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Fed Taking Emergency Crisis Measures … Shoving Collateral Onto Banks’ Balance Sheets
Fed Taking Emergency Crisis Measures … Shoving Collateral Onto Banks’ Balance Sheets Mike Maloney with an insightful analysis:
Who’s Profited Most from 7 Years of Fed Policy…. Well the Fed of Course!
Who’s Profited Most from 7 Years of Fed Policy…. Well the Fed of Course! So I’m often asked whether I really believe that government and policymakers intentionally create laws and policies that hurt the people and help themselves. My answer is typically that “if you’re asking me this question you know I do but you don’t […]
Why This Feels Like a Depression for Most People
Why This Feels Like a Depression for Most People “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Everyone has seen the pictures of the unemployed waiting in soup lines during the Great Depression. When you try to tell a […]
When it Really Mattered, Ben Bernanke Coddled, Protected & Bailed Out Financial Criminals
When it Really Mattered, Ben Bernanke Coddled, Protected & Bailed Out Financial Criminals Most of you will have seen Ben Bernanke’s recent crocodile tears regarding how he wished more individuals were held responsible, for you know, destroying the American middle class and handing over the nation to a handful of criminal oligarchs. As David Dayen notes, he […]
Bernanke’s Balderdash
Bernanke’s Balderdash The US and world economies are drifting inexorably into the next recession owing to the deflationary collapse of commodities, capital spending and world trade. These are the inevitable “morning after” consequence of the 20-year global credit binge which has now reached its apogee. The apparent global boom during that period was actually a central bank driven excursion […]
Debt Déjà Vu
Debt Déjà Vu For two years, financial markets have repeated the same error – predicting that US interest rates will rise within about six months, only to see the horizon recede. This serial misjudgment is the result not of unforeseeable events, but of a failure to grasp the strength and global nature of the deflationary […]
US Economy Flies into “Coffin Corner,” But We Don’t Mind!
US Economy Flies into “Coffin Corner,” But We Don’t Mind! Every year, Wall Street economists see a spike in a few indicators and announce an imminent boom. This slowly fades away, leaving another year of slow growth — preventing full recovery from the crash. Readers of the FM website have seen this accurately reported since […]
Failure to Launch
Failure to Launch The popular belief that the U.S. economy has been steadily recovering has endured months of disappointing data without losing much of its appeal. A deep bench of excuses, ranging from the weather to the Chinese economy, has been called on to justify why the economy hasn’t built up any noticeable steam, and […]
Part Deux ‐ Shorting the Federal Reserve
Part Deux ‐ Shorting the Federal Reserve The sequence of events leading up the French Revolution are likely unfamiliar to most. Yet money printing and a debauched French currency played no small part in those events. As a sequel to “Shorting the Federal Reserve”, 720 Global aims to provide an historical example of excessive money […]
Why NIRP may trump QE4
Why NIRP may trump QE4 The Fed unsurprisingly chickened out from the much touted September hike. International conditions and a disapproval from Mr. Market was enough to unnerve an increasingly bewildered FOMC board. Less well known is the fact that the FOMC gave a strong, and unexpected, signal to the Pavlovian world of central bank […]
U.S. jobs and global gloom may mean more mortgage relief: Don Pittis
U.S. jobs and global gloom may mean more mortgage relief: Don Pittis Interest rate hikes fade into the future as economic recovery appears to go flat It seems a terrible thing to cheer about, but a new feeling of gloom may be good for Canadians weighed down by mortgage debt. A worse-than-expected U.S. jobs report and increasing fears […]
A Hapless Brazil Incurs Massive Losses On FX Swaps Amid Currency Carnage
A Hapless Brazil Incurs Massive Losses On FX Swaps Amid Currency Carnage As we’ve documented extensively of late, a host of idiosyncratic political factors have served to exacerbate what was already a very, very bad situation for emerging markets. This dynamic is most readily apparent in Brazil and Turkey, and although Ankara probably has a […]
Dammit, Janet
Dammit, Janet According to Einstein, time is affected by gravity. Clocks far from strong gravitational fields run more quickly; those close by run more slowly. We can only assume, then, that Janet Yellen has the density of a neutron star. Under her leadership of the US Federal Reserve, time seems to have stopped altogether. It […]
From ZIRP to NIRP
From ZIRP to NIRP The sudden end of the Fed’s ambition to raise interest rates above the zero bound, coupled with the FOMC’s minutes, which expressed concerns about emerging market economies, has got financial scribblers writing about negative interest rate policies (NIRP). Coincidentally, Andrew Haldane, the chief economist at the Bank of England, published a […]
The Peak in Government? A Low in Interest Rates?
The Peak in Government? A Low in Interest Rates? We have warned that capital is in a flight to quality, therefore creating the bubble in government paper. We also warned that the bond market on the long-term peaked in April/May and that we should expect a further rally in the short-end. This significant move has unfolded right […]
