Capital Structure, Dollar Shortages, and Malinvestments: Implications for Portfolio Holdings
A general perception that the global economy is slowing down seems to prevail. At the same time the Euro zone crisis – in spite of the measures taken – will be exacerbated by the known and unknown liabilities that exist in the financial and public sectors. We...The EU, the Strings of the Market and the Phantoms of Credit: Seeking the Deus ex Machina
The markets celebrate today the outcomes of the EU summit. The delusion that through more debt and political manipulations the cancer can be treated is truly the amalgam of illusion in the garden of fantasy. No real substance, which reminds me of what a dear friend...Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) and Financial Tremors: Useful Idiots Part III
About two weeks ago, we were assured by the government in Spain that they only needed about €50 billion for their banks. All of a sudden the €50 billion became €100 billion and we are still counting. Welcome to the new math where besides addition through subtraction...Parasitic Structures and Monetary Entropy: Basic Instructions Before Disintegration
Fifteen years ago the global markets were getting ready to “welcome” the Asian financial crisis. The cause of that crisis? Declining multifactor productivity from Thailand and Taiwan, to Indonesia and S. Korea. The symptoms of that crisis? Trade deficits, overvalued...Sign Up for Our Publications
