{"id":47355,"date":"2019-07-21T15:26:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47355"},"modified":"2019-07-21T15:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T20:26:39","slug":"battle-for-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47355","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Battle for Control<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Markets are engaged in a clear battle for control: An active Fed eager to extend the business cycle using asset price inflation as its primary means to generate further debt financed growth on the one hand and deteriorating fundamentals and technicals gnawing at an artificial market construct on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s call a spade a spade: Markets would not be anywhere near new highs were it not for a Fed flip flopping and racing from dovish media event to dovish media event. I\u2019ve been very vocal in my criticisms of their efforts and sense they are playing a dangerous game<\/strong><\/a> here. Hence I don\u2019t want to belabor the point here today. But as a follow up: Friday\u2019s desperate efforts on the side of the Fed to backtrack market expectations for a 50bp rate cut at the coming July meeting, which they themselves caused on Thursday with multiple Fed speakers, has revealed again the Fed\u2019s singular role it has to devolved into: The market\u2019s primary price discovery mechanism. As markets dropped below $SPX 3,000 this week dovish Fed speakers caused a renewed rally above 3,000 and as soon as they tried to walk it back with a conspicuous WSJ Journal article on Friday markets again soon rolled over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the circus atmosphere they have created and appear to be supportive of. The Fed is very aware of its role in all of this and it\u2019s shameful. Like Alan Greenspan or not, but at least he was a cryptic speaker that left markets guessing and played his cards close to the vest. But over the years the Fed has devolved itself into this clown show we have now, a day to day manager of markets. And markets have learned to react to every single pronouncement and utterance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Battle for Control Markets are engaged in a clear battle for control: An active Fed eager to extend the business cycle using asset price inflation as its primary means to generate further debt financed growth on the one hand and deteriorating fundamentals and technicals gnawing at an artificial market construct on the other. Let\u2019s call […]<\/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":[98,124,431,23808,3650],"class_list":["post-47355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-business-cycle","tag-central-banks","tag-interest-rates","tag-sven-henrich","tag-us-federal-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47355","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=47355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47356,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47355\/revisions\/47356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}