BY BRIAN MAHER If necessity is the mother of invention, the crisis of 2008 mothered an invention for the ages. QE, ZIRP, NIRP and half the alphabet were drafted into the Manhattan Project of monetary […]
Central bank market intervention doesn’t extinguish risk–it simply transfers it to the system itself. The unspoken claim of central bank policy is that risk can be extinguished by intervention/manipulation: once the Fed has your back, […]
Chris Vermeulen The Fed and the Corporate World understand that there is NO economic recovery. They need to keep feeding this bull market with plenty of accommodative easing or this bull will die. The Fed […]
Previously, I have written about the progression from positive interest rates to zero interest rates (since 2008) and finally to negative interest rates. And I asked my readers a simple question: How will negative interest […]
by Tyler Durden Authored by James Grant via Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, April 15 comes and goes but the federal debt stays and grows. The secrets of its life force are the topics at hand— […]
BY JAMES RICKARDS Currency wars are like real wars in more ways than one. They can last longer than the combatants expect, and produce unexpected victories and losses. Real wars do not involve all fighting, […]
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