‘Don’t fight the Fed,’ said the analysts. The Federal Reserve is pumping…stocks are going to rise.
May 8th, 2013 | Bill Bonner+ | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "federal reserve"
Caution: Central Bankers at Work!
What’s driving this market? A real recovery? Or central banks‘ fast and easy money? We’ll take a wild guess.
January 25th, 2013 | Bill Bonner+ | 2 comments | Continued
The Future is on Shaky Ground
The World Bank has just cut its expectations for global economic growth over the next year. The AFR reports that the Washington based bank projects the ‘world economy will expand 2.4%, down from a June forecast of 3 per cent‘.
January 17th, 2013 | Murray Dawes+ | 0 comments | Continued
Recessions the World Over
It’s not just the ‘US situation’ China and Australia have to worry about. It’s the whole damn planet. Growth in all the mature industrial economies isn’t just slowing. It’s going in reverse. Reverse growth is otherwise known as contraction, or more conventionally, recession.
December 11th, 2012 | Dan Denning+ | 2 comments | Continued
Capitalist Dystopia in the USA
We live in a world that is nominally capitalistic. There are profits and losses. There are businesses and stock markets. There are interest rates and prices for commodities like oil and gold. We have the glitter and tinsel of capitalism. But do we have the real thing?
December 6th, 2012 | Chris Mayer+ | 0 comments | Continued
The Fed’s New Stooge
The Fed can’t actually bring forth more resources, more real capital, more skill, more jobs or more output. They can only put out more paper money… give it to their friends… thus cheapening the money that everyone else holds.
October 17th, 2012 | Bill Bonner+ | 1 comment | Continued
Zombie Banks: Nice Work if You Can Get It!
The Fed – in order to lend money to the US government – gives money to the zombie banks, which they hold as reserves at the Fed.
September 19th, 2012 | Bill Bonner+ | 1 comment | Continued
How a Zombocracy Ends
Ben Bernanke announced that he would keep feeding the zombies until… well… until the economy goes broke or improves.
September 17th, 2012 | Bill Bonner+ | 0 comments | Continued
Zombies and Fireworks Aren’t Real
The last two weeks have seen the pyrotechnicians busy goosing the zombie economy. While they were doing so, their mates got away with the goods.
September 15th, 2012 | Nick Hubble+ | 0 comments | Continued
The Power of Pork
Manipulating the price of credit is how central banks cause asset bubbles. But popularly elected governments only become aware of a bubble when prices are high.
September 11th, 2012 | Dan Denning+ | 1 comment | Continued
USA Worse Off in a “Better Than” Economy
Ben Bernanke printed up dollars equivalent to about 15% of GDP and enabled the nation’s GDP to grow by 3%.
September 10th, 2012 | Eric J. Fry+ | 0 comments | Continued
The US Fed: Champions of Dishonesty
What are we to make of the revelation that the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the Secretary of the Treasury allowed the multi-trillion-dollar Libor fraud to operate for more than four years?
August 30th, 2012 | Eric J. Fry+ | 0 comments | Continued
Australian Banks on the Run
Many of the commercial wealth management firms in Australia are extensions of the Australian banks, just under a different label. And at the current pace, it won’t be long before the assets under management in the superannuation system exceed the assets on bank balance sheets. Which raises an interesting dilemma…
August 15th, 2012 | Dan Denning+ | 5 comments | Continued
How the US Feds Feed the Rich
We had a strong hunch that the rich had gotten a whole lot richer not because they were suddenly greedier or suddenly smarter, but because of the feds. The feds were handing out money. The rich were first in line. But we didn’t have any real proof…until now.
July 17th, 2012 | Bill Bonner+ | 0 comments | Continued
Seven Reasons to Sell US Stocks Short
Psychology and sentiment are important in stock markets, but not as important as overwhelming negative evidence, including the following seven reasons to remain bearish.
July 10th, 2012 | Dan Amoss+ | 0 comments | Continued
How Nice to Have Friends At the Fed
Wall Street’s perverse incentives…inequality…and the financial markets’ recent extreme instability all have the same source — the feds. Their ersatz money led to an extreme increase in the amount of credit.
June 21st, 2012 | Bill Bonner+ | 0 comments | Continued
A Financial Crisis that Repels Private Capital
Capitalism relies on a continuous cycle of capital destruction and formation. But thanks to multi-trillion-dollar meddling, the Western World sits atop a crisis that is incapable of attracting fresh capital.
June 7th, 2012 | Eric J. Fry+ | 0 comments | Continued
A Big Oops at JP Morgan!
JPMorgan made headlines late last week for a $2 billion trading loss that’s likely to grow over time. Today, the bank’s CIO fell on her sword for the trading gaffe.
May 15th, 2012 | Dan Amoss+ | 0 comments | Continued
Creative Destruction Means to Die and Let Live
The destructive portion of “creative destruction” plays a vital, therapeutic role. But the financial leaders of the US and the eurozone have zero appetite for creative destruction. Instead, creative denial is the order of the day.
March 9th, 2012 | Addison Wiggin+ | 1 comment | Continued






