There’s a lot of news flying around about the changes happening in global currency trading. From “Gas for Rubles” to “What the Hell is Going on With the Yen?” there are a lot of questions and very few answers as to what it all means and whose on which side of the divide…
“Highly Attentive” Fed Unleashes Biggest Rate-Hike Since Bursting the Dot-Com Bubble…
Since the last FOMC meeting, the short-term interest-rate (STIR) market has adjusted dramatically more hawkish in its outlook for the rest of the year – now pricing-in 11 more rate-hikes (that includes the expectation of 2x 25bps hikes today). But at the same time, the expectations for subsequent easing from what will inevitably create a recession have barely budged…
Roots of Our Current Inflation: A Deeply Flawed Monetary System…
A monetary system that allows the creation of money out of thin air is vulnerable to the fits of credit expansion and credit contraction. Periods of credit expansion typically occur over many years and even decades while the phases of credit contraction happen like sudden implosions. The monetary policy makers tend to promote the prolongation of credit expansion because they fear deflation…
Banking Giant UBS Bucks Vax-or-Ax Sweeping U.S. and Will Allow Worker Who Are Choosing Not to Get Vaccinated to Work from Home…
UBS bank will allow more than 25,000 U.S. workers to work from home if they decided not to get vaccinated against COVID-19…The move comes as major employers in the U.S. impose their own vaccine mandates for workers to be vaccinated by September and October…Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup have said the vaccine would be mandatory for all U.S. employees…
Republicans Must Stop the Big Banks from Destroying the First Amendment with “Financial Deplatforming”…
It is inevitable that under a Biden Administration these tactics will get more and more aggressive. The time to start fighting back is right now…
Fed Rate Cut to Boost Homebuyers’ Spending Power…
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Tuesday in response to the spreading coronavirus, and that could bring benefits to one sector of the U.S. economy just in time for spring: real estate. Mortgage rates were already low – and the addition of a rate cut could provide an even more attractive opportunity for prospective […]
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Statement and Press Conference Following 50 Point Fed Drop…
Earlier this morning the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced a .50 drop in their lending rate in response to the potential for economic impacts from the coronavirus. Following the rate cut Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a statement and held a press conference…
Russian Oligargh Kolomoisky Pyramid Started with Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland of the State Department Plus Christine Lagard of the IMF…
When Igor Kolomoisky (lead image, centre) financed anti-Russian units operating with the Ukrainian Army in the Ukrainian civil war, he was a staunch ally of Petro Poroshenko’s government in Kiev and the Obama Administration’s chief Ukraine policymakers, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (left) and her Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, Victoria Nuland (right). They in […]
Stocks Look to Be in for More Pain After Fed-Day Rout: ‘The market is in no man’s land’…
Stocks are extremely oversold, but investors still seem bent on selling after the Federal Reserve disappointed markets with a less dovish message than expected. “The bears have been writing the script,” said Scott Redler, partner with T3Live.com. The S&P 500 lost 1.5 percent Wednesday to 2,506 and is nearly 15 percent off its September high. […]