quantitative easing

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cut interest rates to zero, launched unlimited quantitative easing (money creation), has committed to buy $1-trillion in Treasury Bonds and mortgage-backed securities, and municipal bonds. All this adds up to a death warrant for the American economy.

Despite the boost, stock market futures on Sunday night hit "limit down" levels of 5% or lower, with Dow Jones average futures down by more than 1,000 points.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has refused to inform GATA, a watchdog group, which investment houses have been getting the infamous "repo" loans, and informed them that they must wait two years to discover the identity of the loan recipients.

What’s going on in the repo market? Rates on repurchase agreements (“repo”) should be around 2%, in line with the fed funds rate. But they shot up to over 5% on September 16 and got as high as 10% on September 17. Yet banks were refusing to lend to each other, evidently passing up big […]

If $120-billion loan one day is replaced by another $120-billion loan the next day, the result is that the constant money supply has been increased by that amount. Since the long-standing pattern is for the size of these loans to continually increase, the inflationary effect is undeniable.

The Fed will be creating $75-billion daily in overnight 'repo' loans through October 10, and likely beyond. The author of this article speculates that these loans look suspiciously like a concealed bailout. The US dollar is doomed.

The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another to help the poor, the disadvantaged and the struggling middle class. Proposals ranged from a Universal Basic Income to Medicare for All to a Green New Deal to student […]

Home ownership has been called “the quintessential American dream.” Yet today less than 65% of American homes are owner occupied, and more than 50% of the equity in those homes is owned by the banks.

Home ownership has been called “the quintessential American dream.” Yet today less than 65% of American homes are owner occupied, and more than 50% of the equity in those homes is owned by the banks. Compare China, where, despite facing one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world, a whopping 90% of families can afford to own their […]

“Quantitative easing” was supposed to be an emergency measure. The Federal Reserve “eased” shrinkage in the money supply due to the 2008-09 credit crisis by pumping out trillions of dollars in new bank reserves. After the crisis, the presumption was that the Fed would “normalize” conditions by sopping up the excess reserves through “quantitative tightening” (QT) – raising interest rates and selling the securities it had bought with new reserves back into the market.