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For years, market watchers and Fed skeptics had warned that the record low volatility "blanket" that has fallen like a pall over the comatose market was the result of Fed actions, both direct or indirect.
For a decade central banks have printed enormous quantities of new money.
During the 40 months after Alan Greenspan's infamous "irrational exuberance" speech in December 1996, the NASDAQ 100 index rose from 830 to 4585 or by 450%. But the perma-bulls said not to worry:
The Financial Repression Authority interviewed Lacy Hunt, Chief Economist at Hoisington Management on Fed policies. The interview below first appeared on the FRA website along with a video.
The political differences of today's leading two parties are not over ultimate questions of principles. Rather, they're over opposing answers to the question of how a goal can be achieved with the least sacrifice.
The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25%, the third rate rise in 2017.
CNBC's Fed fanboy, Steve Liesman, accidentally knocked one out of the park yeserday when he lured Janet Yellen into a quip that will surely go down as the signature insanity of her baleful tenure. Liesman thus queried:
CNBC's Fed fanboy, Steve Liesman, accidentally knocked one out of the park yeserday when he lured Janet Yellen into a quip that will surely go down as the signature insanity of her baleful tenure. Liesman thus queried:
In 1791, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the US, Alexander Hamilton, convinced then-new president George Washington to create a central bank for the country.
And so, as they say in the horror movies, it begins…! The unwinding of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet. Such an esoteric concept!
Wall Street economists are telling investors to brace for the biggest tightening of monetary policy in more than a decade.
Ron Paul on The Federal Reserve and Rate Hikes
A few words are in order about the likely new Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.
In case of emergency, you should always have a solid chunk of cash on hand. These days, that isn't much riskier than keeping your money in a bank.
As Bitcoin destroyed the $12,000 level earlier today, many pundits and analysts looked for answers for why.
The consensus view is the Fed will hike 3-4 times in 2018 and that treasury yields long ago bottomed. Agree? I don't.
crypto markets PLUNGE...(Natural News) The private central banking cartel is so worried about losing its grip on the financial instruments of the world that this mafia-like group of robber barons is now claiming that digital "cryptocurrencies" li
Update: Bitcoin and Ethereum are holding at the lows of the day, but following ECB comments earlier (see below), The Fed's vice chariman of supervision, Randy Quarles, warns that digital currencies like bitcoin pose "serious financial stability issue
Janet Yellen's last semi-annual testimony before Congress as Fed Chair has just concluded, and as usual it was filled with long-winded platitudes, which were enough to make the blood of anyone actually listening to her slow-motion drawl, come to a bo
Are High" But Risk Is "Contained"...Yes, departing Fed chair Janet Yellen used the 'c' word...
A rumor is circulating that the Fed concerned Bitcoin will "eviscerate" big banks. Let's investigate the claim. Zerohedge writes As Bitcoin Nears $10,000 "Central Banks Kept Up At Night".
Update (11:45 am ET): As Powell's testimony draws to a close, analysts at Stone & McCarthy noted that - as expected - the future Fed chair's comments were "generally dovish".
The U.S. unemployment rate is a low 4.3% and headed lower. Yet inflation remains below 2%. Globalization, China, slow growth, and "transitory factors" such as cheaper cell phone plans help explain stubbornly low inflation. But they're not the w
There is probably no way for to designate firms as "systemically important" without simultaneously guaranteeing bailouts later.
Janet Yellen is out as Fed chair after one four-year term. Her tenure is the third shortest since the mid-1930s. Most of her predecessors served for far longer periods.
After we first reported last week that US credit card debt once again rose above $1 trillion, despite a recent sharp downward revision to the data, while both student and auto loans rose to a fresh record high...
Just recently the notorious former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan gave his opinion concerning the rise of bitcoin in 2017. The 91-year old Greenspan explains that he believes the decentralized currency is very much like the world's unbacke
I hope this article brings forward important questions about the Federal Reserves role in the US and I openly admit this is by no means a comprehensive article...
When the system will break no matter what the Fed tries
It can't get any worse than this. Jerome Powell is a Wall Street-coddling Keynesian and Washington lifer who passes for a Janet Yellen replica – that is, save for his tie and trousers and his as yet underdeveloped capacity to whine pedantically.
