In July 17, Mary Callahan Erdoes, head of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $2.2 trillion asset and wealth management division, walked into the wood-paneled tenth-floor conference room at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to address some fellow Wall Street luminaries — Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio, Dawn Fitzpatrick of Soros Fund Management, short-seller Jim Chanos, […]
Fed’s Powell Admits a Bigger Bailout for Wall Street Is Coming; Fed’s Balance Sheet Ballooned by $176 Billion Since September…
Yesterday, at a speaking event in Denver at the National Association of Business Economists, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged that a larger, long-term bailout of Wall Street is coming. His two key points were buried in a subterfuge of puffery but came across loud and clear: “…my colleagues and I will soon announce measures […]
Here We Go: Fed “Finds” That Negative Rates Would Have Helped the Recovery
Several days ago, the ECB sparked the ire of pretty much anyone with a working frontal lobe when it made the indefensible claim that, drumroll, QE had helped reduce inequality. ECB asset purchases have reduced inequality in the eurozone, our research shows. They have especially benefited low-income households, which suffer the most from unemployment. That’s […]
Rescuing the Banks Instead of the Economy…
You can’t bail out the banks, leave the debts in place, and rescue the economy. It’s a zero-sum game. Somebody has to lose. That’s what happened in 2009 when President Obama came in. He invited the bankers to the White House and he said, “I’m the only guy standing between you and the mob with […]
Former Federal Reserve Staffer Says Economists at Central Bank Don’t Know How Economy Works…
A former staffer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has criticized the central bank, saying economists employed there don’t know how finance and the economy works, the Wall Street Journal reported. Danielle DiMartino Booth was hired as an adviser to Richard Fisher, a former president of the Dallas Fed who also criticized quantitative easing—the […]