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Futures Crash, Stocks At 2022 Lows; Yields, Dollar Explode As UK Stimulus Plan Sparks Global Market Panic
Futures Crash, Stocks At 2022 Lows; Yields, Dollar Explode As UK Stimulus Plan Sparks Global Market Panic One week after stocks suffered their biggest drop since June, futures are in freefall on Friday with the dollar soaring to the now default daily record high… … 10Y yields exploding higher, surging more than 10bps so far […]
China Injects A Record 5 Trillion Yuan In New Debt To Arrest Economic Crash
China Injects A Record 5 Trillion Yuan In New Debt To Arrest Economic Crash There was a palpable sense of disappointment last night when instead of cutting its benchmark overnight interest rates, Loan Prime Rate, as some – notably Goldman Sachs – had speculated might happen, the PBOC announced that it would only lower its […]
Whatever Happened to Saving for a Rainy Day?
Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Whatever Happened to Saving for a Rainy Day? The US will be paying for its current fiscal excesses with the promise of future payments. But inefficient economic stimulus now will not give future generations the productive resources needed to make good on it. CAMBRIDGE – More than a decade […]
Low Interest Rates Subsidize Wealthy Households
LOW INTEREST RATES SUBSIDIZE WEALTHY HOUSEHOLDS When the economy begins to sink into recession, politicians, mainstream economists, policy wonks, and the Federal Reserve begin beating the economic stimulus drum. Politicians, however, disagree over the type of stimulus to implement. The center-left party proposes greater expenditures on public assistance programs. The center-right party supports permanent tax […]
Low Interest Rates Subsidize Wealthy Households
Low Interest Rates Subsidize Wealthy Households When the economy begins to sink into recession, politicians, mainstream economists, policy wonks, and the Federal Reserve begin beating the economic stimulus drum. Politicians, however, disagree over the type of stimulus to implement. The center-left party proposes greater expenditures on public assistance programs. The center-right party supports permanent tax […]
Why no economic boost from lower oil prices?
Why no economic boost from lower oil prices? Many analysts had anticipated that a dramatic drop in oil prices such as we’ve seen since the summer of 2014 could provide a big stimulus to the economy of a net oil importer like the United States. That doesn’t seem to be what we’ve observed in the […]
Why Low Oil Prices Haven’t Helped The Economy
Why Low Oil Prices Haven’t Helped The Economy Many analysts had anticipated that a dramatic drop in oil prices such as we’ve seen since the summer of 2014 could provide a big stimulus to the economy of a net oil importer like the United States. That doesn’t seem to be what we’ve observed in the […]
Sweden Central Joins The NIRP Club: Lowers Interest Rate To -0.1%, Launches QE
Sweden Central Joins The NIRP Club: Lowers Interest Rate To -0.1%, Launches QE It’s a NIRP world and you are either in it, or are determined to lose the currency wars. And hours ago, the world’s oldest central bank, that of Sweden, announced that it too would join its NIRP peers in an attempt to […]
How China Deals With Deflation: A 60% Pay Raise For 39 Million Public Workers
How China Deals With Deflation: A 60% Pay Raise For 39 Million Public Workers While the rest of the developed world, flooded with re-exported deflation as a result of now ubiquitous money printing, scrambles to print even more money in hopes of stimulating the economy when all it is doing is accelerating a closed deflationary loop (at […]
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, unleashes stimulus plan to spur growth – Business – CBC News
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, unleashes stimulus plan to spur growth – Business – CBC News. Japan’s cabinet approved 3.5 trillion yen ($29 billion US) in fresh stimulus Saturday for the ailing economy, pledging to get growth back on track and restore the country’s precarious public finances. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is wrapping up his […]
