The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for a fifth consecutive meeting, but a rare 9-3 vote revealed growing divisions within the Fed. Here’s what the decision means for markets, inflation, and the outlook for future rate moves.
Fed Holds Rates Again, But Three Officials Wanted a Hike Read More »
Jerome Powell is out as Fed Chair, but he’s not leaving entirely. Kevin Warsh steps in after a razor-thin Senate vote, and the Fed could look very different before long.
Changes at the Federal Reserve: New Leadership, New Direction Read More »
Traders routinely fixate on short-term price movements in their chosen financial instruments. Longer-term investors need a wider focus on stocks, forex, indices, FED actions and commodities to gain a better market perspective. The performance of US markets is worthy of mention, particularly since the epic global meltdown following the financial crisis of 2009/10.
The Markets in Perspective: What Goes up Must Come down? Read More »
After the president of the United States, the most powerful person on the planet is the chairman of the Federal Reserve. By simply choosing to utter the right words, the chairman of the Fed can create or extinguish trillions of dollars of wealth both in and outside of the U.S. He holds the economic fate of billions of people in his hands. So it’s no shocker that investors carefully parse everything he says.
The Fed’s Alice In Wonderland Economy – What’s Next? Read More »
How the Federal Reserve is Showing Financial Fear Think about one of those movie scenes when the leading man does all he can to defeat the big, bad enemy — punches, kicks, slams, stabs, shoots — but the bad guy just won’t go down. In fact he doesn’t even look fazed. That’s when the protagonist
Have you heard about the Fed’s 180 degree turn? Read More »
Is the Federal Reserve really doing such a bad job… or does it actually do exactly what it’s supposed to do, but the average American is in the dark about what that is? In this explosive video, Casey Summit speaker G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, talks about the Fed’s real
The Fed’s sole purpose: keeping the banks afloat Read More »
“The Coming Worldwide Bank run” Lost in the clamor over the central banks’ “let there be liquidity” pronouncement, Standard & Poor’s just downgraded fifteen major U.S. and European banks. The downgrade doesn’t mean Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Barclays, UBS, Wells Fargo and others will close shop tomorrow. But the long-term credit downgrade does raise questions
America’s Biggest Banks: How Safe Are They? Read More »
By Bud Conrad, Casey Research Foreign central banks buy US Treasury and Agency debt through accounts at the Federal Reserve, where it is held in custody. Without these central banks buying our debt, the US federal government would have to find a new source of funds or the result could be higher interest rates. Looking
Foreigners Losing Confidence in Holding US Treasury and Agency Debt Read More »
By Doug Hornig, Casey Research I’ve used the term outrage fatigue on numerous occasions in this forum as a way of trying to explain why there has been such a muted outcry from the general population as the tally of financial atrocities committed against American citizens has exploded. August 22 was just another average day
A Raging Case of Bailout Fatigue Read More »
By Terry Coxon, The Casey Report In the fall of 2008, the Federal Reserve responded to the Lehman bankruptcy by igniting a rapid expansion in the U.S. money supply. It did so because, by its lights, the immediate and obvious menace to the economy was a deflationary collapse, with one giant bankruptcy breeding another. And
Later Is Now: Profiting from Rising Interest Rates Read More »
