US debt ceiling impasse pushes government credit default swaps to record high. Someone is betting against the USA! Maybe that’s why Yellen called the CEOs? The best time we can live.

via reuters: NEW YORK, May 10 (Reuters) – The cost of insuring exposure to U.S. government debt rose to fresh highs on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden and top lawmakers remained deadlocked in talks over raising the $31.4 trillion federal …

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UBS Credit Default Swaps spiking

UBS Credit Default Swaps spiking- the $CS hot potato is just switching hands… pic.twitter.com/p5J8pMz4T7 — Roberto Rios (@peruvian_bull) March 20, 2023 View post on imgur.com UBS right now pic.twitter.com/5txbQq5FX2 — Satoshidisco (@satoshidisco) March 20, 2023

UK Swaps one Globalist Prime Minister for Another

by Chris Black Liz Truss was the UK’s shortest serving prime minister, resigning after 44 days in office. She was yet another World Economic Forum goon (https://archive.ph/50Ptv) who swore to implement Agenda 21 (https://web.archive.org/web/20220721032522/https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1355469447662874625).  Her administration had zero White men …

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Food Prices Have Never Been Higher

🍗JUST IN🍗 Food prices have never been higher. Chicken is up 17%. Flour is up 24%.Eggs up 30% This is why I created the Tendies Index. Note, it has never been higher.https://t.co/AIEZqwKJzf pic.twitter.com/DegUocUr9I — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 13, 2022 🇺🇸 …

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Short colleges?

by lolmobile Enrollment across all sectors of higher education continued to decline this past semester, extending a trend that began during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Total enrollment for spring 2022 …

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Small decline in BIS gold swaps in February

By Robert Lambourne via GATA The recently released February 2022 statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements — https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc220228.pdf — contains information suggesting a decrease of about 29 tonnes in the bank’s gold swaps, from 501 tonnes as at the end …

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BIS Gold swaps increased by 21% in January

By Robert Lambourne via GATA The recently released January 2022 statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements — https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc220131.pdf — contains information suggesting an increase of about 87 tonnes in the bank’s gold swaps, from 414 tonnes in December to 501 …

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BIS gold swaps increased slightly in November

By Robert Lambourne via GATA The recently released November statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements — https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc211130.pdf — contains information suggesting an increase of about 37 tonnes in the bank’s gold swaps, from 414 tonnes in October to 451 tonnes …

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Quarterly bank OCC report: Total Swaps jumped by $10T of nominal value in 2021 after being flat for the last 5 years. GS still leveraged 136:1 on their nominal derivatives, but was reduced. Top 5 increased their swaps by ~$1T each. Top 4 added $200B in short term Equity Derivatives alone.

by laflammaster Caption: Derivative Contracts by Products https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 1: NOTIONAL AMOUNTS OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 3: DISTRIBUTION OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 4: CREDIT EQUIVALENT EXPOSURES https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 10: NOTIONAL AMOUNTS OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS BY …

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Small Decline In BIS Gold Swaps

By Robert Lambourne via GATA The recently released September statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements – https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc210930.pdf — contains information suggesting a decrease of about 26 tonnes in the bank’s gold swaps during August, from 464 tonnes to 438 tonnes. …

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BIS gold swaps fell slightly in August but remain high

By Robert Lambourne via GATA The recently released August statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements – https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc210831.pdf — contains information suggesting a decrease of about 38 tonnes in the bank’s gold swaps in August, from 502 tonnes to 464 tonnes. …

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BIS gold swaps fall in June

By Robert Lambourne via GATA The recently released June statement of account of the Bank for International Settlements — https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc210630.pdf — contains information that suggests a decrease of about 46 tonnes in the bank’s gold swaps to 471 tonnes. This compares to the …

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The Big Short – Credit Swaps

Dr. Michael Burry bets against the then iron clad housing market by having multiple banks create credit swaps and then selling mortgage backed securities short. Straight come up.