The Baltic Dry Index – so admired when it is soaring and supportive of all things great and good about credit creation and rehypothecation – has collapsed over 60% year-to-date. At $867, the index is at one-year lows and hovering near post-crisis lows as the hope-strewn surge of last year now lies torn asunder by the reality of China commodity ponzi probes and a 'real' slowing global economy.
The Baltic Dry is hovering near post-crisis lows…
With the worst first-half of the year on record…
Of course, we will hear the echo chamber of 'over-supply' of ships rather than any 'under-demand' of actual aggregate product argument but the circularity of this argument is entirely lost on status quo huggers who viewed rising dry bulk commodity prices as indicative of growth (and built more ships) as opposed to the ponzi-financing scheme it really was… mal-investment writ large once again in a manipulated (and mismanaged) world.
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/UH1jWd Tyler Durden