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Why the Fed Is WRONG About Interest Rates
Why the Fed Is WRONG About Interest Rates Richard Werner – an economics professor and the creator of quantitative easing – says that it’s a myth that interest rates drive the level of economic activity. The data shows that the opposite is true: rates lagthe economy. Economics prof Steve Keen – who called the Great Recession before […]
A Free Market in Interest Rates
A Free Market in Interest Rates The Corn Control Agency Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that we have an administered interest rate. This means that the bureaucrats at the Federal Reserve decide what’s good for the little people. Then they impose it on us. In trying to return to freedom, many people […]
U.S. interest rate hike will be tough medicine for indebted Canada
U.S. interest rate hike will be tough medicine for indebted Canada America has had its housing market ‘correction,’ ours is yet to come Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen at the Economics Club of Washington earlier this month. She is widely expected to raise the Feds main interest rate today, for the first time in nine […]
Grant Williams: The End Of The Road
Grant Williams: The End Of The Road The Fed is finally boxed in Grant Williams returns this week to set the context for this week’s FOMC meeting, where the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. To say he is very skeptical of the Fed’s ability […]
There’s No Upside Left
There’s No Upside Left The upside is ephemeral, illusory or wishful thinking; the downside is real and lasting. There’s no upside left–not just in the real economy, but in jobs, politics or policy tweaks. Yes, there will be huge relief rallies in the stock market–relief that the Fed is still omnipotent, that the Fed didn’t destroy […]
A Full Trunk Of Combustible Junk——The Wages Of ZIRP
A Full Trunk Of Combustible Junk——The Wages Of ZIRP Shuffling uncomfortably with paint brushes in hand in the tight monetary corner into which they have painted themselves, our monetary suzerains are about to demonstrate the folly of their seven-year stint of “extraordinary” policy accommodation. Even as ZIRP and QE have failed to rejuvenate the main street economy, they did trigger a far-reaching […]
Fedpocalypse Now?
Fedpocalypse Now? “Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into….” — Oliver Hardy If ever such a thing was, the stage is set this Monday and Tuesday for a rush to the exits in financial markets as the world prepares for the US central bank to take one baby step out of the corner it’s […]
December 14th To 18th: A Week Of Reckoning For Global Stocks If The Fed Hikes Interest Rates?
December 14th To 18th: A Week Of Reckoning For Global Stocks If The Fed Hikes Interest Rates? Are we about to witness widespread panic in the global financial marketplace? This week is shaping up to be an absolutely critical week for global stocks. Coming into December, more than half of the 93 largest stock market […]
The Next Domino: CANADA
The Next Domino: CANADA The Federal Reserve has kept its zero interest rate policy (‘ZIRP’) for several years (and much longer than originally anticipated) whilst the European Central Bank seems to be getting serious about doing ‘better’ and has now reduced the deposit rate at the ECB to -0.30%. It’s already remarkable a central bank doesn’t seem […]
The End of the Bubble Finance Era
The End of the Bubble Finance Era We are nearing a crucial inflection point in the worldwide bubble finance cycle that has been underway for more than two decades. To wit, the world’s central banks have finally run out of dry powder. They will be unable to stop the credit implosion which must inexorably follow […]
Fed’s Rocket Ship Turns Hoverboard
Fed’s Rocket Ship Turns Hoverboard Over the past year, while the U.S. economy has continually missed expectations, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen has assured all who could stay awake during her press conferences that it was strong enough to withstand tighter monetary policy. In delivering months of mildly tough talk (with nothing in the way […]
Can’t Argue With a Confident Man
CAN’T ARGUE WITH A CONFIDENT MAN “I can say therefore with confidence – and without any complacency – that we will secure the return of inflation to 2% without undue delay, because we are currently deploying tools that we believe will achieve this, and because we can, in any case, deploy our tools further if […]
Big Banks In a Tizzy Want to Take Their Billions and Go Home
Big Banks In a Tizzy Want to Take Their Billions and Go Home The big banks are not taking a rare legislative defeat lying down. Days after President Obama signed into law a highway package that finally ended an egregious, 100-year-old subsidy for big banks, two of Wall Street’s favorite legislators want to attach a last-minute rider to the […]
December 16, 2015—–When The End Of The Bubble Begins
December 16, 2015—–When The End Of The Bubble Begins They are going to layer their post-meeting statement with a steaming pile of if, ands & buts. It will exude an abundance of caution and a dearth of clarity. Having judged that a 25 bps pinprick is warranted, the FOMC will then plant itself firmly in front of the great flickering dashboard in the […]
The Trouble with the Future
The Trouble with the Future Feeeeeelings PARIS – Yesterday, we got so much mail on our recent issue on Donald Trump we couldn’t read it all. Pro… con… off the wall – readers’ sentiments were all over the place. But a clever reader mercifully brought the discussion to an end with this quote from fellow Baltimorean H.L. Mencken: “As […]
