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The Next (Financial) Wave

(It looks as if the next financial wave will be some form of foreign markets insolvency.) Global finance faces $9 trillion stress test as dollar soars Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 4/2/15 … Contrary to popular belief, the world is today more dollarized … Continue reading

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Will the Greenback break the World?

Is the US Dollar About to Trigger a 2008 Collapse? by Phoenix Capital Research on 11/10/2014 … When the Fed cut interest rates to zero in 2008 and flooded the financial system …  everyone around the world, from traders to hedge funds … Continue reading

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Germany on Bubble-Watch

Peak Debt – Why The Keynesian Money Printers Are Done Tyler Durden on 09/26/2014 Bloomberg has a story today on the faltering of Draghi’s latest scheme to levitate Europe’s somnolent socialist economies by means of a new round of monetary juice … Continue reading

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Risk Off!

Is Risk-On About to Switch to Risk-Off? September 15, 2014 by Charles Hugh Smith … there are converging signals that suggest the risk-on trade is about to reverse polarity to risk-off. These include: 1. Junk bonds. … 2. Soaring U.S. dollar. … is destabilizing the … Continue reading

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Emerging Markets and Liquidity

Emerging Market Banking Crises Are Next James Gruber 3/3/14 … Asia Confidential thinks the vast majority of commentary has missed the underlying reasons for emerging market currency volatility, with the yuan being the latest example. What we’re really witnessing is … Continue reading

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US Fed Swap Lines Restarted

Cue Panic As Fed Resumes Liquidity Swap Lines, Lends $200 Million To Swiss National Bank, Most Since October 2010 Tyler Durden on 08/18/2011 If yesterday’s news broken by ZH that one bank was in dire need of US dollars and … Continue reading

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US Treasuries will Fail

Dollar Carry Trade Makes for Bond-Market Conundrum (and yet another engine of gloom) By William Hecht 08/02/2011 … With so many players short US Treasuries (for carry-trade and position trades), the recent economic numbers (and selling the U.S. debt ceiling … Continue reading

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BOJ: a Yen for Treasuries

Yen Intervention Friendly Towards The Yen Carry Trade Posted: Mar 18 2011By: Dan Norcini Post Edited: March 18, 2011 at 12:18 am Filed under: Trader Dan Norcini For further market analysis and commentary, please see Trader Dan’s website at http://www.traderdan.netContinue reading

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Bonds and the Dollar I

 (So what to do when foreign lenders won’t buy your US bonds? Devaluing the dollar forces foreign central banks to buy them in order to devalue their currencies, too.)  October 3, 2010 We’re In a Global Currency War … But What … Continue reading

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The Carry Trade

The carry trade (is) where investors sell short the dollar and use the proceeds to buy stocks and commodities like gold and oil … A reversal in the dollar’s downtrend (a reversal of the carry trade) could lead to one heck of a correction … Continue reading

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