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slick
#101 Posted : Thursday, March 19, 2020 3:39:46 PM
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Joined: 6/1/2017
Posts: 288
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
wukan wrote:
This is CRAZY** $500b a day for 3 days is more QE than the last five years combined. WTF!!!


Na bado.Just warming up.You wait and see.Markets have already reversed almost all the gains after the Fed announcement.They want more $$$$$ but it wont help this time around like prior years since Covid-19 doesnt respect money printing.In fact if you combine liquidity injections of Fed,European Central Bank,Bank of Japan,Bank of England and Peoples Bank of China in the last 5 years its more like 5 trillion.



CNBC article below highlights




https://www.cnbc.com/202...raders-await-trump.html

"The major averages got a brief respite after the Fed announced it will ramp up its overnight funding operations to more than $500 billion on Thursday. It will then offer more repo operations totaling $1 trillion on Friday. The Fed also expanded the types of securities it would purchase with reserves.

However, stocks quickly traded back towards their session lows as investors awaited more aggressive measures to support the economy amid the virus outbreak."


So markets want more.1.5 trillion in 2 days isnt enough.Now its just getting ridiculous these mammoth liquidity injections that seem to have no effect.There are also whispers that the Fed should just outright buy stocks just like the Swiss Central Bank and Bank of Japan.Once you get to the level where central banks buy stocks,its a banana republic


We are living in a historically unprecedented moment.All that repo injection for today and markets close at the lows.S&P 500 down 9.51% in today's trading.No effect whatsoever.Even billionaire investor legends like Ray Dalio founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates indicated the market is grossly overstretched and I quote him verbatim where he stated "cash is trash" and its pointless to hold onto US dollars if the Fed keeps printing new dollars and inevitably consumer inflation will result.



Its lalala land now Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

As at end of last week, Ray Dalio's Alpha fund was down 20%. With yesterday's rout I can only imagine further drawdown and a flood of redemption requests. Keeping some dry powder at all times is a good hedge against such developments and affords an investor the opportunity to redeploy them if bargains show up.


Yeah.Ray Dalio under-estimated the magnitude of the coronavirus and his pure alpha fund has been whacked.But this fund also suffered losses last year.He has another all weather fund that is possibly performing better.

Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates, is a contrarian by nature.He understands the nature of central bank money printing driving up asset bubbles and has been warning for a number of years of the debt collapse thats currently unravelling.in his recent free book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises found in his site https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/ Dalio explains the various debt bubbles built up over many decades from the Fed fueled roaring 1920s stock market bubble to its collapse into the Great Depression,to the dotcom bubble burst,2008 housing burst among other bubbles and predicted the upcoming collapse and in 2018 which he felt it was 2 years away and he has been spot on.He also a large short seller having shorted the debt ridden poor performing European banks earlier than most people.He keeps a gold portfolio (at least 5-10%) in gold and has upped his gold position recently to be a hedge.I am sure Dalio will weather the current storm just fine and possibly come out even richer.

Yeah wise to keep some dry powder.Despite the ludicrous Fed money printing of trillions to pump up markets,USD remains the strongest currency trouncing even the other major currencies like the Euro,yen,pound,yuan that are carrying out even more money printing and currency debasement.Cash is king in this deflationary episode as it gives you the optionality to buy distressed assets.Thats what Warren Buffet is doing.He is keeping his largest cash hoard in history ie over 120 billion USD waiting for stocks to crater then buy them back cheaply.

His gold position will start hemorrhaging money if it isn't in the red already. Gold has not weathered the current down turn well now trading at $1485 from a high of $1702. Making it a dead/ineffective hedge at the moment. Negative correlation between USD and gold will crush it further to $1200-1300 levels. I had some trades on platinum and the moves yesterday were absolutely stunning. It tanked to a low of $566 from $714 earlier in the day and from $1040 a just a few weeks ago. The same goes for palladium which has now crashed 50% and still falling. USD rallying despite turning on the spigots and lowering rates to zero-bound has caught many investors in the crosshairs.


Billionaire Ray Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates,speaks.He believes corporate losses in the US will be upto 4 trillion and global corporate losses to hit a whooping 12 trillion.Feels central bank money printing is impotent.Hear his interview on the link provided



Investor Ray Dalio estimates the corporate losses in the US from coronavirus will top $4 trillion
Contrarian Investor and Trader.Advocate of free markets,limited government interference in the economy and sound money
rwitre
#102 Posted : Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:23:09 PM
Rank: Member

Joined: 3/8/2018
Posts: 507
Location: Nairobi
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
wukan wrote:
This is CRAZY** $500b a day for 3 days is more QE than the last five years combined. WTF!!!


Na bado.Just warming up.You wait and see.Markets have already reversed almost all the gains after the Fed announcement.They want more $$$$$ but it wont help this time around like prior years since Covid-19 doesnt respect money printing.In fact if you combine liquidity injections of Fed,European Central Bank,Bank of Japan,Bank of England and Peoples Bank of China in the last 5 years its more like 5 trillion.



CNBC article below highlights




https://www.cnbc.com/202...raders-await-trump.html

"The major averages got a brief respite after the Fed announced it will ramp up its overnight funding operations to more than $500 billion on Thursday. It will then offer more repo operations totaling $1 trillion on Friday. The Fed also expanded the types of securities it would purchase with reserves.

However, stocks quickly traded back towards their session lows as investors awaited more aggressive measures to support the economy amid the virus outbreak."


So markets want more.1.5 trillion in 2 days isnt enough.Now its just getting ridiculous these mammoth liquidity injections that seem to have no effect.There are also whispers that the Fed should just outright buy stocks just like the Swiss Central Bank and Bank of Japan.Once you get to the level where central banks buy stocks,its a banana republic


We are living in a historically unprecedented moment.All that repo injection for today and markets close at the lows.S&P 500 down 9.51% in today's trading.No effect whatsoever.Even billionaire investor legends like Ray Dalio founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates indicated the market is grossly overstretched and I quote him verbatim where he stated "cash is trash" and its pointless to hold onto US dollars if the Fed keeps printing new dollars and inevitably consumer inflation will result.



Its lalala land now Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

As at end of last week, Ray Dalio's Alpha fund was down 20%. With yesterday's rout I can only imagine further drawdown and a flood of redemption requests. Keeping some dry powder at all times is a good hedge against such developments and affords an investor the opportunity to redeploy them if bargains show up.


Yeah.Ray Dalio under-estimated the magnitude of the coronavirus and his pure alpha fund has been whacked.But this fund also suffered losses last year.He has another all weather fund that is possibly performing better.

Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates, is a contrarian by nature.He understands the nature of central bank money printing driving up asset bubbles and has been warning for a number of years of the debt collapse thats currently unravelling.in his recent free book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises found in his site https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/ Dalio explains the various debt bubbles built up over many decades from the Fed fueled roaring 1920s stock market bubble to its collapse into the Great Depression,to the dotcom bubble burst,2008 housing burst among other bubbles and predicted the upcoming collapse and in 2018 which he felt it was 2 years away and he has been spot on.He also a large short seller having shorted the debt ridden poor performing European banks earlier than most people.He keeps a gold portfolio (at least 5-10%) in gold and has upped his gold position recently to be a hedge.I am sure Dalio will weather the current storm just fine and possibly come out even richer.

Yeah wise to keep some dry powder.Despite the ludicrous Fed money printing of trillions to pump up markets,USD remains the strongest currency trouncing even the other major currencies like the Euro,yen,pound,yuan that are carrying out even more money printing and currency debasement.Cash is king in this deflationary episode as it gives you the optionality to buy distressed assets.Thats what Warren Buffet is doing.He is keeping his largest cash hoard in history ie over 120 billion USD waiting for stocks to crater then buy them back cheaply.

His gold position will start hemorrhaging money if it isn't in the red already. Gold has not weathered the current down turn well now trading at $1485 from a high of $1702. Making it a dead/ineffective hedge at the moment. Negative correlation between USD and gold will crush it further to $1200-1300 levels. I had some trades on platinum and the moves yesterday were absolutely stunning. It tanked to a low of $566 from $714 earlier in the day and from $1040 a just a few weeks ago. The same goes for palladium which has now crashed 50% and still falling. USD rallying despite turning on the spigots and lowering rates to zero-bound has caught many investors in the crosshairs.


Billionaire Ray Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates,speaks.He believes corporate losses in the US will be upto 4 trillion and global corporate losses to hit a whooping 12 trillion.Feels central bank money printing is impotent.Hear his interview on the link provided



Investor Ray Dalio estimates the corporate losses in the US from coronavirus will top $4 trillion



Negative rates have reached US treasury tbills

Reggae continues
slick
#103 Posted : Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:51:28 PM
Rank: Member

Joined: 6/1/2017
Posts: 288
rwitre wrote:
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
wukan wrote:
This is CRAZY** $500b a day for 3 days is more QE than the last five years combined. WTF!!!


Na bado.Just warming up.You wait and see.Markets have already reversed almost all the gains after the Fed announcement.They want more $$$$$ but it wont help this time around like prior years since Covid-19 doesnt respect money printing.In fact if you combine liquidity injections of Fed,European Central Bank,Bank of Japan,Bank of England and Peoples Bank of China in the last 5 years its more like 5 trillion.



CNBC article below highlights




https://www.cnbc.com/202...raders-await-trump.html

"The major averages got a brief respite after the Fed announced it will ramp up its overnight funding operations to more than $500 billion on Thursday. It will then offer more repo operations totaling $1 trillion on Friday. The Fed also expanded the types of securities it would purchase with reserves.

However, stocks quickly traded back towards their session lows as investors awaited more aggressive measures to support the economy amid the virus outbreak."


So markets want more.1.5 trillion in 2 days isnt enough.Now its just getting ridiculous these mammoth liquidity injections that seem to have no effect.There are also whispers that the Fed should just outright buy stocks just like the Swiss Central Bank and Bank of Japan.Once you get to the level where central banks buy stocks,its a banana republic


We are living in a historically unprecedented moment.All that repo injection for today and markets close at the lows.S&P 500 down 9.51% in today's trading.No effect whatsoever.Even billionaire investor legends like Ray Dalio founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates indicated the market is grossly overstretched and I quote him verbatim where he stated "cash is trash" and its pointless to hold onto US dollars if the Fed keeps printing new dollars and inevitably consumer inflation will result.



Its lalala land now Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

As at end of last week, Ray Dalio's Alpha fund was down 20%. With yesterday's rout I can only imagine further drawdown and a flood of redemption requests. Keeping some dry powder at all times is a good hedge against such developments and affords an investor the opportunity to redeploy them if bargains show up.


Yeah.Ray Dalio under-estimated the magnitude of the coronavirus and his pure alpha fund has been whacked.But this fund also suffered losses last year.He has another all weather fund that is possibly performing better.

Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates, is a contrarian by nature.He understands the nature of central bank money printing driving up asset bubbles and has been warning for a number of years of the debt collapse thats currently unravelling.in his recent free book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises found in his site https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/ Dalio explains the various debt bubbles built up over many decades from the Fed fueled roaring 1920s stock market bubble to its collapse into the Great Depression,to the dotcom bubble burst,2008 housing burst among other bubbles and predicted the upcoming collapse and in 2018 which he felt it was 2 years away and he has been spot on.He also a large short seller having shorted the debt ridden poor performing European banks earlier than most people.He keeps a gold portfolio (at least 5-10%) in gold and has upped his gold position recently to be a hedge.I am sure Dalio will weather the current storm just fine and possibly come out even richer.

Yeah wise to keep some dry powder.Despite the ludicrous Fed money printing of trillions to pump up markets,USD remains the strongest currency trouncing even the other major currencies like the Euro,yen,pound,yuan that are carrying out even more money printing and currency debasement.Cash is king in this deflationary episode as it gives you the optionality to buy distressed assets.Thats what Warren Buffet is doing.He is keeping his largest cash hoard in history ie over 120 billion USD waiting for stocks to crater then buy them back cheaply.

His gold position will start hemorrhaging money if it isn't in the red already. Gold has not weathered the current down turn well now trading at $1485 from a high of $1702. Making it a dead/ineffective hedge at the moment. Negative correlation between USD and gold will crush it further to $1200-1300 levels. I had some trades on platinum and the moves yesterday were absolutely stunning. It tanked to a low of $566 from $714 earlier in the day and from $1040 a just a few weeks ago. The same goes for palladium which has now crashed 50% and still falling. USD rallying despite turning on the spigots and lowering rates to zero-bound has caught many investors in the crosshairs.


Billionaire Ray Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates,speaks.He believes corporate losses in the US will be upto 4 trillion and global corporate losses to hit a whooping 12 trillion.Feels central bank money printing is impotent.Hear his interview on the link provided



Investor Ray Dalio estimates the corporate losses in the US from coronavirus will top $4 trillion



Negative rates have reached US treasury tbills

Reggae continues


Wow nominal yield on the US 3 month tbill is 0.01%.Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Eventually it will hit negative.For the 1 and 6 month its 0.04% as I write this.If you consider US grossly mistated inflation is about 2%,then real yield is -2%.In fact,if you bought even the 30 year with current yield of 1.76%,you still lose money if factor in inflation.So you park your money for 30 years for a negative real return.Ok to be fair what really happens is that investors arent looking for that paltry yield but capital appreciation when they trade them in the secondary market.Its how negative yielding bonds in the Eurozone and Japan have lasted for a number of years now provided you arent the sucker who holds to maturity and loses money.At some point last year,the entire German government bond market upto the 30 year bond was negative yielding.Now thats just nuts but its the world we live in.
Contrarian Investor and Trader.Advocate of free markets,limited government interference in the economy and sound money
lochaz-index
#104 Posted : Friday, March 20, 2020 7:32:50 AM
Rank: Veteran

Joined: 9/18/2014
Posts: 1,127
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
wukan wrote:
This is CRAZY** $500b a day for 3 days is more QE than the last five years combined. WTF!!!


Na bado.Just warming up.You wait and see.Markets have already reversed almost all the gains after the Fed announcement.They want more $$$$$ but it wont help this time around like prior years since Covid-19 doesnt respect money printing.In fact if you combine liquidity injections of Fed,European Central Bank,Bank of Japan,Bank of England and Peoples Bank of China in the last 5 years its more like 5 trillion.



CNBC article below highlights




https://www.cnbc.com/202...raders-await-trump.html

"The major averages got a brief respite after the Fed announced it will ramp up its overnight funding operations to more than $500 billion on Thursday. It will then offer more repo operations totaling $1 trillion on Friday. The Fed also expanded the types of securities it would purchase with reserves.

However, stocks quickly traded back towards their session lows as investors awaited more aggressive measures to support the economy amid the virus outbreak."


So markets want more.1.5 trillion in 2 days isnt enough.Now its just getting ridiculous these mammoth liquidity injections that seem to have no effect.There are also whispers that the Fed should just outright buy stocks just like the Swiss Central Bank and Bank of Japan.Once you get to the level where central banks buy stocks,its a banana republic


We are living in a historically unprecedented moment.All that repo injection for today and markets close at the lows.S&P 500 down 9.51% in today's trading.No effect whatsoever.Even billionaire investor legends like Ray Dalio founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates indicated the market is grossly overstretched and I quote him verbatim where he stated "cash is trash" and its pointless to hold onto US dollars if the Fed keeps printing new dollars and inevitably consumer inflation will result.



Its lalala land now Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

As at end of last week, Ray Dalio's Alpha fund was down 20%. With yesterday's rout I can only imagine further drawdown and a flood of redemption requests. Keeping some dry powder at all times is a good hedge against such developments and affords an investor the opportunity to redeploy them if bargains show up.


Yeah.Ray Dalio under-estimated the magnitude of the coronavirus and his pure alpha fund has been whacked.But this fund also suffered losses last year.He has another all weather fund that is possibly performing better.

Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates, is a contrarian by nature.He understands the nature of central bank money printing driving up asset bubbles and has been warning for a number of years of the debt collapse thats currently unravelling.in his recent free book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises found in his site https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/ Dalio explains the various debt bubbles built up over many decades from the Fed fueled roaring 1920s stock market bubble to its collapse into the Great Depression,to the dotcom bubble burst,2008 housing burst among other bubbles and predicted the upcoming collapse and in 2018 which he felt it was 2 years away and he has been spot on.He also a large short seller having shorted the debt ridden poor performing European banks earlier than most people.He keeps a gold portfolio (at least 5-10%) in gold and has upped his gold position recently to be a hedge.I am sure Dalio will weather the current storm just fine and possibly come out even richer.

Yeah wise to keep some dry powder.Despite the ludicrous Fed money printing of trillions to pump up markets,USD remains the strongest currency trouncing even the other major currencies like the Euro,yen,pound,yuan that are carrying out even more money printing and currency debasement.Cash is king in this deflationary episode as it gives you the optionality to buy distressed assets.Thats what Warren Buffet is doing.He is keeping his largest cash hoard in history ie over 120 billion USD waiting for stocks to crater then buy them back cheaply.

His gold position will start hemorrhaging money if it isn't in the red already. Gold has not weathered the current down turn well now trading at $1485 from a high of $1702. Making it a dead/ineffective hedge at the moment. Negative correlation between USD and gold will crush it further to $1200-1300 levels. I had some trades on platinum and the moves yesterday were absolutely stunning. It tanked to a low of $566 from $714 earlier in the day and from $1040 a just a few weeks ago. The same goes for palladium which has now crashed 50% and still falling. USD rallying despite turning on the spigots and lowering rates to zero-bound has caught many investors in the crosshairs.


Billionaire Ray Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates,speaks.He believes corporate losses in the US will be upto 4 trillion and global corporate losses to hit a whooping 12 trillion.Feels central bank money printing is impotent.Hear his interview on the link provided



Investor Ray Dalio estimates the corporate losses in the US from coronavirus will top $4 trillion

CBs should be looking to save face instead of displaying their impotence for the whole world to see. They've literally thrown the proverbial kitchen sink at the problem yet there is no reaction. Governments and CBs should be forward-looking as to what the stock market is signaling aka potential weak spots in the economy and how to mitigate them not these sort of reactionary moves. The Fed has clearly lost in the repo market yet it doubles down on liquidity spigots with nary an examination of the structural problems causing the spike demand.
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many people as possible.
slick
#105 Posted : Friday, March 20, 2020 11:10:51 PM
Rank: Member

Joined: 6/1/2017
Posts: 288
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
lochaz-index wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
slick wrote:
wukan wrote:
This is CRAZY** $500b a day for 3 days is more QE than the last five years combined. WTF!!!


Na bado.Just warming up.You wait and see.Markets have already reversed almost all the gains after the Fed announcement.They want more $$$$$ but it wont help this time around like prior years since Covid-19 doesnt respect money printing.In fact if you combine liquidity injections of Fed,European Central Bank,Bank of Japan,Bank of England and Peoples Bank of China in the last 5 years its more like 5 trillion.



CNBC article below highlights




https://www.cnbc.com/202...raders-await-trump.html

"The major averages got a brief respite after the Fed announced it will ramp up its overnight funding operations to more than $500 billion on Thursday. It will then offer more repo operations totaling $1 trillion on Friday. The Fed also expanded the types of securities it would purchase with reserves.

However, stocks quickly traded back towards their session lows as investors awaited more aggressive measures to support the economy amid the virus outbreak."


So markets want more.1.5 trillion in 2 days isnt enough.Now its just getting ridiculous these mammoth liquidity injections that seem to have no effect.There are also whispers that the Fed should just outright buy stocks just like the Swiss Central Bank and Bank of Japan.Once you get to the level where central banks buy stocks,its a banana republic


We are living in a historically unprecedented moment.All that repo injection for today and markets close at the lows.S&P 500 down 9.51% in today's trading.No effect whatsoever.Even billionaire investor legends like Ray Dalio founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates indicated the market is grossly overstretched and I quote him verbatim where he stated "cash is trash" and its pointless to hold onto US dollars if the Fed keeps printing new dollars and inevitably consumer inflation will result.



Its lalala land now Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

As at end of last week, Ray Dalio's Alpha fund was down 20%. With yesterday's rout I can only imagine further drawdown and a flood of redemption requests. Keeping some dry powder at all times is a good hedge against such developments and affords an investor the opportunity to redeploy them if bargains show up.


Yeah.Ray Dalio under-estimated the magnitude of the coronavirus and his pure alpha fund has been whacked.But this fund also suffered losses last year.He has another all weather fund that is possibly performing better.

Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates, is a contrarian by nature.He understands the nature of central bank money printing driving up asset bubbles and has been warning for a number of years of the debt collapse thats currently unravelling.in his recent free book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises found in his site https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/ Dalio explains the various debt bubbles built up over many decades from the Fed fueled roaring 1920s stock market bubble to its collapse into the Great Depression,to the dotcom bubble burst,2008 housing burst among other bubbles and predicted the upcoming collapse and in 2018 which he felt it was 2 years away and he has been spot on.He also a large short seller having shorted the debt ridden poor performing European banks earlier than most people.He keeps a gold portfolio (at least 5-10%) in gold and has upped his gold position recently to be a hedge.I am sure Dalio will weather the current storm just fine and possibly come out even richer.

Yeah wise to keep some dry powder.Despite the ludicrous Fed money printing of trillions to pump up markets,USD remains the strongest currency trouncing even the other major currencies like the Euro,yen,pound,yuan that are carrying out even more money printing and currency debasement.Cash is king in this deflationary episode as it gives you the optionality to buy distressed assets.Thats what Warren Buffet is doing.He is keeping his largest cash hoard in history ie over 120 billion USD waiting for stocks to crater then buy them back cheaply.

His gold position will start hemorrhaging money if it isn't in the red already. Gold has not weathered the current down turn well now trading at $1485 from a high of $1702. Making it a dead/ineffective hedge at the moment. Negative correlation between USD and gold will crush it further to $1200-1300 levels. I had some trades on platinum and the moves yesterday were absolutely stunning. It tanked to a low of $566 from $714 earlier in the day and from $1040 a just a few weeks ago. The same goes for palladium which has now crashed 50% and still falling. USD rallying despite turning on the spigots and lowering rates to zero-bound has caught many investors in the crosshairs.


Billionaire Ray Dalio,founder of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates,speaks.He believes corporate losses in the US will be upto 4 trillion and global corporate losses to hit a whooping 12 trillion.Feels central bank money printing is impotent.Hear his interview on the link provided



Investor Ray Dalio estimates the corporate losses in the US from coronavirus will top $4 trillion

CBs should be looking to save face instead of displaying their impotence for the whole world to see. They've literally thrown the proverbial kitchen sink at the problem yet there is no reaction. Governments and CBs should be forward-looking as to what the stock market is signaling aka potential weak spots in the economy and how to mitigate them not these sort of reactionary moves. The Fed has clearly lost in the repo market yet it doubles down on liquidity spigots with nary an examination of the structural problems causing the spike demand.



The central banks (at least as constituted in the Western world) should be abolished.First,the Fed isnt a government agency and holds no real reserves.The Fed is owned by member banks ie the big 6 Wall Street Banks ie JP Morgan,Citigroup,Bank of America,Wells Fargo,Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley plus other shadowy entities not disclosed to the public.True shareholding of the Fed is a closely guarded secret.Do you think the trillions being printed for bailouts and to prop up overleveraged bubble stocks and bonds is being freely given by the Fed to the US government and corporations?Hell No.These are loans to the US serikali and corporates which they have to pay with interest.So the Fed creates fiat currency from nothing,lends it out and expects to be paid with interest??Wow its exactly like I type 1 trillion on my computer screen and give it to my someone and we both agree its money enforceable by law,he goes out and performs a labour and has to return that 1 trillion I conjured up by computer keystrokes plus interest.So where is the interest to come from if I only created 1 trillion in the first instance.He or another entity has to borrow more conjured up currency created by me to pay the interest and this newly borrowed money also has an interest payment attached to it so even more currency has to be borrowed from me and this perpetual cycle continues.So do commercial banks do the same.Almost everyone assumes that banks loan cash deposited by clients.Thats not entirely true.Banks create new money from nothing when you take out a loan and charge you interest.The amount of deposits only limits the amount of new loans a bank can create (what is known as reserve ratio)and if in a country a bank has a zero reserve ratio like the Fed lowered this ratio to zero last Sunday,then a bank can theoretically make infinite amount of loans and hold zero reserves for depositors.Kenya has a reserve ratio of 5.25% essentially meaning commercial banks increase the money supply by nearly twenty times.This whole concept is known as debt based fiat fractional reserve banking system.It may take sometime to fully appreciate it but when you do it will blow your mind away and have a true feel of the nefarious nature of current central and commercial banking.It would take me many hours and paragraphs to explain it so let me leave a few videos here that captures the gist of what I am saying








So the government pays the Fed with tax money levied on its citizens.Money the Fed created from nothing??Thats just nuts and fraud.Its this nature of central banking that the US founding fathers fought so viciously against and US abolished the first 2 central banks and the current fed formed in 1913 was created in such a sly,secretive manner.The book "The Creature from Jekyll Island" explains this but there are many videos on this plus on fractional reserve banking.

So the whole system sucks and stinks

Contrarian Investor and Trader.Advocate of free markets,limited government interference in the economy and sound money
NewMoney
#106 Posted : Saturday, March 21, 2020 1:32:11 AM
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Joined: 3/1/2019
Posts: 170
Location: Nairobi
@slick, my advise for you cut down on the extremely long posts about the evil western financial systems. It's a bit extreme and a little bit too repetitive. The way you over-emphasize on it makes you sound like a nutty conspiracy theorist. I don't feel like it is adding value since it is turning into a monologue, not engaging members of the forum
sumuni
#107 Posted : Saturday, March 21, 2020 3:39:24 AM
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Joined: 6/24/2007
Posts: 111
Location: Afrique
NewMoney wrote:
@slick, my advise for you cut down on the extremely long posts about the evil western financial systems. It's a bit extreme and a little bit too repetitive. The way you over-emphasize on it makes you sound like a nutty conspiracy theorist. I don't feel like it is adding value since it is turning into a monologue, not engaging members of the forum

To be honest, I really enjoy his point of view of the financial system, especially the US. So @slick, I choose to take the red pill, to stay in wonderland. Show us how deep the rabbit hole goes.
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind, none is quite as curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.
wukan
#108 Posted : Saturday, March 21, 2020 7:39:00 AM
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Joined: 11/13/2015
Posts: 1,654
NewMoney wrote:
@slick, my advise for you cut down on the extremely long posts about the evil western financial systems. It's a bit extreme and a little bit too repetitive. The way you over-emphasize on it makes you sound like a nutty conspiracy theorist. I don't feel like it is adding value since it is turning into a monologue, not engaging members of the forum


Groupthink is dangerous in a crisis. @Slick, please don't be discouraged

Quote:
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Cohesiveness, or the desire for cohesiveness, in a group may produce a tendency among its members to agree at all costs.[1] This causes the group to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation.

Groupthink requires individuals to avoid raising controversial issues or alternative solutions, and there is loss of individual creativity, uniqueness and independent thinking.

slick
#109 Posted : Saturday, March 21, 2020 7:58:09 AM
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NewMoney wrote:
@slick, my advise for you cut down on the extremely long posts about the evil western financial systems. It's a bit extreme and a little bit too repetitive. The way you over-emphasize on it makes you sound like a nutty conspiracy theorist. I don't feel like it is adding value since it is turning into a monologue, not engaging members of the forum


@NewMoney No conspiracy theory.Just facts that some may find unbelievable and too painful to swallow.I back up all my utterances with appropriate screenshots,links and videos.99% of people assume that the Western financial system is sound and to be emulated yet in reality its quite a decadent rot beneath the veneer of majesty.Yes Western tech is awesome but in terms of economics and monetary policy it quite appalling.The fact that Western central banks buy their own government and corporate bonds and some even stocks from money created out of nothing is quite damning.I seek to expose these shenanigans.If you feel its too much for you,you are free not to look at this thread
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slick
#110 Posted : Saturday, March 21, 2020 10:36:42 AM
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A good video on the new money printing liquidity injections the Fed rolled out this week to bailout the money market funds,commercial paper market,corporate bond market,municipal bond market,stock market,forex currency swap lines with foreign central banks like the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan and helicopter money for the populace.The trillions being printed by the Fed is staggering to the mind.

To give a sense of what a trillion means,1 trillion seconds is 31,709.8 years ago and the Fed is unleashing trillions daily


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyj-unafl4A

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