Move Over Coronavirus! Is This ‘Repo-Virus’ the True Culprit of the Crash?
"The Coronavirus panic has therefore been a convenient excuse to extend the stimulus and liquidity provision by slashing rates towards zero."
16 March 2020 - 00:05
Lance Roberts: Fed Launches a Bazooka to Kill a Virus
"We are in a bear market and a recession. It just hasn’t been announced ... yet."
13 March 2020 - 16:48
The Fed Went Nuclear and It Only Bought a Five-Minute Bounce!
"The markets have just suffered their worst one-day collapse since the 1987 Crash."
13 March 2020 - 14:01
Brandon Smith: Physical Gold Will Soon Break Free from the Paper Market in Spectacular Fashion
"If you can’t find physical for sale easily, then the street price will be very high when you do find it."
7 March 2020 - 16:48
Lance Roberts: Sellable Rally, or the Return of the Bull?
"Stay alert; things are finally getting interesting."
3 March 2020 - 16:48
Ron Paul: Can the Fed Save Us from Climate Change?
"History shows that the most effective way to protect the environment is via a system of private property rights and free markets. Private property owners are better stewards of the environment than are government bureaucrats because private property owners have greater incentives to maintain the value of their property. This is why the greatest pollution in history was in the communist countries of the 20th century."
3 March 2020 - 14:58
Lance Roberts: The Ghosts of 2018?
If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck … it’s a duck.
2 March 2020 - 00:05
Our Triple-C Rated Economy: Complacency, Contradictions and the Coronavirus
"The Chairman of the U.S. Fed, Jerome Powell, should understand how supply and demand works, but as a reminder, the less available something is, everything else constant, the more it is worth. Mr. Chairman, your predecessors removed $3.5 trillion of bonds from the market, what did you think would happen to bond prices and therefore yields?"
26 February 2020 - 21:18
Lance Roberts: Japan, the Fed and the Limits of Quantitative Easing
"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. "
25 February 2020 - 04:48
China Intensifies Its Pursuit of Dedollarization with a New Digital Currency
"Bottom line, the U.S. dollar is being targeted by other nations, and CBDCs are more ammo in their arsenal. Whether countries like China are successful remains to be seen."
24 February 2020 - 14:48
Michael Kahn: It’s Not 2000, but the Market Is Mighty Narrow Again
"But don’t worry, the Fed has already committed to more quantitative easing. Whoopee! Kick that can, Jerry."
22 February 2020 - 04:48
Deciphering Gibberish: Why ‘Not-Quantitative Easing’ Is Quantitative Easing
"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.”"
13 February 2020 - 07:48
Michael Lebowitz and Jack Scott: Jerome Powell and the US Federal Reserve’s Great Betrayal
"Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency."
6 February 2020 - 10:48
Is the Fed Trying to Crash the Markets to Hurt President Trump?
"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."
5 February 2020 - 04:48
Is the Fed about to Intentionally Crash the Markets?
"...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."
4 February 2020 - 13:21
Lance Roberts: Yes, Rates Are Still Going to Zero
Kiley: "If the U.S. economy entered a recession soon and interest rates fell in line with levels seen during the moderate recessions of 1990 and 2001, yields on even longer-dated Treasury securities could fall to or below zero."
23 January 2020 - 19:48
The Biggest Stock Market “Melt Up” in US History Has Pushed Stock Prices to their Most Overvalued Levels Ever
Dallas Fed President, Robert Kaplan: "...growth in the balance sheet is not free. There is a cost to it."
20 January 2020 - 16:48
Lance Roberts: “This Is Nuts!” and Why We Reduced Risk on Friday
"Taking profits and reducing risks now may lead to a short-term underperformance in portfolios, but you will likely appreciate the reduced volatility if, and when, the current optimism fades."
11 January 2020 - 16:48
Is This Why Central Banks Are Rushing to Buy Gold?
Once private property is gone, public survival depends on the “charity” of the state and its corporate partners. Without property, dependency metastasizes like a cancer.
8 January 2020 - 19:48
Technically Speaking: Markets Dismiss Iran as the Fed “Put” Remains
You would think that with the U.S. taking out a top Iranian commander, threats of military action flying between the U.S. and Iran, not to mention the “Selective Service” website crashing over concerns of World War III, the markets would be in full “sell” mode. If you thought that would be the case, you were wrong.
8 January 2020 - 01:48
David Robertson: The Fed’s ‘Monetary Magic’
"The Fed will need to coordinate successfully with other major central banks, even as their objectives and priorities increasingly come into conflict."
4 January 2020 - 04:48
The Fed is Now an Extension of the Trump White House
The Fed is easing ... "at a time when unemployment is below 4%, the U.S. economy is growing over 2%, and the stock market is at all-time highs."
1 January 2020 - 01:48
Four Big Banks Are at the Root of Problematic Fed Repo Operations
If these lending markets “freeze” like they did in 2008, it could create a retirement nightmare for anyone who isn’t prepared for the bumpy ride.
18 December 2019 - 10:48
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