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Fed Chair Just Made This Inadvertent Case for Gold
Fed Chair Just Made This Inadvertent Case for Gold This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Powell boosts gold in Fed speech, why gold is the best bet to make now, and gold remains undervalued as an asset. Fed Chair Powell gives […]
The Fed’s Visible Hand: Powell Buys $305 Million In ETFs In Two Days
The Fed’s Visible Hand: Powell Buys $305 Million In ETFs In Two Days On Tuesday, the US officially crossed over into some bizarro version of a crony, centrally-planned mandated pricing model that is anything but a market when the Fed started buying corporate bond ETFs for the first time ever. Then, moments ago in its […]
Panic Sets In: Fed Promotes More Free Money
Panic Sets In: Fed Promotes More Free Money Lawmakers need to do more says Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari. Free Money for 18 Months The Fed cannot directly give money away so that burden falls on Congress. Kashkari follows Fed Chair Jerome Powell in seeking Congressional Action. “They are going to need more. If this is […]
Powell Needs To Immediately Address Negative Rates Or He Will Lose Control
Powell Needs To Immediately Address Negative Rates Or He Will Lose Control Today was a historic day, not for the latest algo-driven meltup in stocks, but because for the first time ever, fed fund futures priced in negative rates, first in January 2021 and shortly after, as recently as November 2020. In response to the […]
Powell: “Now Is Not The Time To Be Concerned About Debt”
Powell: “Now Is Not The Time To Be Concerned About Debt” In what was perhaps the most illuminating soundbite from the Powell press conference, in response to a question about the sustainability of the US fiscal trajectory in general, and the soaring debt and deficit in particular – both of which the Fed is now […]
“Project Zimbabwe”
“Project Zimbabwe” Roughly a month ago on the afternoon of Sunday, March 8th, Fed Chairman Powell had an emergency staff meeting. Powell: I want the nuttiest money printing plan ever. What action plans do we have that are prepared and ready to initiate? Admin: Well, we have this one named “GFC 2.0” Powell: Sounds tame and sedate. Won’t […]
Fed Chairman Confirms Fed’s Role As The Great Enabler
Fed Chairman Confirms Fed’s Role As The Great Enabler As questions swirl about the Fed’s independence Fed Chair Powell has been busy trying to explain his reason for the “emergency” 50bps rate cut. Regardless of what he says Fed Chair Powell has confirmed the Fed plans to continue its role as the great enabler. This […]
Opinion: The Federal Reserve is stuck in quantitative-easing hell
Opinion: The Federal Reserve is stuck in quantitative-easing hell The central bank’s short-term buying of securities could morph into long-term easing Imagine doing the same thing over and over again, with little progress and no relief. Sounds like most people’s vision of hell — or the Federal Reserve’s current predicament. Since September, the central bank, through […]
A Major Bank Admits QE4 Has Started, And That Stocks Are Rising Because Of The Fed’s Soaring Balance Sheet
A Major Bank Admits QE4 Has Started, And That Stocks Are Rising Because Of The Fed’s Soaring Balance Sheet There was a period of about two months when some of the more confused, Fed sycophantic elements, would parrot everything Powell would say regarding the recently launched $60 billion in monthly purchases of T-Bills, and which […]
Trump Urges Fed To Cut Rates, Launch QE To Counter “Strong” Dollar
Trump Urges Fed To Cut Rates, Launch QE To Counter “Strong” Dollar President Trump took to Twitter this morning to admonish Fed Chair Powell (something he hasn’t done for a little while). Trump said “Would be sooo great if the Fed would further lower interest rates and quantitative ease.” Why? The economy is doing great right? […]
Is Inflation Really Under Control
Is Inflation Really Under Control Recently, analysts have been discussing the pros and cons of using negative interest rates to keep the U.S. economy growing. Despite this, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has said that he does not anticipate the Federal Reserve will implement a policy of negative interest rates as it may be detrimental to […]
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt In a very real way, MMT is already here Sure, it’s not admitting to this. And it’s using several technical jinks and jives to offer a pretense that things are otherwise. But it’s not terribly difficult to predict what’s going to happen next: the Federal Reserve will […]
One Bank Finally Admits The Fed’s “NOT QE” Is Indeed QE… And Could Lead To Financial Collapse
One Bank Finally Admits The Fed’s “NOT QE” Is Indeed QE… And Could Lead To Financial Collapse After a month of constant verbal gymnastics (and diarrhea from financial pundit sycophants who can’t think creatively or originally and merely parrot their echo chamber in hopes of likes/retweets) by the Fed that the recent launch of $60 […]
The Fed’s Dilemma Is Our Problem!
The Fed’s Dilemma Is Our Problem! Pundit Bill Bonner predicts: “Most likely, the stock market will crash sometime before the 2020 election. We can’t know when. …. The end of the stock market boom, too, is unpredictable. But each passing day brings us a day closer to when it will crash and burn.” Bonner’s prediction is […]
The Federal Reserve is a Barbarous Relic
The Federal Reserve is a Barbarous Relic The Sky is Falling The man from the good place. “As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, Oh how I wish he’d go away!” [PT] Ptolemy I Soter, in his history of the wars of Alexander the Great, […]
