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Quantitative easing: how the world got hooked on magicked-up money
© Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo Quantitative easing: how the world got hooked on magicked-up money Going cold turkey would finish off a dysfunctional global financial system that’s now hopelessly addicted to emergency infusions. The only solution is surgery on the system itself The world economy is a mess. The system, notionally governed by the […]
Bank of Canada Tapers Weekly QE To C$2BN, Sees Lift Off In “Sometime In Second Half Of 2022”
Bank of Canada Tapers Weekly QE To C$2BN, Sees Lift Off In “Sometime In Second Half Of 2022” As expected, the Bank of Canada took another step to normalize the emergency levels of stimulus, when it announced that it is tapering its bond purchases from C$3BN weekly to C$2BN, in what it hopes to telegraph […]
Fed Drains $485 Billion in Liquidity from Market via Reverse Repos, Undoing 4 Months of QE, Even as QE Continues, Total Assets Near $8 Trillion
Fed Drains $485 Billion in Liquidity from Market via Reverse Repos, Undoing 4 Months of QE, Even as QE Continues, Total Assets Near $8 Trillion It’s a crazy situation the Fed backed into as tsunami of liquidity goes haywire, banking system strains under $4 trillion in reserves, and General Treasury Account gets drawn down. This […]
Fed Drains $351 Billion in Liquidity from Market via Reverse Repos, as Banking System Creaks under Mountain of Reserves
Fed Drains $351 Billion in Liquidity from Market via Reverse Repos, as Banking System Creaks under Mountain of Reserves This is the first time I’ve seen Wall Street banks clamor for the Fed to back off QE. The Fed is struggling to keep the liquidity it created from going haywire. In the fall of 2019, […]
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: Even the Bank of Canada Gets Nervous and Tapers
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: Even the Bank of Canada Gets Nervous and Tapers House prices in the largest markets have gone nuts amid “extrapolative expectations and speculative behavior,” as the Bank of Canada put it. The first thing to know about the housing bubble in Canada is what the Bank of Canada […]
The Secret
The Secret The secret is out. It can no longer be denied and it’s up to each and everyone of us to help bring the secret to the forefront of public awareness. For the mainstream financial media won’t do it, indeed they allow the guardians of the secret to continue to deny its existence. For […]
The Mainstream Is Wrong About Rising Bond Yields and Gold
The Mainstream Is Wrong About Rising Bond Yields and Gold Prices are going up. The Federal Reserve is printing money at an unprecedented rate. The US government continues to borrow and spend at a torrid pace. As Peter Schiff put it in a recent podcast, we’re adrift in a sea of inflation. Gold is supposed to be an […]
Bank of Canada Now Owns 40% of Government of Canada Bonds. Fed a Saint in Comparison. Taper on the Table
Bank of Canada Now Owns 40% of Government of Canada Bonds. Fed a Saint in Comparison. Taper on the Table “Makes you wonder if there’s a potential mid-QE-life crisis taking shape in Ottawa”: strategists at the National Bank of Canada in a note that would be hilarious if it weren’t so serious. The Economics and […]
QE During the “Everything Mania”: Fed’s Assets at $7.7 Trillion, up $3.5 Trillion in 13 months
QE During the “Everything Mania”: Fed’s Assets at $7.7 Trillion, up $3.5 Trillion in 13 months But long-term Treasury yields have surged, to the great consternation of our Wall Street Crybabies. The Fed has shut down or put on ice nearly the entire alphabet soup of bailout programs designed to prop up the markets during […]
Bank of Canada Announces Balance Sheet Reduction, Suddenly Worried about “Moral Hazard”
Bank of Canada Announces Balance Sheet Reduction, Suddenly Worried about “Moral Hazard” “Once crisis tools have served their purpose, central banks should scale them back.” The Bank of Canada will unwind its crisis liquidity facilities, will further reduce its purchases of Government of Canada bonds, which it already started tapering in October, will let short-term […]
Update on Fed’s QE: The Crybabies on Wall Street, which Clamored for More, Are Disappointed
Update on Fed’s QE: The Crybabies on Wall Street, which Clamored for More, Are Disappointed And five SPVs expired, including the one that bought corporate bonds and bond ETFs. The Fed has now put on ice five of its SPVs (Special Purpose Vehicles) which had been designed back in March to bail out the bond […]
Ray Dalio: “We Are On The Brink Of A Terrible Civil War”
Ray Dalio: “We Are On The Brink Of A Terrible Civil War” It was over a decade ago that we first warned the Fed’s unconstrained monetary lunacy will eventually result in civil war, a prediction for which Time magazine, which back then was still somewhat relevant, mocked us. This is what Time’s Stephen Gendel said in […]
Building A false Economy On Hope And Printing Money
Building A false Economy On Hope And Printing Money False Economy’s End In Decay And Failure This article is in response to a piece about how it looks like massive stimulus is finally upon us and the only question is how big it will be. It would be wise to remember this is all an […]
How Will This Unwind? Amid Stimulus, Forbearance, Eviction Bans, Consumer Bankruptcies Dropped to Lowest in Decades. Commercial Chapter 11 Bankruptcies Highest in Years
How Will This Unwind? Amid Stimulus, Forbearance, Eviction Bans, Consumer Bankruptcies Dropped to Lowest in Decades. Commercial Chapter 11 Bankruptcies Highest in Years Weirdest Economy Ever, as 20 million people still claim unemployment benefits. Total bankruptcy filings by consumers and businesses in the US in 2020, across all chapters of bankruptcies, plunged by 30% from […]
