttered the magic words, saying it would provide “liquidity within existing rules.” What this means is unclear, but the algos loved it and sent the EURUSD up over 50 pips [...] zerohedge.com / Tyler Durden / March 14, 2013 While “this time may be different” for the centrally-planned stock market, every historic example of subsequent ruin notwithstanding, the very recent past is again hitting Carnival Cruise Lines with a vengeance, as one short month after its disabled Triump cruise ship fiasco, in which [...] telegraph.co.uk / By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / March 13, 2013, 6:30AM GMT Italy’s industry chiefs have warned that the country faces a “full credit emergency” as thousands of companies run out of critical funding, threatening a slide into deeper depression. Confindustria, the business federation, said 29pc of Italian firms cannot meet “operational expenses” [...] silverdoctors.com / By Stewart Thomson / March 13, 2013 Big bull market moves occur with enormous negative sentiment, and it is the liquidity flows of short covering that produce the most violent jumps in price, to the upside. Those factors are in play now, but they would be “outrageously in play”, at $1400-$1450. Have no [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / February 26, 2013, 16:50 In many Western industrialized nations, debt has overwhelmed or is about to overwhelm the economy’s debt-servicing capacity. In the run-up to a debt crisis, bad debt tends to move to the next higher level and may ultimately accumulate in the central bank’s balance sheet, provided [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 02/22/2013 13:41 While the world’s attention has been focused on a precious metals’ slide and a ‘dire’ 2% correction in stocks, another metal has been sending some ominous signals. So-called Dr. Copper is down 5.5% this week dragging it to negative for the year and highly suggestive (see 2011 [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 02/21/2013 14:27 When one thinks of the US banking system, the one thing few consider these days is the threat of a liquidity shortage. After all how can banks have any liquidity strain at a time when the Fed has dumped some $1.7 trillion in excess reserves into the [...] |
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