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Fake News From the Fed
Fake News From the Fed What you see in the media is mostly “fake news.” Reuters had this story recently: Most Federal Reserve policymakers think the central bank should take steps to begin trimming its $4.5 trillion balance sheet later this year as long as the economic data holds up, minutes from their last meeting […]
Pulling Levers to Steer the Machine
Pulling Levers to Steer the Machine Ticks on a Dog A brief comment on Fed chief Janet Yellen’s revealing speech at the University of Michigan. Bloomberg: “Before, we had to press down on the gas pedal trying to give the economy all of the oomph that we possibly could,” Yellen said Monday in Ann Arbor, […]
Yellen’s Balance Sheet Baloney
YELLEN’S BALANCE SHEET BALONEY Of the many questions reporters asked Janet Yellen on Wednesday, at her press conference following the FOMC’s decision to raise the Fed’s policy rates, my favorite was the very first, posed by the Financial Times‘ U.S. Economics Editor, Sam Fleming. Here is Mr. Fleming’s question: [You’ve stated that the Fed wants to […]
Maybe The Recovery Wasn’t Real After All
Maybe The Recovery Wasn’t Real After All For a while there it looked like the US and its main trading partners had finally achieved escape velocity. Growth was up, inflation was poking through the Fed’s 2% target, and most measures of consumer sentiment were bordering on euphoric. Then it all started to evaporate. Lackluster manufacturing […]
Jim Rogers Warns, The Fed “Has No Clue… Will Ruin Us All”
Jim Rogers Warns, The Fed “Has No Clue… Will Ruin Us All” “What worries you?” asks a Bloomberg TV anchor of billionaire investor Jim Rogers. Rogers was not shy in his response: “The Federal Reserve… has no clue what they are doing. They are going to ruin us all.” Having driven rates to record lows […]
Bank Loan Creation Crashes At Fastest Pace Since The Financial Crisis
Bank Loan Creation Crashes At Fastest Pace Since The Financial Crisis Last weekend, after looking at the latest H.8 statement by the Fed, we noted something concerning: total loans and leases by U.S. commercial banks were rising at an annual pace of about 4.6%, based on weekly Fed data. That is down from a 6.4% pace for […]
Raising Interest Rates Can’t End Well!
Raising Interest Rates Can’t End Well! The Federal Reserve would like to raise target interest rates because of inflation concerns and concern that asset bubbles are forming. Part of their concern seems to arise indirectly from the rise in oil prices, relative to their low level in early 2016. Figure 1. WSJ figure indicating likely reasons […]
The Bag Holder and His Bag
The Bag Holder and His Bag Can you see those swans coming in for a landing on Pond USA? They’re not exactly black swans, because you knew they were out there circling, but they’re dark enough against the twilight’s last gleaming to give you the heebie jeebies. Troubles and portents of more trouble are stacking […]
Can Yellen Keep the Boom Going?
CAN YELLEN KEEP THE BOOM GOING? Yellen, like notorious previous Fed chiefs including Strong, Martin, and Greenspan, can now claim success in having prolonged and strengthened an asset price inflation which otherwise may well have been about to enter its severe end phase. If history is any guide, the result of that success is to […]
Are We Witnessing The Weirdest Moment In Economic History?
Are We Witnessing The Weirdest Moment In Economic History? It is an unfortunate reality that most people tend to be oblivious to massive sea changes in geopolitics and economics. You would think that these events would catch the immediate attention of everyone as they happen, but usually it is not until they realize that the […]
Arizona Challenges the Fed’s Money Monopoly
Arizona Challenges the Fed’s Money Monopoly History shows that, if individuals have the freedom to choose what to use as money, they will likely opt for gold or silver. Of course, modern politicians and their Keynesian enablers despise the gold or silver standard. This is because linking a currency to a precious metal limits the […]
The Coming Great Wealth Transfer
WakingTimes.com The Coming Great Wealth Transfer Spoiler alert! It’s already here. In the past, I’ve warned about the coming Great Wealth Transfer. But now we need to talk about it in the present tense, because it’s here. And it will only accelerate from here on out. The Rich will get richer at the expense of everybody else. This […]
Why the Fed Needs to Raise Rates
Why the Fed Needs to Raise Rates I have warned that rates will rise BECAUSE the Federal Reserve will be criticized if they fail to do so when they are faced with a stock market that is rising. However, while one by one, several Fed officials have all signaled in recent days that the Fed is ready […]
Contemplations for a Sunday (unless you can’t get around to it til Monday)
Contemplations for a Sunday (unless you can’t get around to it til Monday) Some simple themes today… Population growth, economic growth, and resultant energy consumption are inexorably slowing. The Federal Reserve knows it can not stop this and is simply slowing the inevitable with interest rate cuts to incent greater consumption via skyrocketing credit/debt (particularly government debt….debt that is undertaken with […]
In A Battle Between Trump And The Federal Reserve, Who Really Wins?
In A Battle Between Trump And The Federal Reserve, Who Really Wins? As a part of the increasingly obvious set-up of conservative movements by international banking interests and globalist think-tanks, I have noticed an expanding disinformation campaign which appears to be designed to wash the Federal Reserve of culpability for the crash of 2008 that […]
