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When it comes to interest rates, we’re living in the strangest of times, with rates lower than ever. But were we to step out of line with the rest of the world, there’d be a price to pay.
RBAâs low rates will boost M&A
When the cost of borrowing is so low thanks to central bank bond buying, there is a huge incentive to buy companies that offer steady cash flow from long-duration assets.
Feb 5, 2021 â 12.00am
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The $23 billion in takeover activity swirling around the Australian equity market will be the tip of the iceberg if analysts and bankers are right about the impact of the Reserve Bank of Australiaâs ultra-low interest rates.
RBA governor Philip Lowe wants to ensure the cost of debt remains lower for longer through a $100 billion bond-buying program.
MST senior analyst Hasan Tevfik says the RBAâs financial repression is good for M&A.Â
Donald Trump is probably the luckiest presidential candidate in history to have lost an election. He doesn’t realise it yet as he suffers from a self-inflicted wound in the final moments of his presidency. Nor does Biden yet realise how unlucky he is to have won. But that will soon change as his presidency goes from crisis to crisis in all areas from monetary to fiscal to social and political. Very little will go right during his presidency.
The next four years could easily be four years of hell for Biden (if he stays the course for the whole four years), for the US and thus for the world.