{"id":43216,"date":"2019-01-27T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T13:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43216"},"modified":"2019-01-27T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T13:17:48","slug":"fed-will-crash-markets-dollar-gold-protects-john-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43216","title":{"rendered":"Fed Will Crash Markets &#038; Dollar, Gold Protects \u2013 John Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/usawatchdog.com\/fed-will-crash-markets-dollar-gold-protects-john-williams\/\">Fed Will Crash Markets &amp; Dollar, Gold Protects \u2013 John Williams<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economist John Williams warns the Federal Reserve has painted itself into a very tight no win corner. No matter what the Fed does with rates it\u2019s going to be a disaster. Williams explains, \u201cYou had some very heavy selling towards the end of the year and when you saw the big declines in the stock market you also saw that accompanied by a falling dollar and rising gold prices. That was foreign capital which was significant fleeing our markets. So if the Fed continues to raise interest rates, and they want to do and they still don\u2019t have rates where they want them, it\u2019s going to intensify the economic downturn. That\u2019s going to hit the stock market. If they stop raising rates . . . and they have to go back to some sort of quantitative easing, that\u2019s going to hit the dollar hard. Foreign investors are going to say the dollar is going to get weaker and let\u2019s get out of the dollar. Then, you are going tom see heavy selling in the stock market. So either way they go, they created a conundrum for themselves because of the way they bailed out the banking system (in 2008-2009). At this point they don\u2019t have an easy way out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams says the U.S. is already entering into a recession. Williams contends, \u201cThe first quarter, which is the quarter we are in right now, the first quarter of 2019 likely will be in contraction partially due to the government shutdown. That is slowing the economy on top of the interest rate hikes, but the cause of the recession here is not the government shutdown. It\u2019s the Fed hiking rates . . . the fundamental driving factor that was putting us into recession even before the government shutdown was the rapid rise in interest rates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed Will Crash Markets &amp; Dollar, Gold Protects \u2013 John Williams Economist John Williams warns the Federal Reserve has painted itself into a very tight no win corner. No matter what the Fed does with rates it\u2019s going to be a disaster. Williams explains, \u201cYou had some very heavy selling towards the end of the [&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":[303,1849,8757,431,459,534,1264],"class_list":["post-43216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-fed","tag-financial-markets","tag-greg-hunter","tag-interest-rates","tag-john-williams","tag-monetary-policy","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43216","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=43216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43217,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43216\/revisions\/43217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}