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Off The Cuff: Decoding This Week’s Fed Minutes
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

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.

Click to listen to a sample of this Off the Cuff Podcast or Enroll today to access the full audio as well as all of PeakProsperity.com’s other premium content.

Off The Cuff: Decoding This Week’s Fed Minutes
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

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.

Click to listen to a sample of this Off the Cuff Podcast or Enroll today to access the full audio as well as all of PeakProsperity.com’s other premium content.

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How Many More “Saves” Are Left in the Central Bank Bazookas?
by charleshughsmith

The remarkable success of grandiose pronouncements, money-printing programs and serial expansions of credit raises a key question: how many more “saves” can the central bank bazookas fire that will have the desired effects of maintaining perceptions of central bank omnipotence and pushing global markets ever higher?
How Many More “Saves” Are Left in the Central Bank Bazookas?
 by charleshughsmith

The remarkable success of grandiose pronouncements, money-printing programs and serial expansions of credit raises a key question: how many more “saves” can the central bank bazookas fire that will have the desired effects of maintaining perceptions of central bank omnipotence and pushing global markets ever higher?
Image | Axel Merk: Why Asset Prices Must Return To Lower Levels
Axel Merk: Why Asset Prices Must Return To Lower Levels
by Adam Taggart

Saying it's been a busy week and half on the central bank front is perhaps a sizeable understatement. 

First, the Swiss National Bank stunned the world (and its brethren central banks) by removing its peg to the Euro. This was quickly followed by Mario Draghi finally making good on his longtime threat of firing QE bazooka, announcing that the ECB will pursue a 60 billion Euro per month easing program for the next 16 months. And amidst all the smoke, the Canadian central bank snuck in a surprise rate cut to its interest rate.

To make sense of both the "Why?" behind these extreme moves, as well as the "What?" in terms of their implications, Axel Merk, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Merk Funds joins us this week.
Axel Merk: Why Asset Prices Must Return To Lower Levels
 by Adam Taggart

Saying it's been a busy week and half on the central bank front is perhaps a sizeable understatement. 

First, the Swiss National Bank stunned the world (and its brethren central banks) by removing its peg to the Euro. This was quickly followed by Mario Draghi finally making good on his longtime threat of firing QE bazooka, announcing that the ECB will pursue a 60 billion Euro per month easing program for the next 16 months. And amidst all the smoke, the Canadian central bank snuck in a surprise rate cut to its interest rate.

To make sense of both the "Why?" behind these extreme moves, as well as the "What?" in terms of their implications, Axel Merk, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Merk Funds joins us this week.
Image | Alasdair Macleod: All You Need To Know About Negative Interest Rates
Alasdair Macleod: All You Need To Know About Negative Interest Rates
by Adam Taggart

On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) took the historically unprecedented step of lowering certain of its interest rates below 0%. In a report to our premium subscribers immediately following the announcement, Chris likened the move to the policy equivalent of dropping a neutron bomb.

In the days following, despite the ECB attempting to clarify its stance further, many questions still linger; most notably: What exactly will the implications of this negative interest rate (NIRP) policy be?

 

Alasdair Macleod: All You Need To Know About Negative Interest Rates
 by Adam Taggart

On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) took the historically unprecedented step of lowering certain of its interest rates below 0%. In a report to our premium subscribers immediately following the announcement, Chris likened the move to the policy equivalent of dropping a neutron bomb.

In the days following, despite the ECB attempting to clarify its stance further, many questions still linger; most notably: What exactly will the implications of this negative interest rate (NIRP) policy be?

 

Image | The European Neutron Bomb Has Dropped
The European Neutron Bomb Has Dropped
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

For anybody drinking the economic recovery Kool-Aid, today's historically unprecedented experiment by the European Central Bank (ECB) to impose negative bank interest rates should be like a bitter squeeze of fresh lemon on the tongue.

If things are so rosy then why exactly are such desperate measures necessary?
The European Neutron Bomb Has Dropped
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

For anybody drinking the economic recovery Kool-Aid, today's historically unprecedented experiment by the European Central Bank (ECB) to impose negative bank interest rates should be like a bitter squeeze of fresh lemon on the tongue.

If things are so rosy then why exactly are such desperate measures necessary?
Image | Alasdair Macleod: Europe is a Hot Mess
Alasdair Macleod: Europe is a Hot Mess
by Adam Taggart

It's almost August, the month everyone in Europe takes off on holiday to forget their troubles. This year may be different, though, as not only can many not afford a vacation, but Europe's troubles loom so large that forgetting them won't be easy…
Alasdair Macleod: Europe is a Hot Mess
 by Adam Taggart

It's almost August, the month everyone in Europe takes off on holiday to forget their troubles. This year may be different, though, as not only can many not afford a vacation, but Europe's troubles loom so large that forgetting them won't be easy…
Image | Off the Cuff: The Plot Thickens
Off the Cuff: The Plot Thickens
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

In this week's Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Mish and Chris tackle

  • The German Constitutional Court decision
    • What importance does it have? Any?
  • America is back in recession
    • More hard-to-refute data
  • Whither the Fed?
    • Why markets will be disappointed by Bernanke

Surprising to those who don't read this site, a number of notable announcements are happening this week besides Apple's unveiling of the iPhone 5…

Today, the German Constitutional Court made its ruling on the legality of Mario Drahgi's plans to flood European banks with liquidity. The court has the power to block the ECB's profligacy; but it seems that once again, politics trumps justice. Draghi will be allowed to proceed with some tissue-thin restraints. 

Meanwhile, new data show North America's economies are slowing down. Indeed, more and more analysts are coming to the conclusion that the US has slipped back into recession (even though to many it feels as if America had never left it). Jabbering of 'recovery' and slight declines in the official employment rate – which is a complete farce, as those unable to find work after a time are removed from the lists of those counted as 'unemployed' – are fooling no one at this point.

Which leads all eyes to the Fed. What will it do (or better asked, what can it do) to combat this dismal data?
Off the Cuff: The Plot Thickens
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

In this week's Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Mish and Chris tackle

  • The German Constitutional Court decision
    • What importance does it have? Any?
  • America is back in recession
    • More hard-to-refute data
  • Whither the Fed?
    • Why markets will be disappointed by Bernanke

Surprising to those who don't read this site, a number of notable announcements are happening this week besides Apple's unveiling of the iPhone 5…

Today, the German Constitutional Court made its ruling on the legality of Mario Drahgi's plans to flood European banks with liquidity. The court has the power to block the ECB's profligacy; but it seems that once again, politics trumps justice. Draghi will be allowed to proceed with some tissue-thin restraints. 

Meanwhile, new data show North America's economies are slowing down. Indeed, more and more analysts are coming to the conclusion that the US has slipped back into recession (even though to many it feels as if America had never left it). Jabbering of 'recovery' and slight declines in the official employment rate – which is a complete farce, as those unable to find work after a time are removed from the lists of those counted as 'unemployed' – are fooling no one at this point.

Which leads all eyes to the Fed. What will it do (or better asked, what can it do) to combat this dismal data?
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