{"id":22331,"date":"2016-12-24T19:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22331"},"modified":"2016-12-24T19:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:59:30","slug":"federal-reserve-initiates-end-game-as-trump-heads-to-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22331","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve Initiates End Game As Trump Heads To White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"contentheading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt-market.com\/articles\/3091-federal-reserve-initiates-end-game-as-trump-heads-to-white-house\">Federal Reserve Initiates End Game As Trump Heads To White House<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article-tools\">\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alt-market.com\/images\/stories\/trumpquote.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>For years, alternative economic analysts have been warning that the \u201cmiraculous\u201d rise in U.S. stock markets has been the symptom of wider central bank intervention and that this will result in dire future consequences. We have heard endless lies and rationalizations as to why this could not be so, and why the U.S. \u201crecovery\u201d is real.\u00a0 At the beginning of 2016, the former head of the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve crushed all the skeptics and vindicated our position\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/video.cnbc.com\/gallery\/?video=3000474362\">in an interview with CNBC<\/a>\u00a0where he stated:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat the Fed did \u2014 and I was part of that group \u2014 is we front-loaded a tremendous market rally, starting in 2009.It\u2019s sort of what I call the \u201creverse Whimpy factor\u201d \u2014 give me two hamburgers today for one tomorrow. I\u2019m not surprised that almost every index you can look at \u2026 was down significantly.\u201d [Referring to the results in the stock market after the Fed raised rates in December.]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fisher continued his warning (though his predictions in my view are wildly conservative or deliberately muted):<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c\u2026I was warning my colleagues, \u201cDon\u2019t go wobbly if we have a 10-20 percent correction at some point. \u2026 Everybody you talk to \u2026 has been warning that these markets are heavily priced.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is the issue\u00a0<strong>\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0stocks are a mostly meaningless factor when considering the economic health of a nation. Equities are a casino based on nothing but the luck of the draw when it comes to news headlines, central banker statements and algorithmic computers. Today, as Fischer openly admitted, stocks are a purely manipulated indicator representing nothing but the amount of stimulus central banks are willing to pour into them through various channels.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the incredible monetary support pooled together by international financiers, returns on equities investments continue to remain mostly flat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Reserve Initiates End Game As Trump Heads To White House For years, alternative economic analysts have been warning that the \u201cmiraculous\u201d rise in U.S. stock markets has been the symptom of wider central bank intervention and that this will result in dire future consequences. We have heard endless lies and rationalizations as to why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6703,5993,7844,303,3650],"class_list":["post-22331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-alt-market","tag-brandon-smith","tag-donald-trump","tag-fed","tag-us-federal-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22332,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22331\/revisions\/22332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}