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Helicopter Money: Global Central Banks Consider Distributing Money Directly To The People
Helicopter Money: Global Central Banks Consider Distributing Money Directly To The People Should central banks create money out of thin air and give it directly to governments and average citizens? If you can believe it, this is now under serious consideration. Since 2008, global central banks have cut interest rates 637 times, they have injected […]
The ECB and John Law
The ECB and John Law Last week, the ECB extended its monetary madness, pushing deposit rates further into negative figures. It is extending quantitative easing from sovereign debt into non-financial investment grade bonds, while increasing the pace of acquisition to €80bn per month. The ECB also promised to pay the banks to take credit from […]
WTI Crude Slides Back Into Red For 2016 As The Fed And Oil Remain On Unsustainable Paths
WTI Crude Slides Back Into Red For 2016 As The Fed And Oil Remain On Unsustainable Paths Oil prices have increased 50 percent since the lows exhibited earlier this year, a rise that is largely linked to the positive market reaction to the OPEC output freeze. But WTI Crude has given up all its early […]
The Fed And The Oil Markets On Unsustainable Path As Election Looms
The Fed And The Oil Markets On Unsustainable Path As Election Looms Oil prices have increased 50 percent since the lows exhibited earlier this year, a rise that is largely linked to the positive market reaction to the OPEC output freeze. That comes even as for all intents and purposes OPEC has nearly reached its […]
The Monetary Base, Buybacks and the Stock Market
The Monetary Base, Buybacks and the Stock Market A Useful Leading Indicator? We often see charts comparing the S&P 500 to the growth in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, or more specifically, to assets held by the Fed. There is undeniably a close correlation between the two, but it has struck us as not very […]
Economics Is Like A Religion – Just Faith In Theory
Economics Is Like A Religion – Just Faith In Theory Everyone is missing the serious problem that ultra-low interest rates have created for retirees. Pension funds are still assuming that future returns will be in the 7½–8% range. And as people get older and have no practical way to go back to work, pension funds […]
This Chart Shows the First Big Crash Is Likely Just Ahead
This Chart Shows the First Big Crash Is Likely Just Ahead The story on Wall Street and CNBC continues to be that we’re in a correction and this is a buying opportunity. Even Warren Buffett joins the chorus of stock market cheerleaders for the skeptical public. Well, I agree with the skeptical public, not the […]
Norway’s Interest Rate Conundrum
Norway’s Interest Rate Conundrum Current Situation The ECB recently stimulated more than expected, cutting rates by five basis points and expanding quantitative easing. It is already expected that Norges Bank (The Norwegian Central Bank) will cut rates next week, seeing accelerating inflation as temporary. They have a 2.5% inflation target mandate “over time,” giving them lee-way. They see demand […]
Secret Monetary Group Warns a Catastrophe Is Coming
Secret Monetary Group Warns a Catastrophe Is Coming This is just the tip of the iceberg. The Bank for International Settlements is nothing if not obscure. As the central bankers’ bank, it seems little-more than a back-door, private club for monetary elites to rub shoulders. And it’s located in Switzerland which has always carried a […]
Never Go Full-Kuroda: NIRP Plus QE Will Be Contractionary Disaster In Japan, CS Warns
Never Go Full-Kuroda: NIRP Plus QE Will Be Contractionary Disaster In Japan, CS Warns In late January, when Haruhiko Kuroda took Japan into NIRP, he made it official. He was full-everything. Full-Krugman. Full-Keynes. Full-post-crisis-central-banker-retard. In fact, with the BoJ monetizing the entirety of JGB gross issuance as well as buying up more than half of all […]
Playing Around With Prices Is a Bad Idea
Playing Around With Prices Is a Bad Idea Call me old fashioned, but I still think prices matter. I vividly recall the first time I studied those simple supply-and-demand graphs as a college freshman, and today, far too many years later, their basic logic remains undeniable. When prices are right, money flows to the most […]
“They Spent It All On Hookers, Blow And Fancy Toys” – Hedge Fund Manager Predicts Lower Oil For Longer, Quantitative Easing For The People, And A Gold Bull Market
“They Spent It All On Hookers, Blow And Fancy Toys” – Hedge Fund Manager Predicts Lower Oil For Longer, Quantitative Easing For The People, And A Gold Bull Market In 2011, as gold prices rocketed to $1900 and oil was trading above $120 a barrel, there were few analysts who saw anything but further gains. […]
Why Helicopter Money Can’t Save Us: We’ve Already Been Doing It For 8 Years
Why Helicopter Money Can’t Save Us: We’ve Already Been Doing It For 8 Years There’s a lot of talk going around these days about “helicopter money.” For those unfamiliar, it’s billed as a kind of last Keynesian resort when ZIRP, NIRP, and QE have all failed to boost aggregate demand and juice inflation. For instance, HSBC […]
Whose QE Was it, Anyway?
Whose QE Was it, Anyway? Spanning a decade (2003-2013), QE0 was the most sustained and uninterrupted surge in central banks’ purchases of Treasuries on record. It is difficult to determine the extent to which the Fed’s QE1 during the crisis owed its success in bringing interest rates down to the fact that it was being […]
