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Markets Might Hafta Grapple with “Patient”: Fed Rate Cut in July After This Inflation?
Markets Might Hafta Grapple with “Patient”: Fed Rate Cut in July After This Inflation? Not a rate-cut economy. The inflation index that the Fed has anointed to be the yardstick for its inflation target – the PCE price index without the volatile food and energy components – rose 0.19% in May from April, according to […]
The Capitulation of Jerome Powell and the Fed
The Capitulation of Jerome Powell and the Fed This past week, on March 20, 2019, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell announced the US central bank would not raise interest rates in 2019. The Fed’s benchmark rate, called the Fed Funds rate, is thus frozen at 2.375% for the foreseeable future, i.e. leaving the central bank […]
The Fed’s Failures Are Mounting
The Fed’s Failures Are Mounting In the decade between “60 Minutes” interviews, the central bank has sparked a recovery without inflation but not much else. Danielle DiMartino Booth, a former adviser to the president of the Dallas Fed, is the author of “Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America,” […]
Federal Reserve Chairman Appears on 60 Minutes – Why Now?
Federal Reserve Chairman Appears on 60 Minutes – Why Now? One of the most famous, and prescient, financial cartoons in American history is the above depiction of the Federal Reserve Bank as a giant octopus that would come to parasitically suck the life out of all U.S. institutions as well as free markets. The image is […]
Ides and Tides
Ides and Tides Just as presidents are expected to act presidentially, Federal Reserve chairpersons are expected to act oracularly — as semi-supernatural beings who emerge now and again from some cave of mathematical secrets to offer reassuringly cryptic utterances on mysteries of the economy. And so was Jerome Powell wheeled out on CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday night, […]
Remember, The Fed Hasn’t Actually Done Anything Yet
Remember, The Fed Hasn’t Actually Done Anything Yet When the financial markets got, um, choppy towards the end of 2018, the Fed caved almost instantly. But only rhetorically. Fed chair Powell promised to stop raising interest rates and shrinking the money supply, and the financial markets, trained to salivate at the sound of Fed happy […]
Weekly Commentary: Dudley on Debt and MMT
Weekly Commentary: Dudley on Debt and MMT December’s market instability and resulting Fed capitulation to the marketplace continue to reverberate. At this point, markets basically assume the Fed is well into the process of terminating policy normalization. Only a couple of months since completing its almost $3.0 TN stimulus program, markets now expect the ECB […]
Get Used to the “Powell Put”
Get Used to the “Powell Put” In the land of the Federal Reserve and its market-manipulating mechanisms, there’s now an unofficial market term called the “Powell Put” or the “Powell Pivot.” It is in direct reference to Fed chairman Jerome Powell. Before he became chairman, Wall Street referred to prior heads’ policies with terms like […]
The next recession could force the Fed to cut interest rates into negative territory. Here’s what that means, and how it could affect you.
The next recession could force the Fed to cut interest rates into negative territory. Here’s what that means, and how it could affect you. The San Francisco Federal Reserve recently published a paper indicating that an unprecedented policy step, if adopted, would have helped the economy recover more quickly from the most recent financial crisis. […]
Weekly Commentary: No Mystery
Weekly Commentary: No Mystery January 30 – Financial Times (Sam Fleming): “After putting traders on notice six weeks ago to expect further increases in US interest rates in 2019, the Federal Reserve… executed one of its sharpest U-turns in recent memory. Leaving rates unchanged at 2.25-2.5%, Jay Powell, Fed chairman, unveiled new language that opened […]
U.S. Debt Worries Fed Chairman Powell – Fears May Be Confirmed in March
U.S. Debt Worries Fed Chairman Powell – Fears May Be Confirmed in March As we enter 2019, the U.S. national debt continues to grow, approaching $22 trillion with global Government debt sitting at $72 trillion. It seems like the 21st century is hitting the U.S. with a debt “haymaker,” according to CNBC (emphasis ours): U.S. debt began accelerating at […]
Fire the Fed?
Fire the Fed? President Trump’s frustration with the Federal Reserve’s (minuscule) interest rate increases that he blames for the downturn in the stock market has reportedly led him to inquire if he has the authority to remove Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Chairman Powell has stated that he would not comply with a presidential request for […]
Volatility Holds the Key to Markets in 2019
Volatility Holds the Key to Markets in 2019 Over the last two weeks, after making good on the four-rate interest hike of 2018, Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, became more dovish to start 2019. His change in tone is worth considering because of his historical stance on reducing the amount of artificial stimulus coming from the […]
Weekly Commentary: Global Markets’ Plumbing Problem
Weekly Commentary: Global Markets’ Plumbing Problem “Goldilocks with a capital ‘J’,” exclaimed an enthusiastic Bloomberg Television analyst. The Dow was up 747 points in Friday trading (more than erasing Thursday’s 660-point drubbing) on the back of a stellar jobs report and market-soothing comments from Fed Chairman “Jay” Powell. December non-farm payrolls surged 312,000. The strongest […]
Trump Is A Pied Piper For The New World Order Agenda
Trump Is A Pied Piper For The New World Order Agenda In my last article, ‘The Fed Is A Suicide Bomber With A Deeper Agenda’, I explored and dismantled recent propaganda surrounding the Federal Reserve’s tightening actions, including the propaganda that Jerome Powell is some kind of rogue central banker who is rebalancing the system […]
