All Entries Tagged With: "Federal Reserve"
Marc Faber Outlook on CNBC
Marc Faber discusses Japan, Commodities and the general outlook.
Fed to Monetize MOST of the US Debt
Now, the Congressional Budget Office has upped its estimate of the fiscal 2011 deficit to $1.5 trillion….
Hidden Inflation: Food Prices Flying Under the Fed’s Radar
Soaring food prices have been, perhaps, the most pressing global issue of the past two years….
Inflation Hedges
The Federal Reserve recently announced a second wave of quantitative easing….
All Treasuries All the Time: The Impact of QE2
In case mainstream media coverage made you glaze over, here’s the quick and dirty of the Federal Reserve’s fateful decision…
Market’s Early Reaction to QE2 is Bullish
Asset Class Performance After Fed’s Quantitative Easing Announcement….
Why the Value of Paper Money Declines as the Quantity Rises
US stocks are up about 6% so far this year. Gold has gone up three times as much…..
Guess who Just Spent $117 Billion?
The U.S. bond market is murky these days. Yields have been plummeting. But some of the action is almost certainly due to the Federal Reserve once again buying Treasuries. Since August 19, the Fed has bought $40 billion in government bonds. But the Fed has no influence over foreign buyers of U.S. Treasuries. And these [...]
Fed Announces Dollar Debasement. Markets Rejoice.
By Eric Fry 10/13/10 Laguna Beach, California – During yesterday’s trading session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched ahead 10 points to a new five-month high of 11,020. The financial news services attributed the advance to new disclosures from the Federal Reserve that it would continue debasing the dollar. True. “Traders pushed shares higher Tuesday,” [...]
Fear of the Week is…
Inflation. Japan pulled out the firepower this week in terms of qualitative easing. Speculation is running the Fed will announce same at the beginning of November. And so people are worried. That all this money creation means things are going to start getting expensive, really quickly. Here’s how frightened they are. In the past week, [...]
