‘Quantitative Easing’ Archives
Gold and Silver Turned Sharply Up; A Rare Reversal
Read the Full Newsletter I watched gold and silver get pummeled Sunday evening. It was pretty revolting. The boyz love to overwhelm the market in the wee hours of the morning in the thinly traded after markets. They hit the metals with everything they had – and then suddenly, gold and silver turned sharply up, a rare reversal, and they [...]
This is No Time to Throw in the Towel
Read the full newsletter Yesterday I received two emails from readers who are worried that the Fed will cut back on QE and they wondered if the bull market in gold is over. They have read all the reasons we present why this isn’t so, but this is a tough market to ride out. Oh, the Wall of Worry – it gets to people when their portfolio [...]
Killer Tax!
Read the Tuesday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 5/14/2013 and the Wednesday Morning Commentary for 5/15/2013 In the Bizarro World we live in, the day is ruled – for now - by MONEY PRINTING, MARKET MANIPULATION, and PROPAGANDA. Thus, the gross capital misallocations caused by four decades of central planning are exponentially worsening; care of [...]
Debt Ceiling ‘Suspension’ Expires May 19th
Read the Monday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 5/13/2013 and the Tuesday Morning Commentary for 5/14/2013 The old saying is that “things don’t matter – until they do”; which is EXACTLY what we’re dealing with in regards to the soaring, parabolic debt growth the ENTIRE WORLD has endured since Nixon closed the “gold window” in August [...]
The Tapering of QE3
The Fed's new term for the withdrawal from Quantitative Easing: Tapering. What does it really mean? No outline has been presented for when and if they’re going to reduce bond purchases. Andy Hoffman joins Kerry Lutz of the Financial Survival Network to discuss "tapering." Ranting Andy Hoffman – The Tapering Of QE3
It Was Only a Precursor to What’s Coming
The last 4 weeks has seen huge and unprecedented global demand for both gold and silver. Between just China and India the demand was close to 400 tons of gold... then you add in the rest of the world. Compare this 400 tons (from just 2 countries) to the 200+ tons that was dug out of the ground over the same time frame. During this period we [...]
‘The Bull Market in Bonds is Over’
Read the full newsletter 'The Bull Market in Bonds is Over' (Bill Gross Tweets that the 30-year run is done.) Note the quote by Bill Gross, above. If the bond market’s Bull Run is over, then interest rates by definition must rise. Are rising interest rates a positive for the housing market? Are they good for the stock market? Do [...]
The Real Yen Bomb – Starts Now!
Read the Thursday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 5/9/2013 and Friday Morning Commentary for 5/10/2013 For years, I have written of the untenable predicament of the "Land of the Setting Sun." Given the "DEMOGRAPHIC HELL" it faces as the WORLD'S OLDEST NATION; and the "HARI-KARI" policies of the Central bank that invented quantitative easing, it's FATE [...]
What do Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany have to do with the U.S. Dollar?
Read the full newsletter This may seem like a far-fetched example. What could Zimbabwe's stock market and failed currency possibly have in common with our economy and the dollar? Actually, a lot! Notice how the rise in Zimbabwe's "Dow" mirrors the growth in their money supply. Put another way, it was the creation of all that money that [...]
The Fed Balance Sheet is Expanding Rapidly
READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER The following three charts are courtesy of David Rosenberg. Here is what they are telling us: The Fed, using the mechanism of QE, is purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars of shoddy assets from the TBTF banks. They are purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars of US Treasuries in order to keep [...]
