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That Time the Dollar Tide Went Out…
That Time the Dollar Tide Went Out… Welcome to the Dollar Rally to end all rallies. This week’s action in the U.S. dollar puts paid all of the moves by the Fed and the ECB over the past three months to forestall this from coming. First it was January’s FOMC meeting where the Fed completely […]
JPMorgan: We Are Fast Approaching The Point Where Banks Run Out Of Liquidity
JPMorgan: We Are Fast Approaching The Point Where Banks Run Out Of Liquidity Last week we first noted that something unexpected has been going on in overnight funding markets: ever since March 20, the Effective Fed Funds rate has been trading above the IOER. This was unexpected for the simple reason that it is not supposed to happen […]
The Fed is Going to Cut Rates to Negative 3% If Not 5%
The Fed is Going to Cut Rates to Negative 3% If Not 5% As I warned last week, while most of the investment world has been glued to their trading screens watching the stock market rally.. something nefarious has been unfolding behind the scenes. That “something” is the Fed and other regulators implementing plans that […]
The World-Wide Suppression of Interest Rates Has Been Something Very Near to a Crime
The World-Wide Suppression of Interest Rates Has Been Something Very Near to a Crime James Grant, editor of the renowned investment newsletter «Grant’s Interest Rate Observer», warns about the growing herd of corporate «zombies» and other fatal market distortions caused by modern monetary policy. Once again, the expedition to go back to normal has been […]
Unsolicited Advice to Fed Chair Powell
Unsolicited Advice to Fed Chair Powell American businesses over the past decade have taken a most unsettling turn. According to research from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, as of November 2018, non-financial corporate debt has grown to more than $9.1 trillion [ed note: this number refers to securitized debt and business loans, other corporate liabilities […]
The Bull(y) Rally
The Bull(y) Rally Something unnatural is going on. “A bully is always a coward.”~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton The current market rally is like a playground bully; shoving to the ground anyone in its path. But like all bullies, the braggadocio belies an underlying cowardice. Those in charge of the status quo must be absolutely terrified […]
Lacy Hunt Blasts MMT and Speaks of Hyperinflation If Implemented
Lacy Hunt Blasts MMT and Speaks of Hyperinflation If Implemented In the Hoisington First Quarter Review, Lacy Hunt blasts MMT as “self-perpetuating” inflation. Please consider the Hoisington Investment Quarterly Outlook for the first quarter of 2019. MMT Leads to Hyperinflation Under existing statutes, Fed liabilities, which they can create without limits, are not permitted to be used […]
How Asset Inflation Will End–This Time
HOW ASSET INFLATION WILL END — THIS TIME Life after death for asset inflation: this is what happens when “speculative fever” remains high even after monetary inflation has paused. This may well have been the situation in global markets during 2019 so far. But history and principle suggest that life after death in this monetary […]
The Fed’s Body Count
The Fed’s Body Count “The problem with the war (Vietnam), as it often is, are the metrics. It is a situation where if you can’t count what’s important, you make what you can count important. So, in this particular case what you could count was dead enemy bodies.” – James Willbanks, Army Advisor, General of […]
Fear of Inflation & Sterilization
Fear of Inflation & Sterilization QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; you were friends with Milton Friedman. Do you agree with his view that the Great Depression was caused in part by the Fed refusing to expand the money supply? Isn’t Quantitative Easing expanding the money supply yet it too has failed to create inflation. Would you comment on […]
David Rosenberg: Fed Will Embrace ‘Helicopter Money’ In The Next Few Years
David Rosenberg: Fed Will Embrace ‘Helicopter Money’ In The Next Few Years Jerome Powell has denounced MMT has “just wrong”, but many Wall Street luminaries have surprisingly communicated an openness to the proposal. Most recently Ray Dalio proposed a marriage of monetary and fiscal policy that sounded suspiciously similar to MMT. Bill Gross, once a vocal critic […]
Here’s why the Federal Reserve rejected the safest bank in America
Here’s why the Federal Reserve rejected the safest bank in America In the spring of 1692, an energetic young Scotsman named John Campbell started a new business in central London. Campbell was a goldsmith, and his business sold jewelry and other crafted metals like plates and silverware. But Campbell’s new company had another business line […]
One Reason You Might Have Some Time To Prepare For The Next Economic Recession
One Reason You Might Have Some Time To Prepare For The Next Economic Recession There’s is one big reason why the U.S. will go into another recession eventually, but it’s the same reason you will have some time to prepare for it as well. Making money more expensive to borrow will lead to a recession, […]
