Credit markets Archives - Page 46 of 275

Greece and Creditors at Loggerheads Again; Troika Wants More Foreclosures

uropean creditors want to extract more blood from a stone, in this case Greece.

Who Benefits From Sovereign Debt Crises?

Even though the struggle over Greece’s bailout has receded from the news, with many countries carrying large debt burdens, the need to restructure sovereign debts is not going away. This Real News Network segment gives an overview of the state of play.

Foreign Banks Such as Deutsche Using Variant of Lehman “Repo 105” Balance-Sheet Tarting Up Strategy

Michael Hudson: How the U.S. Avoided Chronic Deflation by Relinquishing Monetary Control to Wall Street

Why finance-influenced economic policy in the US has managed to avoid deflation while in Europe, it has stoked it.

China’s Raging Bond Bubble Exposed

Yet another China risk warning.

Negative Real Rates Signify a Broken Financial System

How the debate on negative real rates has missed role of demand for “safe” collateral for derivative positions, and why that is central.

Jeff Connaughton: On to Iowa and New Hampshire

Former lobbyist, White House and Senate staffer Jeff Connaughton explains how Naked Capitalism had an impact after the crisis and continues to do so today.

Payday Lenders Pay Off the System So They Can Keep Ripping Off Borrowers

Paying a visit to payday lenders at one of their conferences.

The Financial Sector is Too Big

Has the financial sector become too large, absorbing too many resources, and enhancing instabilities?

The Billion-Dollar Moldovan Bank Scam, Scottish Limited Partnerships, and the UK’s Anti-Money-Laundering Mess

The BBC follows up on the billion-dollar Moldovan bank scam, and Naked Capitalism kicks off a new series on money laundering in the UK

Michael Hudson on Parasitic Financial Capitalism

An interview with Michael Hudson on his latest book, Killing the Host, which focuses on the destruction wrought by financial capitalism.

Market Liquidity in Liquid Markets: Pitfalls and Trends

Market liquidity is all about smooth and rapid executions of large transactions. But why is it hard to keep big markets liquid? This column looks at liquidity in fixed-income markets, assesses new trends (as well as the EU’s new market instrument rules), and makes recommendations to policymakers to avoid illiquidity – a timely reminder that the social costs of illiquidity should not be underestimated.

Frances Coppola: The Great Yield Divergence

Puzzling over the Great Divergence of real and nominal yields. Ever since the Great Depression, nominal yields have been persistently above real yields Yet in the previous 200 years, despite periods of fiat currency and high inflation, real and nominal yields didn’t diverge. Why do they now?