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Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us
Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us There is certainly more coming to eat away at your finances as infamous bankster Jamie Dimon laid out quite broadly and plainly this week. Photo by Abhishek Singh on Unsplash Jamie Dimon never saw a dying bank he didn’t want to eat. Yet, […]
“We Will Have A Hard Landing At Some Point. I Guarantee You That.”
“We Will Have A Hard Landing At Some Point. I Guarantee You That.” Can you guess who the quote in the article title is from? I will give you a hint. It wasn’t me. I know that it sounds like it could have come from me, but it actually comes from a very big name […]
Fed Paper Admits the Central Bank Can’t Control Inflation; Finger-Points at Federal Government
Fed Paper Admits the Central Bank Can’t Control Inflation; Finger-Points at Federal Government It appears somebody at the Federal Reserve has figured out that the central bank can’t tame inflation, so it’s setting up a scapegoat – Uncle Sam. A paper co-authored by Leonardo Melosi of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and John Hopkins University […]
The Fed Is Winging It: A 75 Basis-Point Hike “Seemed Like the Right Thing”
The Fed Is Winging It: A 75 Basis-Point Hike “Seemed Like the Right Thing” The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) today announced an increase of 75 basis points to the target federal funds rate, raising the rate to 1.75% from 1%. June’s meeting today was the third meeting this year at which the FOMC has […]
ECB Holds Emergency Meeting To Discuss Market Turmoil
ECB Holds Emergency Meeting To Discuss Market Turmoil Last week, shortly after the ECB’s latest meeting disappointed markets and concluded without a discussion of Europe’s growing bond market fragmentation (which is to be expected since QE – the glue that held the Euro area’s bond market together – is ending) and which has since sent […]
The Mayhem Below the Surface of the Stock Market Seeps to the Surface: Now it’s the Giants that Topple
The Mayhem Below the Surface of the Stock Market Seeps to the Surface: Now it’s the Giants that Topple The market finally gets it: The Fed is going to tighten to get a handle on its massive inflation problem. Since February last year, the hottest most hyped stocks, many of them recent IPOs and SPACS, […]
Peter Schiff: The Fed Can’t Do What It’s Saying It Will Do
Peter Schiff: The Fed Can’t Do What It’s Saying It Will Do The Fed FOMC minutes came out last week, signaling tighter monetary policy. Peter Schiff talked about the minutes in his podcast, arguing that the Fed can’t do what it says it’s going to do. If it does, it will crash the markets and the economy. […]
“Minsky Moments Almost Certainly Await”: Nomura Fears ‘Collateral’ Damage From The QE-to-QT Transition
“Minsky Moments Almost Certainly Await”: Nomura Fears ‘Collateral’ Damage From The QE-to-QT Transition “Minsky Moments” almost certainly await, warns Nomura’s Charlie McElligott in his latest note as he reflects on a massive week ahead for markets. With Powell testimony and bunches of Fed speakers, along with US economic releases headlined by the market’s most important datapoint in the […]
US Money Supply – The Pandemic Moonshot
US Money Supply – The Pandemic Moonshot Printing Until the Cows Come Home… It started out with Jay Powell planting a happy little money tree in 2019 to keep the repo market from suffering a terminal seizure. This essentially led to a restoration of the status quo ante “QT” (the mythical beast known as “quantitative […]
These Are The Banks Where The Fed’s $1.4 Trillion In Reserves Are Parked
These Are The Banks Where The Fed’s $1.4 Trillion In Reserves Are Parked Over the past few days there has been much confusion over the repocalpyse that shook the overnight funding market, and just as much confusion over the definition of reserves which some banks were unwilling to part with, other banks were desperate for, and in […]
For The First Time In 6 Years, No Central Bank Is Hiking
For The First Time In 6 Years, No Central Bank Is Hiking The global central bank experiment with renormalization is officially over. After roughly half the world’s central banks hiked rates at least once in 2018, the major central banks have returned to easing mode, and as the chart below shows, for the first time […]
Trump’s Fight With The Fed Over Interest Rates Is A Scripted Farce
Trump’s Fight With The Fed Over Interest Rates Is A Scripted Farce There is a very bizarre narrative being circulated in the mainstream economic media and it goes a little something like this: “The Federal Reserve has capitulated on liquidity tightening yet the US economy is “stronger than ever”, isn’t that weird?” There are a […]
The Federal Reserve’s Controlled Demolition Of The Economy Is Almost Complete The Federal Reserve is an often misunderstood entity, not only in the mainstream, but also in alternative economic circles. There is this ever pervasive fantasy on both sides of the divide that the central bank actually “cares” about forever protecting the US economy, or […]
Why The Fed Should Not Stop Raising Rates
Why The Fed Should Not Stop Raising Rates A very smart and wealthy friend always reminds me that you have to invest in the market landscape that exists today—not the one you wish for. That said, I like to think of myself as a pragmatist who views the capital markets through the lens of financial […]
Fed Can’t Get Out – Buy Gold Now – Jim Rickards
Fed Can’t Get Out – Buy Gold Now – Jim Rickards Four time best-selling author Jim Rickards says the Fed “throwing in the towel” on rate hikes is signaling a big problem for the economy. Rickards says, “The Fed was tightening to get ready for the next recession. . . . You need to cut […]
