During a discussion about how the Fed 'pause' impacted Sheff's monetary policy outlook, Rosenberg, a frequent guest on CNBC, declared that, instead of giving QE another try
The central bank is trapped in a position where it can’t easily extract itself from the equities market
The lowest job claims in 49 years coupled with the loosest financial conditions in 25 years, yet the Fed panic stopped all rate hikes following a 20% market drop and for all intents and purposes ha…
The federal government is headed toward a deficit of about $900 billion this year, according to the CBO, which is Congress' nonpartisan agency for budget and economic projections.
Zombification / Japanification is not success; it is only the last desperate defense of a failing, brittle status quo by doing more of what's failed.
The gap between the gold price and fiat paper-wealth keeps widening, but that's not the only reason why gold's a great buy right now. John explains...
When left alone, financial dust-ups don’t generally restrain economic growth in any material way. But government responses to them in the form of bailouts most certainly do restrain growth.
Concern that overvaluation, low interest rates and loose lending will affect stability.
In advocating easier credit, Trump and senior economic adviser Larry Kudlow have harped on the paucity of inflation to justify their call for a change of course by the central bank...
Disappointing indicators show similar picture in US, China and Europe
....after all, we have seen the value of the dollar collapse to as little as a 1,900th of an ounce of gold.
It’s time to escape our cages. The future belongs to those who can break free from their lab rat existence and become free and fully-expressed individuals again.
The Street is thought to be gearing up for the doomsday scenario some are expecting: a massive wave of corporate debt defaults, bankruptcies, restructurings and widespread layoffs.
Europe’s sclerotic growth and political dysfunction inspire frequent comparisons with Japan’s lost decade from the mid-1990s. We’re not there yet
Gold is stuck in limbo, and the stock market isn't helping the yellow metal in the short-term. What would it take for gold to move higher? David explains...
Probably the most useful exercise we can do at present is to examine where the markets and the U.S. economy are in their respective cycles – with 19 charts and detailed analysis.
“We forecast a more stagflationary environment in 2019 with global growth set to slow and inflation to rise”. T
The "Powell Pause" is not enough. President Donald Trump not only wants interest rates cuts; he wants to put quantitative easing back in play.During an interview Friday, the president once again complained about the Fed's 2018 interest rate increases, saying "they really slowed us down." Trump wants stimulus and called on the Fed to resume Obama era QE.
Reinforced central bank balance sheets in emerging markets can be traced back to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, when currency and maturity mismatches between countries...
Draghi looks set to repeat his long-standing formulation that "an ample degree of monetary accommodation is still necessary for the continued sustained convergence of inflation" to the bank's target of just below two percent.