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End Of QE?
Submitted by Detlev Schlichter of DetlevSchlichter.com, A new meme is spreading in financial markets: The Fed is about to turn off the monetary spigot. US Printmaster General Ben Bernanke announced...
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Guest Post: The Dark Side Of The QE Circus
Submitted by Andy Sutton via The Silver Bear Cafe blog, There may come a day soon where the markets sell off if one of the whiskers in Big Ben’s beard is out of place. Or perhaps if his tie is a bit...
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Deutsche Bank: If The Fed Is Concerned About Popping Its Asset Bubbles, It Is...
Some refreshingly objective commentary from DB’s Jim Reid, on why the Fed’s latest “Tapering” distraction is naive at best, and will end in lots of tears at worst: It would take a very confident and...
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The "Sham" Recovery And Uncharted Territory
Submitted by John Rubino via The Dollar Collapse blog, The Consumer Metrics Institute is generally a pretty subdued bunch, as befits their job interpreting economic statistics for money managers and...
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Student Loan Interest Rates On Verge Of Doubling
One of the main reasons the entire debt-fueled house of cards propping the western financial system, hasn’t collapsed in a smouldering heap so far – a development that has stumped all those who think...
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More Fed Jawboning On Deck To Usher Green Close To First Half Of 2013
Overnight newsflow (which nowadays has zero impact on markets which only care what Ben Bernanke had for dinner) started in Japan where factory orders were reported to have risen the most since December...
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The Fed Is Now Taking Over The Entire Treasury Market 20 bps Per Week
Yesterday the Fed released its latest balance sheet data: at $3,478,672,000,000, the Fed’s assets reached a new all time high of course, up $8 billion from the prior week and up $615 billion from last...
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Bill Gross Explains How To Escape A Sinking Ship
It is unclear if the florid analogy in Bill Gross’ latest monthly letter, namely a “sinking ship” or at least a seaborne vessel on the verge of being one, is suppoed to represent the US economy, the...
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The Market Has Never Been More Reliant On The Fed, Or About That "Catch-22"...
As has been made clear previously, the primary reason the Fed is concerned with reducing the amount of monthly liquidity Flow (i.e., the Taper) has nothing to do with the economy, or concerns related...
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Japan Government To Change Inflation Calculation Ushering In Even More BOJ...
When it comes to changing the “measurement” rules in the middle of the game, nobody does it quite like Japan: in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear explosion, when radiation was soaring (and still...
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