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Where There’s Smoke…

2017-04-25

Evolution of Atlanta Fed GDP, December 2016 - April 2017

Central banks around the world have colluded, if not conspired, to elevate and prop up financial asset prices. Here we'll present the data and evidence that they've not only done so, but gone too far. When we discuss elevated financial asset prices we really are talking about everything; we're talking not just about the sky-high prices of stocks and bonds, but also of the trillions of dollars’ worth of derivatives that are linked to them, as well...

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Stephens

2017-04-18

by Tyler Durden

Swiss Franc Exchange Rate Index

2017-04-12

by Dirk Niepelt

2017-04-12

Nominal and real effective exchange rate indices of Swiss Franc

The Swiss National Bank has updated its exchange rate indices. In an SNB Economic Studies paper, Robert Müller describes how. The upshot is that the SNB considers the Swiss Franc slightly less overvalued than before.

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Bozena Riot

2017-03-27

by Tyler Durden

North Korea Propaganda

2017-03-21

by Tyler Durden

Comey – No Wiretap

2017-03-20

by Tyler Durden

Comey

2017-03-20

by Tyler Durden

NY Beating

2017-03-11

by Tyler Durden

China Wage Growth

2017-02-27

by Tyler Durden

It Is Time To Short The Swiss National Bank!

2017-02-27

by Felk

2017-02-27

The current Article will take a closer look to the incredible rise of the Swiss National Bank stock and suggest why taking a short position could be the right trade at this level. The Swiss Central Bank: Mandate and Monetary Policy. According to the Swiss Federal Constitution (Art. 99) the Swiss Central Bank is an independent institution with the mandate to conduct the monetary policy in Switzerland by ensuring price stability, while taking into...

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Friedman

2017-02-23

by Tyler Durden

What Will Trump Do About The Central-Bank Cartel?

2017-02-14

by Thorsten Polleit

2017-02-14

Euro Banks find it increasingly hard to obtain US dollar credit

The US is by far the biggest economy in the world. Its financial markets — be it equity, bonds or derivatives markets — are the largest and most liquid. The Greenback is the most important transaction currency. Many currencies in the world — be it the euro, the Chinese renminbi, the British pound or the Swiss franc — have actually been built upon the US dollar.

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Swiss National Bank’s U.S. Stock Holdings Hit A Record $63.4 Billion

2017-02-10

by Tyler Durden

2017-02-10

Value of Swiss National Bank US Stock Holdings, June 2014 - December 2016

Being able to print your own money and buy stocks at any price sure can be fun. Just as the SNB which unlike many other (if ever fewer) central banks admits to doing just that. In its latest 13F filing, the Swiss National Bank reported that the value of its portfolio of US stocks rose again in the fourth quarter, increasing by 1.6% from $62.4 billion as of Sept. 30 to a record high $63.4 billion at the end of the year.

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The VIX Will Be Over 100 due to Central Bank Created Tail Risk

2017-02-07

by EconMatters

2017-02-07

We discuss the manner in which Central Banks have destroyed financial markets, and have the stage for what I label as the Red Swan Event in this video. When the Swiss National Bank holds risky Tech stocks in its portfolio, we are in unchartered territory!

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80 percent Of Central Banks Plan To Buy More Stocks

2017-01-24

by Tyler Durden

2017-01-24

Central banks foreign-exchange reserves, Global debt

Regular readers remember how, when we first reported around the time of our launch eight years ago that central banks buy stocks, intervene and prop up markets, and generally manipulate equities in order to maintain confidence in a collapsing system, and avoid a liquidation panic and bank runs, it was branded "fake news" by the established financial "kommentariat."

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How Derivatives Markets Responded to the De-Pegging of the Swiss Franc

2017-01-13

by Dirk Niepelt

2017-01-13

In a Bank of England Financial Stability Paper, Olga Cielinska, Andreas Joseph, Ujwal Shreyas, John Tanner and Michalis Vasios analyze transactions on the Swiss Franc foreign exchange over-the-counter derivatives market around January 15, 2015, the day when the Swiss National Bank de-pegged the Swiss Franc. From the abstract.

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Trump CNN

2017-01-11

by Tyler Durden

We Know How This Ends – Part 2

2016-12-23

by Jeffrey P. Snider

2016-12-23

In March 1969, while Buba was busy in the quicksand of its swaps and forward dollar interventions, Netherlands Bank (the Dutch central bank) had instructed commercial banks in Holland to pull back funds from the eurodollar market in order to bring up their liquidity positions which had dwindled dangerously during this increasing currency chaos.

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Kosten eines Vollgeld-Systems sind hoch (Costly Sovereign Money)

2016-12-22

by Dirk Niepelt

2016-12-22

Eine Umsetzung der Vollgeld-Initiative würde grossen Schaden anrichten und dürfte im Ergebnis selbst die Initianten enttäuschen. Verbesserungen verspricht dagegen eine «sanfte» Reform: die Einführung von elektronischem SNB-Geld für alle.

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