{"id":49031,"date":"2019-10-19T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49031"},"modified":"2019-10-19T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:09:04","slug":"the-fed-is-lying-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49031","title":{"rendered":"The Fed is Lying to Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Fed is Lying to Us<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“When it becomes serious, you have to lie”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent statements from the Federal Reserve and the other major world central banks (the ECB, BoJ, BoE and PBoC) are alarming because their actions are completely out of alignment with what they\u2019re telling us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their words seek to soothe us that \u201ceverything\u2019s fine\u201d and the global economy is doing quite well. But their behavior reflects a desperate anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put more frankly; we\u2019re being lied to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Case in point: On October 4, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell publicly claimed the US economy is \u201cin a good place\u201d<\/a>. Yet somehow, despite the US banking system already having approximately $1.5 trillion in reserves, the Fed is suddenly pumping in an additional $60 billion per month to keep things propped up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do drastic, urgent measures like this reflect an economy that\u2019s \u201cin a good place\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fed\u2019s Rescue Was Never Real<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember, after a full decade of providing \u201cemergency stimulus measures\u201d the US Federal Reserve stopped its quantitative easing program (aka, printing money) a few years back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission Accomplished,<\/em> it declared. We\u2019ve saved the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that cessation was meaningless. Because the European Central Bank (ECB) stepped right in to take over the Fed\u2019s stimulus baton and started aggressively growing its<\/em> own balance sheet \u2014 keeping the global pool of new money growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s look at the data. First, we see here how the Fed indeed stopped growing its balance sheet in 2014:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And we can note other important insights in this chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For starters, you can clearly see how in 2008, the Fed printed up more money in just a few weeks than it had in the nearly 100 years of operations prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fed is Lying to Us “When it becomes serious, you have to lie” The recent statements from the Federal Reserve and the other major world central banks (the ECB, BoJ, BoE and PBoC) are alarming because their actions are completely out of alignment with what they\u2019re telling us. Their words seek to soothe us […]<\/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":[3756,85,27387,233,246,282,305,431,16888,536,538,27388,2914,661,662,753],"class_list":["post-49031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-boe","tag-boj","tag-claude-junker","tag-ecb","tag-economy","tag-european-central-bank","tag-federal-reserve","tag-interest-rates","tag-jerome-powell","tag-money","tag-money-printing","tag-operation-twist","tag-pboc","tag-qe","tag-quantitative-easing","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49031","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=49031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49034,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49031\/revisions\/49034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}