How Long Until The Fed is Forced to Intervene Again?
"...the markets are addicted to Fed interventions"
"...the markets are addicted to Fed interventions"
"What this all means is there will be no “V-shaped” recovery."
"Write-offs for the One Percent, and more indebtedness for everyone else."
"The Fed, in an effort to stop this, announced several weeks ago that it would be buying everything. And I do mean EVERYTHING."
"Welcome to United States of Japan."
"...the Fed officially crossed the Rubicon over the weekend."
"Bottom line, the Fed has started up the “money printing press” again, and in an attempt to curb market panic, has essentially cut rates to zero. But that hasn’t worked out well so far, because the market is still in panic mode."
"Germany is the ultimate backstop for the EU. ... German sovereign bonds are beginning to break down."
"The Coronavirus panic has therefore been a convenient excuse to extend the stimulus and liquidity provision by slashing rates towards zero."
"We are in a bear market and a recession. It just hasn’t been announced ... yet."
"Stay alert; things are finally getting interesting."
If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck … it’s a duck.
"While another $2-4 Trillion in QE might indeed be successful in keeping the bubble inflated for a while longer, there is a limit to the ability to continue pulling forward future consumption to stimulate economic activity. "
"The Fed and media are vehemently defending the latest round of repurchase market (“repo”) operations and T-bill purchases as “not QE.” Before the Fed even implemented these new measures, Jerome Powell was quick to qualify their actions accordingly: “My colleagues and I will soon announce measures to add to the supply of reserves over time,” “This is not QE.”"
"What is going on here? The Fed is supposedly engaged in a $60 billion per month QE program. And yet its balance sheet has started shrinking."
"...if the Fed is ACTIVELY pulling liquidity to sabotage the markets, it means stocks are going DOWN no matter what is happening with the economy or investors."
Carney was joined by former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King who recently warned that a “financial Armageddon” is looming unless central banks are permitted to unleash unbounded quantitative easing once more.
When the debt bubble pops so will other liabilities like the $1.5 quadrillion of derivatives.