Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
The Washington Post began this week by noting how the US economy seems to have lost its purported zip just when it needed that vitality the most. Never missing a chance to take a partisan swipe, of course, still there’s quite a lot of truth behind the charge. An actual economic boom produces cushion, enough […]
The Fed has cut back its direct cash injections to Primary Dealers this week. So far it has bought approximately $92 billion per day in…
The US Treasury will bomb the markets with $288 billion in new supply over the next 7 days.
This supply hits a market where structures are still collapsing and burning despite the Fed’s rescue programs. Those programs only exacerbate and prolong the causes of this disaster:
The more I read and observe the clearer the message: Nobody knows anything. And by that I mean nobody truly knows how any of this will turn out and I think this point […]
It’s another day ending in “y”, therefore there must be some new liquidity scheme being announced by the Federal Reserve. For a crisis that many seem confident has been put in the past, the optimists still are going to have to factor that even US central bankers feel they have to keep pulling repo rabbits […]
The future for U.S. stocks over the next decade appears ominous, regardless of the impact of the Coronavirus.
The US Treasury has begun carpet bombing the markets with hundreds of billions per week in new supply. On the other side of the coin, the Fed is printing double or triple that. How’s that gonna work out for you?
When the margin man came collecting on other stuff, gold got dumped. Once he left, gold came right back. What does it mean for the…