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Negative Interest Rates Destroying the World Economy
Negative Interest Rates Destroying the World Economy QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I think I am starting to see the light you have been shining. Negative interest rates really are “completely insane”. I also now see that months after you wrote about central banks were trapped, others are now just starting to entertain the idea. Is this distinct […]
Peak Negative-Interest-Rate Absurdity? Hilarity Ensues
Peak Negative-Interest-Rate Absurdity? Hilarity Ensues Among the goodies: “reverse Yankee” landmines. When a central bank like the ECB imposes negative interest rates along with QE on its bailiwick, funny things start to happen. Investors become so eager to get any kind of visible yield that they will do the craziest things. They’re now chasing €3 […]
SocGen: “Now We Know Why The Fed Desperately Wants To Avoid A Drop In Equity Markets”
SocGen: “Now We Know Why The Fed Desperately Wants To Avoid A Drop In Equity Markets” With the ECB now unabashedly unleashing a bond bubble in Europe of which it has promised to be a buyer of last resort with the stronly implied hint that European IG companies should issue bonds and buy back shares, and promptly […]
Mary Mellor’s “Debt or Democracy”: Why Not Quantitative Easing for People?
Mary Mellor’s “Debt or Democracy”: Why Not Quantitative Easing for People? Although it is widely assumed that governments are the source of all new money – through “printing it” – the so-called private sector is the source of most new money put into circulation. In one of the most successful enclosures of the commons in […]
Schauble Throws Up All Over Mario Draghi: “The ECB Is Causing Extraordinary Problems”
Schauble Throws Up All Over Mario Draghi: “The ECB Is Causing Extraordinary Problems” Following this weekend’s snafu in which Spiegel said that Germany is considering suing the ECB if it launched QE, Mario Draghi reportedly made attempts to “mollify” Germany with promises that this won’t happen (it will) and that it was willing to meet […]
Former IMF Chief Economist Admits Japan’s “Endgame” Scenario Is Now In Play
Former IMF Chief Economist Admits Japan’s “Endgame” Scenario Is Now In Play Back in October 2014, just after the BOJ drastically expanded its QE operation, we warned that the biggest risk facing the BOJ (and the ECB, and the Fed, and all other central banks actively soaking up securities from the open market) was a lack […]
Quantitative to Qualitative–Is Unelected Nationalisation Next?
QUANTITATIVE TO QUALITATIVE – IS UNELECTED NATIONALISATION NEXT? Last year, in a paper entitled The Stock Market Crash Really Did Cause the Great Recession – Roger Farmer of UCLA argued that the collapse in the stock market was the cause of the Great Recession:- In November of 2008 the Federal Reserve more than doubled the monetary base […]
German and Dutch objections to ECB QE are ignored
German and Dutch objections to ECB QE are ignored From today’s Open Europe news summary: ECB Minutes show deep divisions over stimulus measures Minutes of the March meeting of the ECB governing council, released on yesterday reveal deep divisions amongst its members over the latest round of ECB stimulus. The Dutch and German members were […]
German and Dutch objections to ECB QE are ignored
German and Dutch objections to ECB QE are ignored From today’s Open Europe news summary: ECB Minutes show deep divisions over stimulus measures Minutes of the March meeting of the ECB governing council, released on yesterday reveal deep divisions amongst its members over the latest round of ECB stimulus. The Dutch and German members were […]
Helicopter Money “Not on the Table,” ECB Swears Furiously
Helicopter Money “Not on the Table,” ECB Swears Furiously But it’s already here! It has finally sunk in: what everyone really wants is helicopter money. Central banks, instead of transferring trillions of newly created dollars or euros or whatever to the banks should just hand them directly to the people, like dropping bank notes from […]
“The Game Is Rigged”: From Luxurious Lake Como Villa, Finance Professor Admits “QE Adds To Inequality”
“The Game Is Rigged”: From Luxurious Lake Como Villa, Finance Professor Admits “QE Adds To Inequality” While attending the ultra-exclusive Ambrosetti Workshop, University of Chicago finance professor Luigi Zingales took a few minutes to discuss income inequality in an interview with Bloomberg. We were delighted that the irony of being at a luxurious villa on the shores of […]
ECB Losing Control
ECB Losing Control In Naples, Italy, riots against Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resulted in clashes between police and demonstrators. Italy’s government had to address the plight of Italian banks which now seems to be significant as both houses of parliament voted to create a state fund for bad loans. On Tuesday, the government announced that they planned to […]
The Fed Can’t Save Us
The Fed Can’t Save Us In December, the Fed hiked its target for the federal funds rate, which is the interest rate banks charge each other for overnight loans of reserves. Since 2008 the Fed’s target for the Fed Funds Rate had been a range of 0 percent – 0.25 percent (or what is referred […]
Unconventional Monetary Policy on Stilts
Unconventional Monetary Policy on Stilts NEW YORK – With most advanced economies experiencing anemic recoveries from the 2008 financial crisis, their central banks have been forced to move from conventional monetary policy – reducing policy rates via open-market purchases of short-term government bonds – to a range of unconventional policies. Although the zero nominal bound […]
Has The Biggest Of All Bubbles Popped: Central Bank Omnipotence?
Has The Biggest Of All Bubbles Popped: Central Bank Omnipotence? Since the initial turmoil began with the onset of what is now referred to as “The great financial crisis.” One strategy has proven more profitable than any other. That strategy? BTFD (buy the f___n’ dip.) Regardless of what proprietary advice (short of insider trading,) nothing, as […]
