Posts Tagged ‘ interest rate cuts ’

Fed Effects on Europe

May 1st, 2008 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Macro Economics
Markets exaggerate in both directions. They create bubbles of overvaluation when expectations are high; they create troughs of undervaluation when expectations are low. At the present time, there is a struggle between optimism and pessimism, in which London is a good deal more optimistic than New York or Washington. The Bank ...read more


Inflation and Treasury Bonds

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, ...read more