Bundesbank boss Jens Weidmann, the man most closely associated with Germany’s opposition to easier monetary policy, is slamming the brakes on expectations that the European Central Bank will finally go for quantitative easing (QE). continue reading at businessinsider.com
LATEST NEWS : It’s Currency War! – And Japan Has Fired The First Shot
This is the big problem with fiat currency – eventually the temptation to print more of it when you are in a jam becomes too powerful to resist. In a surprise move on Friday, the Bank of Japan dramatically increased the size of the quantitative easing program that it has been conducting. This sent Japanese […]
LATEST NEWS : Our obsession with monetary stimulus will end in disaster
It is now six years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and considering that the US economy has officially been in recovery for the past five years, that equity indexes have put in new all-time highs, and that credit markets are once again ebullient to the point of carelessness, it is worth contemplating that monetary […]
The Fed’s $700 Billion Magic Trick
“We’re closing in on the five year anniversary of the most severe market drop in recent history. From the last week of September 2008 through the beginning of October 2008 the Dow shed over 2,000 points – representing an overall market drop of more than 23%.” Continue reading on dailyreckoning.com