Category: Quantitative Easing
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
QE Unprecedented, Exit Will Be a 'Messy Process' / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing
By: Bloomberg
David Zervos, head of global fixed income at Jefferies, told Bloomberg TV's Erik Schatzker and Sara Eisen on "Market Makers" today that the Federal Reserve's QE program is "the greatest monetary policy experiment of our lifetime and I do not think that anyone is smart enough, me, any central banker up there" to figure out how to properly exit.
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
The Incredible Weight of Quantitative Easing Money Printing / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: DeviantInvestor
Skip the supposed theory and purpose of Quantitative Easing, and ask yourself what is its equivalent weight? Suppose we use the $85,000,000,000 per month that is officially acknowledged and round it to $1,000,000,000,000 per year and relate that $1 Trillion per year to items more easily understood.
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Monday, May 06, 2013
QE Has Been and Will Be a Complete and Utter Failure / Economics / Quantitative Easing
By: Graham_Summers
The Fed is now blaming Congress for the failures of its QE policies.
This is to be expected, given that no one in the power elite ever accepts responsibility for their own failures. Congressional members blames each other (depending on which party they’re in), the Fed blames Congress, the White House blames the GOP, and on and on.
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Saturday, May 04, 2013
Sell in May and go away? The Stock Market QE Sandpile Theory / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: John_Mauldin
Sell in May and go away? What about "risk off?" And ever more QE? Today's letter is a quick note and a reprise of a popular letter from yesteryear (with a bit of new slant), as I am at my conference in Carlsbad.
But first, I thought I would shoot you a few quick, interesting notes that crossed my desk in the last week. It is almost a ritual for me to mention at this time of year the old investment saw, "Sell in May and go away." It has been surprisingly good advice in most years. My good friend Art Cashin is a curator (and prodigious progenitor) of investment wisdom. He offers these two insights from his research:
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Global Central Bank Money Printing Will Cause Long-Term Damage / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: One of the most confusing topics of late is the low level of the inflation rate even though monetary stimulus has been quite aggressive worldwide. The most recent data point came from Japan, in which consumer prices dropped by 0.5% in March versus the same time in 2012.
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
What if QE3 Money Actually had to be Printed? / Politics / Quantitative Easing
By: Submissions
Richard Moyer writes: As we speak, the US Federal Reserve, led by Ben Bernanke and his Raiders, is printing a not-too-shabby $85 billion a month.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Missing Lynchpin Of Japan's Great Experiment - Trust / Politics / Quantitative Easing
By: Andrew_McKillop
JAPAN'S GREAT EXPERIMENT
Describing the antics of the Japanese government and its central bank (BOJ) as "not just running the largest monetary experiment in their history, but also the largest social engineering experiment", Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity in a recent ZeroHedge post concludes: "Were I a Japanese citizen, I would immediately convert my Yen holdings to something, anything, else. Swiss francs, gold, dollars – anything (!) would be preferable......Once your central bank declares war on its own currency, this is just the prudent thing to do".
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Yenfamy, Propelling Japan's Economy Toward Certain Reckoning / Economics / Quantitative Easing
By: John_Mauldin
By Grant Williams writes: April 4 is a day when things tend to happen. Big things.
April 4, 1841 saw President William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, die of pneumonia after only 31 days in office. Twenty-four years later to the day, President Abraham Lincoln would be haunted by a disturbing dream. As Lincoln's close friend Ward Hill Lamon recollected:
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
How Central Banks’ Easy Solution Could Devastate the Global Economy / Economics / Quantitative Easing
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: Central banks around the world have opened the floodgates with massive levels of quantitative easing in an effort to try to stimulate their respective economies. Turning on the quantitative easing tap is easy; putting the genie back in the bottle will be extremely difficult for central banks globally.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Should Bernanke Park the Helicopter? / Economics / Quantitative Easing
By: Frank_Shostak
According to Ben Bernanke, pulling back on aggressive policy measures too soon would pose a real risk of damaging a still-fragile recovery.
The Fed chief is of the view that, for the purposes of financial stability, a continuation of the central bank’s aggressive stimulus, conducted through purchases of Treasury and mortgage securities, remains the optimal approach.
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Sunday, March 03, 2013
The True Cost of the Current U.S. Federal Reserve Easy Money Stance / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified in front of Congress and faced a barrage of questions and criticisms regarding the central bank’s monetary policy initiative.
There are a growing number of critics voicing their concerns over the current monetary policy path set forth by the Federal Reserve. These critics aren’t only independent analysts such as myself, (I have been writing articles on the topic for some time now, including the article “Current Monetary Policy Unsustainable”), but economists who have worked closely with the Federal Reserve in the past.
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Saturday, March 02, 2013
What the Bank of Japan, China’s Government and the Fed Have in Common / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing
By: Graham_Summers
As we’ve noted in recent articles, the US Federal Reserve has blown another bubble in stocks and facilitating the exact same risk-taking behavior that brought about the 2008.
The Fed realizing that it’s done this, which is why it’s now trying to manage down expectations of future stimulus (see the multiple suggestions from Fed officials that the Fed might reduce QE before hitting its unemployment target).
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Friday, March 01, 2013
A Close Encounter With Zombiedom / Stock-Markets / Quantitative Easing
By: Bill_Bonner
Ben Bernanke spoke out on Tuesday, leaving no doubt where he stands on the QE issue. To print or not to print? He hardly seemed to think about it. Instead, he announced himself four-square in favor. If there is to be any prudence or propriety at America's central bank, it won't be on his watch!
This seemed to put some starch into investors' nerves. After a big sell-off on Monday... and a bounce on Tuesday... they went back into the markets yesterday with a single-minded command: "Buy!"
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
The ‘End’ of QE – Hype or Tripe? / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing
By: Andy_Sutton
I am going to say right up front that there is going to be quite a bit of sarcasm in this essay. I say this simply because of the ludicrous nature of our marionette-esque talking heads in the mainstream financial press in this country. They are truly amazing, taking molehills and making mountains out of them and vice versa. In one segment telling us that there in fact will be no criminal charges against anyone involved in the HSBC drug/terrorism money laundering scandal – if they talk about it a all – while in the next advocating holding the next ten generations hostage by supporting the continued subsidy of said corrupt organization et al with fiat money printed from nothing with the debt placed on the taxpayer’s tab.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
PIMCO's Bill Gross Expect QE To Continue To At Least End Of 2013 / Interest-Rates / Quantitative Easing
By: Bloomberg
PIMCO's Bill Gross told Bloomberg Television's Trish Regan and Adam Johnson on "Street Smart" yesterday that quantitative easing will continue to "at least the end of the year."
Gross said that the Federal Reserve knows that its policy has negatives: "There are ultimately and presently negatives to these policies. The chairman recognizes that." He also spoke about returning to the gold standard, which would be "very difficult."
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