Follow the money, a lot of noise is being made about possible China capital flight.
Something is going on because $CNY has depreciated almost 15% YTD.
I asked Andrew Collier a china researcher what the best metric would be to quantify possible capital flight. He said to look at the difference between China intl net export earnings and the official foreign reserves.
YTD China foreign reserves increased +$32.407bn, but total next exports are +$553.253bn, that means there is $520.846bn in money that has left China to do something ???? 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
Some possibilities: 1. China is buying a lot of gold 2. China is paying down USD offshore debt of its banks and corporates 3. Some wealthy comrades are fleeing the coop
Most importantly what China is not doing is:
BUYING MORE US TREASURIES!!!!!
As long as the $JPY weakens, the $CNY must weaken so that Chinese exports remain competitive vs. Japan.
Wherever the Chinese capital is going, it will keep going in SIZE.
I hope some finds its way to Lord Satoshi and $BTC
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1/ A longer essay coming soon on my take. This $JPM / $FRC deal means the US regulators decided to nationalise the banking system.
2/ The 8 TBTF banks are effectively nationalised bc they have a govt gtee on their entire deposit base. They will not be allowed to fail regardless of decisions they make. Socialised losses, privatised gains, it's a great deal but...
3/ When called upon the 8 TBTF banks must absorb their shitty cousins who couldn't handle the rough and tumble free market. The prodigal childrens' equity holders will get a 0 first, but the depositors will find a new home in a safe TBTF bank.
It's very simple:
Will the regulators actually solve the problem and stop the banking crisis
Or
Will they find a half-ass solution that solves this particular issue but leaves the broader system just as fucked?
2/ Whether a group of TBTF banks buy $FRC at a sweet discount or the FDIC takes it over the question we need to ask is?
Do the regulators finally realise that either the Fed cuts rates to close the spread btw deposit rates and RRP, or BTFP accepts any bank loan as collateral?
3/ Seems like the Fed still wants to hike 0.25% at its meeting this week. They still don't get it, or maybe they do and are just hoping and praying the market is stupid. Doesn't matter either way, a rate hike almost gtees another non-TBTF will bite the dust this week.
1/ Let's Fucking Go! Another Friday, another US bank on the brink of being deaded by the FDIC.
2/ The issue with $FRC is that their balance sheet has few treasuries and a lot of other dog shit like commercial real estate loans which are not eligible collateral for the #banktermfundingprogram
3/ Therefore unless some muppet bank decides to bail out $FRC, expect over the weekend the #banktermfundingprogram is expanded to allow other types of loans to be eligible to be swapped for freshly printed dollaz.
If they make it to the weekend without being taken over by the FDIC colour me surprised.
2/ If FDIC takes over, the next question is whether deposits over $250k will be made whole. This is a decision of US Treasury Secretary Yellen. She told the market she has the authority to deem a banking institution systemic and then gtee all deposits.
3/ Yellen knows backstopping all banking deposits increases moral hazard and cements the view that the USG stands behind the entire US banking deposit base. Inflationary BIGLY!
TLDR another way to bailout non-US banks that isn't obvious to the average person.
2/ It's politically toxic for the Fed to be seen bailing out foreign banks when so many small domestic banks need help.
But the Fed can't have foreign banks dumping treasuries into an liquid market and further fucking shit up.
3/ Solution:
- Fed gives $ swap line to major CB like ECB
- ECB allows EU banks to give them treasuries at par
- ECB gives $'s to the banks
- Banks can now handle any $ deposit outflows
- ECB gets the $ from the Fed using the swap line