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Money from Heaven, Path to Hell
Money from Heaven, Path to Hell What the Fed is going on?! The free-flowing money from the Fed appears to be “Money from heaven” at this point. And in some ways it absolutely is – but only if you take advantage of it personally and decide to protect yourself by locking in these “artificial” gains […]
Has The Fed Already Lost?
Has The Fed Already Lost? Growth is dying & the Fed has few options left Increasingly we live in a world of Now. Instantaneous access to digital real time data and news has simply become a given in our lives of the moment. You may be surprised to know that the Federal Reserve has taken notice. […]
Money Printing And The Bane Of Financial Engineering—–How The Biggest LBO In History Blew-Up
Money Printing And The Bane Of Financial Engineering—–How The Biggest LBO In History Blew-Up Financial engineering is one of the worst ills perpetuated by the Fed’s regime of cheap debt and money market subsidies for speculation. And these deformations are turbo-charged by the tax code which creates a powerful bias toward loading capital structures with […]
Modern-Day Monetary Cranks and the Fed’s “Inflation” Target
Modern-Day Monetary Cranks and the Fed’s “Inflation” Target One Bad Idea After Another Ben Bernanke is frequently in the news these days. The latest occasion concerns his opinion on the Fed’s “inflation” target, i.e., the target for the speed at which money should be debased relative to consumer goods in order to finally attain centrally […]
Modern-Day Social Engineers and Inequality
Modern-Day Social Engineers and Inequality Is Inequality a Bad Thing? We couldn’t believe what we were seeing when coming across the following headline at Reuters recently: “Fed’s Yellen says research needed to understand inequality issue”. Seriously? Maybe we can help the good chairwoman out a bit. First of all, human beings are already born unequal. With that we not […]
None Dare Call It Fraud—–Its Just A “Savings Glut”
None Dare Call It Fraud—–Its Just A “Savings Glut” They were jawing again this morning about the low “natural rate” of interest on bubble vision, implying that the workers of the world have succumbed to an atavistic fit of wild-eyed thrift. Gosh, the world is so inundated in a savings glut, averred Wall Street economist Ed McKeon, that the interest rate would […]
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 4
One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes – Part 4 In the first three installments of this series, we examined the realities behind supply and demand, unemployment and personal debt, and national debt. As has been proven in each consecutive article with ample evidence, mainstream establishment numbers are, for the most part, […]
An Insider’s Take: How the Fed Ruined the Economy
An Insider’s Take: How the Fed Ruined the Economy Let’s start this off with a quote by Ben Bernanke to get your blood boiling: When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve, policymakers and staff alike, mustered the moral courage to do what was […]
Keep Pushing Until Something Really BIG Breaks?
Keep Pushing Until Something Really BIG Breaks? The minutes of the FOMC’s March meeting make clear just how hard it is for the Fed to even think about the possibility of unwinding what they’ve wrought. After six-plus years of interest-rate repression, absurdity has become the established norm. Now they can’t even figure out how to get out of it […]
Eating The Seed Corn—–The Fed’s Horrid Corruption Of Corporate Finance
Eating The Seed Corn—–The Fed’s Horrid Corruption Of Corporate Finance Central bank financial repression results in the systematic and severe mispricing of financial assets. And that has sweeping consequences far beyond the munificent windfalls it bestows on the thin slice of mankind that frequents the casinos of Wall Street, London, Tokyo and Shanghai. The fact is, the […]
Russia’s Central Bank Governor Is Way Smarter Than Ours
Russia’s Central Bank Governor Is Way Smarter Than Ours It wouldn’t be a first, but it would certainly be a – bigger – shock. That is to say, the Bank of England hijacked the head of Canada’s central bank some time ago, but, while unexpected enough, that would pale in comparison to the US hiring […]
The Ghost of ’37
The Ghost of ’37 With the Fed supposedly steeling itself at last to remove a little of its emergency ‘accommodation’, it has suddenly become fashionable to warn of the awful parallels with 1937, as the highly-respected Ray Dalio of Bridgewater has notably done. That year, the story goes, the nation’s ascent from the depths of […]
The Inevitable Failure of Mechanistic Monetary Policy
The Inevitable Failure of Mechanistic Monetary Policy Our current faith in central banks’ ability to “make the economy all better, all the time” is horrendously misplaced. We are living in the Cargo Cult Era of Central Bankers. The era began in earnest on December 5, 1996, when Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan cautiously wondered aloud if […]
The Fed Has Failed the Nation, in One Chart
The Fed Has Failed the Nation, in One Chart There is only one way to end the financial tyranny of the Federal Reserve–abolish it, and put an end to the predatory pathologies of its policies. The Federal Reserve has failed not just the nation and the U.S. economy, but more importantly, the American people that […]
