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UBS $3.2B takeover of Credit Suisse wipes out AT1 bonds, proves bank bonds are more risky than previously believed

March 22, 2023 -

According to CNBC, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) broke the news. This effectively rendered AT1 bonds worth 16 billion Swiss francs ($17.35 billion) worthless, while shareholders will receive payouts as part of the bail-in. CNBC added that the deal between UBS and Credit Suisse was inked on March 19 with the "help of Swiss authorities."

Also called contingent convertibles, AT1 bonds are debts that are considered part of a bank’s ...

Silicon Valley Bank collapse sends investors scrambling toward bonds, gold

March 14, 2023 -

SVB failed on March 10 after a bank run depleted its funds. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation subsequently seized the bank and put it under the receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Three days later, on March 13, the FDIC-administered successor of the failed bank began operations.

On the same day, investors flocked to U.S. Treasury securities and gold – two assets traditionally considered safe havens during periods ...

Gold dethrones Treasury bonds as largest foreign reserve asset after 30 years

January 15, 2026 -

In a seismic shift for the global financial system, gold has dethroned U.S. Treasury bonds to become the largest reserve asset held by foreign central banks worldwide for the first time in three decades.

This historic change, confirmed by new 2026 data, signals a profound loss of confidence in traditional dollar-denominated safe havens. It also heralds a strategic pivot by nations toward tangible wealth preservation amid escalating geopolitical ...

“Green” bonds a total FRAUD – less than 1% of proceeds used for stated purpose

May 24, 2024 -

New research reveals that for all the money dumped into green bonds, there is absolutely nothing to show for it. The environment is still just the same as it always was, except the country is much poorer now because of all the green scams.

Had things gone according to plan, the more than $2.6 trillion in green bonds that were issued over the last decade could have helped companies mitigate their climate worries. Instead, it was all a pointless, wasteful ...

Over £1.3 trillion wiped off the value of UK bonds since beginning of 2022

November 09, 2022 -

Just over £882 billion ($1.02 trillion) has been wiped off the value of Gilts and Index-linked Gilts in the year-to-date. The value of the U.K. corporate bonds has also fallen by £514.5 billion ($594 billion) since the beginning of the year.

"The unprecedented meltdown in bonds is not just causing issues for pension funds with exposure to liability-driven investment strategies. The fall is also wrecking the returns for any investor with large exposure ...

STOCKS, BONDS, CRYPTO and REAL ESTATE: The whole house of cards is coming down

June 15, 2022 -

As of right now, America's real estate bubble is now in the process of a catastrophic collapse. The stock market is collapsing and the crypto universe is absolutely imploding. "The crypto apocalypse is here," writes Michael Snyder from End of the American Dream:

Over the last seven months, we have witnessed a cryptocurrency collapse that is so epic that it is truly difficult to put it into words... approximately two-thirds of the value of all cryptocurrencies has already ...

Breakthrough “bone glue” inspired by oysters bonds fractures in 3 minutes, could replace metal implants

September 29, 2025 - bonds that withstand the body’s harsh internal environment. This biomimicry approach—borrowing solutions from nature—highlights a growing trend in medicine: moving away from synthetic, one-size-fits-all fixes toward adaptive, biologically compatible alternatives.

Yet, as with any medical advancement, caution is warranted. History shows that initial enthusiasm for new treatments—from early bone cements to rushed pharmaceuticals—can lead to unforeseen complications....

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 DEMISE: China selling U.S. Treasury bonds in record numbers in favor of gold, other commodities

May 24, 2024 -

Beijing divested a total of $53.3 billion in Treasuries and agency bonds during the first three months of the year, while simultaneously increasing its purchases of gold and other commodities.

Analysts suggest this reduction in foreign exchange reserves is part of China's broader strategy to diversify its holdings from being dominated by U.S. dollar-denominated assets amid rising geopolitical tensions with the United States.

These analysts point to the economic ...

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 ...

Japanese banking giant Norinchukin PULLS PLUG on global financial system with $63 billion Treasuries, European bonds LIQUIDATION

June 19, 2024 -

Many people missed it, but last fall Norinchukin was quietly added to the private Federal Reserve banking cartel's Standing Repo Facility, which Zero Hedge appropriately and simply describes as "the Fed's foreign bank bailout slush fund," effective Dec. 1, 2023.

Japan's fifth largest bank with $840 billion in assets, Norinchukin will reportedly sell more than 10 trillion yen's worth of its holdings of both U.S. and European government bonds during the year ending ...

US bondholders preparing to sue Swiss government over wipeout of $17 billion worth of Credit Suisse bonds

March 24, 2023 -

Swiss bank Credit Suisse was sold to one of its main competitors, UBS, in a sale brokered by the Swiss government. As part of this deal, UBS was forced to pay out $3.25 billion to shareholders. But the government also used an emergency ordinance to write down the value of the bonds to zero. (Related: Credit Suisse merger with USB could destroy Western bond market after bank zeroed out BILLIONS in bonds.)

These bondholders own securities that are known ...

Credit Suisse merger with USB could destroy Western bond market after bank zeroed out BILLIONS in bonds

March 23, 2023 - bonds in order to improve the bank's capital and resolve its liquidity issues.

AT1 bonds, also known as contingent convertible bonds or CoCos, are a form of bank debt that can convert into equity or be written off if a bank’s capital falls below a certain threshold. They were introduced after the global financial crisis of 2008 to improve the resilience of banks and limit taxpayer bailouts. AT1 bonds are considered riskier than regular bonds ...

Despite its five felony counts, the Federal Reserve has entrusted $2 trillion in bonds to JPMorgan Chase

November 10, 2020 - bonds,” according to the Justice Department. The bank agreed to pay $920 million in fines and restitution to various regulators. It was given another Deferred Prosecution Agreement and put on probation for the third time.

Could this story get more outrageous? Yes it can.

Not only did the Federal Reserve look the other way at five criminal felony counts, but it looked the other way as JPMorgan Chase was repeatedly charged with fraud involving the very same ...

Florida’s Palm Beach County invests $700M in Israeli bonds, essentially using taxpayer money to fund genocide in Gaza

June 04, 2024 -

Israel needed to fund its war on Gaza, and state and local governments in the U.S. were only all too eager to buy Israeli debt, leading to states, counties and cities becoming massive investors in the country. Last year, Israel sold a record $3 billion in bonds. (Related: Israel's DEBT has doubled to nearly $43 billion since declaring war on Gaza.)

The situation has turned Palm Beach County, Florida into the world's largest investor in Israeli bonds, with ...

Gold Newsletter: 2023 will be a bearish year for stocks and bonds, but a bullish one for precious metals

January 10, 2023 - bonds bullish for precious metals."

Hodgson, meanwhile, pointed out that the people in the Federal Reserve are political appointees.

In response, Lundin said political pressures will be immense this year as "the budget will essentially be buried under the cost of servicing federal at a trillion dollars or more a year." He continued: "This will be the single largest budget item, more than defense or Medicare, more than really any single item. You'll be paying ...

Members of Scottsdale Unified School District served surety bonds of $1 million EACH over child abuse, segregation, inappropriate materials

February 12, 2022 -

In particular, parents are outraged at the adoption of an explicitly anti-white critical race theory curriculum, ridiculous and pointless COVID masking and vaccine mandates and the inclusion of sexually inappropriate books and materials in school libraries that includes illegal acts of pedophilia.

In fact, parents and activists have just served members of the Scottsdale (Arizona) Unified School District with surety bonds totaling $1 million (that is, 10 parents ...

Global debt markets are BREAKING – pension collapse in England, govt. debt FAIL in Japan, while some bonds see 75% losses so far in 2022

October 12, 2022 -

Because bond values have an inverse relationship with interest rates, as interest rates go up, the value of bonds and other debt instruments already issued goes down. With each Fed rate increase, bond values are cratering, leaving debt investors holding substantial losses and leading to a collapse in the number of potential buyers even willing to take possession of these bonds.

As investor Larry McDonald says in this Marketwatch article, "things are ...

Same coastal city mayors who claim climate change will sink their cities are still selling long-term municipal bonds to investors: Isn’t that fraud?

October 30, 2019 - bonds to investors, the forecast is suddenly much sunnier.

According to a revealing new report from the Government Accountability Institute, author Peter Schweizer exposes the climate change apocalypse speciousness used by big city leaders who decry the global warming/climate change fiasco out of one side of their mouths while remaining dead quiet about the ‘threat’ in bond disclosures.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Schweizer said the study which ...

Democrats pushing “tax the rich” scheme that will force asset owners to SELL stocks, bonds and crypto just to pay new taxes on “unrealized” gains

October 29, 2021 -

The very first income tax was levied in 1861 in order to finance the Civil War, with the federal Congress passing legislation the following year creating the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the precursor to today's Internal Revenue Service. The new agency put excise taxes on many products but the income tax was not popular and it was repealed in 1872, only to return again after the turn of the century.

However, the new tax rates had a very minimal effect on the lowest earners ...