My world: June 2021… This is part of a series of articles where our contributors describe how they think things will look a year from now. Permanent QE keeps stock markets...
About Bill Blain
The Fund Manager
The great mistake – QE and austerity
Pumping cash into the economy was meant to make us all better off. Instead the money got locked into stocks and bonds to enrich the wealthy, while austerity made everyone else...
The Macro View
Junk Bonds are Going to Kill Us All
A few years ago I was on Bloomberg one morning and said something like, stocks looked overly expensive and should be due a correction if it wasn’t for the support they were...
The Macro View
Blain’s Morning Porridge
It’s going to be relatively short comment today – I just spent the last 1 ½ hours standing all the way from Southampton to the City. SouthWest Rail decided to reduce the...
The Macro View
There’s finance, and there’s reality
Global financial markets seem increasingly disconnected from real world events – keep your eyes on the macro trends I’ve spent 35 years in finance, and much of the market...
The Macro View
Blain’s Morning Porridge
Why did the Fed Ease? Last night’s Fed decision was anything but unanimous with 10 of the 17 members dissenting – views ranging from no cut to a larger ease. Powell...