“But of course, China might sell all of its US bonds in an extreme case”  GT

“We are officially declaring that the economy has fallen into a recession”
BofA

“Right now, the plan around here is basically to just to start shoveling money out of a helicopter”
Sen. Ben Sasse,

“Who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?
Trump

“Currency Manipulator”
U.S. Treasury

“I'm very worried about it””
Powell

“The Fed is going loco”Trump

“I think China’s manipulating their currency, absolutely. And I think the euro is being manipulated also”
Trump

“you won’t have any real return from US equities over the next 10 years”
Morningstar


“Suppose you could make a lot of money trading freshly harvested baby brains. Would you do it?  To me bitcoin is almost as bad”
Munger

"We don't want to cause a boom-bust condition in the economy" Yellen

“The market is about as highly priced as it was in 1929”
Shiller

“If China doesn’t follow these sanctions, we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the U.S. and international dollar system -- and that’s quite meaningful”
Mnuchin

“Obviously, as it relates to trade, having a weaker dollar is somewhat better for us”
Mnuchin

"I think our dollar is getting too strong, and partially that’s my fault because people have confidence in me”  Trump

Trump: U.S. currency is already “too strong”

“the entire developed world is insolvent.”
Singer

Kuroda:  "whatever it takes"

“...there are signs that monetary policy in the United States and other industrial countries is reaching its limits”  Bernanke

“Everyone is in a currency war and inflation expectations are collapsing”  Edwards

“There is now $7 trillion of government debt with yields below zero globally”
  Bloomberg

“The Chinese government is going to look after the interests of most of the people, most of the investors”  ~  Li

“We have the power to act. We have the determination to act. We have the  commitment to act”...There are "no limits" to how far the ECB will go  Dranghi

“Every time I saw a bumper sticker which said, 'Where's my bailout?' it hurt”
Bernanke

“For an individual to fix Libor is a crime. For a central bank to suppress European bond yields is an act of financial statesmanship.”
Grant

“We should not make the mistake of believing that we have put an end to financial crises”  Fisher

“Lehman Brothers in 2008 was not a bankrupt company”  Fuld

“If I had an easy way, and a non-risk way, of shorting a lot of 20-year  or 30-year bonds, I would do it. But that's not my game. It can't be  done in the quantity that would make sense for us”  Buffett

“Like lemmings at the cliff’s edge, central banks seem steeped in denial of the risks they face.”
Roach

“There’s an increasing number of global investors who are starting to lose trust in the world’s central banks”  Rosenberg

“Investors around the world are shocked, shocked that the monetary wizards may have run out of magic tricks to revive global economic growth”
Yardeni

“I  hope we can all agree that once-in-a-century emergency measures are no  longer necessary five years into an economic recovery" Druckenmiller

"Now we are in a completely different world”  Draghi

“There were no fingerprints of an easy money policy in the marketplace”  Greenspan

“There are increasing signs quantitative easing has overstayed its welcome”
Fisher

“We have to turn the page on the bubble-and-bust mentality that created this mess”
Obama

 

jan282021
Hedge-Fund Legends Lose Billions to Reddit Traders Running Amok  BL
The pain is likely spreading across the hedge fund industry, with rumors swirling among traders of heavy losses at multiple firms
Retail Mania Spurs Veteran Trader to Scour Chat Rooms and Charts  BL
The Fed Cares About Jobs and Inflation, Not GameStop  Duy
Fed chair says low interest rates aren't driving stock market prices  Axios
“I would say financial stability vulnerabilities are overall moderate”  ~  Powell
Investing in a Bubble  VERDAD

Steve Cohen’s Point72 Loses 10-15% Amid Month’s Hedge Fund Carnage  BL
hedge fund “Idea Dinner” with 2 million guests  RBroker
GameStop slugfest spreads as calls for probe build  Reuters
“Dumb Money” Is on GameStop, and It’s Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game  NYT
GameStop's three largest shareholders earn over $2bn amid stock surge Guardian
“Short squeeze” spreads as day traders hunt next GameStop  FT
Warren Says GameStop Frenzy Demands Biden Regulate Markets  BL
Reddit Day Trader Army Fattens Fortunes of the Super-Rich  BL
Bankrupt Blockbuster Joins Reddit-Inspired Retail Rally BL
Electric-vehicle firm Faraday Future to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC deal  Reuters
How Jane Street became the leading Wall Street firm “no one’s really heard of”  FT
10,000 stores are expected to close in 2021, as pandemic pummels retailers  CNBC
globalandother2Asia shares unsettled by Wall St swoon, short seller squeeze  Reuters
China Is Crushing Leveraged Traders With Liquidity Withdrawals  BL
Liaoning province merges 12 banks into 1 amid bad loans and risk of bank runs SCMP
Venezuelan banks issuing debit cards for dollar-denominated accounts, sources say R
Emerging markets borrowers sell debt at near-record rate   FT
2020 Global Auto Sales  Scotia