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It's liquidity, stupid. Rephrasing the words of Bill Clinton's adviser James Carville helps explain why many stocks are hitting record highs, why gold is breaking higher and why economies look set to rebound sharply this year.
This week, Donald Trump formally nominated Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller for vacant governorships on the Federal Reserve. Waller, the Vice President of the Richmond Fed, is widely viewed as a standard Fed nominee with the reputation of being a
In the court of investor opinion, the verdict is in. The Federal Reserve is guilty of quantitative easing.
Neel Kashkari Appeals To "QE Conspiracists": Show Me How The Fed Is Moving Stock Prices... So Here It Is
Now that we are no longer pretending that the Fed's "NOT QE" is not in fact "QE 4", investors and strategists are starting to look more carefully at how the Fed is monetizing the T-Bills as part of its market boosting reserve management Permanent Ope
Central bank policies are directly driving asset prices and the bubbles therein. It's what they do. It has been so stunningly obvious that, at this point, it makes a mockery of things to deny it as an ongoing, and essential, part of how their strat
Last week we found out that Dallas Fed president Kaplan knows that the Fed is creating excess and imbalances in stocks.
In recent decades, the Fed has engaged in a series of policy interventions and market manipulations that have paradoxically left it more powerful even as those interventions left a trail of crashes, collapses and calamities.
Perhaps even PhD economists notice that manic-mania bubbles always burst–always.
NY Fed President Slams Bankers For Risk-Taking Behavior
The Fed has increased its balance sheet over 500% in the past decade; The Bank of Japan is printing money to buy bonds and stock ETFs; and The European Central Bank is mired in insane negative interests. And, according to legendary investor Jim Roger
The worship of mortals as demi-gods and faith in Golden Idols triggers a turn in the karmic wheel as near-infinite hubris invites divine retribution. In case you missed it, here's a snapshot of the most recent Federal Reserve board meeting:
-Trump Threatened To Cut Off Baghdad's Access To Its NY Fed Cash
The global economy and financial system are both running on the last toxic fumes of financialization and globalization.
And just like that, the repo market is on the fritz once again.
Nearly a decade after his now laughably idiotic prediction that the Fed could hike rates in "15 minutes if we have to" - which of course it could and it would then promptly crash markets as late 2018 showed which is also why the Fed will never...
Recently an annual ritual took place. Wall Street analysts setting year end price targets for the S&P 500 for the new year.
Yesterday, when looking at the details of the Fed's ongoing QE4, we pointed out that the New York Fed was now actively purchasing T-Bills that had been issued just days earlier by the US Treasury, and which settled the day of the permanent open marke
The year 2019 should be remembered as the year of repo. In finance, what happened in September was the most memorable occurrence of the last few years. Rate cuts were a strong contender, the first in over a decade, as was overseas turmoil
The Fed's charter prohibits its from directly purchasing bonds or bills issued by the US Treasury: that process is also known as monetization and various Fed chairs have repeatedly testified under oath to Congress that the Fed does not do it.
Aim your rocks at glass houses.
International Man: Trump is calling for a weaker dollar and negative interest rates. What does this tell you about Trump's understanding of economics?
Anyone looking at the hollowed-out, fragile shell of a Fed-managed "market" as a system realizes a crash that runs away from central planning control is already baked in.
Anyone looking at the hollowed-out, fragile shell of a Fed-managed "market" as a system realizes a crash that runs away from central planning control is already baked in.
Anyone looking at the hollowed-out, fragile shell of a Fed-managed "market" as a system realizes a crash that runs away from central planning control is already baked in.
Anyone looking at the hollowed-out, fragile shell of a Fed-managed "market" as a system realizes a crash that runs away from central planning control is already baked in.
Anyone looking at the hollowed-out, fragile shell of a Fed-managed "market" as a system realizes a crash that runs away from central planning control is already baked in.
Record low unemployment for Blacks, Latinos and Women!!!! Yet, the mainstream media and the radicalized Democrats call Trump a racist!
The bickering over impeachment did not stop the president and Congress from coming together last week to avert a government shutdown by passing a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package.
The highly probable and downright inevitable unwind of today's trifecta of financial asset bubbles: stocks, corporate credit, and Treasury bonds may soon morph into brutal bear market.
