The energy sector may account for a good proportion of risky credit, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that all negative price action in high yield and junk is entirely energy. While certain markets have regained comfort with the world’s various potentials, the outer echelons of US credit remain on alert. That is typically the pattern of an impending inflection in [...]
The central insight into the Minsky moment is really about saturation, as that point represents where any system can no longer sustain growing marginal inefficiency. In fact, it becomes so inefficient that its entire forward dependence is predicated on simply more debt being issued to pay off old debt. In terms of the economy, that means so much financial resources [...]
Just a few weeks ago I went through the repo and credit markets with the idea that tapering QE was an act of necessity rather than convenience. Again, the orthodox practitioners at the FOMC will proclaim the economy healed when it clearly is not (an economy does not simply contract 3% and then go on its merry way) to set [...]
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