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…
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.
Central bank free money doesn’t create collateral or creditworthy borrowers, and without those foundations, the decayed, rotted shack will collapse.In terms of consequential trends, the pandemic is not a cause, it’s an accelerant.
India like many emerging market countries around the world holds an enormous stockpile of foreign exchange reserves. According to the latest weekly calculation published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, that total was a bit less than half a trillion. While it sounds impressive, when the month began the balance […]
Between today and Thursday, the US Treasury will pound the market with $194 billion in net new supply. The total since March 24 will be $283 billion. And it’s only the first week of it. That will have consequences.
Last week’s Fed intervention reminded me of The Charge of the Light Brigade.