Federal Reserve

Well, what you OUGHT to know is that the bond market may finally be cracking up…..

By The Mogambo Guru 11/12/10 Tampa, Florida – There are a lot of intricacies in the Federal Reserve’s evil ways, especially as concerns creating $900 billion in the next six months in another round of quantitative easing, and one of them is explained by Daniel R. Amerman of DanielAmerman.com. He says, “There is something else … Continue reading

Many investors are struggling to understand the ramifications of the recently announced quantitative easing (QE) plan….

The latest news to depress me is that incomes were reported down 0.1%, and the latest news about spending is that spending is up 0.2%….

Sorry, Ben, can’t feed Wall Street cake and then dilute it too…..

Zero Hedge recently posted several insightful pieces from Hinde Capital, among which the fund’s presentation on the ECB’s role as the European Commission’s whore, and more recently, its presentation on Gold as the “currency of first resort” (recreated below). Last week, fund manager Ben Davies, who previously ran trading for RBS Greenwich Capital in London … Continue reading

Ambrose Evans Pritchard writes in the Telegraph about what might be coming from the Federal Reserve, hearkening back to the days when Ben Bernanke was fresh out of academia, set to apply all that he had learned about the real world after having just entered it. As recovery starts to stall in the US and … Continue reading

A: His lips are moving.   Here’s a direct quote from a speech Bernanke gave to the National Economists Club in 2002, when he was jockeying to become Greenspan’s successor: “U.S. Dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. Government has a technology, called a printing press … Continue reading

I think gold is a win-win investment because it’s now knocking on the door of its next rocket ride higher….

I congratulate GATA and applaud whistleblowers for taking risk to life and career to expose the market manipulation in precious metals. It exists. It is not a tinfoil hat thing, it is reality. However, it is important to not lose sight of the longer term and in the longer term, manipulation doesn’t work. Gold will … Continue reading