Yesterday, the Fed announced that it will continue to keep interest rates low “until late 2014 or until we all get fired, whichever comes first.” The market immediately rallied, as hopeful investors cheered the news that the Fed&nb…
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Goldman: Wake Up! We Just Got QE3!
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Very important point from Goldman’s Dominic Wilson on yesterday’s “Twist” announcement. Essentially he argues that the part of the operation where the Fed is going to sell $400 billion of short-dated bonds is irrelevant. Only the buying part really …
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Why banks aren’t lending
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Jul 21, 2011
Why banks aren’t lending
By Ellen Brown
Why aren’t banks lending to local businesses? The Fed’s decision to pay interest on US$1.6 trillion in “excess” reserves is a chief suspect.
Where did all the jobs go? Small and medium-sized b…
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"Gold and fiat currencies"
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
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Bernanke denies quantitative easing
However, in the Stamp Lecture at London School of Economics on January 13, 2009, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, about three years into office, asserted that the Fed’s approach to supporting credit ma…
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Bank Reserves and Stock Prices
by a Wall Street Examiner •
specie, on 07 October 2010 – 01:21 PM, said:
do you have a minute to comment on net free reserves as a leading indicator of stock market
in context with that comment
You mean the trillion the banks have on deposit at the Fed? I’ve never seen any co…
