Trump's Historic Opportunity with the Federal Reserve - Tho Bishop (09/08/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveAnd then there were three.Today Stanley Fischer submitted his letter of resignation from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, effective next month, the second such...
View ArticleMark Thornton: Can the Fed Unwind? - Mises Institute (09/26/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveFederal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced the bank would begin selling assets it has relentlessly bought since the Crash of '08. The financial press, including the Wall Street...
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Yellen: The Economy May Be Weaker than We Thought - Ryan McMaken (09/29/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveJanet Yellen this week cast doubt on the Fed's announced plan to continue Fed rate hikes and reverse its years of "unconventional" monetary policy. “My colleagues and I may have...
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2009 - 2016: Was the Eight-Year Experiment in Maintaining the Status Quo a...
Topics: Federal ReserveClearly, the core strategy of maintaining the status quo is to borrow and spend trillions of additional dollars every year.The Obama presidency was a grand experiment to test...
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Inflation Is Much Higher Than Advertised -...
Topics: Federal ReserveWhat the Federal Reserve is actually whining about is not low inflation--it's that high inflation isn't pushing wages higher like it's supposed to.It's not exactly a secret that...
View ArticleThe Fed Is Confused about What Drives Inflation - Frank Shostak (10/17/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveOn October 4 2017, the former governor of the Federal Reserve Daniel Tarullo in a speech at the Brookings think-tank in Washington said Fed policy makers do not have a reliable...
View ArticleThe Libertarian Angle: End the Fed (10/25/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveFFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling challenge the orthodoxy that the government must manage the money supply.
View ArticleIn Fed We Trust - Ryan McMaken (10/30/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveAt this point, does anyone believe the Fed is willing to do anything that might really spook markets? During the 1990s, back in the days of "Maestro" Alan Greenspan, it was...
View ArticleThe Swamp Wins: Trump Expected to Nominate Powell to Replace Yellen - Tho...
Topics: Federal ReserveIn the end Donald Trump will get what he wanted, a “low interest rate person” who also happened to be a “Republican.” Jerome Powell is expected to replace Janet Yellen in an...
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Observations on Wealth-Income Inequality (from Federal Reserve Reports) -...
Topics: Federal ReserveThere's a profound difference between assets that produce no income and those that produce net income.To those of us nutty enough to pore over dozens of pages of data on wealth...
View ArticleWhite House Said to Consider El-Erian as Fed Vice Chair - Bloomberg (11/15/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveWhite House considering El-Erian as a Fed Vice-Chair Pick. Problem is Powell is not an economist and is more of an easy money advocate and career bank deregulation lobbyist so...
View ArticleThe Digital Revolution Has Empowered Central Banks - Brendan Brown (11/24/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveWe won’t know till the end of this cycle how much mal-investment has occurred under the great monetary inflation which started in 2010. We may already suspect, though, that much...
View ArticleFed Minutes Reveal Fed Concerned of Deflation - CNBC (11/24/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveFed: Rate increase likely warranted soon from CNBC.Tuesday's Fed minutes reveal that the Federal Reserve is deeply concerned about low inflation. Expect the Fed to raise in...
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Stock Market 2018: The Tao vs. Central Banks - Charles Hugh Smith (12/05/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveThe central banks claim omnipotent financial powers, and their comeuppance is overdue.I will be the first to admit that invoking the woo-woo of the Tao as the reason to expect a...
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Asset Prices Are Prices Too - Thorsten Polleit (12/14/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveWe live in inflationary times. Some people might consider this statement controversial. This is because these days inflation is widely understood as a rise in the consumer price...
View ArticleFed's Dalls President Kaplan Says Inverted Yield Curve Limits Flexibility -...
Topics: Federal ReserveFederal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan talks about the dangers of overshooting unemployment and the consequences of an inverted yield curve. He speaks with...
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The Yield Curve Accordion Theory - Hal Snarr (12/27/2017)
Topics: Federal ReserveThe yield curve (a plot of interest rates versus the maturities of securities of equal credit quality) is a handy economic and investment tool. It generally slopes upward because...
View ArticleSeniors Scramble for Income as the Fed Inflates - Doug French (01/02/2018)
Topics: Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve’s decades long program of inflation, as the cure to fix all things wrong with economy, has made retirement a luxury fewer people can afford. It’s not a story...
View ArticleTreasury Curve 'Completely Flat' by 4Q, Says Sheets - Bloomberg (01/04/2018)
Topics: Federal ReserveAndrew Sheets, chief cross-asset strategist at Morgan Stanley and Caroline Simmons, deputy-head of U.K. investment office at UBS Wealth Management, discuss central banks and the...
View ArticleIs Inflation Driven more by "Expectations" than by the Money Supply? - Frank...
Topics: Federal ReserveFor most economic commentators the underlying driving force of inflation is inflationary expectations1. For instance, if there is a sharp increase in the price of oil,...
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