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Moneyness: Robin Hood central banking
Moneyness: Robin Hood central banking. There were plenty of reports in the press this year accusing central banks of behaving like King John, stealing from the poor to help the rich. Rich people’s wealth tends to be geared towards holdings of stocks and bonds whereas the poor are more dependent on job income. By pushing […]
Could an Energy Bust Trigger QE4? | Euro Pacific Capital
Could an Energy Bust Trigger QE4? | Euro Pacific Capital. In a normal economic times falling energy costs would be considered unadulterated good news. The facts are simple. No one buys a barrel of oil to display above the mantle. No one derives happiness from a lump of coal. Energy is simply a means to […]
Does QE Create “Deflation”? |
Does QE Create “Deflation”? |. Malinvestment vs. Overinvestment Recently we have come across a very interesting article by Lee Adler, which discusses the connection between the Fed’s money printing activities and the shale oil boom. In this context the possibility is mentioned that QE may actually contribute to “creating deflation”. Obviously, we agree with many, in […]
OPEC Presents: Q4 and Deflation – The Automatic Earth
OPEC Presents: Q4 and Deflation – The Automatic Earth. Thinking plummeting oil prices are good for the economy is a mistake. They instead, as I said only yesterday in The Price Of Oil Exposes The True State Of The Economy, point out how bad the global economy is doing. QE has been able to inflate stock […]
This Country Will Be the Next Zimbabwe… |
This Country Will Be the Next Zimbabwe… |. Working with their Hands Things are slowing down. This is Thanksgiving week. People are leaving work early, trying to beat the holiday traffic rush. US stocks and gold were flat yesterday. We’re still in New York, taking care of business. Tomorrow, we’ll get an early start and […]
Central Bank Credibility, the Equity Markets and Gold
Central Bank Credibility, the Equity Markets and Gold. Central bank credibility is at all-time highs. As a consequence, we suggest, equities are near all-time highs too while gold is scraping multi-year lows. A change though may be in the offing with all three. Not today, nor tomorrow. But perhaps sooner than most think. Here’s how […]
Deep Divisions Emerge over ECB Quantitative Easing Plans – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Deep Divisions Emerge over ECB Quantitative Easing Plans – SPIEGEL ONLINE. At first glance, there’s little evidence of the sensitive deals being hammered out in the Market Operations department of Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank. The open-plan office on the fifth floor of its headquarters building, where about a dozen employees are staring at their […]
QE Is Dead… Long Live QE! « The Burning Platform
QE Is Dead… Long Live QE! « The Burning Platform. [N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or […]
TRUTH vs PERCEPTION « The Burning Platform
TRUTH vs PERCEPTION « The Burning Platform. The stock market reached all-time highs last week based upon the machinations of central bankers and the perceptions of speculators that these bankers will always have their back. Yellen, Kuroda, and Draghi are growing increasingly desperate as everything they have done in the last five years has failed to revive […]
Gold Falls, Stocks Record Highs as Japan Goes ‘Weimar’, “Here Be Dragons” | Zero Hedge
Gold Falls, Stocks Record Highs as Japan Goes ‘Weimar’, “Here Be Dragons” | Zero Hedge. Stocks globally surged, while gold fell sharply today despite renewed irrational exuberance on hopes that the Bank of Japan’s vastly increasing money printing will fill some of the gaps left by the apparent end of Federal Reserve bond buying. The […]
How Will The Stock Market React To The End Of Quantitative Easing?
How Will The Stock Market React To The End Of Quantitative Easing?. It is widely expected that the Federal Reserve is going to announce the end of quantitative easing this week. Will this represent a major turning point for the stock market? As you will see below, since 2008 stocks have risen dramatically throughout every […]
Life Lessons To Derive From QE And Stress Tests – The Automatic Earth
Life Lessons To Derive From QE And Stress Tests – The Automatic Earth. I already proposed a few days ago that the recent ECB stress test exercise was such a shambles, it may well have been designed to fail on purpose. In order for Mario Draghi and his Goldman made men to be freed from […]
US Federal Reserve sowed the seeds of the next crash with quantitative easing – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
US Federal Reserve sowed the seeds of the next crash with quantitative easing – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). The US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meets again this week, and is widely expected to announce the end of its third round of money printing, dubbed “QE3”. Over nearly six years, the Fed has injected […]
Quantitative Easing is like “treating cancer with Aspirin”
Quantitative Easing is like “treating cancer with Aspirin”. Shortly before leaving the Fed this year, Ben Bernanke rather pompously declared that Quantitative Easing “works in practice, but it doesn’t work in theory.” There is, of course, no counter-factual. We’ll never know what might have happened if the world’s central banks had not thrown trillions of […]
Tapering, Exiting, or Just Punting? | KUNSTLER
Tapering, Exiting, or Just Punting? | KUNSTLER. Oh, that sound you hear this morning is the distant roar of European equity markets puking after the latest round of phony bank “stress tests” — another exercise in pretend by financial authorities who understand, at least, the bottomless credulity of the news media and the complete mystification […]
