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Wolf Richter: The Era Of The Fed “Put” Is Over
Wolf Richter: The Era Of The Fed “Put” Is Over It now wants lower asset prices (just not too fast) To all those investors expecting the Fed to step in to backstop the recent weakness seen in the stock market, Wolf Richter warns: The cavalry isn’t coming. After years of force-feeding too much liquidity into […]
Monetary Policy is a Complete Failure? Will Shutting Down the Fed Solve All the Problems?
Monetary Policy is a Complete Failure? Will Shutting Down the Fed Solve All the Problems? I recently did an interview and was asked about the Federal Reserve. There is so much absolute nonsense sophistry that circulates where people think that ending the central bank will somehow cure everything. I really just laid it out plain […]
Crisis Struck 10 Years Ago: What’s Changed?
Crisis Struck 10 Years Ago: What’s Changed? The financial crisis and the massive federal response reshaped the world we live in. Or did it? The Wall Street Journal has an interesting infographic series of 25 charts entitled 10 Years After the Crisis. Here’s eight of the 25. Median Income Barely Up Forget averages. The median […]
What The Gold-Silver Ratio Says About The Future Silver Price
What The Gold-Silver Ratio Says About The Future Silver Price While silver investment demand is totally off the radar, certain indicators, including the Gold-Silver ratio, suggest that interest in the poor man’s gold will likely increase significantly over the next few years. The rising interest in silver will also occur as the broader markets continue […]
The Looming Mortgage Liquidity Crisis
THE LOOMING MORTGAGE LIQUIDITY CRISIS Every 10 years or so there is a banking crisis. We are due. However, the furthest thing from most people’s minds with the Trump boom is a banking/financial crisis, except for a few folks at the Brookings Institution, who just released a paper entitled “Liquidity Crisis in the Mortgage Market.” You […]
Who Needs Wall Street When You Can Have A Monetary Unicorn?
Who Needs Wall Street When You Can Have A Monetary Unicorn? The single most important price in all of capitalism is the interest rate—-and at all points on the maturity curve. And the single most important truth about honest interest rates is that they must be discovered by markets, not imposed by the state. We got to […]
The Fed is Raising Rates Because of the Pension Crisis
The Fed is Raising Rates Because of the Pension Crisis QUESTION: The Fed says it will raise rates two or three times more this year. My question is this: If the stock market is crashing, why are they still raising rates? HW ANSWER: The Fed is raising rates because they must be NORMALIZED given the […]
Central Bank Money Rules the World
Central Bank Money Rules the World Central bank credit that supports markets — is not just creation of the Fed, but by central banks and institutions around the world colluding together. Global markets are too deeply connected these days to consider the Fed in isolation. Since last month’s correction, the world has been watching the […]
Consequences of Replacing the Gold Standard with the PhD Standard
Consequences of Replacing the Gold Standard with the PhD Standard In 2011, Jim Grant chastised the Fed about replacing the Gold Standard with the PhD Standard. Our “reward” is coming up. Here is the pertinent video clip of James Grant. “The 2007-2009 real estate debacle is the monetary equivalent of a chain reaction on a […]
The Central Bank Bubble: It Will Be Ugly
The Central Bank Bubble: It Will Be Ugly 21 Mar The global economy has been living through a period of central bank insanity, thanks to a little-understood expansion strategy known as quantitative easing, which has destroyed main-street and benefitted wall street. Central Banks over the last decade simply created credit out of thin air. Snap […]
Worst Case Scenario: What is It?
Worst Case Scenario: What is It? This article provides insight as to the way the Fed and all central banks think. A worst-case scenario is a concept in risk management wherein the planner, in planning for potential disasters, considers the most severe possible outcome that can reasonably be projected to occur in a given situation. […]
DiMartino Booth: It Won’t Take Much More For The Fed To Break The Markets
DiMartino Booth: It Won’t Take Much More For The Fed To Break The Markets Via Financial Sense, The following is a summary of our recent FS Insider podcast, “Danielle DiMartino Booth: Problems at the Fed, More Volatility for the Markets.” Danielle DiMartino Booth, founder of Money Strong and author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is […]
Trump and the Federal Reserve
Trump and the Federal Reserve Many of us would rather not think about the possibility of President Trump getting reelected, but there is little doubt that he is thinking about it. If Trump is serious about winning reelection, he may want to reconsider the sort of people he is appointing to the Federal Reserve. Virtually all political […]
The Fed Has Its Finger On The Button Of A Nuclear Debt Bomb
The Fed Has Its Finger On The Button Of A Nuclear Debt Bomb I hear a lot of talk lately in the alternative media (and even the mainstream media) of the potential for World War III. The general assumption when one hears that term is that “nuclear conflict” is imminent. But a world war does […]
Will US Companies Repatriating Cash Home Create Banking Crisis Outside USA?
Will US Companies Repatriating Cash Home Create Banking Crisis Outside USA? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Do you believe that if American companies do repatriate dollars to get the low tax rate in the USA, will this impact foreign banks as capital withdraws? I figured you are the best qualified to answer that question nobody seems to […]
