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‘We Now Encounter A Grim Reality’: IMF Sees Worst Downturn Since Depression In ‘The Great Lockdown’

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020

“This crisis is like no other.”

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JPMorgan Reports 69% Drop In Net Income As ‘Likely Severe Recession’ Prompts $6.8 Billion Reserve Build

April 14, 2020October 13, 2021

“The first quarter delivered some unprecedented challenges.”

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‘There’s No Such Thing As A Free Market.’ Imagine A Future Where Asset Prices Are Administered

April 13, 2020November 19, 2020

Call it a requiem. Or a pseudo-lament. Or maybe just an obituary dressed up as

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Against The Gods: ‘Historically A Losing Proposition’

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

“Unhindered by moral hazard”…

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Just How Bad Is It Out There For America’s Small Businesses? This Bad…

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

“Hourly workers have seen hours, shifts, and operations come to a full stop.”

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Marko Kolanovic Addresses ‘Critical’ COVID-19 Questions On Herd Immunity, True Mortality Rate

April 13, 2020April 14, 2020

“The analogy is with an iceberg.”

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Morgan Stanley’s Sobering COVID-19 Call: ‘This Is Far From Over’

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

“…recovering from this acute period in the outbreak is just the beginning, not the end”.

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Nomura’s McElligott Is Back And He Wants To Talk About April’s Epic ‘Momentum Reversal Shock’

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

“Could this be ‘it’?”

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Oprah Versus COVID.

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

“Everybody gets a car”.

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Dangerous Territory.

April 12, 2020April 13, 2020

“…as investors’ focus turns to the real economy a reality check or two remains in the cards.”

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Saudis Declare OPEC+ ‘Up And Alive’ After Mexican Standoff, But Demand Still ‘Down And Dead’

April 12, 2020April 12, 2020

“We’re more than happy with the deal.”

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‘We Either Produce Food Or Not’, Smithfield CEO Warns, As Virus Closes Sioux Falls Plant

April 12, 2020April 13, 2020

“An alarming statistic.”

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Neel Kashkari: Barring ‘Miracle’, America Should Expect 18 Months Of Rolling Shutdowns

April 12, 2020April 13, 2020

“This could be a long, hard road we have ahead of us.”

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Junk Bonds’ Guardian Angel Is Only So Benevolent

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Not everyone is a winner.

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Once Red-Hot Private Debt Market Sees 41% Collapse In Fundraising Amid Virus Tumult

April 11, 2020November 22, 2020

Back in January, JPMorgan’s Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou noted that persistent underperformance from hedge funds over long

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Trump’s Latest Mexican Standoff And Big Banks’ Plan To Seize Oil And Gas Fields

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

“Over the barrel.”

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One-Third Of Global Trade May Be Lost To Coronavirus. In Services, The Damage Could Be Permanent.

April 11, 2020April 13, 2020

“…declines in services trade during the pandemic may be lost forever.”

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Off-Air.

April 10, 2020April 11, 2020

Amid the worst crisis “since the dawn of the jet age”, America’s airline industry needs a bailout. And we’re going to give them one.

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‘The Fed Will Likely Monetize The Entire Stimulus Delivered By Congress’ (And Making The Covert, Overt)

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020

“These are administered markets.”

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Albert Edwards On Bear Market Rallies, Direct Deficit Financing And Yellen’s Stock Trial Balloon

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020

“Maybe direct Fed buying of the S&P might break the link.”

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Airfares See Record Crash, Gasoline Plunges As Coronavirus Deflation Comes Knocking

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020

As you might imagine, there are some fireworks in March’s report.

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China Unleashes 5.15 Trillion Yuan Credit Tsunami As Country Emerges From Lockdown

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020

Give me some credit.

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As Fed’s Balance Sheet Tops $6 Trillion, Foreign Central Banks Sell Another $22 Billion In Treasurys

April 9, 2020

You can draw your own conclusions.

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What A Laffer.

April 9, 2020April 9, 2020

“To make things more fair, he said, government should impose levies on nonprofit educational, arts and other institutions.”

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These Aren’t Loans. They Are Grants. Why Is America Ashamed Of The Paycheck Protection Program?

April 9, 2020April 9, 2020

America is so averse to the idea of “handouts”, that we’re willing to plunge the country’s small business owners into a Kafkaesque nightmare. 

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Fed Takes In Fallen Angels, Will Buy Junk Bonds, High Yield ETFs

April 9, 2020December 31, 2020

Are you concerned about “fallen angel” risk in the credit market? Put differently, are you

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America’s Jobless Crisis Goes Nuclear. Fed Leaps In With $2.3 Trillion In New Lending

April 9, 2020April 11, 2020

17 million claims in three weeks versus $2.3 trillion in Fed lending.

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