The Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision is arguably the most important financial regulator in the federal government. No agency has greater oversight responsibility of U.S. financial institutions than the Fed. And the vice chair influences what kinds of trades those institutions can make, how they must prepare for unexpected losses, and what punishment to […]
Trump Reverses Himself On 6 Major Issues in 2 Days…
President Donald Trump has reversed himself on at least six major issues this week, pulling back on long-held promises supported by his base. Four of these reversals alone came in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Wednesday…
Yellen’s Effed up Attack on Working People, Sad by Mike Whitney…
Why did the Fed raise its benchmark interest rate when inflation is still running below the Fed’s target, workers wages have hardly budged and the economy is not even growing at 1 percent? Yellen was asked that question at a press conference on Wednesday following the release of the FOMC’s statement. Her answer helps to […]
“This Is Not The Reaction The Fed Wanted”: Goldman Warns Yellen Has Lost Control Of The Market…
With stocks soaring briskly around the globe following Yellen’s “dovish” hike, and futures set for a sharply higher open with the Nasdaq approaching 6,000, something surprising caught our attention: in a note by Goldman’s Jan Hatzius, the chief economist warns that the market is overinterpreting the Fed’s statement, and Yellen’s presser, and cautions that it […]
Until the Banking System Is Reformed, There Will Be No Sustainable Recovery…
The Fed did what was entirely expected today, and did it with a pedestrian view towards the future increases. Slow and steady. And so the markets were ‘surprised’, the dollar dumped hard, stocks rallied, and gold and silver got some legs higher. Today was more a ‘technical event’ than anything else. In other words, it […]
Reporter Dares to Ask Yellen Why the Hike With GDP & Real Wages Sliding: Here Is The Response…
Janet Yellen Explains Why She Hiked In A 0.9% GDP Quarter…
It appears that, the worse the economy was doing, the higher the odds of a rate hike. Putting the Federal Reserve’s third rate hike in 11 years into context, if the Atlanta Fed’s forecast is accurate, 0.9% GDP would mark the weakest quarter since 1980 in which rates were raised (according to Bloomberg data)…
Stronger Economic Growth? Over My Dead Body, Says Janet Yellen…
The U.S. economy is weak. Very weak. But the Federal Reserve is planning to raise interest rates anyway. Why? Here’s what’s going on: According to the Atlanta Fed the US economy is expected to grow at a respectable 2.8 percent for the first quarter of 2017 That’s not bad considering that, for the entire year […]
The Next Domino to Fall: Commercial Real Estate…
Unless the Federal Reserve intends to buy up every dead and dying mall in America, this is one crisis that the Fed can’t bail out with a few digital keystrokes. Just as generals prepare to fight the last war, central banks prepare to battle the last financial crisis–which in the present context means a big-bank […]
REPORT: Why Central Banks Were Forced To Rig The Gold Market…
According to newly uncovered information in the gold market, it provides additional evidence of why the Fed, Central Banks and the IMF were forced to RIG the gold market. Not only was the dropping of the Gold-Dollar peg going to release a great deal of pressure on the manipulated gold price, but forecasts of a […]
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