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Whenever the Federal Reserve, or any government agency for that matter, intervenes in the economy, it is always going to end up picking winners and losers. Government intervention distorts economic activity, and very often in ways that are detrimental to the functioning of the economy. The Federal Reserve’s latest attempts...
At this point everyone realizes that the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is set to increase in a major way. The only question is when (or if) it will stop, and how quickly it will increase. Many analysts today believe that the Fed’s balance sheet may very well top $10...
With the flurry of actions the Fed undertook over the past few weeks to supposedly “stabilize” financial markets, one very important action has flown under the radar. And it’s one that could have a very debilitating effect on US banks and the entire financial system. One of the elements of...
Many investors have undoubtedly heard of the Federal Reserve System, even if they may not know exactly how it operates. But fewer have heard of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which actually makes the monetary policy decisions that the Fed carries out. The FOMC consists of the seven members...
We’ve been warning about an oncoming financial crisis for a while now. The fact that a financial crisis would occur was all but inevitable, given the massive bubble blown by the Federal Reserve’s extraordinarily loose monetary policy over the last 12 years. But despite the numerous warning signs that...
The bad news just keeps getting worse and worse. After a 100-basis point rate cut and $700 billion in quantitative easing, the Federal Reserve has announced that it is opening up a new Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF) to provide a bailout of commercial paper markets. The new special...
Another Fed move, another day of collapsing stock markets. The Federal Reserve on Sunday evening announced its third consecutive unscheduled monetary policy move, making a 100-basis point cut to its target federal funds rate, cutting to a level of 0.00-0.25%. So after only a couple of years in which...
Last week the Federal Reserve made waves in markets by announcing that it would immediately offer $1.5 trillion in funding for repo markets. While that made for a nice stock market bounce in the immediate aftermath of the announcement, it couldn’t keep stock markets from losing the most points...
The bad news just keeps getting worse for investors, as stock markets continue their slide. The Dow Jones lost 10% today, dropping over 2,350 points to end the day. Not even an unprecedented monetary policy action by the Fed was able to stop the loss, so investors who are...
With the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) moving last week to cut its target federal funds rate by 50 basis points, all eyes are on next week’s FOMC meeting to see what the Fed does next. The expectations are for the Fed to continue cutting interest rates, as other...