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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 […]
Fed’s Balance Sheet Hits $6 Trillion: Up $1.6 Trillion In 3 Weeks
Fed’s Balance Sheet Hits $6 Trillion: Up $1.6 Trillion In 3 Weeks “We’re going to need a bigger chart.” That’s all one can say when seeing what happened to the Fed’s balance sheet in the past week. According to the Fed’s latest weekly H.4.1 (i.e., balance sheet) update, as of April 1 the Fed’s balance […]
The Federal Reserve’s One Last Hail Mary
The Federal Reserve’s One Last Hail Mary Over the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve has been in utter desperation mode to try to revive and keep the American economy on life support. What many in the mainstream media have failed to include in this recent coronavirus economic narrative is that the virus was just […]
Nobody Knows Anything
Nobody Knows Anything The more I read and observe the clearer the message: Nobody knows anything. And by that I mean nobody truly knows how any of this will turn out and I think this point needs to be driven home more clearly. Tons of projections of this, that and the other. Just stop. I happen […]
Fed Launches Repo Facility To Provide Dollars To Foreign Central Bank
Fed Launches Repo Facility To Provide Dollars To Foreign Central Bank With US dealers no longer using the Fed’s repo facilities (this morning we had another “no bid” overnight repo with just $250MM in MBS submitted for a $500 billion op) as the Fed soaks up all securities via its aggressive QE which is still […]
Will Coronavirus End the Fed?
Will Coronavirus End the Fed? September 17, 2019 was a significant day in American economic history. On that day, the New York Federal Reserve began emergency cash infusions into the repurchasing (repo) market. This is the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other. The New York Fed acted after interest rates in […]
Jim Grant Warns Fed’s ‘All-In’ Actions Are A “Clear-And-Present-Danger” To US Creditors
Jim Grant Warns Fed’s ‘All-In’ Actions Are A “Clear-And-Present-Danger” To US Creditors In a veritable treatise on all that was wrong with The Fed’s actions, Jim Grant – founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer – was somehow allowed nine minutes on CNBC’s Squawk Box to put America straight on what we are facing […]
Weekly Commentary: The Solvency Problem
Weekly Commentary: The Solvency Problem Being an analyst of Credit and Bubbles over the past few decades has come with its share of challenges. Greater challenges await. I expect to dedicate the rest of my life to defending Capitalism. One of the great tragedies from the failure of this multi-decade monetary experiment will be the […]
#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 […]
Forced Liquidation
Forced Liquidation Historians of the future, pan-roasting fresh-caught June bugs over their campfires, may wonder when, exactly, was the moment when the financial world broke with reality. Was it when Nixon slammed the “gold window” shut? When “maestro” Alan Greenspan first bamboozled a Senate finance committee? When Pets.com face-planted 268 days after its IPO? When […]
Peter Schiff: Hyperinflation Is the Most Probable Scenario
Peter Schiff: Hyperinflation Is the Most Probable Scenario March 23 was Peter Schiff’s birthday. It was also the day the Federal Reserve announced QE Infinity. So, Peter spent over three hours hosting a live videocast talking about the latest Fed moves, the potential impact on the economy and answering questions from viewers. Peter said he was […]
Despite Massive QE And Congress Bill, The US Dollar Shortage Intensifies
Despite Massive QE And Congress Bill, The US Dollar Shortage Intensifies How can the Fed launch an “unlimited” monetary stimulus with congress approving a $2 trillion package and the dollar index remain strong? The answer lies in the rising global dollar shortage, and should be a lesson for monetary alchemists around the world. The $2 […]
Japan’s QE On Verge Of Failure As Nobody Wants To Sell To The BOJ
Japan’s QE On Verge Of Failure As Nobody Wants To Sell To The BOJ Over a decade since central bankers started a stealthy nationalization of capital markets by purchasing a wide range of securities from Trasuries, to MBS, to corporate bonds, to ETFs and single stocks, their actions are finally catching up to them, and […]
For An Effective Response To The Upcoming Crisis
For An Effective Response To The Upcoming Crisis Before analyzing the emergency plans that the global economy needs, we must remember that, as in the past, the prudence and responsibility of the civil society and businesses will help us to get out of this crisis. In the face of an unprecedented crisis, we have to be […]
In Unprecedented Move, Fed Unveils Open-Ended QE Including Corporate Bonds
In Unprecedented Move, Fed Unveils Open-Ended QE Including Corporate Bonds Coming into Monday, the Fed had a problem: it had already used up half of its entire emergency $700BN QE5 announced last weekend. Which, together with the plunge in stocks, is why at 8am on Monday, just as we expected – given the political cover they have […]
