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Fed Quack Treatments are Causing the Stagnation
Fed Quack Treatments are Causing the Stagnation Bleeding the Patient to Health There’s something alluring about cure-alls and quick fixes. Who doesn’t want a magic panacea to make every illness or discomfort disappear? Such a yearning once compelled the best and the brightest minds to believe the impossible for over two thousand years. Instantaneous relief! […]
What’s The Matter With Inflation?
What’s The Matter With Inflation? What’s The Matter Kansas inflation? The divergence of official inflation as measured by the government versus inflation realized by the consumer and businesses has never been greater, in our opinion. Go ask anybody on the street in America and Europe if think “doing life or business” is getting more expensive. […]
Gold Price Will Explode When System Breaks – Gordon Long
Gold Price Will Explode When System Breaks – Gordon Long Private investor Gordon Long contends the price of gold will shock the world when it revalues to reflect the massive amount of currency that has been printed globally. Long explains, “That is correct, and it won’t be something that is gradual, it will be very […]
Market Analyst: “We’re Going To Have A Biblical Event… There Is No Way To Stop This”
Market Analyst: “We’re Going To Have A Biblical Event… There Is No Way To Stop This” Gregory Mannarino of TradersChoice.net has been eerily prescient in recent years, having accurately forecast stock movements, Federal Reserve rate hikes and market sentiment. In a recent interview with Greg Hunter at USA Watchdog, Mannarino says that U.S. debt has […]
What A Fed Rate Hike Means For U.S. Shale
What A Fed Rate Hike Means For U.S. Shale North American shale oil and gas companies have proven that they can adapt their business model through the lower crude oil prices cycle. Now, the new challenge for shale producers is how to adjust their financial strategy when the Federal Reserve (Fed) raises interest rates. Since […]
The Sermon On The Mount[ain Of Debt]
The Sermon On The Mount[ain Of Debt] “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” – President Herbert Hoover The Hoover administration thought there was no room and was ideologically opposed to fiscal expansion to stimulate aggregate demand. Furthermore, Keynesian theory was not even developed at the time. The General Theory of Employment, […]
You’re Likely A Lot Less Prepared For Crisis Than You Realize
rangizzz/Shutterstock You’re Likely A Lot Less Prepared For Crisis Than You Realize Lessons from the recent rash of natural disasters It seems as if Mother Nature is waking up. Either she’s trying to send humans an important warning, or perhaps she’s just out to kill us all. Massive storms across the globe, earthquakes, and collapsing ecosystems […]
Janet Yellen’s 78-Month Plan for the National Monetary Policy of the United States
Janet Yellen’s 78-Month Plan for the National Monetary Policy of the United States Past the Point of No Return Adventures in depravity are nearly always confronted with the unpleasant reality that stopping the degeneracy is much more difficult than starting it. This realization, and the unsettling feeling that comes with it, usually surfaces just after […]
Stupidity Well Anchored: Absurdity of Inflation Expectations in Graphic Form
Stupidity Well Anchored: Absurdity of Inflation Expectations in Graphic Form The amount of sheer nonsense written about inflation expectations is staggering. Let’s take a look at some recent articles before making a mockery of them with a single picture. Expectations Problem On July 17, 2017, Rich Miller writing for Bloomberg proclaimed The Fed Has an Inflation Expectations […]
Albert Edwards: “Citizen Rage” Will Soon Be Directed At “Schizophrenic” Central Banks
Albert Edwards: “Citizen Rage” Will Soon Be Directed At “Schizophrenic” Central Banks Perhaps having grown tired of fighting windmills, it was several weeks since Albert Edwards’ latest rant against central banks. However, we were confident that recent developments out of the Fed and BOE were sure to stir the bearish strategist out of hibernation, and […]
Why Economic Data No Longer Matters
Why Economic Data No Longer Matters Back in mid-2009, we said that with the Fed and central banks nationalizing capital markets, macro and even micro data and newsflow will matter increasingly less and less, and the only thing that does matter is the Fed’s weekly H.4.1 statement, showing the changes to the Fed’s balance sheet. […]
This Fed is on a Mission
This Fed is on a Mission QE Unwind starts Oct. 1. Rate hike in Dec. Low inflation, no problem. The two-day meeting of the FOMC ended on Wednesday with a momentous announcement that has been telegraphed for months: the QE unwind begins October 1. It marks the end of an era. The unwind will proceed […]
Today the music stops
Today the music stops Today’s the day. After months of preparing financial markets for this news, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce that it will finally begin shrinking its $4.5 trillion balance sheet. I know, that probably sound reeeeally boring. A bunch of central bankers talking about their balance sheet. But it’s phenomenally […]
Fed’s Asset Bubbles Now At The Mercy Of The Rest Of The World’s Central Bankers
Fed’s Asset Bubbles Now At The Mercy Of The Rest Of The World’s Central Bankers “Like watching paint dry,” is how The Fed describes the beginning of the end of its experiment with massively inflating its balance sheet to save the world. As former fund manager Richard Breslow notes, however, Yellen’s decision today means the […]
Federal Reserve Will Continue Cutting Economic Life Support
Federal Reserve Will Continue Cutting Economic Life Support I remember back in mid-2013 when the Federal Reserve fielded the notion of a “taper” of quantitative easing measures. More specifically, I remember the response of mainstream economic analysts as well as the alternative economic community. I argued fervently in multiple articles that the Fed would indeed […]
