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China Just Flooded Its Economy With A Record Amount Of New Debt

China Just Flooded Its Economy With A Record Amount Of New Debt

China vowed that this time it was serious about finally deleveraging its economy. Once again, it lied.

First, a quick tangent: as a reminder, when it comes to the global economy, increasingly more analysts are realizing that just one number truly matters: that of the global credit impulse, which as we cautioned for the first time two months ago, had recently turned negative, mostly as a result of the recent deceleration in China's credit creation.

Wells Fargo Claws Back Additional $72 Million From John Stumpf, Former Retail Banking Head

It's been a bad start to the week for bank CEOs and ex-CEOs.

Hours after Barclays chief executive Jes Staley was slammed with a regulatory probe and learned he would see substantial cuts to his compensation after he tried to "unmask" a whistleblower, the board of Wells Fargo said it has clawed back an additional $72 million of pay from the two former execs it holds responsible for last year's biggest banking scandal, namely the bank's unprecedented cross-selling practices which went on for years, and which, too, resulted in numerous whistleblowers being silenced.

Kashkari Slams Dimon: "If Demand For Loans Is High, Why Are You Buying Back Your Stock?"

Kashkari Slams Dimon: "If Demand For Loans Is High, Why Are You Buying Back Your Stock?"

While Jamie Dimon made headlines with the warning that "something is wrong" with America, to which he dedicated a substantial portion of his latest annual letter to shareholders, a less discussed declaration by the JPM CEO was that the too-big-to-fail problem, one which clearly impacts his own bank, JP Morgan, has been solved.

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