The US banking system is reeling as the commercial real estate market may turn out to be as toxic as the subprime mortgages that led to the 2008/2009 crisis. At the same time, approximately 1 trillion dollars are the loans that the official banking sector has granted to the shadow financial system – how much …
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Risk for Lehman Brothers No. 2 and Recession like 2008
Opinions are being strengthened that maintained that the banking crisis in the US may not be over and that there is a risk of a new Lehman Brothers-style shock due to the purchase of commercial real estate. In this context, the share of the American bank New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), which is at its …
FED: Prepares permanent mechanism for bailing out troubled banks
The US banking system is at risk of collapse, according to the indications we have based on the movements of the federal authority, the Federal Reserve, in order to force US banks to use the so-called discount window on their funds in order to prepare for future banking crises – which are certain to occur. …
Debt repayment in 100 countries requires a reduction in spending on social infrastructure
The world is going to experience a debt crisis that will last for the next 10 years and it is not going to end well, as global debt has reached a record 307.4 trillion. dollars last September. Both high-income countries and emerging markets have seen a significant increase in their debt, which has increased by …
Towards a new permanent banking crisis, the “bubble” in commercial real estate is bursting
What the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, after the two-day meeting of American policy makers, contained nothing comforting. Notably, he did not cut interest rates, or announce cuts and monetary easing next March – as the market predicted. As a result, markets skidded, the dollar rallied and …
The cost of resurgent inflation is high
Societies around the world as well as the economic staffs of governments must be prepared for the possibility of revivals on the inflation front. Inflation, after reaching its highest level in decades in mid-2022, in the United States and the euro zone, fell sharply in the second half of last year. But in December, the …
Why is the FED secretly preparing for another banking crash?
It recently became known that the American authorities are preparing a proposal that will push American banks to use the “loophole” of the Federal Reserve Bank of the USA (Federal Reserve, FED) in the event of a new crisis. For whom does the bell toll? It is clear that the FED wants to take its …
The price of diamonds is falling, while gold remains a classic value
Both gold and diamonds are characterized by their beauty but also by their expensive cost. But beyond these common elements, for some there is a third that connects them. The fact is that many investors are now turning to diamonds. While gold has emerged throughout human history as a precious metal and currency, the emergence …
Interest rate cuts will send Corporate debt into “junk” bonds
The announced interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve will lead to lower yields on junk bonds. In other words, for a company with a very low credit rating, it will lead its debt to the category of “junk” bonds. The question is whether investors will be willing to take on the greater risk of …
The ECB’s high interest rates will “test” the Economies of the Southern Eurozone member countries
Although interest rate hikes appear to be peaking in the EU, the southern member states of the Eurozone should expect a lot of pain in the coming years. More specifically, last year’s ECB interest rate hikes are expected to have a greater impact on southern than northern eurozone countries in 2024. And given that asset …