interest rates
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Chris Martenson
In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss:
- Decoding The Fed’s Latest Commentary
- Cuts are coming = expect more bad news on the economy
- The Uncertainty Principle
- By reacting, the Fed may be creating the conditions it wants to avoid
- Gold Looking Good
- Lower real rates will push the gold price higher
- How Low Will Interest Rates Go?
- Could the US really go negative?
This week both the ECB and the Federal Reserve gave the market the soothing words it wanted to hear: any weakness will be met with rate cuts. And perhaps revived asset purchase programs.
Is this really wise with interest rates already so low and a global recession unfolding? And how low, really, is the Fed prepared to go with US interest rates? Axel, who maintains a dialog with Fed insiders, does his best in this week’s podcast to decode what Mario Draghi and Jerome Powell are planning.
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Off The Cuff: Decoding This Week’s Fed Minutes
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonIn this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss:
- Decoding The Fed’s Latest Commentary
- Cuts are coming = expect more bad news on the economy
- The Uncertainty Principle
- By reacting, the Fed may be creating the conditions it wants to avoid
- Gold Looking Good
- Lower real rates will push the gold price higher
- How Low Will Interest Rates Go?
- Could the US really go negative?
This week both the ECB and the Federal Reserve gave the market the soothing words it wanted to hear: any weakness will be met with rate cuts. And perhaps revived asset purchase programs.
Is this really wise with interest rates already so low and a global recession unfolding? And how low, really, is the Fed prepared to go with US interest rates? Axel, who maintains a dialog with Fed insiders, does his best in this week’s podcast to decode what Mario Draghi and Jerome Powell are planning.
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Chris Martenson
It's make or break time in the markets cautions Sven Henrick, technical analyst and lead market strategist for Northman Trader.
His weekly flurry of trendline charts warn that the major indexes have been compressing in rising wedges that increasingly point to a binary outcome: either a massive new leg up that will result in the market making new all time highs, or a bad breadown that could waterfall into a 2008-style correction.
His reams of data increasingly suggest that today's global elevated asset prices are in no way justified by the fundamentals of the underlying world economies. And that someday — perhaps quite soon — a reckoning long overdue will occur.
Sven Henrich: It's Make Or Break Time For The Markets
by Chris MartensonIt's make or break time in the markets cautions Sven Henrick, technical analyst and lead market strategist for Northman Trader.
His weekly flurry of trendline charts warn that the major indexes have been compressing in rising wedges that increasingly point to a binary outcome: either a massive new leg up that will result in the market making new all time highs, or a bad breadown that could waterfall into a 2008-style correction.
His reams of data increasingly suggest that today's global elevated asset prices are in no way justified by the fundamentals of the underlying world economies. And that someday — perhaps quite soon — a reckoning long overdue will occur.
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JW
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Chris Martenson
In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- The Impact Of Natural Disasters
- There are always surprise ramifications
- Unequal Oversight
- Corporations skate free while individuals get nailed
- Why The Government Allows Corporate Rackets
- There's just too much money in play
- Where Is The Tipping Point?
- When does the abused populace say "No more!"
The government is not famous for its efficiency, or for its fairness. In many cases, that's intentional — particularly when you look at the incentives in play. Charles explains why our crony capitalist system is allowed, and even protected from enforcement: it's simply too cheap for corporations to influence government policy, regulation and oversight.
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Off The Cuff: Why The Government Allows Corporate Rackets
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonIn this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- The Impact Of Natural Disasters
- There are always surprise ramifications
- Unequal Oversight
- Corporations skate free while individuals get nailed
- Why The Government Allows Corporate Rackets
- There's just too much money in play
- Where Is The Tipping Point?
- When does the abused populace say "No more!"
The government is not famous for its efficiency, or for its fairness. In many cases, that's intentional — particularly when you look at the incentives in play. Charles explains why our crony capitalist system is allowed, and even protected from enforcement: it's simply too cheap for corporations to influence government policy, regulation and oversight.
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Chris Martenson
In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss:
- Taper Tantrum 2.0?
- The Fed wants to tighten. But can it?
- Bad Balance Sheets
- Can central banks simply hold their bad assets forever?
- The Flattening Yield Curve
- A classic signal of approaching recession
- Bitcoin
- Trying to make sense of the recent run-up
Recorded before today's FMOC announcement, Chris and Axel discuss the next moves of the central banks, who's intervention and collusion have driven markets more than any other factor over the past decade. Most people don't realize that monthly liquidity injections are currentlyat their highest ever since QE began.
Now that the Fed is talking seriously about tightening — can it? Or will the markets revert to throwing a tantrum as the global liquidity spigots begin to reduce their flow?
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Off The Cuff: Are We About To See Taper Tantrum 2.0?
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonIn this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Axel Merk discuss:
- Taper Tantrum 2.0?
- The Fed wants to tighten. But can it?
- Bad Balance Sheets
- Can central banks simply hold their bad assets forever?
- The Flattening Yield Curve
- A classic signal of approaching recession
- Bitcoin
- Trying to make sense of the recent run-up
Recorded before today's FMOC announcement, Chris and Axel discuss the next moves of the central banks, who's intervention and collusion have driven markets more than any other factor over the past decade. Most people don't realize that monthly liquidity injections are currentlyat their highest ever since QE began.
Now that the Fed is talking seriously about tightening — can it? Or will the markets revert to throwing a tantrum as the global liquidity spigots begin to reduce their flow?
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Adam Taggart
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Chris Martenson
“The rates we’ve had in recent years, including right now, are the lowest in history. The book that I co-authored on the history of interest rates traces back to the code of Hammurabi, Babylonian civilization, Greek and Roman civilization, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and early modern history right up to the present. And I can assure our listeners that the rates that they’re experiencing right now are the lowest in human history.”
So says Richard Sylla, Professor Emeritus of Economics and the Former Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is also co-author of the book A History Of Interest Rates.
We invited Professor Sylla onto the podcast after hearing his work favorably referenced by the panel convened at the recent hearing held by the US Congress titled: “The Federal Reserve’s Impact on Main Street, Retirees and Savings.”
Based on his deep study across the scope of millennia of human history, Sylla warns we are at a dangerous moment in time.
Richard Sylla: This Is An Inherently Dangerous Moment In History
by Chris Martenson“The rates we’ve had in recent years, including right now, are the lowest in history. The book that I co-authored on the history of interest rates traces back to the code of Hammurabi, Babylonian civilization, Greek and Roman civilization, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and early modern history right up to the present. And I can assure our listeners that the rates that they’re experiencing right now are the lowest in human history.”
So says Richard Sylla, Professor Emeritus of Economics and the Former Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is also co-author of the book A History Of Interest Rates.
We invited Professor Sylla onto the podcast after hearing his work favorably referenced by the panel convened at the recent hearing held by the US Congress titled: “The Federal Reserve’s Impact on Main Street, Retirees and Savings.”
Based on his deep study across the scope of millennia of human history, Sylla warns we are at a dangerous moment in time.
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Chris Martenson
On June 28th 2017, the United States Congress held a hearing titled: “The Federal Reserve’s Impact on Main Street, Retirees and Savings.” If you haven't watched it yet, we highly recommend doing so.
Joining us for today's podcast is Alex J. Pollock, one of the experts who participated on that Congressional panel. In this discussion, he details out his assessments of the Fed's major transgressions against the interests of the general public. But perhaps more interestingly, he shares his observations from the hearing and how it struck him that many of the members of Congress that convened it appear to be growing increasingly concerned about the Fed's lack of accountability, as well as its potential fallibility.
Alex J. Pollock: Insights From The Recent Congressional Hearing On The Fed
by Chris MartensonOn June 28th 2017, the United States Congress held a hearing titled: “The Federal Reserve’s Impact on Main Street, Retirees and Savings.” If you haven't watched it yet, we highly recommend doing so.
Joining us for today's podcast is Alex J. Pollock, one of the experts who participated on that Congressional panel. In this discussion, he details out his assessments of the Fed's major transgressions against the interests of the general public. But perhaps more interestingly, he shares his observations from the hearing and how it struck him that many of the members of Congress that convened it appear to be growing increasingly concerned about the Fed's lack of accountability, as well as its potential fallibility.
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