“These Are Astonishing Figures, Evidence Of A 1930s-Style Depression”

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from Zero Hedge

Just a few numbers, courtesy of the Telegraph’s Ambrose-Evans Pritchard:

Barnaby Martin, [Bank of America]‘s European credit chief, said world asset markets may face a stress test as the US Federal Reserve starts to tighten afters year of largesse. “Our biggest worry is the end of the liquidity cycle. The Fed is done and it is preparing to raise rates. The reach for yield that we have seen since 2009 is going into reverse”, he said.

Mr Martin flagged warnings by William Dudley, the head of the New York Fed, that the US authorities had tightened too gently in 2004 and might do better to adopt the strategy of 1994 when they raised rates fast and hard, sending tremors through global bond markets.

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