The low interest rate environment isn’t expected to bring much of a boost to the housing market, which is struggling as a result of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The major Chinese commercial banks once had more dollar assets than liabilities. No longer.
"Then as now, he says, “central bankers were pushing on a string”, trying in vain to whip up a real economic recovery with monetary policy."
After the coronavirus pandemic passes, life will continue in many regards, but nothing will be the same and the economy won't return to the way it was, not for a long time.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was confident that a vaccine would be available by the end of 2020. More than 3.5 million people have now been infected worldwide by the coronavirus and over 247,000 people have died from the respiratory disease Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Newsweek reveals that last year, the US funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 'gain of function' research on bat coronaviruses.
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“Gold’s bullish outlook was mainly comprised of the growing stimulus efforts from the central banks worldwide, but now it seems it could also be supported by tariff wars between the world’s two largest economies,” Moya said.
The Fed poisons everything, and I mean everything. From markets, the economy, and I will even go as far as politics. Sounds far fetched? Let me make my case below. But as much as the Fed poisons ev…
After rolling out trillions of dollars in support for the U.S. economy during the coronavirus pandemic, Federal Reserve officials have begun warning of potentially lasting scars to the workforce and productivity if the recovery is not handled well.
Blue-chip U.S. companies are borrowing money at a record pace to make up for their plunging sales. That process is making corporate bonds riskier for investors.Boeing Co., the plane maker, sold $25 billion of bonds on Thursday, the largest offering of the year. Coca-Cola Co. issued $6.5
Eurozone Economy Collapses 3.8% in the first quarter, the worst on record.
Spain (-5.2%) and France (-5.6%) GDP were much worse than Italy (-4.7%).
We’ve just entered the heart of earnings season and it’s during this time I typically like to take a look at a wide variety of stocks and how their valuations compare with their fundamentals.
Another week, another $70BN in treasurys and MBS will be monetized by the Fed.
“The stockmarkets are absotively, posilutely in a hyper-bubble. The only question is, will they meltdown…or meltup?” Join Mike Maloney for today’s look at the extreme valuations being placed on the markets, as measured by Warren Buffet himself.
The fight is to prevent deflation. All of the printing and debt monetization’s risks inflation. Deflation now, inflation later.
“Once inflation gets going, people are going to doubt the ability of the Federal Reserve to corral that inflation.”
...Has No Idea How They'll Do It. Nice stimulus program you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it...