{"id":4122,"date":"2015-01-05T19:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2015-01-05T19:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:43:28","slug":"fed-abandons-stock-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4122","title":{"rendered":"Fed Abandons Stock Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zealllc.com\/2015\/fedabdns.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Fed Abandons Stock Markets<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The seemingly-invincible US stock markets powered higher again last year, still directly fueled by the Fed\u2019s epic quantitative-easing money printing.\u00a0 But 2015 is shaping up to be radically different from the past couple years. \u00a0The Fed effectively abandoned the stock markets when it terminated its bond buying late last year.\u00a0 So this year we will finally see if these lofty stock markets can remain afloat without the Fed.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream stock investors and speculators are certainly loving life these days.\u00a0 The flagship S&amp;P 500 stock index enjoyed an excellent 2014, climbing 11.4%.\u00a0 And that followed 2013\u2019s massive and amazing 29.6% blast higher!\u00a0 The last couple years were truly extraordinary and record-breaking on many fronts, with the US stock markets essentially\u00a0<em>doing nothing but rally<\/em>\u00a0to an endless streak of new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zealllc.com\/2014\/spxfillu.htm\">nominal<\/a>\u00a0record highs.<\/p>\n<p>Such anomalously-one-sided stock markets naturally bred the extreme euphoria universally evident today.\u00a0 Greedy traders have totally forgotten the\u00a0<em>endlessly-cyclical nature<\/em>\u00a0of stock-market history, where bear markets always follow bulls.\u00a0 They\u2019ve convinced themselves that these stock markets can keep on magically levitating indefinitely, that major selloffs of any magnitude are no longer a threat worth considering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed Abandons Stock Markets The seemingly-invincible US stock markets powered higher again last year, still directly fueled by the Fed\u2019s epic quantitative-easing money printing.\u00a0 But 2015 is shaping up to be radically different from the past couple years. \u00a0The Fed effectively abandoned the stock markets when it terminated its bond buying late last year.\u00a0 So [&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":[303,305,2442],"class_list":["post-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-fed","tag-federal-reserve","tag-us-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","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=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}