Recent Commentaries tagged (fed)
Money: Forever Free from the Federal Reserve
By Kurt Cobb The following story was processed on a computer that may contain traces of salty tree nuts and even a little truth.The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank announced last week that it would make money available for free forever. This was in response to a persistently weak economy...***This is a...
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Federal Reserve’s Portfolio: the Short of a...
By Russ Winter "In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could." - Rudiger Dornbusch Ben Bernanke made some surprisingly frank confessions in his House testimony about Fed portfolio risk. When asked what...***This is a ...
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Bond King Bill Gross Likes Gold
In his February newsletter, Bill Gross of PIMCO surmises that from now on central bankers will target nominal GDP growth in their fight to prevent a systemic financial collapse. Nothing new there, but Gross believes the threat of stagflation could be with us for a lot longer than investors expect...
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Global Monetary Policy Week in Review - 28...
By Central Bank News The past week in monetary policy saw 2 central banks cutting interest rates (Israel -25bps to 2.50%, and Thailand -25bps to 3.00%), and 1 bank cutting its reserve ratio (India cut CRR 50bps to 5.50%). Meanwhile 7 central banks held rates unchanged (Japan 0.10%, India...***Thi...
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Just How Much Control Over Central Banks Do...
By Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge Formal central bank independence is increasingly under pressure as societal preferences for a lender of last resort savior grow ever stronger (and more priced into nominal risk markets) as do demands for politicizing the monetary authorities under the...***This is a p...
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What To Expect from the Fed's New...
By Bruce Krasting Next Wednesday, between 12:30 and 2PM, we will get a ton of new information to digest and analyze. The Federal Reserve will make a series of statements while unveiling its new communication effort. A portion of the new information will be contained in the... ***This is a previe...
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