Posts Tagged ‘ Federal Reserve ’
“Recovery is here!” the Pollyannas shout. “This is the first sign. And soon all nations will be following with their rate increases.”
They talking, of course, about the Australians decision to hike their central bank index rate. And instantly the howls of recovery were on the lips of all the pundits.
But ...read more
After Gods, Heroes and Gold Comes the Age of Lint
Oct 9th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
When Ben Bernanke gave his speech to the London School of Economics, our reporter was on the scene. Terry Easton put a tough question to America's central banker: aren't your interventions just making the situation worse, he wanted to know.
Amid the blah...blah...blah...of Bernanke's response was this:
"The tendency of financial systems ...read more
The Fed is Stealing Your Money
Aug 17th, 2009 | By Bill Jenkins | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
We’ve had another turn in dollar strength and in the currencies markets. All eyes are fixed today on the Federal Open Market Committee announcement. We’ll see what view they have for us this month.
This has been quite a month so far, with healthcare taking center stage in the national debate. ...read more
Mortgage Defaults May Trump the Fed
Jul 21st, 2009 | By Dan Denning | Category: Featured, Housing, Macro Economics
Good news everyone! The end of the world has been postponed indefinitely. You may now carry on as if another credit bubble is blowing (which it is, in China).
It was a truly bullish way to wrap up the week. China reported a 7.9% rise second in quarter GDP, driven mostly ...read more
DC and the Fed manipulating Interest Rates and Your Money
Jul 9th, 2009 | By Bill Jenkins | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The results are in for the two-day Federal Open-Market Committee meeting, where Ben Bernanke and the rest of the Fed eggheads set interest rates. This time, no one expected them to make a move on rates, and the Fed did not disappoint -- rates were held the same.
In the simple ...read more
Faber and Greenspan: Shills for Fed Snake Oil
Jul 6th, 2009 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
"Just how can the Fed credibly promise to be irresponsible...?"
Here’s a thought—that tiny handful of investors and analysts warning how Fed policy risks hyper-inflation are in fact doing the central bank's work.
The Fed wants you to believe hyperinflation is looming. Or at least, it should want that, if doubling its ...read more
The Fed and Zombie Investors
Jun 26th, 2009 | By Dan Denning | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Damn you, World Bank.
The World Bank now says the global economy will contract by 2.9% this year instead of 1.7%. That could be right. But that's not the reason stocks are falling. The rally that began in March has now run out of steam. It's also run out of news ...read more
Obama and Clinton Are Right!
Apr 27th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Anyone can be right once.
What America needs desperately is a "re-set" button, just not one in flawed Russian. We're already being overcharged. What would solve most of the problems (after some truly horrible tangles were unraveled) would be to go back a minimum of a hundred years and start over. ...read more
Battle of the Flations
Dec 25th, 2008 | By Bud Conrad | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
One of the most hotly debated topics among financial talking heads these days is, “Deflation or inflation, what is it going to be?”
There is no question that we are currently experiencing asset price deflation and economic slowing. But we, the editors of The Casey Report, see this as a transitional ...read more
U.S. Dollar Retreating Against Commodities
Dec 24th, 2008 | By Dan Denning | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
Like a giant laxative in the world's monetary system, the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing is starting to have an effect. You wouldn't necessarily call it the desired effect. After all, we're talking about the eventual destruction of the U.S. dollar and the global monetary system upon which it's based. But ...read more
