Introducing: The Big Short 2.0

Europe is fast approaching its Lehman moment March 19, 2020 UNSUBSCRIBE | ARCHIVES He called the Crash of 2008 to a T, now history repeats itself You NEED to know what your editor Graham Summers says is coming next… We're deep in the chaos of a crashing market… But with Graham's strategy You have the potential to help protect your assets and even increase them with his profit system that is currently still thriving with an outstanding 80%-win rate… The details are in our brief new video interview, and if you want to learn how to take advantage of the crashing market now…. Click here to watch this interview. Introducing: The Big Short 2.0 Dear Money & Crisis Reader, The Everything Bubble has burst. The next crisis is fast approaching. 2008 was just the warmup. During the 2008 crisis, the Fed did three things: Cut interest rates to zero, making credit all but free for banks. Implemented large quantitative easing (QE) programs through which it printed $3.5+ trillion in new money to buy assets from large financial institutions, primarily mortgage-backed securities and U.S. government debt, also called Treasuries. Urged the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to abandon "market to market" valuations for banks, thereby allowing the banks to value the debts on their balance sheet at "make believe" prices. Combined, these three policies – particularly the first and second – created a bubble in U.S. Treasuries, forcing yields to extraordinary lows. Allow me to explain why that matters. The Bedrock of the Financial System Treasuries are the bedrock of the global financial system. Their yields represent the "risk free" rate of return – the rate against which all risk assets (stocks, commodities, real estate, etc.) are priced. So when the Fed created a bubble in Treasuries, it created a bubble in EVERYTHING. The entire financial system became mispriced based on a false risk profile. Every asset class in the world trades based on the pricing of bonds. So the fact that bonds are in a bubble (arguably the biggest bubble in financial history), means that EVERY asset class is in a bubble. I am focusing on the Fed here, but the same policies played out in every major financial system. The Largest Financial Bubble in History The European Central Bank (ECB) employed the same policies in Europe. The Bank of England (BoE) employed the same policies in the UK. And the Bank of Japan (BoJ), which had already been doing both a zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) and QE since 2000, took these polices to even greater extremes. The end result? Central bankers created the BIGGEST, most egregious bubble in financial history. A $250 TRILLION debt bomb… with another $500+ trillion in derivatives trading based on its yields. To put this into perspective, the Tech Bubble was about $15 trillion in size. The Housing Bubble, which triggered the 2008 Crisis, was about $30 trillion in size. The bond bubble is over $250 TRILLION in size. Some $50 trillion of this is in sovereign debt, with the rest coming from corporate debt, mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, and the like. This mountain of debt is categorized based its riskiness. Not all debt is equal, since different borrowers have different levels of risk of default. For instance, an oil shale company that needs oil to trade at $60 per barrel is at much greater risk of default than a sovereign nation like the U.S. For simplicities sake, we're going to ignore auto-loans, student debt, and credit card debt to focus on the truly systemically important debt: Corporate, municipal, and sovereign/national debt. This book is exciting for lots of reasons – 177 to be exact. On page 221, you'll learn how to create an online course — and have a shot at earning $23,500 in 45 minutes. On page 197, I'll show you how to potentially make $2,000 a weekend, from anywhere in the world. And on page 161, you'll find 10 businesses you can start from home today! That is just some of the reasons! All that's left to do is to learn how to claim your copy today! Chart Analysis: The Bond Food Chain In the U.S., things rapidly move up the bond food chain. The corporate bond market bubble has burst. The bubble in less risky corporate debt, called investment grade corporate debt, is about to do the same. Further up the food chain, the bubble in high yield municipal bonds (bonds issued by cities, states, and the like) has also burst. The BAD news is that the bubble in investment grade municipal bonds has ALSO burst. This leaves sovereign bonds, or Treasuries. Right now, the bubble in U.S. treasuries remains intact. Bond yields are within a clearly defined bear market (bond yields fall when bond prices rise, so the bubble is stable). However, this is NOT the case in Europe. Europe is Fast Approaching Its Lehman Moment Germany is the largest most dynamic economy in Europe. As such, Germany is the ultimate backstop for the EU. And German sovereign bonds are beginning to breakdown. Despite a deflationary collapse, bond yields on the 10-Year German Government bonds is RISING, meaning those bonds are falling in value. This SHOULD not be happening. German bond yields should be falling based on the deflation in the system right now. Indeed, just this week Germany experienced a failed bond auction… meaning not enough buyers showed up to buy its bonds. That kind of thing can happen from time to time… but for it to happen during a flight to safety like the one happening right now is a REAL signal that the EU's bond market is in serious trouble. More on this in the coming days. 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