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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 […]
One Bank Finally Admits The Fed’s “NOT QE” Is Indeed QE… And Could Lead To Financial Collapse
One Bank Finally Admits The Fed’s “NOT QE” Is Indeed QE… And Could Lead To Financial Collapse After a month of constant verbal gymnastics (and diarrhea from financial pundit sycophants who can’t think creatively or originally and merely parrot their echo chamber in hopes of likes/retweets) by the Fed that the recent launch of $60 […]
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 […]
Bankers Going for Broke Because They Know it’s Broke – G. Edward Griffin
Bankers Going for Broke Because They Know it’s Broke – G. Edward Griffin Edward Griffin, author of the wildly popular book about the Federal Reserve “The Creature from Jekyll Island,” is holding a conference this weekend called “Red Pill Expo.” It is all about waking people up from the illusions they are being told. Griffin […]
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 […]
Warning! Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt Do Matter
Warning! Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt Do Matter With our national debt blowing past 23 trillion dollars nothing is as sobering as looking at future budgets. We should be worried. Central banks across the world claim the lack of inflation is the key force driving their QE policy and permitting it to continue, however, the […]
Pondering the Collapse of the Entire Shadow Banking System
Pondering the Collapse of the Entire Shadow Banking System What’s behind the ever-increasing need for emergency repos? A couple of correspondents have an eye on shadow banking. Shadow Banking The shadow banking system consists of lenders, brokers, and other credit intermediaries who fall outside the realm of traditional regulated banking. It is generally unregulated and […]
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 […]
Central Banks Are Just Getting Warmed Up
Central Banks Are Just Getting Warmed Up According to all central banks, one of the main problems they are called to solve is that countries cannot reach their inflation target of (close to but below) 2 percent. Even their religious trust in the long-discredited Phillips curve cannot explain why price inflation is low in many countries despite […]
QE for the People
QE for the People Myrmikan’s May letter discussed how the Fed had already begun to ease nancialconditions, though the method was so subtle that few understood what the central bank was doing. Banks are required to keep required reserves at the Fed. Banks that nd themselves with a de cient reserve level have to borrow reserves […]
“Not A QE” Begins: Fed Start Buying $60BN In Bills Per Month Starting Next Week
“Not A QE” Begins: Fed Start Buying $60BN In Bills Per Month Starting Next Week Just one day after we laid out what Goldman’s revised forecast for the Fed’s “NOT A QE” will look like, which for those who missed it predicted that the Fed would announce “monthly purchases of about $60BN for four months, […]
We Finally Understand How Destructive Negative Interest Rates Actually Are
We Finally Understand How Destructive Negative Interest Rates Actually Are We are in the midst of a strange economic experiment. Vast quantities of negative-yielding debt are currently sloshing around the global economy. While the amount of negative-yielding bonds has dropped recently from a mind-boggling number in excess of $17 trillion, reinvigorated central bank easing across […]
Fiat Money Cannibalization in America
Fiat Money Cannibalization in America An Odd Combination of Serenity and Panic The United States, with untroubled ease, continued its approach toward catastrophe this week. The Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate 25 basis points, thus furthering its program of mass money debasement. Yet, on the surface, all still remained in the superlative. S&P […]
These Are The Banks Where The Fed’s $1.4 Trillion In Reserves Are Parked
These Are The Banks Where The Fed’s $1.4 Trillion In Reserves Are Parked Over the past few days there has been much confusion over the repocalpyse that shook the overnight funding market, and just as much confusion over the definition of reserves which some banks were unwilling to part with, other banks were desperate for, and in […]
