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Blain's Morning Porridge - July 27th 2017 - Are we in a bubble about to burst, or are we facing

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 27th 2017 “A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.” No surprises from the Fed last night....

Blain's Morning Porridge - July 26th 2017. Greece returns to bond market, but nothing is fixed y

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 26th 2017 “Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American invention.” Apologies...

Blain's Morning Porridge - July 20th - ECB, Whisky and Airplanes.. the stuff of the day..

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 20th 2017 “The entire universe has been nearly divided into things to a) mate with, b) eat, c) run away...

Blain's Morning Porridge - July 19th 2017: European 2nd Tier Banks and NPLs - an unsorted proble

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 19th 2017 “...” One of the things that’s been niggling me for years has been the question of just how...

Blain's Morning Porridge - July 18th 2017 - Trumpity Trumpity Trip.. and other stuff..

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 18th 2017 “Man there’s an opera out on the Turnpike, there’s a ballet being fought out in the alley...”...

Blain's Morning Porridge - July 17th 2017. And what will the ECB do next?

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 17th 2017 “They never did like Mama’s homemade dress, Papa’s bankbook wasn’t big enough.” Last week the...

Blain's Morning Porridge - July 14th 2017. Cars - what future? Buy power and batteries!

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 14th 2017 “All Gaul s divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another,...

Blain's Morning Porridge - Canada, The Fed, Global sequencing and Greece..

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 13th 2017 “Never mind manoeuvers, always go at them.” Methinks we worry too much.. Canada hiked interest...

Blain's Morning Porridge - Trump, Politics, The Gig Economy, and a World Murdered by hopeless Ap

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 12th 2017 “Where do the Orangemen get the money to build such big bonfires,” I pondered.. “Don’t ask, and...

Blain's Morning Porridge - July 11th 2017 - High Yield and ETFs.. some thots..

Blain’s Morning Porridge – July 11th 2017 “I said “far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!” You know, well you know, you had it comin’...

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Bill Blain

Strategist and Head of Capital Markets / Alternative Assets at Mint Partners

Bill has worked in fixed income markets since 1985. He started in the back office at Morgan Stanley, followed by spells at syndicate at Nippon Credit and LTCB before becoming a capital markets specialist and leading originator at Bear Stearns, rising to become head of FIG at HSBC before becoming trying to start a Hedge Fund in 2007 just as the global financial crisis struck. He then became a broker at KNG, head of fixed income at Matrix, before taking the team to Mint in 2012. Bill has pioneered new distribution systems and the "Alternative" non-bank financing market. Bill also spent time early in his career as a journalist at Euromoney and Bloomberg.

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