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Signs and Wonders | KUNSTLER
Signs and Wonders | KUNSTLER. “Holy smokes,” Janet Yellen must have barked last week when Japan stepped up to plug the liquidity hole left by the US Federal Reserve’s final taper trot to the zero finish line of Quantitative Easing 3. The gallant samurai Haruhiko Kuroda of Japan’s central bank announced that his grateful nation […]
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 […]
The BOJ Jumps The Monetary Shark—–Now The Machines, Madmen And Morons Are Raging | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
The BOJ Jumps The Monetary Shark—–Now The Machines, Madmen And Morons Are Raging | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. This is just plain sick. Hardly a day after the greatest central bank fraudster of all time, Maestro Greenspan, confessed that QE has not helped the main street economy and jobs, the lunatics at the BOJ flat-out jumped the […]
Complexity: The Hidden Cost of Central Bank Actions | Enterprising Investor
Complexity: The Hidden Cost of Central Bank Actions | Enterprising Investor. Central banks are printing rules almost as fast as they’re printing money. The consequences of these fast-multiplying directives — complicated, long-winded, and sometimes self-contradictory — is one topic at hand. Manipulated interest rates is a second. Distortion and mispricing of stocks, bonds, and currencies […]
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 […]
Central Banker Admits Central Bank Policy Leads To Wealth Inequality | Zero Hedge
Central Banker Admits Central Bank Policy Leads To Wealth Inequality | Zero Hedge. Six years after QE started, and just about the time when we for the first time said that the primary consequence of QE would be unprecedented wealth and class inequality (in addition to fiat collapse, even if that particular bridge has not […]
Kudos To Herr Weidmann For Uttering Three Truths In One Speech | David Stockman’s Contra Corner
Kudos To Herr Weidmann For Uttering Three Truths In One Speech | David Stockman’s Contra Corner. Once in a blue moon officials commit truth in public, but the intrepid leader of Germany’s central bank has delivered a speech which let’s loose of three of them in a single go. Speaking at a conference in Riga, […]
