Intervention by Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the annual dinner of the ECB’s Bond Market Contact Group, Frankfurt am Main, 30 June 2015 It is a pleasure for me to welcome you to the annual dinner of the Bond Market Contact Group (BMCG), also on behalf of my colleagues of…

Jackson Hole symposium topics are often a sign of the times Featured research reveals reality, while speeches give clues about policy The speeches are subtle hints of what is politically possible By Juhani Huopainen The annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium has ended. The international…

MAINOS (artikkeli jatkuu alla) Kokoomuksen puheenjohtaja, valtiovarainministeri Alexander Stubb arvioi EU:n sisällä olevan helpompaa käyttää talouspoliittista valtaa silloin, kun oma talous on kunnossa. Hänen mielestään Suomi ei ole koskaan vaikuttanut omaan valuuttaansa yhtä vahvasti kuin…

Source: tradexsie.nl Just one year after Mario Draghi reassured the market he would do ‘whatever it takes’ to ensure the inflation rate in the Eurozone will increase again, he seems to have been pushed back into a corner. The European Central Bank once again had to reduce its economic growth…

ABN Amro Warns There Is A 40% Chance Mario Draghi Expands ECB QE "As Soon As This Week" by Tue, 09/01/2015 - 14:41 0 SHARES Last week, when we quantified what China's reserve unwind , aka Treasury liquidation, could mean in practical terms, we quoted Bank of America which put the total Reverse QE…

The QE End-Game Decision Tree: Not "If" But "When" Central Banks Lose Control by Wed, 09/02/2015 - 19:42 0 SHARES Make no mistake, the writing has been on the wall for quite some time and we haven't been shy about pointing it out. Central banks are losing control. Trillions upon trillions in…

A participant attempting to control his craft during the Red Bull Flugtag Russia 2013 competition on the outskirts of Moscow. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov In 2008, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan went before Congress and acknowledged he had been wrong to hold interest rates at low levels…

by Thu, 09/03/2015 - 10:41 0 SHARES Back in October of 2014 , when we explained what the BOJ's "shocking" QE expansion really meant, we showed a chart that showed the key aspect of Japan's shock and awe monetization: Kuroda is now monetizing 100% of gross bond issuance. We cited Takuji Okubo, chief…

Deutsche Bank has frightened everyone by warning that if China sold substantial quantities of US Treasuries (USTs) to support the yuan, this would amount to a substantial tightening of US monetary policy. The reason why China accumulated USTs in the first place was because of its trade surplus. The…

Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a press conference with Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Lambrinidis on July 17, 2011 at the Foreign Ministry in Athens. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Greece's economic meltdown in 2010 was a subject of special interest for U.S. policymakers,…

Greece’s economic meltdown in 2010 was a subject of special interest for U.S. policymakers, including then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, according to the latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails. According to an exclusive report of CNBC, some of the Clinton’s email reveal and…

The most important piece of news announced today was also, as usually happens, the most underreported: it had nothing to do with US jobs, with the Fed's hiking intentions, with China, or even the ongoing "1998-style" carnage in emerging markets. Instead, it was the admission by ECB governing council…

To Citi, "The Failure Of ECB QE Looks Clear" And The Global Reserve Unwind Will Only Make It Worse by Wed, 09/02/2015 - 10:50 0 SHARES Mario Draghi and the ECB have a habit of patting themselves on the back when it comes to what they imagine the happy outcomes of their monetary policy decisions have…

China’s government has decided to abandon attempts to boost the stock market through large-scale share purchases, and will instead intensify efforts to find and punish those suspected of “destabilising the market”, according to senior officials. For two months, a “national team” of state-owned…

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Panel remarks prepared by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, at the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, University of Mannheim, 25 August 2015 It is a great pleasure to participate in this policy panel and to share the stage with such distinguished fellow participants. My…

The European Central Bank is ready to expand or extend its quantitative-easing program if needed as a slump in commodity prices and risks to global economic growth threaten its inflation goal, said Executive Board member Peter Praet. “Developments in the world economy and in commodity markets have…

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Posted 27 Aug 201527 Aug 2015Thu 27 Aug 2015 at 3:27am, updated 27 Aug 201527 Aug 2015Thu 27 Aug 2015 at 3:42am Yanis Varoufakis at the 43rd annual Fête de la Rose political meeting in Frangy-en-Bresse.(Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images) Share Yanis Varoufakis at the 43rd annual Fête de la Rose…

A pro-Euro protester holds a European Union and a Greek national flag during a rally in front of the parliament building in Athens, Greece, July 9, 2015. Alkis Konstantinidis | Reuters ATHENS, Greece—Τhe leftists' ruling party of Syriza in Greece faces an existential crisis as its lawmakers and…

Former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis will not be a candidate in the snap elections next month, but instead hopes to be part of a European network. In an interview with Australia’s ABC radio, the outspoken former minister said that he felt “a responsibility to the people of Greece, who still look…

Monday's action on Wall Street was too much for the Fed. That day, Atlanta Federal Reserve President Dennis Lockhart pulled back his previous dedication to a September rate hike earlier, reverting to only an expectation that rates rise sometimes this year. But today New York Federal Reserve…

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(This article was published August 19, 2015 by teleSUR Media) copyright Jack Rasmus 2015 The global economy is slowing, and with it the volume of world trade. In response to the negative effect of the global trade slowdown on its own exports and economic growth, last week China introduced a 2.8%…

by Mon, 08/24/2015 - 15:18 0 SHARES In a just released letter to clients, the head of the world's largest hedge fund delivers one of his usual sermons about the economy as a perpetual motion machine, affected by central banks, and where interest rates are supposed to boost asset returns by being…

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show chapters Inside the mind of the Fed 12:30 PM ET Mon, 29 June 2015 | 01:41 The Fed rate hike derby keeps getting more and more intense. A growing consensus of market experts—particularly economists and strategists—believes the Federal Reserve will increase rates in September for the first time…

By Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg Introducing the Gigantic and Dangerous Wall Street Loophole You’ve Never Heard of This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly…

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Greece’s pre-election campaign has turned ugly before it has even officially commenced, with senior figures – including the former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis – rounding on the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, for his governance of the crisis-plagued country. Yanis Varoufakis: ‘If I’m convicted…