
The Fed's Big Lie
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenInsanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
The extremes are not visible to the vast majority of participants, and so they are exposed to high levels of risk they don't see or understand.
With tens of millions unemployed, and countless businesses gone for good, the heavy hand of government continues to pile on. State and local governments are looking to raise taxes in this environment, and the Federal Reserve, the enabler of big gover
"The current crisis response has made it painfully clear again that the Fed's policies benefit high income individuals and large corporations, while small businesses and low income individuals bear the burden."
"Never-Ending Monetary Accomodation": Here Is The Fed Warning About The Consequences Of What The Fed Just Did
...Of What The Fed Just Did
Global stocks finally took out their old record highs today (as measured by the MSCI World Index).... and all it took was almost $10 trillion in global liquidity...
"The situation is really perilous right now and there is little that monetary policymakers at this point have left in their arsenal."
The biggest news for the markets right now concerns the Fed and inflation.
With earnings season now over, looking at the week ahead the highlight will be the Jackson Hole gathering on Thursday and Friday, where central bankers will be meeting (virtually this year) for the annual economic symposium.
Josh Sigurdson talks with Tim Picciott, The Liberty Advisor about the warning Jim Cramer of Mad Money just put forward despite years of being largely wrong. This time Cramer is saying something logical. Watch out for the stock market!
Politicians are spending money (that they don't have) like never before. Bailouts, "Stimulus," and Welfare for everyone are the only game in town. The great enabler, the Federal Reserve, counterfeits dollars by the trillions! The failure of "pl
An academic study published in 1996 shows evidence that the Federal Reserve was influencing the price of gold over the observed period. The Fed used one of its main interest rate tools, the federal funds rate, to stabilize both the gold price and con
Josh Sigurdson talks with Tim Picciott, The Liberty Advisor about the constant push for extensions to the lockdown as Neel Kashkari of The Federal Reserve asks for 6 more weeks of lockdown.
Back in October, I published a blog post titled, "This Is What Monetization of the Debt Looks Like," arguing that the Fed's intervention in the repo market at the time was not a return to "quantitative easing," as many critics suggested at
Brainard Says Fed Collaborating With MIT On "Hypothetical" Digital Currency
Billionaire financier and political puppeteer George Soros says he's no longer invested in financial markets - admitting to Italy's La Repubblica that we're caught in a bubble fueled by Fed liquidity...
As noted earlier, silver is crashing as much as 15% today, a plunge which if it had spread to stocks would prompt a panic at the Fed and an injection of at least several trillion.
The reasons why are multifarious, but ultimately flow from their fundamental resentment of any money they do not control and cannot design. Central planning requires central money, and gold stands apart by it very decentralized nature.
Judy Shelton, a Trump nominee to the Fed Board of Governors, may not have coined the excellent term "Fed Bug," but she used it to delicious effect in this 2019 Financial Times interview:
According to the report, the Fed will pivot to "average inflation targeting." With this strategy "inflation above the central bank's usual 2% target would be tolerated and even desired."
According to a recent CNBC report, the Federal Reserve is set to make a major commitment to "ramping up inflation."
Politicians and Central Bankers attempt to do the impossible. They believe that with dictates and counterfeit money they can control the economy. The reality is the exact opposite. They only destroy the economy. Is it any wonder that the ultimate int
Over the past decade, the one common theme despite the political upheaval and growing social and geopolitical instability, was that the market would keep marching higher and the Fed would continue injecting liquidity into the system.
In spite of the officially declared "independence" of the Federal Reserve from the immediate political control of either Congress or the White House, America's central bank is, nonetheless, a branch of the U.S. government...
Josh Sigurdson talks with Tim Picciott, The Liberty Advisor about the extension of the emergency relief plan into 2021.
If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies.
In spite of the officially declared "independence" of the Federal Reserve from the immediate political control of either Congress or the White House...
If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies.
In spite of the officially declared "independence" of the Federal Reserve from the immediate political control of either Congress or the White House, America's central bank is, nonetheless, a branch of the U.S. government that is responsible fo