Tag - QE

Fed Official Proclaims Fed’s “Infinite Amount of Cash”

If you’re one of those people who trusts that the people at the top know what they’re doing and have things under control, you might want to stop now, because it’s becoming abundantly clear that they don’t know what they’re doing. That’s particularly true within the Federal Reserve System,...

Another Day, Another Federal Reserve Bailout

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...

Is the Fed Trying to Destroy Stock Markets?

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...

The Federal Reserve’s Monetization of Debt Is a Bad Omen for the Future

One of the characteristic traits of an economy that is circling the drain is one in which the central bank directly monetizes the debt issued by the government. Once that starts to happen, there is no check on the government’s ability to spend money, and the currency unit quickly...