The Federal Reserve may not be able to shield the economy and financial markets from the effects of a U.S. debt default, the central bank's chief said on Wednesday as he urged Congress to raise the country's debt limit to avoid that catastrophic risk. “It’s just very important that the debt ceiling be raised in a timely fashion so that the United States...
The Federal Reserve wrapped up its September FOMC meeting Wednesday and once again left its extraordinary loose "emergency" monetary policy in place. Quantitative easing continues unabated. Interest rates remain at zero. But the Fed did signal it may begin to taper quantitative easing "soon." In his podcast, Peter Schiff broke down the FOMC statement and Fed Chair Jerome Powell's post-meeting press conference. He said he thinks when it comes to tightening monetary policy, the Fed is bluffing.
These two charts should convince investors why they should own precious metals. The staggering increase in the Global Market Bonds Outstanding over the past few years has far outpaced the increase in world oil demand. This is a very bad sign not spoken about in the mainstream media or by any precious metals analysts...
But today’s debt ratios (both private and public) are substantially higher than they were in the stagflationary 1970s. Public and private agents with too much debt and much lower income will face insolvency once inflation risk premia push real interest rates higher, setting the stage for the stagflationary debt crises that I have warned about.
Unlike the central bankers’ depreciating fiat currencies, physical gold and silver are incorruptible, free-market forms of money that retain their purchasing power over time.
And with this, the runway to our year end target of roughly $2 trillion or more in reverse repo usage has been cleared.
Tapering is not a reduction in the Fed’s balance sheet, it is a slowing of the addition to the Fed's balance sheet. While the Fed continues to expand its balance sheet by $120 billion a month, it is simultaneously reducing its balance sheet via Reverse Repos.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday said the central bank's current trading rules are insufficient and promised to make changes.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds a press conference after the central bank wraps up its two-day policy meeting on Wednesday. After Monday’s market turbulence, the Federal Reserve’s challenge will be to sound reassuring while acknowledging it’s preparing to make its first major step away from the easy policies it put in place to fight the pandemic.
Heading into today's pivotal FOMC statement, dot-plot update, and press conference, US equities were doing their usual "FOMC drift" higher...
The Fed indicated rate hikes could be coming a bit sooner than expected while significantly cutting their economic outlook for this year
The letter was signed by former Treasury secretaries Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Jack Lew, Robert Rubin and Michael Blumenthal.
Wednesday could be one of the most consequential days of President Joe Biden's first term in office.
This complete capture of all avenues of regulation and governance can only end one way, a kind of hyper-stagflation.
Inflation continues to skyrocket, raising deep concerns among voters of all stripes. And 80% voters overwhelmingly blame the guy in charge.
"President Biden relishes condemning tax-dodging billionaires but that $600 reporting requirement is a signal that IRS purgatory could soon be crowded with average Americans."
Let's investigate claims of a catastrophic US debt default as well as more likely scenarios. Forget about default, but this could trigger risk avoidance.
Understanding inflation beyond the headlines helps us answer the all-important question: Just how transitory it may or may not be.
The stock market rebounded from yesterday’s mild correction, but a glaring problem remains: S&P 500 real earning yields are negative. With all the Federal government fiscal stimulus and Federal Reserve monetary stimulus, we are seeing inflation and that inflation is eating away at S&P 500 earnings yield.
Building materials copper and PVC (pipes) both surged with The Fed’s Cat 5 hurricane approach to liquidity. Then copper backed-off, but PVC rose when Hurricane IDA struck the gulf coast. The Fed will announcing their plans (maybe) at 2pm today. What would it take to knock the U.S. recovery off course and send Federal Reserve policy makers back to the drawing board? Not much — and there are plenty of candidates to deliver the blow.