Showing posts with label FOMC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FOMC. Show all posts
18 August 2020

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Chug-a-Lug - Hi-de-ho, Wall Street Does a Double Back Flip

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Uncle Jay and his Monetary Moonshine "The Federal Reserve, as one writer put it after the recent increase in the discount rate, is ...
18 September 2019

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Fed Lightly Spikes Punch Bowl, But Fails to Roll Out the Barrel

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"Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without ab...
17 September 2019

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Managed Complacency - The Grand Equilibrium

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“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed ...
16 March 2016

FOMC Statement - Backing Off On the Rate Increases, Lowering Forecasts

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The Fed recognized that growth is slow, and that inflation remains subdued. I include a chart of the real median household income to...
27 January 2016

FOMC Statement for January 27, 2016

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Net-net the Fed is bothered by the dampening effects of the stronger dollar on exports, and the lack of inflation. They continue to prom...
16 December 2015

Fed Raises Benchmark Rate 25 Basis Points, Says 'Gradual' Instead of 'Measured'

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The distinction is that 'gradual' means as needed, or as seen to be necessary by the ongoing data. 'Measured' was mean...
03 December 2015

Duke U. Study Suggests The Fed Consistently Leaked Non-Public Information to Select Insiders

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This excerpt from a Duke University study is just in from my friend Professor Anthony Sanders at George Mason University, who writes at Co...
13 November 2015

The Fed In December

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17 September 2015

Fed Does Nothing, Lacker Dissents - And the Band Played On

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All is well in the US. The rest of the world, however, is a problem. Explication to follow with Janet Yellen's press conference....
29 July 2015

FOMC Statement for July 29, 2015 - Lords of the Small Council

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The Fed did nothing, but continued to smooth the way for some rate hikes. ...
17 June 2015

FOMC June 2015 Statement

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Net-net, the Fed today said that while the first quarter was lousy, the second quarter was less lousy, and showed some sparks of growth ...
30 April 2015

Post FOMC Metals Rig: Right On Schedule

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This is what the pampered princes of privilege do when they fail.   ...
29 January 2014

FOMC Statement 29 January 2014

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This was Ben Bernanke's last meeting of the FOMC. Notice that this time the statement was approved unanimously. Even as it promis...