When markets tumble, the immediate cause is often baked into the cake years before. The structural (decades old) trouble with large, U.S. publicly traded companies is managements that care first, second, and third about boosting the stock price today: carpe diem, and so forth.
Tag Archive for Zirp
Money Morning, Must Read
These Dividend Stocks Can Deliver a False Sense of Security – Money Morning
by Guest Editorial • • 0 Comments
This is a syndicated repost courtesy of Money Morning. To view original, click here. Reposted with permission. You might have caught the recent Barron’s cover that read “Dow 16,000!” It was hard to miss – the cover pictured a wide-grinning bull bouncing on a pogo stick. The issue outlined why large fund managers were bullish…
Bruce Krasting, Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
Yellen Vs. Geithner – Two Views
by Bruce Krasting • • 0 Comments
Janet Yellen, Bernanke’s soul mate (and mouthpiece) spoke last week. She argued that the Federal Reserve’s Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) should be maintained for another three years.
Tim Geither, Obama’s side kick, had a completely different take …
Bruce Krasting, Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
Bernanke – I’m Slowing Down the Ship
by Bruce Krasting • • 0 Comments
A full trading day after the release of the Fed minutes has brought us some reasonably significant changes in market levels. S&P –1.5%, Gold – 3.5%, Crude –1.5%. Apparently, the confirmation that it is on hold surprised the market. (link)
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Bruce Krasting, Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
Bernanke: "I Want to Bring Back Irrational Exuberance"
by Bruce Krasting • • 0 Comments
On January 25th we got word from the Fed that ZIRP would be extended until at least 2014. Bernanke’s guarantee of another two years of cheap-cheap money has lifted the market’s animal spirits. Since the Fed announcement (33 trading days), the S&P g…
Bruce Krasting, Contributors- Economic and Financial, Must Read
Bernanke Leaks, Spoils the Punch
by Bruce Krasting • • 0 Comments
Jon Hilsenrath, at the WSJ, must have had a phone call with Ben Bernanke on Saturday. Accordingly, Jon put an article out just in time to influence the market on Monday morning. The headline says it all:
No doubt, Bernanke is watching the price of …
Charles Hugh Smith
Why Bernanke has Failed, and Will Continue to Fail
by Charles Hugh Smith • • 0 Comments
Ben Bernanke’s zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) and command-economy efforts to maintain mispricing of risk, debt and assets are destroying capital and capitalism. No wonder his policies have failed so miserably.
To understand why Federal Reserve C…
Bears Chat, Best of the Forums, Must Read
"Be Fed chairman for a day" simulation
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Friday Night Irony: According To The Fed, Just Over One More Year Of ZIRP Will Lead To 38.36% Annual Inflation
. . . in an extremely ironic twist, it is none other than the San Francisco Fed, which operates the “Be Fed chairman for a day” simulatio…
Editorial
I Stand With The Protesters
by Lee Adler • • 80 Comments
I stand with the protesters. We as a society must stop pretending. Most of us think that we still have money in the bank to protect, so we go along with the game of extend and pretend. For some of us, the game has already ended. The rapacious zero interest rate policy that I call…
Bears Chat, Best of the Forums
Is this an accurate statement about the Fed?
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
This is from poster unit472 at the Dr. Housing Bubbble blog:
“Through ZIRP the Fed enables the Wall St. banks to borrow at essentially zero percent and buy US treasury debt. The Fed next creates digital money to buy the debt back from the banks under …
