Where Did the Fed Get These Clowns?
• https://moneymaven.io, by MishFed Presidents are a real treat if you want someone to make fun of. Unfortunately, there are real-world implications.
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Why Interest rates are staying low with best selling Author Tom Hegna
• The Liberty Advisor - Tim PicciottPodcast by Tim Picciott, The Liberty Advisor: Tom Hegna is a best selling author, Retirement income expert, economist and member of the elite million dollar roundtable of the National Speakers Association.
What The Fed Really Said
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Lance RobertsThe volatility in the markets continued this week with another big whipsaw for investors following the Fed meeting.
The Fed Has Given Up: Get Ready For More QE
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Ryan McMakenThe Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to keep the federal funds rate unchanged.
The Fed's In Over Its Head...And Chaos Is Mounting by Ron Paul
• Ron Paul Liberty ReportWith each passing month, we're greeted with more evidence of a fact that The Federal Reserve has no idea what it's doing. For many of us, this is not the least bit of a surprise. Central planning of the economy cannot work. Yet, never ones to admit t
Trump blames Fed for holding back economic growth in 2018
• Associated PressPresident Donald Trump says the economy would have grown much faster last year if the Federal Reserve had not been tightening credit last year.
Jerome Powell Has Completely Capitulated (Podcast)
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by quoth the ravenIn the latest installment of my critically acclaimed* "Our Bullshit Economy" series, I rant about the FOMC minutes from today, where they commit to not raising rates for the rest of the year, apparently missing the fact that the stock market has alre
The Neutered Fed Is Politically Trapped
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Charles Hugh SmithEveryone now knows that the only meaningful goal of Fed policy is propping up the world's greatest credit-asset bubble.
Exposing The Fed's 'H-Curve'
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Guy HaselmannIs it possible that there exists a specific threshold that when exceeded central bank accommodation becomes counter-productive and begins to restrict growth? ...A level beyond which material long-run financial costs exceed short-term economic benefit
JPMorgan Capitulates, No Longer Expects Rate Hikes In 2019
• https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler DurdenTaking a diametrically opposite stance to Morgan Stanley, which earlier this week forecast that as a result of a rebound in the economy in the second half, and an acceleration in inflation into 2020 and further...
Fractional Reserves and the Fed
• By Joseph T. Salerno Mises.orgChairman Paul and members of the Subcommittee, I am deeply honored to appear before you to testify on the topic of fractional-reserve banking. Thank you for your invitation and attention. In the short time I have: I will give a brief description of f
Federal Reserve Chairman Appears On '60 Minutes' - Why Now?
• https://www.zerohedge.comOne of the most famous, and prescient, financial cartoons in American history is the above depiction of the Federal Reserve Bank as a giant octopus that would come to parasitically suck the life out of all U.S. institutions as well as free markets.
The Federal Reserve Just Told Off U.S President Donald Trump
• https://www.youtube.comThe Federal Reserve Just Told Off U.S President Donald Trump
A Modest Proposal for the Fed
• https://mises.orgQuantitative easing, the program of asset buying initiated by the US Federal Reserve Bank in 2008, represents the most profound monetary experiment in the history of the world. Between fall of 2008 and fall of 2014, three successive rounds of QE quad
US households see biggest decline in net worth since the financial crisis
• https://www.cnbc.com, Jeff CoxAmericans' net worth fell at the highest level since the financial crisis in the fourth quarter of 2018 as sliding stock market prices ate into the household balance sheet.
So, The Fed Doesn't Target The Market, Eh?
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Lance RobertsEarlier this month, I penned an article asking if we "really shouldn't worry about the Fed's balance sheet?" The question arose from a specific statement made by previous New York Federal Reserve President Bill Dudley:
Ben Bernanke - The Father of Extreme US Socialism
• https://moneymaven.io, by MishLooking for a reason for the upsurge in radical socialism, don't blame Trump, blame the Fed.
So, The Fed Doesn't Target The Market, Eh?
• https://www.zerohedge.comEarlier this month, I penned an article asking if we "really shouldn't worry about the Fed's balance sheet?" The question arose from a specific statement made by previous New York Federal Reserve President Bill Dudley:
Now that Housing Bubble #2 Is Bursting...How Low Will It Go?
• lewrockwell.com, By Charles Hugh SmithUnless the Fed is going to start buying millions of homes outright, prices are going to fall to what buyers can afford.
Fed flags end to balance sheet runoff, patience on rates
• https://www.reuters.com(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday signaled they will soon lay out a plan to stop letting go of $4 trillion in bonds and other assets, but policymakers are still debating how long their newly adopted "patient" stance on U.S. rates polic
Why I Decided to Lend the U.S. Government Money
• https://www.caseyresearch.comJustin's note: All month, we've been sharing the top insights and money-making opportunities from Strategic Investor editor E.B. Tucker. We want you to be fully prepared for when he makes his big announcement on February 27. Today, we turn to
What Happens When More QE Fails to Reverse the Recession?
• www.lewrockwell.com, By Charles Hugh SmithThe smart money is liquidating assets, paying off debt and moving capital into collateral that isn't impaired by debt or speculative valuations.
The market is now pricing in a greater likelihood of an interest-rate cut than a hike
• https://www.marketwatch.comInvestors growing concerned the economy might be too soft
State Proposes Bill to Treat Gold and Silver as Money to Directly Fight Federal Reserve Monopoly
• https://thefreethoughtproject.comLawmakers have proposed a bill that will directly undermine the Federal Reserve's monopoly on money by treating gold and silver as legal tender.
Reason #437 to own gold: The Fed wants Negative Interest Rates
• https://www.sovereignman.comAnd just like that, it seems we're headed back to quantitative easing… After cutting interest rates to nearly zero following the 2008 crisis, the Federal Reserve starting raising rates near the end of 2015 (from 0.25% to 2.5% today).
This Is The Most Popular Trade To Hedge The Coming Recession
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdanAs we explained two weekends ago, it's not the Fed tightening - and curve flattening - that is the recession catalyst: it is when the Fed begins cutting rates, sending the yield curve sharply higher, that one should be worried as all three prior rece
Fed Considering Earlier End To Quantitative Tightening
• https://www.zerohedge.comOver the weekend, we showed the one chart that every trader should have "taped to their screen", namely Nomura's latest recap of the key Fed balance sheet roll-off dates, or those days in which there is a tangible decline in system liquidity as billi
Fire the Fed?
• http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org by Ron PaulPresident Trump's frustration with the Federal Reserve's (minuscule) interest rate increases that he blames for the downturn in the stock market has reportedly led him to inquire if he has the authority to remove Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
Kashkari: Federal Reserve Doesn't Need to Protect Investors
• https://www.ccn.comAnother Federal Reserve president has spoken out on interest rates. Neel Kashkari says there is no need for interest rate hikes right now but that the US Federal Reserve does not exist to protect investors.
Powell May Not Know It Yet, But The Fed Is Now Trapped
• https://www.zerohedge.comWith even Morgan Stanley openly discussing whether the Fed will "make the market happy", it now appears that the Fed tightening is effectively over with the Fed Funds rate barely above 2%, and the only question is whether the Fed will cut rates in 20
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