“You have a computer. Occasionally the computer will crash and you have to reboot it. That will happen to the global economy. Before this happens there will be much more money printing because basically the central banks are willing to do that,” he …
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Cullen Roche says that I don’t understand that government bonds don’t fund spending
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Seriously.
QuoteMr. Adler is working under the false premise that govt bonds “fund” the spending of the USA. This is false. Govt bond sales serve only as a reserve drain that help the Fed hit their overnight target rate. In a modern economy wh…
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Fed Pays a Record $78.4 Billion to Treasury
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
January 10, 2011
Fed Pays a Record $78.4 Billion to Treasury
By SEWELL CHAN
WASHINGTON — Central banking in the aftermath of a financial crisis is a lucrative business, it turns out.
The Federal Reserve will deliver a record $78.4 billion to the T…
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Will There Be QE3, QE4, QE5….?
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Recently, Ben Bernanke indicated that Quantitative Easing II (QE2) might be followed by QE3, etc. In an interview at the beginning of December, Bernanke was asked, “Do you anticipate a scenario in which you …
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Faber: Long-Term U.S. Treasuries a ‘Suicidal’ Investment
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Marc Faber, who advised investors to buy U.S. stocks in March 2009 as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index began a rally of as much as 86 percent, said U.S. Treasuries are a “suicidal” investment.
Government bonds are likely to decline, said Faber,…
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Is Quantitative Easing The Cause of the Stock Market Rally?
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
How exactly did the Federal Reserve’s purchase of government bonds force up stocks?
I suppose the effect was indirect, in that the stock market recovered confidence when it saw that interest rates would be kept low with this extra demand for go…
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Solvency threat facing pension fund & insurers
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“Central to this forecast is my expectation that household de-leveraging, which is now underway on both sides of the Atlantic, has much further to run. In other words, we are in a balance sheet recession. When that happens, debt reduction becomes the…