The credit cycle has turned. The world is in a deleveraging phase. But central banks are still trying to reverse the process and provide more credit to households and businesses? They really only have one play in the playbook.
December 1st, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Bank of England"
US Consumers Have Slacked Off
So, who’s going to do the consuming? Where’s the growth going to come from to keep Chinese factories polluting the atmosphere and Indian call centers confusing the customers?
December 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Bankers Take Money From the Government and Use it to Speculate
Most people find it both galling and absurd to see the bankers getting $10 million bonuses while there is 10% unemployment. Here at The Daily Reckoning, it’s just a matter of curiosity.
November 11th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 10 comments | Continued
Financial Markets Have Clearly Rallied
If it’s true that markets lead economies, markets are telling us that things are going to get much better. The FTSE index of emerging markets is up 99% from its March lows. The S&P 500 is up nearly 60%. And gold itself is up 25%, with much of that move coming in the last few weeks.
September 21st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
Gold is Money
Gold’s recent breach of the symbolic US$1,000 level has elicited a predictable amount of commentary from mainstream analysts. The problem is, much of it is ill-informed.
September 15th, 2009 | Greg Canavan | 0 comments | Continued
Sweden Remains an Occasional Trail-blazer in Monetary Matters
The world’s first central bank, beating even the Bank of England by 26 years, the Riksbank then copied the Old Lady by when it abandoned the Gold Standard in September 1931. But the Swedes chose to mimic Great Britain before anyone else…
August 19th, 2009 | Adrian Ash | 0 comments | Continued
Ben Bernanke “Respectfully Disagreed” With Angela Merkel
Our heroine, Angela Merkel, made the front-page news yesterday. She stood up against almost every mainstream economist, politician, and central banker in the world – and gave them all hell.
June 5th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Fed Trying to Push Private Investors into Riskier Asset Classes
So from a strategic point of view, we believe equity investors want and need to see stronger economic and earnings results to drive indexes higher, while bond investors need just the opposite to calm Treasury yields down.
June 3rd, 2009 | Rob Parenteau | 0 comments | Continued
Central Banks’ New Money is Piling Up
“Quantitative Easing” it is called. As a refresher for readers with real lives and better things to do, QE is how central banks describe what is essentially an act of counterfeiting. They buy bonds with money created – electronically – specifically for that purpose.
May 25th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 6 comments | Continued
Capitalism Always Takes an Economy Where it Ought to Be
Whoever was responsible for the mistakes, capitalism went about correcting them with its customary élan. It hit imprudent investors with trillions in losses. It knocked down mismanaged corporations. It whacked homeowners…
May 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Now in Post-bubble Era as Financial Industry Bombs Out
Yesterday, both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank announced moves to boost the economy. They’re both falling in line behind Mr. Bernanke, who is “pulling out all the stops” in order to avoid a deep depression.
May 11th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Bernanke Says Economy Recovery Likely This Year
Can the feds now fix the trouble they never saw coming? Can the people who ran banks into the ground now run the banks that will help finance the recovery?
May 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Economy Not As Bad As Expected
The world is NOT going to Hell in a handcart. After a long time spent in the handcart, it is finally getting out and standing on its two feet. Americans are beginning to save again. The Chinese are beginning to look for other places to sell their gadgets and paraphernalia.
April 3rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Federal Reserve Wants to Debase the U.S. Dollar
Last week, Mr. Bernanke announced that the Federal Reserve would buy $300 billion worth of U.S. Treasuries and another $700 billion worth of government-agency mortgage debt. In order to finance these purchases, the Federal Reserve would simply create this money out of thin air.
March 27th, 2009 | Puru Saxena | 7 comments | Continued
Huge Inflation
Distract from what? Huge inflation. Yes. Yes. We know. There is no huge inflation now. In fact, industrial production in the United States fell for the fourth month in a row. It hasn’t been this low since 2002. But then, why would output grow when demand is falling and credit remains tight?
March 17th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
