“The treasury marke is blowing up now, and it is not because China is dumping.”
“It is because the basic trade is back, and it is probably going to get uglier before its get better”
“After the finacial crisis (2008) regulations were passed to make banks safer”
“There are always unintended consequences, and one of those consequences is that banks have to find out to make money with less risky assets”
“Usually to make more money with “less risk” usually involves leverage”
“The basis trade is an arbitrage trade between atreasury and the future of that treasury, usually they will trade in lock step with each other (with a slight premium on the future”
“You can short the future and by (with that cash)”
“Since this trade is with US treasuries it is considered risk free”
“Because this trade is considered totally risk free they (hedge funds) is able to load up a ton of leverage”
“Every single very big market crash in history has happend as results of massiv leverage beeing used in so called “risk free” trade, usually an arbitrage”.
“When market start to crash you do not sell what you want, but what you can”
Mao, når det begynner å brenne under beina på disse hedgefundene så drar det selvsagt med seg aksje markedet ned.
Løsningen er 1 av 2; en QE eller en slags deregulering av banksektoren slik at det ikke er FED, men bankene som sørger for QE.
Har ikke tilgang på denne artikkelen, men den ser ut til å oppsummere det som foregår.
Akkurat virker det dessuten å være ganske stor politisk uenighet om veien fremover:
EDIT
Kun de største hedgfundende i verden kan drive med den arbitrage traden, og skulle ikke forundre meg om Rai Dailo sitt hedgefund Bridgewater Associates er involvert, og det må tas noe tap på selge det man kan ikke det man vil, but who knows.