Posts Tagged ‘ the Fed ’

Possible Holocaust in U.S. Bonds

Dec 2nd, 2008 | By Dan Denning | Category: Commodities, Economics, Featured
“U.S. financial firms have taken write downs and losses of $666.1 billion since the beginning of 2007,” according to Bloomberg. There you have it. The number of the bust. The financial end times rolled on yesterday. The latest twist is the decision of U.S. regulators to come to the aid ...read more

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Inflation and Commodity Prices

Jun 18th, 2008 | By Ed Bugos | Category: Commodities, Currencies, Macro Economics
Last week, amid a stream of bearish economic news, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, asserted his priority on price stability and uttered the word “dollar,” as if turning a new leaf. He did that to get your attention. Fed chairs rarely ever say that word, for reasons that Greenspan ...read more

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The Dangers of Inflation

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Commodities, Macro Economics
“Every morning, when you look in the mirror, I want you to think, ‘What am I going to do today to increase the money supply?’” — John Ehrlichman, assistant to President Richard Nixon, apocryphally speaking to Charles Pardee, a Federal Reserve governor, sometime in the early 1970s SO WE’RE ALL AGREED, THEN. “This is clearly the ...read more

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How Paper Money Distorts Investment Cycles

Mar 19th, 2008 | By Dan Amoss | Category: Macro Economics
THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT BEND THE ECONOMY to its will, as most economists appear to believe. The economy is infinitely complex, and instead bends to the will of billions of spending and investing choices. Yet some economists still try to tweak the economy if it does not suit a political agenda, ...read more

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The Struggle Between Inflation and Lending

Mar 4th, 2008 | By Dr. Marc Faber | Category: Macro Economics
I BELIEVE WE ARE IN A WAR BETWEEN TWO MAJOR ADVERSARIES. On the one side, we have the Fed (and other central banks) pumping liquidity into the system in a desperate attempt to support the asset markets and the economy. On the other side, we have the private sector, which ...read more

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