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The Fed’s Forever War Against Savers
The Fed’s Forever War Against Savers The war on savers rages into its second decade. And yesterday Field Marshal Powell vowed indefinite bombing, shelling, machine-gunning and bayoneting… until the white flag rises over enemy lines. It is war to the knife… and from the knife to the hilt. The only peace terms he will accept […]
Fed Warns of High Downside Risks
Fed Warns of High Downside Risks In its semiannual monetary report to the Senate Finance Committee the Fed warns of six downside risks. The risks are not spread evenly. Low wage earners and small businesses are particularly vulnerable. Please consider the Fed’s Monetary Policy Report to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and to […]
“Stupid And Ridiculous”: Rabobank Says The Fed Will Cause Everything To Come Crashing Down In Epic Ruin
“Stupid And Ridiculous”: Rabobank Says The Fed Will Cause Everything To Come Crashing Down In Epic Ruin Powell Play “Central banks carry out a nation’s monetary policy and control its money supply, often mandated with maintaining low inflation and steady GDP growth. On a macro basis, central banks influence interest rates and participate in open […]
Minsky Melt-up Explained?!?
Minsky Melt-up Explained?!? America (and the world at large) are in the midst of an entirely predictable demographically driven crisis, between an economic/financial system requiring infinite growth and a very finite human/physical world (detailed HERE, or HERE). This mismatch will only become more acute for decades to come. As the growth of demand is decelerating, central banks […]
Here Is The Stunning Chart That Blows Up All Of Modern Central Banking
Here Is The Stunning Chart That Blows Up All Of Modern Central Banking Several years ago, when conventional wisdom dictated that to push inflation higher and jumpstart lethargic economies, central banks have to push rates so low as to make saving punitive and force consumers to go out and spend their hard earned savings, several […]
Here’s What Would Happen If The Fed Launched Negative Rates
Here’s What Would Happen If The Fed Launched Negative Rates On Thursday, May 7, an unprecedented event took place: after a violent repricing in Eurodollar contracts as near as November 2020, for the first time ever the market was pricing in that negative interest rates are not only coming to the US, but would arrive […]
992 Billion Reasons Why The Fed Needs Another Market Crash In The Next Few Weeks
992 Billion Reasons Why The Fed Needs Another Market Crash In The Next Few Weeks Speaking in a video conference organized by the Peterson Institute, turbo money printer Jerome Powell today reassured the market that negative rates are not something the Fed – which expanded its balance sheet by $2.6 trillion in the past two months […]
Underneath the Surface Trouble Is Brewing Once Again
Underneath the Surface Trouble Is Brewing Once Again Larry McDonald, publisher of the investment research service The Bear Traps Report, warns that this crisis is far from over. He spots growing tensions in the credit markets and thinks that large public borrowers like Italy and New York State are in need of massive bailouts. Stocks […]
Someday They Are Going To Write Books About This!
Someday They Are Going To Write Books About This! What is occurring today is absolutely mind-boggling. Someday they are going to write books about this! While there have been some messed up financial conundrums over the years none rival the current situation now before us. The dilemma before us is a fast-moving enigma wrapped in a gossamer […]
Banks Will Not Bail Out The Economy
Banks Will Not Bail Out The Economy These days, we hear a lot that banks were the problem in the 2008 crisis and now they are the part of the solution. Banking was not the main problem of the 2008 crisis, but one of the symptoms that indicated a more serious disease, the excess risk taken by […]
Jim Grant Warns The Fed “Firemen Are Also The Arsonists”
Jim Grant Warns The Fed “Firemen Are Also The Arsonists” Having put put America straight on what we are facing and the consequences of these unelected and unaccountable officials terrifying experiments, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer editor Jim Grant is back with another warning that irresponsible policy from the Federal Reserve made the coronavirus crisis worse than it had […]
#MacroView: The Fed Can’t Fix What’s Broken
#MacroView: The Fed Can’t Fix What’s Broken “The Federal Reserve is poised to spray trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy once a massive aid package to fight the coronavirus and its aftershocks is signed into law. These actions are unprecedented, going beyond anything it did during the 2008 financial crisis in a sign of […]
Loonie Dips After Bank Of Canada Emergency Rate-Cut, Launches QE
Loonie Dips After Bank Of Canada Emergency Rate-Cut, Launches QE The Bank of Canada has just gone full-Fed-tard by slashing rates to just 0.2% and launching a commercial-paper-buying program and has committed to buy C$5bn Canadian Treasuries per week… Negative rates next? Full Bank of Canada Statement: The Bank of Canada today lowered its target […]
Hong Kong Reports Largest Surge In Infections Yet As Experts Warn ” We’re On The Edge Of All-Out War” With COVID-19: Live Updates
Hong Kong Reports Largest Surge In Infections Yet As Experts Warn ” We’re On The Edge Of All-Out War” With COVID-19: Live Updates When historians look back at this time, we suspect that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s landmark decision to order more than 40 million Californians to remain at home on Thursday night will be […]
The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped
The Global Repricing of Assets Can’t Be Stopped All bubbles pop, period. The financial elites are pushing a narrative that asset prices, sales and profits will all return to January 2020 levels as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic fades. Get real, baby. Nothing is going back to January 2020 levels. Rather than the “V-shaped recovery” expected […]
