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Is The Fed Back To “Quantitative Easing?”
Is The Fed Back To “Quantitative Easing?” The Fed added $11 billion to its SOMA account for the week ending yesterday. It purchased $11 billion in mortgage securities directly from banks. This injects $11 billion into the banking system. Cash is “high powered” money, meaning it can be leveraged 10x (banks need to hold […]
How the Fed’s Inflation Policies Crucify Workers in Pictures
How the Fed’s Inflation Policies Crucify Workers in Pictures Every month, pundits comment on average wages. But median wages best explain how the Fed’s policies crucify workers. The meme of the day is wage growth is accelerating. I disputed that notion on February 7, in Acceleration in Wage Growth is a Statistical Mirage. On February […]
Data-Dependent … on Imaginary Data
Data-Dependent … on Imaginary Data Invisible Derivatives Giant Mystery Zero Confidence Sonoma and the SIC in San Diego Federal Reserve officials like to say their policy course is “data-dependent.” That sounds very cautious and intelligent, but what does it actually mean? Which data and who’s interpreting it? Let’s ask a few questions. Photo: Federal Reserve […]
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 4: The Folly Of 2.00% Inflation Targeting
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 4: The Folly Of 2.00% Inflation Targeting The dirty secret of Keynesian central banking is that under current circumstances its interventions have almost no impact on its famous dual mandate—-stable prices and full employment on main street. That’s because goods and services inflation is a melded consequence of global central […]
The Worst Threat We Face Is Right Here At Home
The Worst Threat We Face Is Right Here At Home The Federal Reserve is ruining us Last week, volatility made a long-overdue return to the US and global equity markets. It began with a 2-day back-to-back violent drop. Day 3 saw a big rebound, swiftly followed by two more days of gut-wrentching losses. And then […]
“Financial Stress” Spikes. Markets, Long in Denial, Suddenly Grapple with New Era
“Financial Stress” Spikes. Markets, Long in Denial, Suddenly Grapple with New Era Fed’s monetary policy shift is finally taking hold. It just took a while. The weekly St. Louis Fed Financial Stress index, released today, just spiked beautifully. It had been at historic lows back in November, an expression of ultra-loose financial conditions in the […]
Fed Warns Inflation Has Arrived: Philadelphia, New York Fed Prices Paid Soar
Fed Warns Inflation Has Arrived: Philadelphia, New York Fed Prices Paid Soar Just in case the economic data appeared to be coming in as too hot in recent days, today’s two key regional Fed manufacturing indicators sent conflicting signals, with the New York Fed survey sliding from 17.70 to 13.1, and missing expectations of 17.50, […]
Central Banks Will Let The Next Crash Happen
Central Banks Will Let The Next Crash Happen If you have been following the public commentary from central banks around the world the past few months, you know that there has been a considerable change in tone compared to the last several years. For example, officials at the European Central Bank are hinting at a […]
Do Financial Markets Still Exist?
Do Financial Markets Still Exist? For many decades the Federal Reserve has rigged the bond market by its purchases. And for about a century, central banks have set interest rates (mainly to stabilize their currency’s exchange rate) with collateral effects on securities prices. It appears that in May 2010, August 2015, January/February 2016, and currently […]
Plunge in Interbank Lending: The Straw that Broke the Fed’s Back
Plunge in Interbank Lending: The Straw that Broke the Fed’s Back Interbank lending took a historic dive. Readers ask “What’s happening?” Let’s investigate. Interbank Lending Long Term The plunge in interbank lending is both sudden and dramatic. What’s going on? Fed Tightening Two Ways The short answer is a straw broke the Fed’s back. A […]
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 1: Last Week Wasn’t An Error
Swan Song Of The Central Bankers, Part 1: Last Week Wasn’t An Error Last week’s twin 1,000 point plunges on the Dow were not errors. Instead, these close-coupled massacres, which wiped out $4 trillion of global market cap in two days, marked the beginning of a bear market that will be generational, not a temporary cyclical downleg. What hit […]
Conflict between Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Conflict between Fiscal & Monetary Policy We are moving into a crisis of monumental proportions. There has been a serious fundamental problem infecting economic policy on a global scale. This conflict has been between monetary and fiscal policy. While central banks engaged in Quantitative Easing, governments have done nothing but reap the benefits of low-interest rates. This […]
Four Rate Hikes in 2018 as US National Debt Will Spike
Four Rate Hikes in 2018 as US National Debt Will Spike Chorus gets louder. But no one will be ready for those mortgage rates. It didn’t take long for rate-hike expectations to be jostled further by last week’s “monster” two-year budget bill that Congress passed with its usual gyrations, including a government mini-shutdown, and that […]
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets The new Fed Chair may break from his predecessors The recent gut-wrenching drop in asset prices began on the first day of the job for new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. How is Mr. Powell likely to react to a suddenly sick-looking market? […]
