Finance Archives - Rethinking the Dollar

The Delicate Balancing Act To Protect Wealth Is Full On

Mar 12, 2020 | Economy, Finance

The delicate balancing act to protect wealth is now in full crisis mode. The key players are central banks across the world and the corrupt bankrupt governments they seek to protect. At risk is the global financial system that has served them so well over the...

Fed Boosts Size Of Repo Bailout Facility For 2nd Time In A Week Following Liquidity Collapse

Mar 11, 2020 | Fed, Finance

With credit and funding markets starting to show signs of extreme stress, signaling a major dollar shortage… …and the market’s biggest demand yet for liquidity from its repo facility, The Fed has increased the size of its daily bailout...

Tips For A Volatile Market

Mar 6, 2020 | Finance, Stock Market

These last couple of weeks have been crazy in the markets, last week we saw steady declines and this week we’re yo-yoing from one of the best days in the market to date to one of the worst. It seems like the sky is falling, it always does when we get into one of...

Rumors Of Macro Fund Failure Amid Ultra Long Bond Explosion

Mar 6, 2020 | Finance, Markets

Back in December, the BIS laid out a stunning, and heretofore unknown assessment of the factors leading into the September repocalypse: not only was the overnight repo surge to 10% a function of supply (or lack thereof), with banks – primarily JPMorgan –...

“It’s All Just The Same Broken System” – Exposing Greenspan’s Moon Cult

Mar 5, 2020 | Finance

Taking another look at what I wrote about repo and the latest developments yesterday, it may be worthwhile to spend some additional time on the “why” as it pertains to so much determined official blindness, an unshakeable devotion to otherwise easily...

Negative Rates In The US Are Virtually Guaranteed Now

Mar 5, 2020 | Economy, Finance

On October 19, 1987, the US stock market suffered the worst crash in its more than 200 year history, dropping more than 23% in a matter of hours. It wasn’t just in the United States, either. More than 20 major stock markets around the world, from London to Hong Kong...