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The Fed’s Fatal Flaw: A Predictable End
The Fed’s Fatal Flaw: A Predictable End So last week a very savvy investor asked me my view (h/t Simon Popple) on – When and what will break the chains on gold by those seemingly omnipotent forces that so assuredly keep its price in check? In essence, the belief is (and I expect for most honest and […]
Fed chair Yellen tells Canadian homeowners to watch out: Don Pittis
Fed chair Yellen tells Canadian homeowners to watch out: Don Pittis Your mortgage rates are going up, and U.S. Fed chair is pretty specific on how much The financial analysts think they have it figured out. After listening to U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen’s speech and her wily answers to questions from reporters, the consensus seems […]
Today Financial Journalism Suffered An Epic Failure
Today Financial Journalism Suffered An Epic Failure Earlier today we reported about a very sad development for the freedom of speech, or at least the illusion thereof, when one of, if not the best, critical Federal Reserve reporter in the mainstream media, WSJ’s Pedro da Costa founds he was no longer “invited” to the Fed’s quarterly press […]
Janet Yellen’s clout today is especially hefty: Don Pittis
Janet Yellen’s clout today is especially hefty: Don Pittis The sense that change is afoot lends power to the U.S. central banker’s words If you live in a cave and survive on nuts, berries and the odd roasted squirrel, what U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen says today won’t make much difference to your life. At least not right […]
Bank Of America Begins 66-Day Countdown Until The Terrible Ghost Of 1937 Returns
Bank Of America Begins 66-Day Countdown Until The Terrible Ghost Of 1937 Returns In 66 trading days on September 17, 2015, the Federal Reserve will, according to Bank of America, hike rates for the first time since 2006, which according to BofA will “end the era of excess liquidity.” We disagree entirely, but let’s hear […]
Starvation Is The Price Greeks Will Pay For Remaining In The EU
Starvation Is The Price Greeks Will Pay For Remaining In The EU Syriza, the new Greek government that intended to rescue Greece from austerity, has come a cropper. The government relied on the good will of its EU “partners,” only to find that its “partners” had no good will. The Greek government did not understand […]
Manufacturing in Canada Sags, Triggers Chilling References to Financial Crisis
Manufacturing in Canada Sags, Triggers Chilling References to Financial Crisis It’s also happening in the US, but it’s much worse in Canada. In the US, May industrial production dropped “unexpectedly,” as it was roundly called on Monday, by 0.2%, according to the Federal Reserve. The index value has now dropped from month to month since December, […]
The Futility of Our Global Monetary Experiment
The Futility of Our Global Monetary Experiment Jeff Deist: The Fed recently announced just this past week that it would not use specific dates for targeting higher Fed funds rate this year and you almost get the sense that poor Janet Yellen is at the end of this Greenspan-Bernanke experiment and there’s not much left […]
The Fed Is Funneling the Investing Herd Off a Cliff
The Fed Is Funneling the Investing Herd Off a Cliff What happens to price in a bidless market? It goes off a cliff. As you probably know by now, it turns out lemmings didn’t voluntarily commit mass suicide: they were driven off the cliff by those in charge. Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior. […]
Shots Fired – Jamie Dimon Questions Elizabeth Warren’s “Understanding of the Global Banking System”
Shots Fired – Jamie Dimon Questions Elizabeth Warren’s “Understanding of the Global Banking System” I think the following comments will come back to haunt Jamie Dimon. They represent the perspective of an out of touch, financial oligarch who is so consistently fed bullshit compliments by all those surrounding him, he has no idea how badly this […]
How Could the Fed Protect Us from Economic Waves?
How Could the Fed Protect Us from Economic Waves? Making Waves Mainstream economists tell us that the Federal Reserve protects us from economic waves, indeed from the business cycle itself. In their view, people naturally tend to go overboard and cause wild swings in both directions. Thus, we need an economic central planner to alternatively stimulate us […]
Oops! Philly Fed Admits QE widens inequality
Oops! Philly Fed Admits QE widens inequality Once again, the Federal Reserve proves that it’s the last one to know everything that we knew already. Today’s stunning announcement: The Philadelphia Fed admits they (“may have”) made the wealthy wealthier and Main Street poorer. Oops. Sorry America. The Philly Fed insists that “redistributing wealth” to the wealthy isn’t the main […]
The Punch Bowl Stays And The Bubble Keeps Inflating
The Punch Bowl Stays And The Bubble Keeps Inflating It is well known that I don’t think much of the ability of government officials to correctly forecast much of anything. Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke have made famously clueless predictions with respect to stock and housing bubbles, and rank and file Fed economists have consistently overestimated […]
More Central Banking Lunacy
More Central Banking Lunacy US Rate Hike: The Back-Pedaling Brigade Last week’s payrolls report was “stronger than expected”, which should actually be fairly meaningless, given how many times it will be revised and considering that it is a lagging economic indicator. However, in light of the Fed’s absurd employment mandate, it does slightly increase the […]
ZIRP——The Monetary Trick Which Killed Wages
ZIRP——The Monetary Trick Which Killed Wages Stupid Fed Trick Number 1 The Fed thinks that keeping interest rates low spurs inflation. It was probably happy to see the purported uptick in wage inflation in the just released May jobs report. It wants to see wages start rising to create a bit of inflationary pressure. That […]
