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The Collapse Of This Historic Correlation Suggests A Major Crisis Is Imminent
The Collapse Of This Historic Correlation Suggests A Major Crisis Is Imminent A lot of digital ink has been spilled in recent days over the perplexing reversal of the Yen, which for years was seen by the market as a “flight to safety” trade (as unexpected crisis events would prompt capital repatriation into Japan or […]
The Debate Is Over: In Two Months “Not QE” Officially Becomes QE 4
The Debate Is Over: In Two Months “Not QE” Officially Becomes QE 4 While Neel Kashkari may be theatrically appealing to the intellect of “QE conspiracists” – which as of today in addition to Robert Kaplan, Larry Kudlow and James Gorman also includes as per the chart below Bank of America, in addition to any other person with […]
Opinion: The Federal Reserve is stuck in quantitative-easing hell
Opinion: The Federal Reserve is stuck in quantitative-easing hell The central bank’s short-term buying of securities could morph into long-term easing Imagine doing the same thing over and over again, with little progress and no relief. Sounds like most people’s vision of hell — or the Federal Reserve’s current predicament. Since September, the central bank, through […]
944 Trillion Reasons Why The Fed Is Quietly Bailing Out Hedge Funds
944 Trillion Reasons Why The Fed Is Quietly Bailing Out Hedge Funds On Friday, Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari, who just two months earlier made a stunning proposal when he said that it was time for the Fed to pick up where the USSR left off and start redistributing wealth (at least Kashkari chose the proper entity: […]
Peter Schiff: The 20’s Will Be An Explosive Decade for Gold
Peter Schiff: The 20’s Will Be An Explosive Decade for Gold In 2019, gold had its best year since 2010. Peter Schiff appeared on the RT Dec. 31 and said he thinks the yellow metal should have done even better. And given the current economic conditions, he believes the 20’s will be an explosive decade for gold. You […]
The Fed Is on High Alert
The Fed Is on High Alert It’s hard to believe the end of the year is upon us and 2020 is right around the corner. In many ways, it went by very quickly. For economies and markets, it was a year marked by uncertainty over economic slowdowns, trade wars and a complete pivot in “dark […]
Is A Global Crash Just Around The Corner? Central Banks Are Cutting At The Fastest Rate Since The Financial Crisis
Is A Global Crash Just Around The Corner? Central Banks Are Cutting At The Fastest Rate Since The Financial Crisis There is something very fishy about the world’s economic situation. On one hand, US president Trump keeps repeating that the US economy is the strongest it has ever been, with global strategists, economists and officials […]
Ex-BOJ Chief Regrets Not Hiking, Hated QE, Says Sub-1% Interest Rates Don’t Work
Ex-BOJ Chief Regrets Not Hiking, Hated QE, Says Sub-1% Interest Rates Don’t Work Things are going from bad to worse in Japan: 7 years after BOJ chief Kuroda launched QQE (subsequently with yield curve control) while monetizing tens of billions in ETFs, the central banks has failed to boost either Japan’s economy or its inflation, […]
If Not-QE Is QE, then is Not-a-Blowoff-Top a Blowoff Top?
If Not-QE Is QE, then is Not-a-Blowoff-Top a Blowoff Top? Can $300 billion, or $600 billion, or even $1 trillion continue to prop up an increasingly risk-riddled, fragile $330 trillion global bubble in overvalued assets? When is “Not-QE” QE? When Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell declares QE is not QE. We can constructively recall the story […]
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt
The Federal Reserve Is Directly Monetizing US Debt In a very real way, MMT is already here Sure, it’s not admitting to this. And it’s using several technical jinks and jives to offer a pretense that things are otherwise. But it’s not terribly difficult to predict what’s going to happen next: the Federal Reserve will […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – Nov 15th 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – Nov 15th 2019 “Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” As it’s a Friday I am contractually entitled to have a rant and whine about whatever I want to write about. Which, today, isn’t really the cut and thrust of markets. To be brutally […]
“Not QE”, Monetization, & “Definitely Asset Inflation”
“Not QE”, Monetization, & “Definitely Asset Inflation” Chart below shows the Federal Reserve holdings of Treasuries, a weekly change (black columns) and total holdings (red line) during QE1, QE2, Operation Twist, QE3, QT, and “Not QE”. Got it?!? This current “Not QE” explosion in QE is like some kind of old time vaudeville act (like […]
How QE has radically changed the nature of the West’s financial system.
How QE has radically changed the nature of the West’s financial system. Because they are so ensconsed in their little bubble and because they profit so much from maintaining the status quo, Western mainstream media pundits don’t – or perhaps can’t – admit how Quantitative Easing policies have so quickly and so radically changed the […]
The Fed is Lying to Us
The Fed is Lying to Us “When it becomes serious, you have to lie” The recent statements from the Federal Reserve and the other major world central banks (the ECB, BoJ, BoE and PBoC) are alarming because their actions are completely out of alignment with what they’re telling us. Their words seek to soothe us […]
