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By the Time the Fed Hits Its Goals, the Markets Will Be Crashing
By the Time the Fed Hits Its Goals, the Markets Will Be Crashing The Powell Fed has set one goal and one goal only for its policy… Hitting the “neutral rate of interest.” The neutral rate of interest is when the Fed has rates equal to the pace of inflation. While this is technicallywhat the Fed […]
Mortgage Rates Head to 6%, 10-Year Yield to 4%, Yield Curve Fails to “Invert,” and Fed Keeps Hiking
Mortgage Rates Head to 6%, 10-Year Yield to 4%, Yield Curve Fails to “Invert,” and Fed Keeps Hiking Nightmare scenario for the markets? They just shrugged. But homebuyers haven’t done the math yet. There’s an interesting thing that just happened, which shows that the US Treasury 10-year yield is ready for the next leg up, […]
Central Planning Failed in the USSR, but Central Banks Have Revived It
Central Planning Failed in the USSR, but Central Banks Have Revived It The Federal Reserve’s changing of the guard — the end of Janet Yellen’s tenure and the beginning of the Jerome Powell era — has me remembering what it was like to grow up in the former Soviet Union. Back then, our local grocery […]
How the Trade War Helps Hide Central Bank Sabotage Of The Economy
How the Trade War Helps Hide Central Bank Sabotage Of The Economy Almost every aspect of the global economic downturn, which started ostensibly in 2007-08 and is still ongoing to this day, can be traced back to the actions and policies of central banks. The Federal Reserve, for example, used artificially low interest rates and […]
The Committee to Destroy the World: The Federal Reserve
The Committee to Destroy the World: The Federal Reserve The general belief among average citizens is that the purpose of central banks is to help the economy by fighting inflation and mitigating financial crisis. It’s a fairy tale that politicians like to encourage. If there were any truth to it, however, where was the Federal […]
Why the Fed Denied the Narrow Bank
WHY THE FED DENIED THE NARROW BANK It’s not every day that a clear example showing the horrors of central planning comes along—the doublethink, the distortions, and the perverse incentives. It’s not every year that such an example occurs for monetary central planning. One came to the national attention this week. A company called TNB […]
The Bank Bailout of 2008 was Unnecessa
The Bank Bailout of 2008 was Unnecessary Photo Source Xavier | CC BY 2.0 This week marked 10 years since the harrowing descent into the financial crisis — when the huge investment bank Lehman Bros. went into bankruptcy, with the country’s largest insurer, AIG, about to follow. No one was sure which financial institution might […]
BCA: The “Bubble In Everything” Threatens $400 Trillion In Assets
BCA: The “Bubble In Everything” Threatens $400 Trillion In Assets By now, it’s a very familiar question: how high can the Fed hike rates before it causes a major market “event.” Two weeks ago, Stifel analyst Barry Banister became the latest to issue a timeline on how many more rate hikes the Fed can push […]
Honest Work for Dishonest Pay
Honest Work for Dishonest Pay Misadventures and Mishaps Over the past decade, in the wake of the 2008-09 debt crisis, the impossible has happened. The sickness of too much debt has been seemingly cured with massive dosages of even more debt. This, no doubt, is evidence that there are wonders and miracles above and beyond […]
When The U.S. Stock Market Crashes, Buy Gold – David Brady
When The U.S. Stock Market Crashes, Buy Gold – David Brady While we wait for news on the 25% tariffs on $200bln or 40% of Chinese exports to the U.S.—and with the threat of the same on the remaining ~$300bln to follow—I want to outline the endgame for the dollar and the likely beginning of […]
Yellen Wants Fed to Commit to Future Booms to Make Up for Busts
Yellen Wants Fed to Commit to Future Booms to Make Up for Busts Former Fed Chair Yellen promotes “Lower for Longer”, a policy in which the Fed knowingly keeps interest rates too low. Here’s the asinine policy proposal of the day: Fed Should Commit to Future ‘Booms’ to Make Up for Major Busts. The U.S. […]
As The Fed Raises Rates, The Ghost of Lehman Bros Lingers
As The Fed Raises Rates, The Ghost of Lehman Bros Lingers In just two days – September 15 – it will be the 10-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers collapse. The date they filed bankruptcy. With nearly $620 billion in debts, it was the largest bankruptcy in history. Now, a decade late – it appears the […]
The Fed and Asset Bubbles
THE FED AND ASSET BUBBLES In his speech on April 7 2010 at the Economic Club of New York the President of the New York Fed, William Dudley argued that asset bubbles pose a serious threat to real economic activity. The New York Fed chief is of the view that the US central bank should […]
The Makings of a 2020 Recession and Financial Crisis
Carl Court/Getty Images The Makings of a 2020 Recession and Financial Crisis Although the global economy has been undergoing a sustained period of synchronized growth, it will inevitably lose steam as unsustainable fiscal policies in the US start to phase out. Come 2020, the stage will be set for another downturn – and, unlike in […]
Albert Edwards: Why We Are Destined To Repeat The Mistakes Of The Past
Albert Edwards: Why We Are Destined To Repeat The Mistakes Of The Past With everyone and their grandmother opining on the 10 year anniversary of the start of the global financial crisis, it was inevitable that the strategist who predicted the great crash (and according to some has been doing the same for the past […]
