The Era Of The Fed "Put" Is Over
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Adam TaggartTo all those investors expecting the Fed to step in to backstop the recent weakness seen in the stock market, Wolf Richter warns: The cavalry isn't coming.
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Fed Launches SOFR: Alleged Replacement for $350 Trillion LIBOR Market
• https://www.themaven.net, Mike Mish ShedlockThe Fed hopes to move contracts to SOFR, away from the volatile, yet massive LIBOR market.
Economic Storm Clouds Gather, but Ending the Fed Provides Hope
• http://www.ronpaulinstitute.orgThe Federal Reserve recently increased interest rates to 1.75 percent. This is the highest interest rates have been since 2008, but it still leaves rates at historic lows. While the Fed says economic growth justifies future rate increases, an honest
Libor Just Did Something It Hasn't Done In 13 Years
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenWith traders looking in awe at the ongoing flattening in the yield curve, as the 2s10s drops below 50bps...
NY Fed President Proposes "Paying" Bankers With Long-Term Debt
• https://www.themaven.netWhat a topsy-turvy world we live in thanks to Fed nonsense. Consider the outgoing NY Fed president's latest brainchild.
Is More Fed Transparency Worse For Markets?
• https://www.thelibertyconservative.comObviously, Powell taking the helm at the Federal Reserve means potential policy changes, but that's not the only thing that could change. The Fed's communication strategy could also change. Its communication is how it delivers forward guidance.
Fed raises key rate and foresees 2 more hikes this year
• By Martin CrutsingerThe Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday in a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy's durability while signaling that it plans to continue a gradual approach to rate hikes for 2018 under its new chairman, Jerome Powell.
Stockman: Why Deficits Didn't Matter During The Age Of Monetization, 1987-2017 (But Do Now!)
• zerohedge.com by David StockmanFor the past 30 years fiscal deficits have been a big financial nothingburger because the Fed and other central banks gutted their sting. .
Powell Pops His Cherry:
• zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenRaises By 25bps, Signals 2 More Hikes In 2018 But Raises Rate Trajectory For 2019
How The Fed Could End The Bull Market
• https://www.thelibertyconservative.comWith the new economic and trade policy policy commentary coming out of Washington seemingly on a daily basis, along with the much discussed stock correction from February, which was caused by the unwind of the short volatility trade, it's easy to l
How The Fed Could End The Bull Market
• https://www.thelibertyconservative.com,BY ALEX PITWith the new economic and trade policy policy commentary coming out of Washington seemingly on a daily basis, along with the much discussed stock correction from February, which was caused by the unwind of the short volatility trade, it's easy to l
Rickards: The Fed Must Have Inflation... "Failure Is Not an Option"
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenThe Fed says incessantly that "price stability" is part of their dual mandate and they are committed to maintaining the purchasing power of the dollar. But the Fed has a funny definition of price stability.
An Apocalyptic Paul Tudor Jones Warns The Fed Is About To Lose Control
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenIn a striking interview with Goldman's Allison Nathan, legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones argues that US inflation is set to accelerate sharply, making bonds a very poor investment, and that the Fed must act swiftly to tackle financial bubbles created
The True Money Supply Is Flashing Red
• lewrockwell.com by Joseph T. SalernoJeffrey Peshut at RealForecasts.com has composed several very illuminating graphs based on the Rothbard-Salerno True Money Supply (TMS).
Trump's Federal Reserve Pick Wants to Put Metal Chips in Cash to Track Every Dollar and Tax It
• Activist PostWhat could possibly go wrong?...The idea of tracking cash with magnetic strips or RFID chips is such a horrific idea that two unlikely senators from opposite sides of the aisle have come forward to vehemently oppose the Goodfriend appointment.
Down With The Ship: Meet Jay Powell, the New Fed Chairman
• https://www.corbettreport.comPaul Volcker began his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in August of 1979. In October, the S&P 500 index dropped 11% on its way to a 20% drop in 1980.
The Truth About Inflation...It's The Fed's Fault
• https://www.youtube.com, RonPaulLibertyReportIf the creation of new money affected everyone evenly, there would be no point in government granting monopoly privileges to a central bank. It's precisely because some benefit at the expense of others, that monetary inflation is so intoxicating.
Why the Fed Chases Its Tail: Rent Measures vs. Case Shiller
• https://www.themaven.net, by Mike Mish ShedlockThe Rent Café gave me their weighted national rental price data. Let's compare to the CPI and Case-Shiller home prices.
Don't Let Trump's Fed Pick Choke the Recovery
• https://www.bloomberg.com, by Karl W. SmithEconomist Marvin Goodfriend has been way too jittery about inflation. And he's been wrong.
NY Fed Economists Talk Bitcoin's Role in a Centralized World
• https://www.ccn.com, Gerelyn TerzoNew York Fed Economists Michael Lee and Antoine Martin aren't entirely dismissive of bitcoin, which only seems to make matters worse.
3 Forces Driving Interest Rates Higher
• https://www.libertarianinstitute.orgIn the past two weeks, interest rates have gone up sharply, sparking turmoil in the stock market. To take one example, the rate on 10-year Treasury bonds went from 2.66% on Jan. 26 to close at 2.85% on Feb. 12.
Do Financial Markets Still Exist?
• Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, Michael HudsonFor many decades the Federal Reserve has rigged the bond market by its purchases.
Federal Reserve: "In A Dystopian World, Bitcoin Would Dominate Payment Methods"
• zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenAmid a relentless barrage of doom and gloom -
Who Could've Seen This Coming?
• http://news.goldseek.com, By Dave KranzlerYesterday was amusing. The meat with mouths on the so-called financial networks were crying, "how could this have happened."
Another Arrested Equity Correction?
• www.globalresearch.ca, By Dr. Paul Craig RobertsAfter the extraordinary sudden loss in equity values, today (February 6, 2018) brought gains back to the stock indices.
Weekly Update --- The Last Fed Chairman? by Ron Paul
• Ron Paul Liberty ReportJerome Powell may seem to be assuming the Fed chairmanship at a time of increasing prosperity and renewed respect for the Fed. However, the prosperity is an illusion built on a series of Fed-created bubbles.
Fed Nominee Marvin Goodfriend Lied To The Senate On Taxing Cash
• The Liberty ConservativeThe government shutdown wasn't long enough to delay the nomination hearing for an economist who could be considered to be one of the "worst Fed nominees of all time."
Nomi Prins: "The Fed Is Scared To Death Of Crashing The Global Financial System"
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenTwo time, best-selling author Nomi Prins says central bankers have no idea how to stop the easy money policies that they started after the financial meltdown of 2008.
SPECIAL REPORT: What Has QE Wrought?
• youtube.comThe Federal Reserve has once again created an artificial and unsustainable economic bubble. Central planning still doesn't work, and the sooner we move to sound money the better.
Fed Chair Powell's Admission: "The Fed Has A Short Volatility Position"
• zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenFor 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.
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