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Inflation Has Run Amok – Danielle DiMartino Booth
Inflation Has Run Amok – Danielle DiMartino Booth Former Fed insider Danielle DiMartino Booth is sure the Fed is going to raise interest rates again at the September meeting. Why? DiMartino Booth explains, “I think he’s (Jerome Powell) the most independent Fed Chair in the past 30 years, and I think he’s going to raise […]
Fed Staff Delivers Intellectual Ammo for Hawkish Approach to Inflation
Fed Staff Delivers Intellectual Ammo for Hawkish Approach to Inflation “Because monetary policy acts with a lag, waiting for inflation to materialize before reacting is undesirable, particularly when economic conditions are such that outsized deviations of inflation from its target are a plausible outcome.” Let’s break the above quote apart and put it in perspective: […]
The Fed’s “Inflation Target” is Impoverishing American Workers
The Fed’s “Inflation Target” is Impoverishing American Workers Redefined Terms and Absurd Targets At one time, the Federal Reserve’s sole mandate was to maintain stable prices and to “fight inflation.” To the Fed, the financial press, and most everyone else “inflation” means rising prices instead of its original and true definition as an increase in […]
Watch Live: The World’s Top 3 Central Bankers Discuss What’s Next
Watch Live: The World’s Top 3 Central Bankers Discuss What’s Next Update: Powell has maintained his hawkish tone from last week’s press conference with his comments in Sintra on the labor market and monetary policy. He expressed confidence in the US economy and said “the case for continued gradual rate hikes is strong.” According to […]
Breslow: “If You Ever Needed Proof That Central Banks Have Crushed These Markets, There You Have It”
Breslow: “If You Ever Needed Proof That Central Banks Have Crushed These Markets, There You Have It” It’s been a while since we featured the grouchy version of Richard Breslow, Bloomberg’s “Trader’s Notes” author, who is back with a bang with his latest missive, explaining why “Ignoring Current Events Just Makes You a Slave” and […]
Central Banking: It’s Alive!!
CENTRAL BANKING: IT’S ALIVE!! In his recent posting on Linked In, entitled, ‘The death of macro-prudential’, Stuart Trow of the EBRD delivered a well-aimed broadside at the pitiable conduct of the Bank of England and elaborated on some of the malign consequences of its catalogue of errors. Without wishing to single him out unduly for […]
EM FX Plunges: Argentine Peso Re-Crashes, Turkish Lira Tumbles To Record Low
EM FX Plunges: Argentine Peso Re-Crashes, Turkish Lira Tumbles To Record Low Just hours after Fed Chair Jay Powell implied that ’emerging markets are on their own’, EM FX is re-collapsing… with Argentina (despite a 1275bp rate hike) and Turkey both crashing to new record lows… “There is good reason to think that the normalization […]
Fed Chair Powell To Emerging Markets: You Are On Your Own
Fed Chair Powell To Emerging Markets: You Are On Your Own Over the weekend, when commenting on the ongoing rout in emerging markets, Bloomberg published an article titled “Rattled Emerging Markets Say: It’s Over to You, Central Bankers.” Well, overnight the most important central banker of all, Fed Chair Jay Powell responded to these pleas […]
Markets Better Prepare for Stagflation
Markets Better Prepare for Stagflation By all metrics, prices are heating up. But the same can’t be said for economic activity. Pray for Jerome Powell. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Investors better wake up to the growing risk of stagflation. The coming weeks promise to deliver the verdict on how they should be positioned. By […]
Doug Duncan: Even US Government Economists Predict Trouble Ahead
Doug Duncan: Even US Government Economists Predict Trouble Ahead Fannie Mae forecasts an economic slowdown by 2019 Doug Duncan is not your average beltway economist. The chief economist for Fannie Mae is surprisingly outspoken about the troublesome outlook for the US economy. He’s worried about the rising cost of debt service as outstanding credit continues […]
Jerome Is The New Janet: Tie, Trousers And Same Old Keynesian Jabberwocky
Jerome Is The New Janet: Tie, Trousers And Same Old Keynesian Jabberwocky The election of 2016 was supposed to be the most disruptive break with the status quo in modern history, if ever. On the single most important decision of his tenure, however, the Donald has lined-up check-by-jowl with Barry and Dubya, too. That is to […]
What a Hoot: Fed Chairman Powell Says “Growth Has Picked Up”
What a Hoot: Fed Chairman Powell Says “Growth Has Picked Up” In his first non-FOMC speech, Jerome Powell stresses growth and jobs. Inquiring minds are investigating Jerome Powell’s speech on his Outlook for the U.S. Economy presented today at the Economic Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Here are a few key quotes. After what at […]
Doug Noland: No Bailouts Anytime Soon, So Let Those Short Bets Run
Doug Noland: No Bailouts Anytime Soon, So Let Those Short Bets Run Now that equities are behaving the way they should have since, oh, 2013 – volatile with a pronounced down bias – everyone is wondering how far the crazy will go before the Fed starts buying the S&P 500. Short sellers, of course, want […]
Fed Chair Admits “US Is Not On A Sustainable Fiscal Path”
Fed Chair Admits “US Is Not On A Sustainable Fiscal Path” Less than a week after Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan sounded the alarm over the level of debt that America’s government is projected to carry, Fed Chair Jay Powell told Congress today that “the US is not on a sustainable fiscal path.” […]
Haunted by Ghosts of the Old Eastern Bloc
Haunted by Ghosts of the Old Eastern Bloc Ridiculous Minutia Jerome Powell, the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve, just completed his third week on the job. He’s hardly had enough time to learn how to operate the office coffee maker, let alone the all-in-one printer. He still doesn’t know what roach coach menu items […]
