black swan

more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/30/israel-hamas-war-poses-risk-of-global-market-contagion-economist-says.html

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/ ^ Contains link to the paper (currently free to download/view without registration) Transitory springboard ignited by supply shocks leads to persistent problems.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/13/a-stablecoin-collapse-could-spill-into-us-bond-market-academic.html

We're just exploiting the system to the max... https://gata.org/node/22244 Hmmm.... Credit Suisse using the Fed for fast and easy profits? Couldn't be because they are desperate for capital to prevent their own failure becoming a systemic risk to the global financial system, could it?

Any credibility to this? Apparently Credit Suisse is on the brink of collapse. https://www.ft.com/content/11d27b34-cbd3-4fe7-93a4-cf72a33f5104 Let me know if the article won't load due to paywall bullshit.

Saw this today and found it interesting: https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/can-corporate-treasurers-afford-to-ignore-palantirs-gambit-on-gold/ I posted about Palantir some time ago over here: https://www.pmbug.com/threads/privacy-encryption-vs-surveillance-state.3844/post-35147

Big enough to spark systemic risk in the global banking system, so it's not going to be allowed to fail, but it continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/deutsche-bank-keeps-falling-on-capital-risk-from-settlements

As reported on zerohedge.com http://www.zerohedge.com/news/barclays-says-italy-finished-mathematically-beyond-point-no-return Thanks for the hint but most of us are way ahead of you... :gold:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/cme-goes-margin-defcon-1-makes-maintenance-margin-equal-initial-everything :paperbag: Looks like we may yet see that huge buying opportunity next week on physical bullion. I hope the bullion dealers will still be selling if the spot/futures price gets monkey...

The MF Global scandal might negatively impact the commodities markets on Friday. From a comment on Harvey's blog: From the ZH link:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-31/mf-global-finance-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-new-york.html

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-coming-derivatives-crisis-that-could-destroy-the-entire-global-financial-system

Reggie Middleton says yes - times 4. :paperbag: