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On May 18, 2015, the ECB's Benoit Coeure held a closed-door speech under "Chatham House" rules in which he leaked to an audience of hedge funds in London that "the central bank would moderately front-load its purchases in its quantitative easing program because of the seasonal lack of market liquidity in the summer." The reaction was an instant 50 pips drop in EURUSD as one or more funds decided to ignore the "rules", and promptly traded on the material, market moving leak.

Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,

Another week goes by and another gaggle of Fed guffaws pukes out the same old 'we are data-dependent' meme, the same old 'everything is on track' narrative, and the same old 'bonds are wrong, stocks are right' idiocy. Do they not see what this constant nonsense has done to Kuroda and The Bank of Japan's credibility - propagandizing in the face of overwhelming facts. In order to help those who just can't seem to shake off the "well The Fed said it so it must be true" denial pysche, we offer the following chart...

Long before McKinsey released its 2015 report which showed that, contrary to repeated, erroneous analysis and propaganda media reports, not only has the world not deleveraged at all but has added some $60 trillion in debt since the crisis (a number which mostly thanks to China is about $5 trillion higher over the past year) we warned that the primary reason why the world is unable to grow is because of an unprecedented mountain of debt that keeps growing.