A couple of minor technical problems called “business” and “life” have now intruded on my increasingly bogged down publication schedule that, in the interest...
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Ya wanna see what has the Fed in a panic?
Well, look no further than this link:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/08/new-home-sales-in-july-at-298000-annual.
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...at Calculated Risk blog, which shows the chart below.
Needless to say, the ab...
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Admittedly, it took more than a Cesar Millan "tsst" to stop Silver (and Gold and Oil) in its tracks. Raising the margin requirements (details of which are most ably covered by Jesse at his Café Américain), killing Osam bin Laden, and continuing to promise an end to debt monetization helped,...
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Admittedly, it took more than a Cesar Millan "tsst" to stop Silver (and Gold and Oil) in its tracks. Raising the margin requirements (details of which are most ably covered by Jesse at his Café Américain), killing Osam bin Laden, and continuing to promise an end to debt monetization helped,...
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The month of June, the stated end of the Fed's monetization/debt creation, matches Armstrong's turn .... when the Bernank ostensibly hits the wall with QE2. We are getting close. In another section of the latest letter Buckler points out that CDS sprea...
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For the benefit of everybody who hated Now Dat’s What I Call a Racket, which is probably everyone not from Philly, Jersey, NYC or Lawn Giland, here’s a translation in something approximating standard English. Mea culpa! Total MBS on the Fed’s balance sheet fell by $15.2 billion last week; bringing the drop to $29...
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Russ Winter and Lee Adler discuss the impact of the end of Fed monetization, the term structure of US government debt, currency and Treasury market strategy, and the real meaning of the most recent housing and employment data. Lee discusses the likely timing for the next market crash.
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âMoney has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain,â â Napoleon Bonaparte.
Today the Fed came into the Treasury market with less monetization than anticipated. Dealers were left as bagholders resulting in an 16 BP increase in the 10 year T-Note. Is the Fed being bipolar, or...
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Lee Adler and Russ Winter discuss whether the Fed’s monetization will spur inflation. The answers could surprise you. Russ and Lee give their views on how to play the market in view of current Fed and Government actions.
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The Fed’s balance sheet shrank dramatically this week as banks paid off TAF loans and reduced their deposit accounts at the Fed on which they are no longer earning any interest. When the Fed cut the interest rate it paid on reserves I warned our subscribers that this would be the result. I expect...
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I got this question this morning from a poster over on the Stool Pigeons Wire. Am I correct in stating that regardless of whether or not the new reserves that will be added once the FED purchases the GSE/MBS paper are utilized to increase fractional-reserve lending (at least initially), there would still be substantial...
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