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Fed Cut Back on Helicopter Money for Wall Street & the Wealthy
Fed Cut Back on Helicopter Money for Wall Street & the Wealthy Tapered QE-4 Further, Still Hasn’t Bought Junk Bonds or ETFs, Was Just Jawboning. Total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet rose by $205 billion during the week ending April 22, to $6.57 trillion. Since the week ending March 11, when the bailout of the Everything […]
“Down The Rabbit Hole” – The Eurodollar Market Is The Matrix Behind It All
“Down The Rabbit Hole” – The Eurodollar Market Is The Matrix Behind It All Summary The Eurodollar system is a critical but often misunderstood driver of global financial markets: its importance cannot be understated. Its origins are shrouded in mystery and intrigue; its operations are invisible to most; and yet it controls us in many […]
Takeover
Takeover We can’t print ourselves out of this crisis again, but that isn’t stopping the Federal Reserve from trying. Thursday’s intervention program, the latest in a string of panic moves to keep the financial system afloat, constitutes a complete takeover attempt of the market ecosphere, only the buying of stocks directly is last missing piece […]
The Fed’s Balance Sheet: The Other Exponential Curve
The Fed’s Balance Sheet: The Other Exponential Curve As the threat of COVID-19 keeps millions of Americans locked down at home, businesses and financial markets are suffering. For example, a survey of small-business owners found that 51% did not believe they could survive the pandemic for longer than three months. At the same time, the S&P 500 posted […]
This Curve Will Never Flatten Again: Fed Balance Sheet Hits $6.1 Trillion, Up $2 Trillion In 1 Month
This Curve Will Never Flatten Again: Fed Balance Sheet Hits $6.1 Trillion, Up $2 Trillion In 1 Month Here is an example of a curve that everyone wants to flatten. And here is an example of a curve that while some – namely the bears – also wants to see collapse, it will never do […]
“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 […]
A Corporate-Debt Reckoning Is Coming
A Corporate-Debt Reckoning Is Coming Corporate debt is the timebomb everyone saw ticking, but no one was able to defuse. Ratings agencies warned about it: Moody’s, S&P. Central banks and international financial institutions did too: the Fed, the Bank of England, the Bank for International Settlements, the IMF. Financial luminaries expressed concern: Jamie Dimon, Seth Klarman, […]
The Federal Reserve’s One Last Hail Mary
The Federal Reserve’s One Last Hail Mary Over the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve has been in utter desperation mode to try to revive and keep the American economy on life support. What many in the mainstream media have failed to include in this recent coronavirus economic narrative is that the virus was just […]
Nobody Knows Anything
Nobody Knows Anything The more I read and observe the clearer the message: Nobody knows anything. And by that I mean nobody truly knows how any of this will turn out and I think this point needs to be driven home more clearly. Tons of projections of this, that and the other. Just stop. I happen […]
Will Coronavirus End the Fed?
Will Coronavirus End the Fed? September 17, 2019 was a significant day in American economic history. On that day, the New York Federal Reserve began emergency cash infusions into the repurchasing (repo) market. This is the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other. The New York Fed acted after interest rates in […]
What Will Be the Unintended Consequences of Printing Trillions of Dollars to Backstop the Entire System?
What Will Be the Unintended Consequences of Printing Trillions of Dollars to Backstop the Entire System? Stocks are up somewhat this morning. This marks the second Monday stocks will open in the green (last Monday was a green open as well) following two horrifically bad weekend sessions that saw stocks open limit down or close […]
Despite Massive QE And Congress Bill, The US Dollar Shortage Intensifies
Despite Massive QE And Congress Bill, The US Dollar Shortage Intensifies How can the Fed launch an “unlimited” monetary stimulus with congress approving a $2 trillion package and the dollar index remain strong? The answer lies in the rising global dollar shortage, and should be a lesson for monetary alchemists around the world. The $2 […]
Japan’s QE On Verge Of Failure As Nobody Wants To Sell To The BOJ
Japan’s QE On Verge Of Failure As Nobody Wants To Sell To The BOJ Over a decade since central bankers started a stealthy nationalization of capital markets by purchasing a wide range of securities from Trasuries, to MBS, to corporate bonds, to ETFs and single stocks, their actions are finally catching up to them, and […]
In Unprecedented Move, Fed Unveils Open-Ended QE Including Corporate Bonds
In Unprecedented Move, Fed Unveils Open-Ended QE Including Corporate Bonds Coming into Monday, the Fed had a problem: it had already used up half of its entire emergency $700BN QE5 announced last weekend. Which, together with the plunge in stocks, is why at 8am on Monday, just as we expected – given the political cover they have […]
