The shape of recent economic data trends reminds me of a story. It’s a story that shows just how the Fed’s manipulation drives both the stock market and the conomy. It’s also a story of the twisted personalities behind the facades of institutional power. This is not something that you will read in the mainstream…
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The Bad News Is That Market is Celebrating What Was, Not What’s To Come
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The cash generated by the ECB’s second big LTRO operation hit the US banking system last week. At the same time the Fed is still pumping cash into Primary Dealer trading accounts, and it just completed a big mid month cash infusion. This was all part of the master manipulators’ master plan, of which they…
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Traders Pulling A Boner On Bernanke’s Meeting Extension?
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
US banking system measures continued to rise over the last 2 weeks, driving the composite macroliquidity picture to a new high. Until the past week, the Treasury market had acted as a black hole absorbing all of that liquidity at the expense of stocks and commodities. But traders apparently felt that Bernanke had sent a…
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Sinclair’s latest illustration of Fed policy
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
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Why banks aren’t lending
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
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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NYT – Economists say QE not helping public
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Even a QE opponent within the Fed policy-making board says that it (QE2?) “complicated the exit strategy”. What do you think he meant by “exit strategy”. I’ve seen no evidence of such a thing. (For that matter, what did he mean by “it”?)
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Busting Bernankian Mythology
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Ben Bernanke is great at taking credit for a lot of things that the Fed didn’t actually achieve, while refusing responsibility for the worst results of Fed policy blunders. Here are a few examples of which Fed apologists should take note.
Another S…
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When You Cringe At the Pump, It’s A Sign- Professional Edition
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
The Fed’s pumping will now pick up from the reduced pace of the past two holiday weeks. That will coincide with another Treasury paydown this Thursday that will add even more cash to the system. New notes settling on January 18 will absorb some of that, but for the coming week conditions will be favorable…
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Economic Charts- Factory Orders, the Stock Market and the Fed
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
Economic pundits and the Wall Street captive media are fond of telling people that the stock market is a discounting mechanism and that it leads the economy. I’m just as fond of showing that the market does neither. Both the market and the economy are mechanisms that respond to changes in macro liquidity. The Fed…
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It’s Just Too Gross
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by LimeJuice2 I have a hard time reading Bill Gross anymore, or anyone talking about the US financial system/economy as if it’s a one country closed system rather than a global one. The US economy is moribund because there is no job creation. In fact, using taxpayer dollars to foment, and now trying to reflate,…