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Liquidity & Rates Fall as Trump Trades Beckon
What does the upsurge in repo rates at the end of September suggest? None of the media who supposedly cover the Fed seem able to ask.
R. Christopher Whalen
Dec 23, 20247 min read
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EVs Wane, Fintech Sputters & COF Dumps Commercial Mortgages
Now let’s take a look at how some members of the banking and fintech sector are doing in the first month of 2024.
R. Christopher Whalen
Jan 29, 20248 min read
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Predictions for the New Year 2023
Will Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac require another federal rescue in 2023 or beyond?
R. Christopher Whalen
Dec 30, 20229 min read
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Equity Market Valuations & Quantitative Tightening
The reduction in the Fed's balance sheet is the largest ever margin call on equity exposures of all descriptions.
R. Christopher Whalen
May 23, 20227 min read
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Update: Crypto Frauds and Fintech Dreams
Q: What do Elon Musk and Masayoshi Son have in common? Gigantic margin loans...
R. Christopher Whalen
May 18, 20226 min read
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MEME Stocks & Lithium Batteries
If Henry Ford lived today, would he build electric cars? With lithium batteries?
R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 21, 20226 min read
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The Great Correction of 2025
And after the great correction, the dollar will still be the global means of exchange, but Americans will have lost a huge amount of income
R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 16, 20214 min read
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Don't Fight the Fed -- Yet
Remember when Fed Chair Yellen expressed surprise that more young people were not buying homes?
R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 9, 20214 min read
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