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Forecast 2018 — What Could Go Wrong?
Forecast 2018 — What Could Go Wrong? Markets If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this foundering empire. Well, Trump andRussia, since the Golden Golem of Greatness is in league with Vladimir Putin to loot […]
“Wealth Effect” = Widening Wealth Inequality
“Wealth Effect” = Widening Wealth Inequality Note that widening wealth and income inequality is a non-partisan trend. One of the core goals of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies of the past 9 years is to generate the “wealth effect”: by pushing the valuations of stocks and bonds higher, American households will feel wealthier, and hence […]
Lacy Hunt on the Unintended Consequences of Federal Reserve Policies
Lacy Hunt on the Unintended Consequences of Federal Reserve Policies The Financial Repression Authority interviewed Lacy Hunt, Chief Economist at Hoisington Management on Fed policies. The interview below first appeared on the FRA website along with a video. The emphasis in italics is mine. FRA: Hi, welcome to FRA’s Roundtable Insight. Today, we have Dr. […]
St. Louis Fed Promotes the Mathematically Impossible
St. Louis Fed Promotes the Mathematically Impossible It’s bad enough when economic writers are clueless about how markets work. It’s worse when Fed economists are clueless. Check out this Tweet by @StLoiusFed. View image on Twitter St. Louis Fed ✔@stlouisfed Negative interest rates may seem ludicrous, but not if they succeed in pushing people to […]
The Rug Yank Phase of Fed Policy
The Rug Yank Phase of Fed Policy Bogus Jobs Pay Big Bucks The political differences of today’s two leading parties are not over ultimate questions of principle. Rather, they are over opposing answers to the question of how a goal can be achieved with the least sacrifice. For lawmakers, the goal is to promise the […]
Weekly Commentary: Chronicling for Posterity
Weekly Commentary: Chronicling for Posterity Janet Yellen’s Wednesday news conference was her final as Fed chair. Dr. Yellen has a long and distinguished career as an economist and public servant. Her four-year term at the helm of the Federal Reserve is almost universally acclaimed. History, however, will surely treat her less kindly. Yellen has been […]
The Separatist Movements in Canada & One-Size-Fits-All of Marx
The Separatist Movements in Canada & One-Size-Fits-All of Marx Many people are aware of the various attempts of Quebec to separate from Canada. What they are unaware of is the supporters of the Western Independence Party of Alberta. There has been an undertone of the separatist movement in Alberta which actually stems from the Great Depression […]
The Fed’s Great Unwind: Will It Sink Us?
THE FED’S GREAT UNWIND: WILL IT SINK US? In the eyes of many people, the Federal Reserve (Fed) is an indispensable institution. We are told it supports growth and employment, fends off the negative shocks, and fights inflation. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Fed’s fiat money regime is economically and socially highly […]
How Fed Rate Hikes Impact US Debt Slaves
How Fed Rate Hikes Impact US Debt Slaves But savers are still getting shafted. Outstanding “revolving credit” owed by consumers – such as bank-issued and private-label credit cards – jumped 6.1% year-over-year to $977 billion in the third quarter, according to the Fed’s Board of Governors. When the holiday shopping season is over, it will […]
Abracadabra
Abracadabra And so, as they say in the horror movies, it begins…! The unwinding of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Such an esoteric concept! Is there one in ten thousand of the millions of people who sit at desks all day long from sea to shining sea who have a clue how this works? Or […]
Finally, An Honest Inflation Index – Guess What It Shows
Finally, An Honest Inflation Index – Guess What It Shows Central bankers keep lamenting the fact that record low interest rates and record high currency creation haven’t generated enough inflation (because remember, for these guys inflation is a good thing rather than a dangerous disease). To which the sound money community keeps responding, “You’re looking […]
Stranger Things
Stranger Things The hidden agenda in the so-called tax reform bill is to act as stop-gap quantitative easing to plug the “liquidity” hole that is opening up as the Federal Reserve (America’s central bank) makes a few gestures to winding down its balance sheet and “normalizing” interest rates. Thus, the aim of the tax […]
The Fed’s QE-Unwind is Really Happening
The Fed’s QE-Unwind is Really Happening Fed’s assets drop to lowest level in over three years. The Fed’s balance sheet for the week ending December 6, released today, completes the second month of the QE-unwind. Total assets initially zigzagged within a tight range to end October where it started, at $4,456 billion. But in November, […]
Warning: ‘They Need The Markets To Implode’ To Usher In Cashless System
Warning: ‘They Need The Markets To Implode’ To Usher In Cashless System Market analyst Lynette Zang predicts in the next market meltdown, “real estate, stocks, and bonds will all crash.” When asked when this will happen, Zang says, “Enjoy your Christmas,” but in 2018, all bets are off. Greg Hunter interviewed Lynette Zang, Chief Market Strategist […]
Fed Tightens, “and so far, Nothing Has Blown Up”
Fed Tightens, “and so far, Nothing Has Blown Up” Gundlach frets about bonds during QE unwind, rate hikes, tax cuts, and rising deficits. “A tax cut will reduce revenue and it will grow the deficit and therefore, it will probably grow bond supply, and perhaps boost economic growth,” DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said on […]
