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Impaled On Its Own Petard——The Fed’s Folly Festers Further
Impaled On Its Own Petard——The Fed’s Folly Festers Further Listening to even a small portion of Simple Janet’s incoherent babble makes very clear that the nation’s central bank is well and truly impaled on its own petard. According to the dictionary, the latter term refers to….. …….. a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching […]
HSBC Looks At “Life Below Zero,” Says “Helicopter Money” May Be The Only Savior
HSBC Looks At “Life Below Zero,” Says “Helicopter Money” May Be The Only Savior In many ways, 2016 has been the year that the world woke up to how far down Krugman’s rabbit hole (trademark) DM central bankers have plunged in a largely futile effort to resuscitate global growth. For whatever reason, Haruhiko Kuroda’s move […]
Your Do-It-Yourself Page Financial Armageddon Story
YOUR DO-IT-YOURSELF FRONT PAGE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON STORY “The media select, they interpret, they emotionalize and they create facts.. The media not only reduce reality by lowering information density. They focus reality by accumulating information where “actually” none exists.. A typical stock market report looks like this: Stock X increased because.. Index Y crashed due to.. […]
Hungarian Central Bank Hoards 200,000 Bullets, Hundreds Of Guns Due To “Security Risks”
Hungarian Central Bank Hoards 200,000 Bullets, Hundreds Of Guns Due To “Security Risks” If we learned anything last September it’s that Janet Yellen’s reaction function now includes domestic and global financial markets. Well that, and we learned that Hungarian PM Viktor Orban isn’t playing around when it comes to Europe’s worsening refugee crisis. While everyone else […]
This Is The Real Reason For The War On Cash
This Is The Real Reason For The War On Cash Originally posted Op-Ed via The Wall Street Journal, These are strange monetary times, with negative interest rates and central bankers deemed to be masters of the universe. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that politicians and central bankers are now waging a war on cash. That’s right, […]
Janet Yellen Admits Fed Is Evaluating Possibility Of Negative Rates
Janet Yellen Admits Fed Is Evaluating Possibility Of Negative Rates One week before the BOJ shocked the world by adopting negative interest rates and unleashed the next leg lower in global risk assets, it warned everyone “please not to worry, all is under control” Moments ago at least Yellen had the courtesy of “warning” market […]
Negative Interest Rates Already In Fed’s Official Scenario
Negative Interest Rates Already In Fed’s Official Scenario Over the past year, and certainly in the aftermath of the BOJ’s both perplexing and stunning announcement (as it revealed the central banks’ level of sheer desperation), we have warned (most recently “Negative Rates In The U.S. Are Next: Here’s Why In One Chart”) that next in […]
The Federal Reserve Just Made Another Huge Mistake
The Federal Reserve Just Made Another Huge Mistake As stocks continue to crash, you can blame the Federal Reserve, because the Fed is more responsible for creating the current financial bubble that we are living in than anyone else. When the Federal Reserve pushed interest rates all the way to the floor and injected lots […]
What’s Behind the Fed’s Decision to Raise Interest Rates in a Struggling Economy?
What’s Behind the Fed’s Decision to Raise Interest Rates in a Struggling Economy? Much has been written and broadcast over the past few weeks in the financial media and the business pages of general-interest newspapers debating the wisdom of the decision in December by Fed Chair Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve Board to raise […]
China Has A “Colossal Credit Bubble” And No One Knows How It Will Unwind, Marc Faber Warns
China Has A “Colossal Credit Bubble” And No One Knows How It Will Unwind, Marc Faber Warns A little over a week ago, Marc Faber dialed in from Thailand to chat with Bloomberg TV about the outlook for US equities, the American economy, and USTs in the new year. The US is “already in a recession,” the […]
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 […]
Fed Vice Chair Explains Why The Fed Is Still Obsessing With Negative Interest Rates
Fed Vice Chair Explains Why The Fed Is Still Obsessing With Negative Interest Rates Two months ago, and roughly 6 weeks before the Fed’s first rate hike in 9 years, Janet Yellen warned that if the “outlook worsened, the fed might weight negative rates” adding that “negative rates could help encourage banks to lend.” Moments ago, in […]
Time For Torches & Pitchforks——-The Little Guy Is About To Get Monkey-Hammered Again
Time For Torches & Pitchforks——-The Little Guy Is About To Get Monkey-Hammered Again The reputations of Ben and Janet are going to be eviscerated in 2016. That’s because the US economy will slide into recession in defiance of every claim they have made for their snake oil monetary policies. The plain fact is, massive falsification of financial markets via […]
The Keynesian Recovery Meme Is About To Get Mugged, Part 2
The Keynesian Recovery Meme Is About To Get Mugged, Part 2 Our point yesterday was that the Fed and its Wall Street fellow travelers are about to get mugged by the oncoming battering rams of global deflation and domestic recession. When the bust comes, these foolish Keynesian proponents of everything is awesome will be caught like deer in the […]
The Keynesian Recovery Meme Is About To Get Mugged, Part 1
The Keynesian Recovery Meme Is About To Get Mugged, Part 1 Yellen said at least one thing of importance last week, but not in a good way. She confessed to the frightening truth that the FOMC formulates its policies and actions based on forecasts of future economic developments. My point is not simply that our monetary politburo couldn’t […]
