Credit Dislocation: Be Warned (market-ticker)

http://market-ticker.org/archives/1539-Possible-Credit-Dislocation-Be-Warned.html

I have reason to suspect that the “monetary transmission mechanism” is full of rocks (again), and we are about to have another instance of what could colloquially be called “fun.” (Yes, that’s sarcasm.)

Here’s what we know and what I can deduce from it:

* JP Morgan’s “cash position” was analyzed by a writer who published on SCRIBD, which showed that actual cash held has deteriorated radically. By more than half in the last year. The deterioration is continuing, not slowing.

* I am hearing repeated anecdotes from multiple areas that foreclosed property held by banks with multiple full-price offers that include a financing requirement are being sold instead to people with actual cash at radical reductions from that price. This implies that these financing contingencies are regarded as not only potentially no good but factually no good, as if the banks know for a fact that the credit pipeline will (not might), within weeks or months (in the time required to close), disappear. There is no other rational explanation for this behavior.

* Citibank’s credit-card terms change implies a willingness to accept and even provoke a complete and intentional destruction of their credit card business as a very high probability outcome, given that nobody in their right mind will accept a 30% interest rate who has an alternative. The obvious implication is that only those who can’t transfer balances out will remain and if your credit is that impaired there’s a good chance you will default - either intentionally or otherwise. This too implies foreknowledge of a near-complete impending freeze in the credit markets.
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