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• zerohedge.comToday marks the five year anniversary of the Flash Crash, the day in 2010 when the US stock market fell drastically in a matter of minutes then recovered most of the losses.
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Today marks the five year anniversary of the Flash Crash, the day in 2010 when the US stock market fell drastically in a matter of minutes then recovered most of the losses.
Back in November, we highlighted the accuracy of Jeremy Grantham's predictions about the trajectory of the central bank liquidity-fueled equity rally.
In my last piece I provided a technical analysis that signaled we are entering the first stage of a bursting bubble that we'll call the Fed Bubble.
The Fed's FOMC meeting over. The Fed has removed the word "patient" from its verbiage concerning future rate hikes, so traders will have to find some other minutia to obsess over.
Earlier today, Goldman initiated its Q2 GDP tracking at 3.0%.
It seems to me that Anarcho-Capitalists should all be doing what Ken O'Keefe is doing, that is, renouncing their "state contract", i.e. citizenship papers.
Economist Steen Jakobsen, Chief Investment Officer of Saxo Bank, believes 2015 will be another "lost year" for the economy.
The sudden decision to buy EUR and dump USDs (after a slew of Fed speakers spewed their usual spew) has sparked a buy everything trade across markets as bonds, stocks, and crude are surging...
The New York branch of the U.S. Federal Reserve, wary that a natural disaster or other eventuality could shut down its market operations as it approaches an interest rate hike, has added staff and bulked up its satellite office in Chicago.
Inflation, war spending, and the Federal Reserve's shell game
Former Fed Governor Thomas Hoenig Says US Banks Undercapitalized; Unsafe, and Unsound Banks
Former Fed Governor Thomas Hoenig Says US Banks Undercapitalized; Unsafe, and Unsound Banks
QIRP Does Not Work And Rebutting Bernanke's Defense Of Himself
Shortly after Japan admitted all of its "rising wages" data for 2014 had been fabricated and on close examination all the optimistic increase in base wages was merely pre-election propaganda by the Abe government...
Another Look at the Self-Serving Launch of Ben Bernanke's Blog and the Brookings Institute's Pandering Role
What I'm about to tell you is not my own opinion or even analysis. It's original data that comes from the United States Federal Reserve and national credit bureaus.
Housing should then have remained in a slump possibly for a decade or more, until the overhang of empty residential and commercial real estate had been cleared off.
Ben Bernanke just started his own blog at the Brookings Institute. His first post, from today, Inaugurating a New Blog is the announcement.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ben Bernanke no longer leads the Federal Reserve, but he's hardly letting up in his defense of the ultra-low-rate policies he engineered -- and his successor, Janet Yellen, has continued.
Fed comments are in GREEN. Catherine Austin Fitts' translation follows:
House of the Rising Stock Market
Will she or won't she? That has been the question put forward since autumn.
Do we really want congressmen pandering to these clueless masses? The chances that the congressional Ouija board falls anywhere near a policy, that moves in the direction of sound money, is probably lower than the 4% of those who know who Yellen is..
We have become nothing but a host to a group of political parasites that have thrived on our wealth and our strength. And they've watched us slowly die over time growing weaker and weaker. Less able to find the strength to uphold...
I have always argued that quantitative easing and zero percent interest rates were misguided policies to combat economic weakness.
The fiscal gap is "16 times larger than official U.S. debt, which indicates precisely how useless official debt is for understanding our nation's true fiscal position," said Kotlikoff, a former senior economist on President Ronald Reagan's...
Did you love The Creature from Jekyll Island? Did you beg others to read it, only to discover they were intimidated by a 600-page book? No problem. Ease them into the topic of the Federal Reserve System, for FREE, with Dishonest Money: Financing the
In recent weeks, the Federal Reserve and its apologists in Congress and the media have launched numerous attacks on the Audit the Fed legislation. These attacks amount to nothing more than distortions about the effects and intent of the audit bill.
Secret 'Triangle' Doc Strips NY Fed Power: "Reserve Bank Doesn't Breathe without Asking Washington if It Can Inhale"