Lastly, I would like to offer a possible scenario regarding interest rates and their «return to normal» Hand in hand with the observation that we are now in
a credit cycle world, interest rate expectations and ranges will be adjusted accordingly.
Not exact matches
Oliver will explain why the current
credit cycle is likely to be the last one for the dollar and what you should do to prepare for a tectonic shift in the
world's financial markets.
In a perfect
world everyone would pay their
credit card bill in full at the end of each billing
cycle.
We have often written about the boom in non-income producing assets — such as collectibles — and the associated
world record prices, as being a sign of the very late stages of a
credit cycle.
The new trends of worsening
credit quality and central bank asset sales are important for investors because they speak to the most appropriate asset allocation for where we are in this market
cycle and the
world's rising political risks.
The
world has just experienced a particularly bad downswing in the
credit cycle.
Without strong US job growth in this growth
cycle and driven by rising US consumer debt obligations and a US housing value bubble, the US then lead the
world into another financial or «
credit crunch» crisis that was far worse than the dot com crash.
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credits.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand that there are natural
cycles and that they milk them to scare us so they can tax and control us and get us to pay subsidies and allow tax
credits so they, and their contributors can get rich off of windmills, solar panels, ethanol and whatever schemes they have to save the
world from a made up problem that does not exist.
This is in sharp contrast to the fractional reserve banking system that is pervasive in the
world and typically has a 10 % reserve requirement, and therefore creates excess
credit and consequently the boom and bust
cycles.
While no one can say with certainty what the future will hold, especially with the
world in the midst of a massive
credit deleveraging
cycle, I think the alarmist rhetoric about dramatically higher rates in the near future is overblown (and I've been saying this since April when most of the bank's economists were sounding the alarm bells).