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You Don’t Have To Take My Word For It About Eliminating QE

By |2021-10-20T19:33:04-04:00October 20th, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

You don’t have to take my word for it. QE doesn’t work and it never has. That’s not just my assessment, pull out any chart of interest rates for wherever gets the misfortune of having been wasted with one of these LSAP’s. If none handy, then just read what officials and central bankers write about their own programs (or those [...]

The Great Eurodollar Famine: The Pendulum of Money Creation Combined With Intermediation

By |2021-10-11T19:37:50-04:00October 11th, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

It was one of those signals which mattered more than the seemingly trivial details surrounding the affair. The name MF Global doesn’t mean very much these days, but for a time in late 2011 it came to represent outright fear. Some were even declaring it the next “Lehman.” While the “bank” did eventually fail, and the implications of it came [...]

Market Structure/Economic Structure

By |2013-10-08T15:39:31-04:00October 8th, 2013|Markets|

I’ve gotten a few emails asking for more detail on why the market structure seems to have changed or evolved since about 1990, particularly that relation to the Federal Reserve’s full implementation of interest rate targeting. Coincidence and correlation is not always causation, so it is useful to unpack the full chain of circumstances between them to get a better [...]

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