Weekly SNB Sight Deposits and Speculative Positions: SNB selling euros and dollars
2021-04-12
Update April 12 2021: SNB selling euros and dollars. Sight Deposits have fallen: The change is -0.5 bn. compared to last week, this means the SNB is selling euros and dollars.
Our Fragile, Brittle Stock Market
2021-02-03
This heavily managed ‘market structure’ is far from equilibrium and extremely prone to instability.
The Great Reset, Part IV: “Stakeholder Capitalism” vs. “Neoliberalism”
2021-02-02
Any discussion of “stakeholder capitalism” must begin by noting a paradox: like “neoliberalism,” its nemesis, “stakeholder capitalism” does not exist as such. There is no such economic system as “stakeholder capitalism,” just as there is no such economic system as “neoliberalism.” The two antipathetic twins are imaginary ghosts forever pitted against each other in a seemingly endless and frenzied tussle.
FX Daily, January 29: Please Stay Seated, the Ride is not Over
2021-01-29
Powerful corrective forces continue to grip the market. After a large rally to start the New Year, the correction is punishing. Most Asia Pacific equities markets were off again today to bring the week’s loss to 2.5% to 5.5% throughout the region. Europe’s Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is a little more than 1% lower on the day.
Gamestop, Market Distortions, and Manipulations
2021-01-29
In the wake of the extreme price explosion in GameStop stock, driven in large part by the subreddit WallStreetBets on Reddit, there is naturally a great deal of talk about “market manipulation” and related concerns. Many people are saying that hedge funds manipulate markets.
The Coming Revolt of the Middle Class
2021-01-28
That’s how Neofeudal systems collapse: the tax donkeys and debt-serfs finally
rebel and start demanding the $50 trillion river of capital take a new course.
The Great American Middle Class has stood meekly by while the New Nobility stripmined
$50 trillion from the middle and working classes. As this RAND report documents, $50 trillion has
been siphoned from labor and the lower 90% of the workforce to the New Nobility and their
technocrat lackeys who own the vast majority of the capital:
Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018.
Why has the Great American Middle Class meekly accepted their new role as debt-serfs and
powerless peasants in a Neofeudal Economy ruled by the New Nobility of Big Tech /
monopolies / cartels / financiers? The basic answer is the New Nobility’s PR has been
so
Funding for start-ups barely dented by coronavirus
2021-01-26
More than CHF2 billion of venture capital flowed into young Swiss companies for the second year in a row, a sustained rate of funding that defied the economic destruction wreaked by the pandemic last year.
New Opportunities 2021: Fiscal policy for the recovery
2021-01-24
This GIS 2021 Outlook series focuses on the opportunities that stem from the upheaval of the past year. Coronavirus vaccine distribution has begun, most probably marking the beginning of the end of the global health crisis. A receding pandemic will leave behind intertwined economic and fiscal challenges for countries around the world.