Posts Tagged ‘ Quantitative Easing ’

There Will Be No End to Quantitative Easing

Feb 9th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The Bank of England is expected today to announce another round of debt monetization, called "quantitative easing". A majority of economists polled by Dow Jones Newswire earlier this week expected the central bank's policy committee to agree "to £50 billion ($79 billion) of additional bond purchases using freshly created money ...read more

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Treasury Bond Avalanche

May 29th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Illusions pile up... They're sure to come down sooner or later. Like snow at high altitudes, the central banks' new money is piling up. As reported last week, all the world's major central banks have turned on their snow machines. The U.S. Federal Reserve has been authorized to "print" $1.75 trillion ...read more

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Devaluation and a Chinese Warning Shot

Mar 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Devaluation has begun. Two weeks ago the Federal Reserve announced its intentions to start “quantitative easing.” Quantitative easing is the "new" term given by officials to printing money. We know it as inflating the money supply. It is also called "increasing liquidity.” Essentially, the government will create money and distribute ...read more

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Nightmare Carry Trade Scenario

Jun 5th, 2006 | By | Category: Macro Economics
I HAVE BEEN thinking about the nightmare carry trade scenario. In other words, what is the worst possible situation for carry trade players? For those unfamiliar with the term "carry trade," I will use the definition found on Freebuck.com. "Carry trade -- The speculation strategy that borrows an asset at one interest ...read more

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