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The Federal Reserve: Illusion of Understanding, Illusion of Control
The Federal Reserve: Illusion of Understanding, Illusion of Control The net result is nonsensical policies that fail to achieve their stated objectives. We live in an era of illusion: the illusion of understanding, and the illusion of control. Few institutions reflect these illusions better than the Federal Reserve, though the Pentagon, Congress, the Imperial Presidency, the […]
The Worse Things Get For You, The Better They Get For Wall Street
The Worse Things Get For You, The Better They Get For Wall Street On October 2 the BLS reported absolutely atrocious employment data, with virtually no job growth other than the phantom jobs added by the fantastically wrong Birth/Death adjustment for all those new businesses springing up around the country. The MSM couldn’t even spin […]
Confirmation: China As Brazil
Confirmation: China As Brazil There is always some chicken and egg to any financial irregularity; as in does a crisis cause a panic or is it the panic that causes the crisis? Though the evidence of the past eight years is decidedly on the side of the irregularity, central banks continue to press as if […]
“We Should Have Known Something Was Wrong”
“We Should Have Known Something Was Wrong” Remember when stuff such as the following was written exclusively on “conspiracy” tin-foil blogs by deranged lunatics who could not appreciate the brilliance of the neo-Keynesian system and central-planning by academics, in all its glory? Good times. Here is Bank of America’s Athanasios Vamvakidis channeling Tyler Durden circa […]
Time to End Monetary Central Planning
Time to End Monetary Central Planning There is no way to describe current Federal Reserve policy other than as monetary confusion and misdirection. In a nutshell, Janet Yellen and the other members of the Fed’s Board of Governors have no idea what to do. Do they raise certain interest rates over which they have some […]
U.S. jobs and global gloom may mean more mortgage relief: Don Pittis
U.S. jobs and global gloom may mean more mortgage relief: Don Pittis Interest rate hikes fade into the future as economic recovery appears to go flat It seems a terrible thing to cheer about, but a new feeling of gloom may be good for Canadians weighed down by mortgage debt. A worse-than-expected U.S. jobs report and increasing fears […]
Dammit, Janet
Dammit, Janet According to Einstein, time is affected by gravity. Clocks far from strong gravitational fields run more quickly; those close by run more slowly. We can only assume, then, that Janet Yellen has the density of a neutron star. Under her leadership of the US Federal Reserve, time seems to have stopped altogether. It […]
The Next Thing Might Be Helicopter Money
The Next Thing Might Be Helicopter Money «I dare to say that we have not yet seen the most radical brainwaves of the mandarins running our central banks.» (Bild: Roderick Aichinger) James Grant, Wall Street expert and editor of the investment journal «Grant’s Interest Rate Observer», warns of ever more extreme central bank policies and bets […]
“Everyone’s Praying But No One’s Believing” – The ‘Fed Put’ Is Dead
“Everyone’s Praying But No One’s Believing” – The ‘Fed Put’ Is Dead Chalk Outline Yellen’s detailed speech initially triggered an out-sized market reaction. Unfortunately, it was mainly due to shallow market depth and weak-hand positions. The ‘risk-on’ trades that ensued seem driven by positional unwinds from short-term traders. These markets will likely reverse back to lower prices […]
The Fed Can’t Fix It: “All That’s Left is a Reset, Shutdown of the System”
The Fed Can’t Fix It: “All That’s Left is a Reset, Shutdown of the System” Did Janet Yellen make the right decision in delaying a Federal Reserve rate hike? Did the United States dodge a bullet? Of course not. And the system is on course for a dangerous, hard landing. As far as many experts […]
The US Bond Market is far Larger than the Stock Market: If Even Part of it Blows, it’ll Dig a Magnificent Crater
The US Bond Market is far Larger than the Stock Market: If Even Part of it Blows, it’ll Dig a Magnificent Crater “So, if rates rise, we get nervous. If rates fall, we get nervous. If rates stay the same, we get nervous. When don’t we get nervous? Raise the rates already! We are talking […]
Yellen Is Trapped in the Worst Nightmare Ever
Yellen Is Trapped in the Worst Nightmare Ever Yellen has inherited a complete nightmare. Thursday’s decision to delay yet again the long-awaited liftoff from zero interest rates is illustrating that the world economy is totally screwed. There is a lot of speculation about why the Fed seems so reluctant to“normalize monetary policy”. There are of course […]
It Begins: Australia’s Largest Investment Bank Just Said “Helicopter Money” Is 12-18 Months Away
It Begins: Australia’s Largest Investment Bank Just Said “Helicopter Money” Is 12-18 Months Away Just over two years ago, when the world was deciding who would be Bernanke Fed Chair replacement, Larry Summers or Janet Yellen (how ironic that Larry Summers did not get the nod just because a bunch of progressive economists thought he […]
Riding ZIRP Into The Doom Loop—–Monetary Central Planning’s Dead End
Riding ZIRP Into The Doom Loop—–Monetary Central Planning’s Dead End What the Fed really decided Thursday was to ride the zero-bound right smack into the next recession. When that calamity happens not too many months from now, the 28-year experiment in monetary central planning inaugurated by a desperate Alan Greenspan after Black Monday in October 1987 will come to […]
David Stockman Interview On Yahoo——The Fed Painted Itself Into A Corner, Confidence In The Casino Is Headed For A Fall
David Stockman Interview On Yahoo——The Fed Painted Itself Into A Corner, Confidence In The Casino Is Headed For A Fall David Stockman is not a fan of the Fed. In fact he claims that the Fed is on a “jihad” against retirees and savers. The former Reagan budget director and author of “The Great Deformation: […]
