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The EVERYTHING BUBBLE, led by bonds, is about to BURST – just in time for WWIII

October 22, 2023 - bonds at the same time that there is a dearth of new Treasury buyers.

"Yield solves all demand problems by rising until demand emerges," Haggith explains. "And that's in part what we're seeing now. All of this is happening as the Fed is unloading its balance sheet at record pace, having already shed over $1 trillion in securities in a little over a year."

The result is a housing market deep freeze as the demolition of the bond bubble takes down the housing ...

DOLLAR EXODUS: Investors scooping up “safe haven” assets like gold and bonds as dollar devaluation accelerates

January 03, 2024 -

Panic buying for bonds is off the charts, as is the price of gold as investors gobble up whatever items of value that they believe will protect them from the financial Armageddon that is currently in motion.

Over the Channukah and Christmas holidays, the values of nearly every other asset class besides the U.S. dollar increased. The U.S. dollar, meanwhile, dumped in value as investors shed the increasingly worthless paper backed by nothing in favor of assets ...

This is a blueprint for how the dollar goes kaput

January 22, 2024 - bonds for several decades. And at this point they own roughly $3 trillion of the national debt.

But Social Security is now bleeding so much money that the program is no longer able to loan the Treasury Department any more money.

Foreigners also used to be highly reliable buyers of US Treasury bonds; even as recently as a few years ago, foreign ownership of US federal debt was more than 33%.

But foreigners are rapidly losing their appetite ...

U.S. government to pay an additional $1.1 TRILLION in interest for country’s debt over the next 10 years after Treasury yields jump

2 months ago - bonds to global investors

The U.S. government increases money by auctioning Treasury bonds to a band of global investors. The larger the deficit, the more bonds it must release to bankroll otherwise unfunded spending.

Eventually, greater borrowing costs on such matters as mortgages and corporate loans would slow the economy as consumer spending and business investment diminish. As interest costs grow, the government must release more debt to pay bondholders....

The government debt crisis that we have been warned about for decades is happening right now

November 29, 2023 - bonds “are in a bear market worse than the dot-com bust and almost as bad as 2008”…

The result: Investors are demanding the steepest yields since 2007. Auctions of fresh bonds that were once routine are now going terribly. And bond portfolios are getting absolutely hammered. The longest-dated Treasury bonds are in a bear market worse than the dot-com bust and almost as bad as 2008.

A bond crash normally precedes a stock market crash.

That ...

Brace yourself: Ongoing Treasury bond collapse ranks among worst in market crash history – and the carnage has only just begun

October 09, 2023 -

According to reports, Treasury bonds with maturities of 10 years or more have plummeted 46 percent since March 2020 when the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "pandemic" was declared as cover for the hemorrhaging financial system and mini-crash that occurred around that same time.

The last time Treasury bond losses were this large was back during the dot-com bubble burst at the turn of the 21st century.

Meanwhile, the bond rout is currently worse than the ...

COLLAPSE? Bond bloodbath commences as Fed’s desperate fight against inflation fails

October 27, 2023 - bonds, many commodities and even exotic assets such as cryptocurrencies and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).

This will send the American economy rapidly into recession in an all-out panic because people who have been investing based on such enormous delusions panic when they finally realize that they've run out past the edge of a mighty high cliff, he said, adding that the Big Bond Bubble crash would be inevitable because of the Fed's quantitative ...

DUMPING DEBT: Nearly two dozen countries, including many US allies, are dumping their US Treasury bond holdings

July 31, 2023 - bonds to varying degrees. These nations are known by many companies and wealthy Americans as the place where they open offshore accounts to store their funds with little to no tax.

The U.K., the third-largest holder of U.S. Treasury bonds, sold off $14.1 billion in May, making it the second consecutive month it reduced its U.S. debt holdings, with a total sell-off of $44.5 billion in April and May.

Australia, another major U.S. ally, sold $6.5 billion ...

Special Report: The Health Ranger and Steve Quayle discuss “The Last Days of the American Empire”

May 26, 2023 - bonds (T-bonds) and Treasury notes (T-notes) – is being abandoned. He added that the U.S. dollar, which used to be the most respected currency around the world, is now the most rejected.

Quayle continued that all the ongoing talk of raising the debt ceiling in Congress is irrelevant. This is because no one is buying American T-bills, T-bonds or T-notes and Washington can't pay the interest for these securities.

Adams remarked that the U.S. government ...

Trigger for next financial implosion

October 03, 2023 -

(Article republished from TheBurningPlatform.com)

The U.S. banking system and likely, the global banking system, is essentially bankrupt. They just won’t admit it and central bankers won’t let them admit it. These “brilliant” Harvard Business School and Wharton trained financial geniuses thought it was a great idea to load up their institutions with mortgage and Treasury bonds when they were paying 0.5%. Now the ten year Treasury is 4.58%. Even a dolt like AOC ...

The world is sitting on a powder keg of debt

December 21, 2023 - bonds yielding much higher rates. The weighted average interest rate on the government’s $26 trillion of outstanding Treasury securities rose to 3.10% in November. That compares with a weighted average rate of 2.22% in November 2022.

The bottom line is interest payments will continue to quickly climb much higher unless rates fall.

Financial analyst Jim Grant doesn’t think that will happen. He thinks we’re at the beginning of a generational bear market in ...

El Salvador president warns West’s “backed-by-nothing-dollar” will drag down the rest of the world

2 months ago - bonds, which are purchased by the Federal Reserve with printed money backed by the bonds themselves. Since the Biden government is funded by money printing, he said that America's situation is worse than it seems because if most citizens and the rest of the world were to become aware of this farce the confidence in USD would be lost. "The dollar will fall, and Western civilization with it," he pointed out.

As the 2024 presidential elections approach, Bukele ...

DEBT SURGE ALERT: $8.9T government debt to mature, $1.4T budget deficit expected in 2024

February 14, 2024 -

The Federal Reserve has also been running down its balance sheet by $60 billion per month. The bottom line, experts said, is that someone will need to buy more than the said amount in U.S. government bonds. It is more than one-third of the U.S. outstanding federal debt and more than one-third of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

According to education platform Apollo Academy's Chief Economist Torsten Slok, this is going to be a particular challenge ...

Intentional destruction

December 19, 2023 - bonds as both collateral and as underlying assets in derivatives contracts. Volatility in the government bond market can lead to a demand for more collateral underlying the derivatives markets precisely when government bond prices are declining. Falling bond prices erode the value of the existing IM.  Collateral demands skyrocket just as the value of current and would-be collateral is evaporating.

Again, the BIS:

Designed to fail

The BIS doesn’t admit it, ...

Russia vows to respond in kind if West seizes its frozen assets

January 02, 2024 - bonds.

While the Russian central bank has not provided a detailed breakdown of the frozen assets, publicly available data from the start of 2022 indicates that a significant portion of the bonds and deposits are denominated in euros, with some in U.S. dollars and British pounds.

There have been suggestions from Russian officials that if Russian assets are confiscated, foreign investors' assets held in special "type C" accounts in Russia might face ...

Evergrande Group files for bankruptcy in the U.S. after two years of distress… debt defaults will now spread across America

August 21, 2023 - bonds."

Beijing has also cut mortgage rates, slashed red tape and offered more loans to developers to bolster the sector.

The world is concerned about China's deteriorating economy as stocks in the U.S. lower and bonds yielded higher. Many Western banks have slashed their estimates for GDP growth this year to below four percent.

The future remains uncertain, and the fate of Evergrande continues to hang in the balance.Visit Collapse.news to ...

Bond investors warn: Brace for INEVITABLE RECESSION caused by Fed’s continued RATE HIKES

June 16, 2023 - bonds, on the grounds that when central banks are forced to switch to a pause or to looser policy, they will outperform. He sees the 10-year Treasury yield falling to three percent by year-end, nearly 75 basis points below the current level, as markets start to realize the recession will be deeper than most think.

Allianz Global Investors portfolio manager Mike Riddell meanwhile said stocks, bonds and corporate debt are mis-pricing the risks – and that only ...

‘Terrorist’ economy: Washington is prepared to create a new financial disaster for the whole world

November 10, 2023 - bonds issued; from 2002-2014, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) had become the main buyer and the foreign purchases figure reached a whopping 53%.

Since 2014, that figure has been negative 4%, meaning foreign central banks have stopped buying on a net basis, all while US deficits have continued to grow. There are many reasons for that shift. A lot of attention has been given to the first batch of sanctions on Russia in 2014 and Moscow’s subsequently embarking on ...

IMF says SEIZURE of frozen Russian assets must have sufficient legal support

February 16, 2024 - bonds, with around half of these reserves situated in the West.

Central Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina faced criticism for allowing a substantial portion of the bank's reserves to be frozen.

The frozen Russian assets encompassed the euro, U.S. dollar, British pound, Japanese yen, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, Singapore dollar and Swiss franc holdings, primarily invested in foreign securities, bank deposits and nostro correspondent accounts....

Crisis in American banking sends jitters across Europe’s banking sector, increasing risk of BANK DEFAULTS

February 14, 2024 - bonds issued by real estate-specializing bank Deutsche Pfandbriefbank.

Major European banks whose U.S. commercial real estate loans account for one percent or less of their assets are unlikely to be significantly threatened by any major disruptions to the American real estate market. These include Germany's Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Holdings Plc in the United Kingdom and BNP Paribas SA in France.

But Bloomberg Intelligence financial analysts warn that many ...