What happens if you toss $97.9B in liquidity at an extended market and it sells off anyways? Maybe nothing, but maybe everything. The unholy alliance surely has succeeded in elevating asset prices […]
Friday’s pullback changed nothing technically.
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.
A nation that’s no longer capable of naming names and reporting what actually happened richly deserves an economic and political collapse to match its moral collapse.You’ve probably heard of the Truth Commissions held in disastrously corrupt …
Some things can’t be proven, but they can be observed. Correlation is not necessarily causation, but when the evidence keeps mounting so does credulity. And the cumulative evidence increasingly points to an […]
Bank earnings are falling and have been since last year. But hold that thought…
Each party will continue to extract whatever benefits they can from the other, but the leaving is already well underway.Beneath the euphoric hoopla of a trade deal with China is the cold reality that the divorce has already happened and any trade deal …
From Porto, Portugal, I want to wish Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends back home in the USA. I am thankful to be here in…
What everyone wants to know is, what does this downshift really mean? Did the US economy simply revert to its (already too low) mean potential after a minor reflation high last year? Or is it transiting from reflation into a weaker possibly more dangerous state beyond the simply lackluster?
If you thought the Western media was liberal with the word “strong” (经济强劲, I believe) you haven’t read a China National Bureau of Statistics press release.