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The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are coming up in 2 weeks: https://meetings.imf.org/en/2025/Annual https://www.worldbank.org/en/meetings/splash/annual There is a guest registration that closes today: https://www.imfconnect.org/content/imf/en/meetings/AM25/Registration.html The 2024 meeting was also in DC. Every third year, these meetings …
Vietnam just shut down more than 86 million bank accounts. People did not get a warning. They did not get a choice. The State Bank of Vietnam said if you did not get a digital ID called VNeID, your money …
NOW — The Bank of England has upheld its refusal to release documents on the links between Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and digital ID systems. An internal review, signed off by the Bank’s Deputy Secretary, Michael Salib, concluded that …
EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK TO EUROPEANS: BETTER STUFF SOME CASH UNDER THE MATTRESS The European Central Bank now says you should keep at least 72 hours’ worth of cash on hand. Just in case the next crisis fries the grid, crashes …
The Fed is quietly walking a knife’s edge and everyone will feel it soon. Quantitative tightening emptied the ON RRP cushion, leaving banks exposed the same way they were in 2019, and that means every Treasury move now hits reserves …
via notayesmanseconomics Today’s subject is a welcome one in that it is something that in terms of the mainstream media has been hidden in the shadows. In fact I am being polite as they have looked the other way from …
by David Haggith Thanks to US tariffs, money is flooding into Chinese trade like never before! China is now proving one of my statements from back in the days of Trump Tariffs 1.0 when I wrote that the formula for …
“You’re going to have a financial panic of unprecedented proportions,” warns Jim Rickards, NY Times bestselling author, referring to the risks posed by stablecoins and unregulated digital assets enabled by the Genius Act. He points to Vietnam’s mandatory biometric IDs …
https://www.complex.com/sports/a/joshua-espinoza/lebron-james-jokes-hes-broke-net-worth-way-less-than-reported-1-2-billion LeBron James came through with an often-repeated but important PSA: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. The three-time All-Star MVP dropped the reminder during a recent appearance on Complex’s 360 With Speedy, where he set the record …
via notayesmanseconomics This morning has brought a further reminder of one of my themes from the past which is that the UK has a tendency to be an inflation nation. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.8% in the …
What do you expect? They all feed the same bubbles, it’s just one big circle. After governments, the ones I trust the least are banks and financial institutions pic.twitter.com/qyusdt0VwF — 구미호 (@ThinkInError) September 16, 2025 Banks are so short on …
by Martin Armstrong Vietnam has erased and/or frozen 86 million unverified bank accounts as the nation surrenders to the globalist Great Reset. Anyone wishing to function in society must surrender their biometric data to maintain a bank account. The State …
The new jobs numbers have been trending downwards for the last six months, or so. We are well into a recession at this point. Are we already in a jobs recession? Less than 50% of industries are adding workers the …
via notayesmanseconomics This morning the focus is back on the Bank of England and we cam start with something which will match the new autumnal mood for the weather at least for the research student presenting the morning meeting. “August …
Trump is not playing coy. On Wednesday he blasted Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook with a blunt demand: “Resign, now!!!” The trigger? A Bloomberg report of a possible mortgage fraud probe, amplified by his allies. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-fed-governor-cook-131136021.html BREAKING: The US Department …
via GLP: A friend of a family member (big bank exec) just warned me – something very ugly is about to break Ok, I don’t usually post this kinda thing but after talking with a person acquainted with my family …
Bloomberg’s chart didn’t predict a collapse. It recorded one. Bank of America flagged 26 companies at risk from AI. Most only saw nine. The rest were hidden behind paywalls and terminals. We found all 26. The pattern is clear. “Agentic …
Diversity and inclusion, but only if it comes with a lower payroll. Funny how “global competitiveness” always seems to mean fewer jobs at home and more offshore contracts. Australians didn’t lose their jobs to automation. They lost them to cheaper …
by David Haggith Stocks today soared (Dow up 500) because Trump landed some “massive” tariff deals. The reason they soared, however, appeared to be because the deals were not nearly as massive as Trump had said he was seeking. Still, …
Hong Kong’s banking system just entered high alert. What began as a coordinated stablecoin rollout is now unraveling into something more serious. On July 22, internal communication circulated among Hong Kong’s monetary authorities warned of acute stress across token-backed reserves …
The Fed is hopelessly out of touch. Rate hikes, aimed at controlling Biden’s reckless spending, have crushed the private sector. Now, with tariffs thrown into the mix, their late response is nothing short of historic incompetence. Do they even listen …
by MonetaryCommentary This particular offshore dollar liquidity gauge, calculated as the ratio of total liabilities of foreign-related institutions in the U.S. to U.S. deposits at foreign banks, remains mired in a secular upswing, suggesting that foreign banks are still boosting their …
S&P 500 at the Great Liberation Day Divide pic.twitter.com/mhRfSFfXyt — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) April 25, 2025 Bank Of America’s Hartnett – Sell U.S. stock rallies and buy the dip on everything else. — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) April 25, 2025 Technicians …
How many of the 550bn$ of MBS holding “guaranteed” mortgages by Fannie and Freddie in $BAC books were structured on fraudulent mortgages and are about to be nuked? 👀 https://t.co/iTXUp3D0Cx pic.twitter.com/w4FIpug6fH — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) April 17, 2025 Builders can’t …
‼️Central banks rate decisions scheduled for the next week: The European Central Bank is expected to cut rates by another 25 basis points down to 2.25% as the economy rapidly slowed. The Bank of Canada is likely to hold at …
Short the S&P 500 warns Bank of America 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/1zG9DliZfy — Barchart (@Barchart) April 14, 2025 Citigroup downgrades US equities to neutral from overweight. — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) April 14, 2025 #Breadth and #Momentum indicators are stretched to the downside. @sentimentrader …
BREAKING 🚨: Regional Banks$KRE forms a Death Cross ☠️ for the first time in 3 years pic.twitter.com/eFgvWDPFrx — Barchart (@Barchart) April 11, 2025
Bank of America recommends to sell the rip 🍀 — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) April 11, 2025 BLACKROCK CEO LARRY FINK SAYS WE ARE GOING TO HAVE MUCH GREATER EMBEDDED INFLATION IN THIS COUNTRY – CNBC — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) April 11, …
