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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 ...
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Tags: Federal Reserve, inflation, money
Posted in Featured, Gold, Macro Economics |
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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 ...
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Tags: dollar, Federal Reserve, Gold, interest rates
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Oct 9th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Currencies, Economics, Macro Economics
Out of the thousands of hedge funds in existence, hundreds are closing up shop and liquidating, if the latest trading action was any indication. Many of these hedge funds should never have been started to begin with, because their illusory gains during the credit bubble were too often made with ...
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Tags: credit markets, Federal Reserve, hedge funds, investment portfolios, Treasury Bonds
Posted in Currencies, Economics, Macro Economics |
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Aug 11th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Currencies, Macro Economics
So Alan Greenspan — former chairman of the Federal Reserve — thinks this equals the Great Crash, if not out-bads it.
“It’s getting increasingly evident that this is a once-in-a-century type of phenomenon,” he told the ever-fragrant Maria Bartiromo in an interview with CNBC this week, “not the standard type of ...
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Tags: commodity bubbles, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, government debt, inflation, money supply
Posted in Currencies, Macro Economics |
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Jul 21st, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Commodities, Currencies
Well another week of wild trading has left many on Wall Street bruised, battered and not sure what to think. Is the oil bubble bursting? Are commodities and resources heading lower? No one can say for sure, but this type of uncertainty causes a lot of angst in financial markets ...
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Tags: commodity market, commodity trading, currency markets, Federal Reserve, Iowa floods
Posted in Commodities, Currencies |
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May 28th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Macro Economics
Since the rescue of Bear Stearns on March 17, the Amex Securities Broker/Dealer Index has rallied 20%. The shares of Lehman Brothers have rocketed more than 30%. These dramatic rallies support the popular thesis that “the worst is over” for the financial sector. But these dramatic rallies also provide attractive ...
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Tags: Bear Stearns, Federal Reserve, investment banks, Lehman Brothers, lending facility
Posted in Macro Economics |
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May 19th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Currencies, Macro Economics
“We can pay anybody by running a printing press,” said Thomas Gale Moore, one of Ronald Reagan’s economic advisors, when the United States became a net debtor to its foreign investors in 1986.
“Frankly, it’s not clear to me how bad [being a net debtor] is,” he added. And for the ...
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Tags: America's debt, Federal Reserve, money supply growth, value of the dollar
Posted in Currencies, Macro Economics |
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May 14th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Macro Economics
It is said that artists speak for the ages. In 1951, Pablo Picasso described the end of our age when interviewed by Giovanni Papini: “From the moment that art ceases to be the nourishment of the best brains, the artist can use all the tricks of the intellectual charlatan. The ...
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Tags: alan greenspan, Federal Reserve, Housing bubbles, Tech bubbles
Posted in Macro Economics |
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Apr 24th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Currencies, Macro Economics
“...Just like the Bank of England, the U.S. Fed seems to have Britney-sized ‘issues’ with its core stock-in-trade — money itself...”
PROFESSOR TIM BESLEY, one of the nine people chosen to set interest-rate policy at the Bank of England in London, gave a speech on Tuesday about “Inflation and the Global ...
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Tags: Federal Reserve, monetary policy, money market
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Feb 27th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Macro Economics
“...If Bernanke was expecting a 13% rise on Wall Street, he’s got a 45% rise in gold instead — plus a real disaster in U.S. Treasury bond yields...”
THIS WEEK MARKED THE SIX-MONTH ANNIVERSARY of the Fed’s first cut to U.S. interest rates during the current world-banking crisis.
And it’s been fun, ...
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Tags: Federal Reserve, inflation, interest rate cuts, raw materials, Treasury Bonds
Posted in Macro Economics |
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