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The Fed Dusts Off “Whatever It Takes”

June 4, 2019 9 Comments

The most consequential words ever spoken by a central banker are, without doubt, ECB chair Mario Draghi’s 2012 promise to “do whatever it takes” to

Slowing Economy, Plunging Stocks Are Forcing The Fed’s Hand

May 31, 2019 6 Comments

A few short weeks ago, the economy seemed to be growing, the trade war looked winnable and the Mueller Report appeared to take presidential impeachment

This Cycle’s Most Dangerous Bubble, In Three Charts

May 30, 2019 9 Comments

One of the lessons of the past few decades’ boom/bust cycles is that each financial bubble emerges in a different asset class. In the 1970s

Stumbling Towards Chaos: All This Happened In Just One Week

May 28, 2019 4 Comments

Every week is eventful these days. But the most recent one stands out for sheer edge-of-the-abyss when-it-rains-it pours diversity. Some of the highlights: US stocks

Financial Markets To Federal Reserve: Time To Start Cutting Rates

May 27, 2019 3 Comments

In late 2018 the US stock market tanked, in effect holding a gun to its own head and threatening to pull the trigger unless the

Negative Interest Rates Spread To Mortgage Bonds

May 24, 2019 7 Comments

There are trillions of dollars of bonds in the world with negative yields – a fact with which future historians will find baffling. Until now

What Blows Up First? Part 8: Leveraged Corporate Loans

May 7, 2019 6 Comments

By now just about everyone understands what junk bonds are and why they matter. But there’s a non-publicly traded version of this kind of debt

Negative-Yield Bonds Are Back In Style. Why That’s A Bad Thing

April 30, 2019 7 Comments

Paying someone in order to lend them money seems kind of pointless. Yet the practice of stashing wealth in places where it yields nothing (and

Michael Pento: Here’s How You Know The Market Is Overvalued

April 29, 2019 10 Comments

There’s a lively debate out there over the size of the Everything Bubble. In the following excerpt, money manager Michael Pento concludes that this bubble

The Lesson Of Argentina: You Can’t Stabilize A Bankrupt Economy

April 28, 2019 9 Comments

So the U.S. puts Republicans (the party of small government) in charge, and gets… trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see AND

We Give Up! Part 6: Federal Reserve “Resigned” To Blowing Bubbles

April 23, 2019 10 Comments

After raising interest rates and getting slapped around by the markets last year, the Fed now appears to accept that future monetary policy can only

Central Banks Cave, Usher In The Crack-Up Boom

March 11, 2019 12 Comments

This was going to be the year when the other big central banks joined the Fed in “normalizing” interest rates and reversing the past decade’s

Poetic Justice For The Aristocracy

March 6, 2019 15 Comments

Two points about today’s political economy – and then a prediction involving Illinois: Point One: What’s coming is poetic justice for the aristocracy. The wave

Remember, The Fed Hasn’t Actually Done Anything Yet

February 28, 2019 11 Comments

When the financial markets got, um, choppy towards the end of 2018, the Fed caved almost instantly. But only rhetorically. Fed chair Powell promised to

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Top Ten Videos — June 13

The Fed Dusts Off “Whatever It Takes”

Slowing Economy, Plunging Stocks Are Forcing The Fed’s Hand

This Cycle’s Most Dangerous Bubble, In Three Charts

Stumbling Towards Chaos: All This Happened In Just One Week

Financial Markets To Federal Reserve: Time To Start Cutting Rates

Negative Interest Rates Spread To Mortgage Bonds

What Blows Up First? Part 8: Leveraged Corporate Loans

Negative-Yield Bonds Are Back In Style. Why That’s A Bad Thing

Michael Pento: Here’s How You Know The Market Is Overvalued

The Lesson Of Argentina: You Can’t Stabilize A Bankrupt Economy

We Give Up! Part 6: Federal Reserve “Resigned” To Blowing Bubbles

Central Banks Cave, Usher In The Crack-Up Boom

Poetic Justice For The Aristocracy

Remember, The Fed Hasn’t Actually Done Anything Yet

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