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Janet Yellen Fights the Tide of Falling Interest
JANET YELLEN FIGHTS THE TIDE OF FALLING INTEREST On Wednesday Dec 16, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced that the Fed was raising the federal funds rate by 25 basis points. Let’s get one thing out of the way. This is not a move towards free markets. Whether the Fed sets interest lower, or whether it sets […]
Money Market Distortions at Year-End
Money Market Distortions at Year-End Major Window Dressing Exercises and a Dead Federal Funds Market Many of our readers are probably aware of the quarterly spike in reverse repos, which has previously been amply documented and discussed elsewhere. The Fed has introduced these overnight reverse repos two years ago, and has made them accessible to […]
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Real Financial Risks of 2016
PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Real Financial Risks of 2016 Worry less about the banking system, but commodities, epidemics and climate volatility could be trouble How should we think about financial risks in 2016? First, worry less about the banking system. Financial institutions today are less fragile than they were a few […]
Household debt still rising, but most Canadians in decent shape: experts
Household debt still rising, but most Canadians in decent shape: experts Bank of Canada worries some Canadian households may be over their heads Most Canadians handle debt well, but a small minority have so much, they might everntually be in trouble. (CBC) Canadian households will close out 2015 carrying thicker layers of debt after worrisome […]
The New Cartel Running the Oil Sector
The New Cartel Running the Oil Sector As oil prices wallow near multi-year lows, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the new cartel controlling oil prices is not OPEC but world credit markets. From Saudi Arabia’s record $100 billion deficit to shale oil’s continuing reliance on cheap credit funding, it’s clear that no major oil producer or company in the […]
David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner
David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner With very few places for capital to hide For those who enjoyed his encyclopedic 2015: Year In Review, this week we spend an hour with David Collum to ask: After processing through all of that information, what do you think the future is most likely to bring? Perhaps it […]
The Fed Has Created A “Monster” And Just Made A “Dangerous Mistake,” Stephen Roach Warns
The Fed Has Created A “Monster” And Just Made A “Dangerous Mistake,” Stephen Roach Warns Stephen Roach is worried that the Fed has set the world up for another financial market meltdown. Lower for longer rates and the proliferation of unconventional monetary policy have created “a breeding ground for asset bubbles, credit bubbles, and all-too […]
Why the Fed Will Never Succeed
Why the Fed Will Never Succeed The Fed will never succeed in its attempt to manage inflation and unemployment by varying interest rates. This is because it and its economists do not accept the relationship between, on one side, the money it creates and the bank credit its commercial banks issue out of thin air, […]
Bank of Canada says housing, debt threaten financial system
Bank of Canada says housing, debt threaten financial system Central bank releases financial system review that focuses on small group of highly indebted people Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz told a news conference on Tuesday that the bank is watching a small group of Canadian households that are highly indebted. (CBC) Household indebtedness and […]
No Courage, Feckless Experiments and the Deep State
No Courage, Feckless Experiments and the Deep State Hosannas and Hat-Tipping Today’s post is about you dear reader… and the world you live in. That world got notice last week that henceforth short-term interest rates would be more than zilch. From all over the planet came hosannas and hat-tipping. Some commentators congratulated the Yellen Fed […]
What Fresh Horror Awaits The Economy After Fed Rate Hike?
What Fresh Horror Awaits The Economy After Fed Rate Hike? There is one predominant reality that must be understood before a person can grasp the nature of the Federal Reserve and the decisions it makes, and that reality is this: The Fed’s purpose is not to defend or extend American markets or the dollar; the […]
A Free Market in Interest Rates
A Free Market in Interest Rates Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that we have an administered interest rate. This means that the bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve decide what’s good for the little people. Then they impose it on us. In trying to return to freedom, many people wonder why couldn’t we […]
Dan Amerman: Financial Repression & The New Interest Rate Hike
Dan Amerman: Financial Repression & The New Interest Rate Hike You have to understand one to make sense of the other Financial repression authority Daniel Amerman returns this week to discuss the ramifications of the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate hike in nearly a decade: The key to understand the situation here is that this is […]
Central Banks Have Pushed the Middle Class Down into Neofeudal Serfdom
Central Banks Have Pushed the Middle Class Down into Neofeudal Serfdom The injustice of central-bank enforced neofeudalism cannot be suppressed like interest rates. In traditional feudal systems, serfs were the landless peasantry who worked the land of their feudal lords in exchange for protection. In our present-day neofeudal system, serfdom has a different definition: present-day serfs own little […]
The Rate Hike Stock Market Crash Has Thrown Gasoline Onto An Already Raging Global Financial Inferno
The Rate Hike Stock Market Crash Has Thrown Gasoline Onto An Already Raging Global Financial Inferno If the stock market crash of last Thursday and Friday had all happened on one day, it would have been the 7th largest single day decline in U.S. history. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 367 […]
