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Peter Schiff: Why the Fed Won’t Be Able to Rescue the Economy the Next Time Around
Peter Schiff: Why the Fed Won’t Be Able to Rescue the Economy the Next Time Around Peter Schiff has been saying that the Federal Reserve is going to take interest rates back to zero and launch another round of quantitative easing in order to reinflate the bubble economy after the next crash. The central bank […]
Stunning Consensus Emerges: Fed May Announce Launch Of QE In Just A Few Hours
Stunning Consensus Emerges: Fed May Announce Launch Of QE In Just A Few Hours It was back on August 6, in an article titled “Forget China, The Fed Has A Much Bigger Problem On Its Hands“, where we explained why in response to the coming dollar funding shortage and liquidity crunch (we warned about this […]
US Equity Futures Trade Near All Time High After ECB Goes All In
US Equity Futures Trade Near All Time High After ECB Goes All In If it was Powell’s intention to have the S&P trade at an all time when he cuts rates by another 25bps next Wednesday, he achieved it. S&P futures rose alongside Asian and European stocks as shares globally headed for a third weekly […]
Aussie Reserve Bank, Considering “Extreme Measures”, Admits “We’re Almost Out Of Ammo”
Aussie Reserve Bank, Considering “Extreme Measures”, Admits “We’re Almost Out Of Ammo” At least one reserve bank globally is starting to ponder the question that many central banks across the world will soon inevitably be asking: what happens if we cut to zero and the economy continues to falter? This has led Australia to start considering QE, […]
Can the Fed really Control the Economy?
Can the Fed really Control the Economy? QUESTION: This whirligig talk of whether the Fed cuts rates by 25 or 50 basis points is carnival-level absurdity. Does the Fed have the “pretense of knowledge,” as F.A. Hayek, said, that they can regulate the economy like turning up or down the thermostat? I know you don’t agree […]
The Fed’s Dangerous Game: A Fourth Round of Stimulus in a Single Growth Cycle
The Fed’s Dangerous Game: A Fourth Round of Stimulus in a Single Growth Cycle The longer the signals in capital markets go haywire under the influence of “monetary stimulus,” the bigger is the cumulative economic cost. That is one big reason why this fourth Fed stimulus — in the present already-longest (but lowest-growth) of super-long […]
Markets are being Lulled into a False Sense of Accommodation
Markets are being Lulled into a False Sense of Accommodation Those who take an interest in the actions of central banks will know that the advent of Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency has seen the direction of monetary policy gradually change in both the UK and the U.S. Since the EU referendum, the Bank of England […]
The Drastic Alteration of QE that is About to be Unleashed
The Drastic Alteration of QE that is About to be Unleashed QUESTION #1: Sir, You stated in your blog that Fed may fix 2 and 10 year bond rates. Doesn’t this negate the yield curve concept/ credit theory? Won’t this accelerate the distrust for government? Wont this further accelerate/aggravate the pension crisis? Appreciate you teaching the […]
Weekly Commentary: Officially on “Periphery” Contagion Watch
Weekly Commentary: Officially on “Periphery” Contagion Watch This week saw all-time highs in the S&P500, the Nasdaq Composite, the Nasdaq100, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index. Microsoft’s market capitalization reached $1 TN for the first time. First quarter GDP was reported at a stronger-than-expected 3.2% pace. So why would the market this week increase the probability […]
Bank of Japan & the Bond Crisis
Bank of Japan & the Bond Crisis BoJ Statement 4-24-2019 The Great Financial Unknown is now upon us. After 10 years of Quantitative Easing, the European Central Bank (ECB) in Europe owns 40% of the national debts in the EU and it can neither sell them nor stop buying without creating a Panic in Interest […]
Over $10 Trillion In Debt Now Has A Negative Yield
Over $10 Trillion In Debt Now Has A Negative Yield NIRP is back. On Friday, when Germany reported disastrous mfg and service PMI prints, the 10Y German Bund finally threw in the towel, with the yield sliding back under zero for the first time in three years. When that happened, and when the 3M-10Y yield […]
The Fed Has Given Up: Get Ready for More QE
The Fed Has Given Up: Get Ready for More QE The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to keep the federal funds rate unchanged. Overall, the FOMC signaled it has made a dovish turn away from the promised normalization of monetary policy which the Fed has promised will be implemented “some day” for […]
Don’t Be So Negative
DON’T BE SO NEGATIVE “FED’S WILLIAMS SAYS IN A DOWNTURN WE COULD CONSIDER QUANTITATIVE EASING, NEGATIVE RATES.” Tweet by Reuters’ Jennifer Ablan, reporting on a speech by John Williams of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at the Economic Club of New York, 6 March 2019. “Because NIRP worked so well in Europe and […]
Economic Doom Loop Well Underway
Economic Doom Loop Well Underway From 2007 through 2018, births in the US have declined by 470 thousand on an annual basis, or an 11% decline. The US fertility rate has likewise cracked lower, from 2.12 births to 1.72, an 18% decline (2.1 births over a females childbearing years is considered zero growth). This has resulted in 4.5 million fewer net births in the […]
