Leaks about money laundering, a resurgent Pandemic, China risks, exposure to Turkey’s financial crisis, all in a negative-interest-rate environment that is toxic for banks… Read More Hit from All Sides, European Bank Stocks Swoon to 1988 Low
Saving the Zombies in Europe… Read More What’s to Be Done Now with All These Zombie Companies?
45 million people have been furloughed in Germany, the UK, France, Italy, and Spain, but the “unemployment” rate barely budged because furloughs don’t count. Creating government-subsidized zombie companies & zombie jobs?… Read More Bite the Bullet or Extend & Pretend? Unemployment in Europe
Woe betide Europe’s banks if there is a second wave of the coronavirus… Read More Covid-19 is the Last Straw for Europe’s Broken Banking System
Here’s a clue: the word begins with “a” and ends in “y”. … Read More While EU Leaders Squabble, The Elephant in the Room Remains Unnoticed
Central-Bank Forked-Tongue Syndrome… Read More Negative-Interest Rate Champion Bank of France Now Frets About Ballooning Corporate Debt
A new tsunami of bad debts washes ashore while banks are still struggling with the debris from the prior tsunami of bad debts… Read More Italy Once Again on the Eurozone Worry List
Get ready for the helicopters… Read More Here Is The Stunning Chart That Blows Up All Of Modern Central Banking
Step by step, the EU institutional machine is making the same mistake with the German people that it made with the British people. It is taking a law-abiding and well-meaning nation for granted… Read More The EU Risks Losing Germany If It Picks a Constitutional Fight to the Death, or the Euro If It Doesn’t
As the largest creditor nation in the eurozone and its largest economy, Germany has much to lose if it ends up being the party responsible for the breakup of the single-currency union… Read More How Germany’s Courts Might Destroy the Eurozone
The EU project can survive one economic depression in the blighted South. It cannot survive two… Read More Raw Emotion and Unpayable Debt Have Brought the EU’s Simmering North-South Conflict Into the Open
Just how much lower can they go? To Zero. And the ECB’s negative interest rates are driving them closer to it… Read More European Bank Stocks Collapse to March 2009 & 1988 Levels
