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oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Where Will Risk Erupt This Time?
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Where Will Risk Erupt This Time?. So where has all the risk pooled up in the system? In foreign exchange (FX) markets, that’s where. One of the precepts of this blog is that risk cannot be disappeared, it can only be transferred or temporarily hidden from view. This runs counter to modern portfolio management, which […]
Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins – PaulCraigRoberts.org
Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins – PaulCraigRoberts.org. Nomi Prins in the article below addresses the destruction of the market-based Western financial system and its replacement with a casino underwritten by taxpayers. Why the Financial and Political System Failed — Nomi Prins The recent spike in global political-financial volatility that was […]
How Will The Stock Market React To The End Of Quantitative Easing?
How Will The Stock Market React To The End Of Quantitative Easing?. It is widely expected that the Federal Reserve is going to announce the end of quantitative easing this week. Will this represent a major turning point for the stock market? As you will see below, since 2008 stocks have risen dramatically throughout every […]
Markets and reality disconnected » The Cobden Centre
Markets and reality disconnected » The Cobden Centre. The behaviour of financial markets these days is frankly divorced from reality, with value-investing banished. Markets have become distorted by Rumsfeld-knowns such as interest rate policy and “market guidance”, and Rumsfeld-unknowns such as undeclared market intervention by the authorities. On top of these distortions there is remote […]
US Federal Reserve sowed the seeds of the next crash with quantitative easing – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
US Federal Reserve sowed the seeds of the next crash with quantitative easing – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). The US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meets again this week, and is widely expected to announce the end of its third round of money printing, dubbed “QE3”. Over nearly six years, the Fed has injected […]
Tapering, Exiting, or Just Punting? | KUNSTLER
Tapering, Exiting, or Just Punting? | KUNSTLER. Oh, that sound you hear this morning is the distant roar of European equity markets puking after the latest round of phony bank “stress tests” — another exercise in pretend by financial authorities who understand, at least, the bottomless credulity of the news media and the complete mystification […]
Can’t Find Any Inflation? Here’s A Place To Start | Zero Hedge
Can’t Find Any Inflation? Here’s A Place To Start | Zero Hedge. Lately, there has been much anguished consternation, especially among the tenured US economics professors (primarily those who make 6-digits or more per year) and of course, the Federal Reserve where as we revealed last week, at least 113 government workers make $250,000 (excluding bonuses) and […]
Something Is Dangerously Wrong at the New York Fed | Armstrong Economics
Something Is Dangerously Wrong at the New York Fed | Armstrong Economics. In a speech this week, New York Federal Reserve Board President William Dudley addressed pervasive misconduct within the financial industry, refusing to dismissively lay the blame on a few bad apples. “The problems originate from the culture of the firms, and this culture is largely shaped by the […]
Low Inflation? The Price Of Ground Beef Has Risen 17 Percent Over The Past Year
Low Inflation? The Price Of Ground Beef Has Risen 17 Percent Over The Past Year. Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the middle class is slowly being suffocated by rising food prices. Every single dollar in your wallet is constantly becoming less valuable because of the inflation the Fed systematically creates. And if you try to […]
The High Price of Free Money: Now US Bankers Fear Financial, Social, or Political ‘Instability’ | Wolf Street
The High Price of Free Money: Now US Bankers Fear Financial, Social, or Political ‘Instability’ | Wolf Street. Something is changing about the perception of the Fed’s free-money policies. While we’ve lambasted them for their nefarious effects on the real economy and the inequality they produce, Wall Street, the prime beneficiary, has been bombastically gung-ho […]
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: What Happens When Cash Is No Longer Trash?
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: What Happens When Cash Is No Longer Trash?. Those who actually create value as opposed to chasing yield with nearly-free money will actually have some traction once the swamp of excess liquidity drains. When those closest to the money spigots of the Federal Reserve can borrow billions for next to nothing, cash–laboriously […]
How The Federal Reserve Is Purposely Attacking Savers – Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity
How The Federal Reserve Is Purposely Attacking Savers – Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity. There’s something we ‘regular’ citizens wrestle with that the elites never seem to: a sense of moral duty. For example, following the collapse of the housing bubble, many people struggled with mortgages they could no longer afford to pay, fearing the shame […]
Hussman Funds – Weekly Market Comment: On the Tendency of Large Market Losses to Occur in Succession – October 20, 2014
Hussman Funds – Weekly Market Comment: On the Tendency of Large Market Losses to Occur in Succession – October 20, 2014. Abrupt market losses typically reflect compressed risk premiums that are then joined by a shift toward increased risk aversion by investors. In market cycles across history, we find that the distinction between an overvalued […]
Mel Watt, Federal Housing Finance Agency Head, is Pushing Banks to Make Extremely Risky Home Loans | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Mel Watt, Federal Housing Finance Agency Head, is Pushing Banks to Make Extremely Risky Home Loans | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Mel Watt is one of the most dangerous financial oligarch puppets operating in America today. The first time he came across my radar screen was back in 2009, when he “gutted” Ron Paul’s End the Fed bill while it […]
