Great Green Opportunities From Dangerous Q.e. By: Deepcaster LLC | - "Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, the eight central bank balance sheets were less than 15% the size of world stock markets and falling. In the immediate aftermath of Lehman Brothers' failure, these eight central bank balances swelled to 37% the capitalization of the world stock market. But keep in mind that the late 2008/early 2009 peak was due to collapsing stock market values combines with balance sheet expansion via 'lender of last resort' loans.
Clueless In Seattle By: Bruno Korschek | - Remember the light hearted hit movie "Sleepless In Seattle?" Consider it's dark sided opposite, the heavy handed "Clueless In Washington," the continuing saga of how our political class in D.C. continues to cluelessly wander through life. Our politicians waste our wealth, oversee government programs that often counteract each other, and apparently have no clue on how to resolve the major issues facing Americans today:
MIAMI, FL - Ben Bernanke's rather preachy (albeit true) remarks that the US needs to learn budget discipline are very interesting considering the very different budget and investment styles in the emerging economies of India and China, versus those of more developed nations in the western world. 'Fiscal responsibility' is not too popular a concept in modern day North America ... Tags:
Bellwethers In Freefall As Bernanke Strikes Out By: J. Litle | - They came, they saw, they tanked the markets...
Wednesday was supposed to be a good day for bulls. High hopes were placed on the Federal Reserve, and the likelihood they would "do something" to keep the economy and asset prices propped up.
They did do something. But Operation Twist turned out to be Operation Bust. Hopes were dashed on realizing that a $400 billion shuffle, from short-term Treasuries to long, was all the markets would get. Small beer, that.
The idea -- pushing d ... Tags:Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Global Economy, Global Markets, Justice Litle, Taipan Daily, U.S. Economy, U.S. Treasury
MIAMI, FL - Today, August 26, saw the greatly anticipated speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Many had expected a third round of quantitative easing but Mr Bernanke was relatively noncommittal, simply reiterating that the tools necessary to stimulate the economy were available if needed. This leaves the door open for further quantitative easing in the near future but maintains t ... Tags:invest, investment, precious, metals, gold, silver, platinum
When I was in my early 20s, I worked in the Far East. Part of my job was to take Japanese business material and write it in a way to make it be more palatable to English speakers.
My title was that of translator. As inflated as that description is, what I really did was learn how to convey meaning without ever using the English language in a precise way. Tags:Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke
The Last Place Pittsburgh Pirates And Our Last Place Economy By: Bruno Korschek | - The Federal government released the latest data on the economy recently and the data is not good, according to a July 8, 2011 Associated Press article covering the findings:
- Employers added the fewest jobs to the economy in nine months, 57,000.
- The economy needs to add 125,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth and twice that many just to start bringing down the unemployment rate. At 57,000 jobs in June, that goal was missed by about 73%.
Will The Value Of Wealth In Dollars Suffer From Quantitative Easing? By: Raymond Stiel | - Ben Bernanke, our expert on the Great Depression of the 1930s, has staked his reputation on loading the banks with money as per QE1 and QE2. Bernanke's theory -- if the banks are choking on money, they will lend and consumers will come, and they will borrow, and they will buy. But alas, the best laid plans . . . . .
The paragraph below is from the front page of today's Wall Street Journal ---
Dollar Begins A New Era Of Growth By: Deep Trust Trading Analytical Department | - The US Federal Reserves decision has been made, along with commentary from Ben Bernanke. The recently begun tradition of holding a press conference immediately after such announcements, as Bernankes European colleague Jean-Claude Trichet does, has been received very favorably by the market. The Feds leadership, as well as the US presidential administration, seems to have decided that it is better to play it safe during stressful times on the world markets and to not contribute to more u ... Tags:finances, stocks, investing, brokerage
Federal Reserve's Inflation Renunciation By: Chris Termeer | - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held his first-ever press conference a few weeks ago, aimed at putting the American public back to sleep with a false image of carefulness, honesty and transparency. It attempted to do paint the picture of a federal agency being responsible for nationwide monetary policy in a way that stabilizes prices and maximizes employment. But at the end of the day, the American public was left disappointed.
What Were They Thinking? How Not To Solve A Problem By: Bruno Korschek | - Most Americans were thrilled and thankful for the successful Navy Seal military operation against Bin Laden. It was a job well done. It was also one of the few times where the political class, and the government it runs, successfully addressed a real life problem and executed a real solution based on facts and logic. Solving a problem usually involves some relatively simple steps:
What We Learned From Ben Bernanke's Speech By: Sara Nunnally | - Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke held his first press conference after a Federal Reserve meeting... ever. Traditionally, the Fed releases minutes to the meeting about three weeks later. That's not what other central banks do around the world.
Most give a press conference.
And now the Federal Reserve will be giving these conferences after every meeting. It's an effort to offer a clear view into their decisions. But is it really?
Opportunities & Peril In The Gold-food-oil-qe Connection By: Deepcaster LLC | - "Things are certainly speeding up, and it is my conclusion that we are not more than a year away from the next major financial and economic disruption...
In order for the financial system to operate, it needs continual debt expansion and servicing. Both are important. If either is missing, then catastrophe can strike at any time...
The world's banks face a $3.6 trillion "wall of maturing debt" in the next two years and must compete with debt-laden governments to secure ... Tags:Federal Reserve, Cartel Intervention, Gold, Silver, Market
Countering The Opportunity Loss Of Trillions Of Cash Lying Unused With Banks By: wns | - It has been a year since the Federal Government imposed the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP), also known as the bank stress test. By setting reasonably ambitious capital targets, we hoped to hasten the return to a better lending environment, said Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, speaking at an event in Chicago in early May, this year (2010). However, Mr. Bernanke admitted that the objective had still not been met. Bank lending continues to con ... Tags:lending policy, credit risk management, relationship mgmt
"off With Their (political) Heads!" Shouted The Queen Of Hearts By: Bruno Korschek | - Any number of recent events have reinforced the notion that many in our political class really do not know what they are doing. The world has gotten so complex but their grasp of it's realities is so naive. Unfortunately, every time they screw up it usually costs us in wasted tax dollars, lost freedom, or in the Wikileaks scandal, potentially human lives. In an "Alice In Wonderland" world, we could follow the advice of the Queen of Hearts and chop off their political heads and move on, hopefully ... Tags:queen of hearts, alice in wonderland, bernanke, fed
Are The Failed Japanese Government Economic Polciies And Obamanomics One And The Same? By: Bruno Korschek | - Robert Samuelson had an interesting article in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine, "Why Japan Fell And What It teaches Us." Mr. Samuelson reviews how Japan got into its current and long running economic slump, highlights of which include the following:
- Japan's economic problems started after several economic bubbles arose in the late 1980s including a tripling of their stock market's value from 1985 to 1989 and the tripling of its real estate values by 1991.
The Latest Silliness And Insanity From Out Political Class By: Bruno Korschek | - If you follow our political class and their inane actions and antics long enough and close enough, you are continually amazed about what they do and how much time, resources, and taxpayer money they waste without ever really accomplishing anything worthwhile. Their actions range from just outright waste to wasting time on issues and topics that have very little to do with the average American's daily life. Consider some of the latest examples:
The Bernanke Put Is Real. By: Martin Runde | - Depending upon whom you listen to, the US economy is either headed for a double-dip recession or in the midst of a renaissance for its policymakers preferred (read: easily manipulated) asset values. By preferred, we are talking about equities, debt and real estate. According to the latter camp, the worst of the financial crisis is over, the banks have been back-stopped at the expense of the taxpayers and the equity market is in the throes of a secular bull uptrend within a cyclical b ... Tags:EurasiaTrade, eurasiatrade, Eurasiatrade, eurasiaTrade
Financial Aid To Small Businesses Must Increase By: Molly Wider | - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is urging banks to boost their lending to small businesses as it's an important factor for continued economic growth and lowering the unemployment rate. He says, "Making credit accessible to sound small businesses is crucial to our economic recovery. More must be done."
Randgold Resources Ltd. (Nasdaq: GOLD) recently reported mining at its new Tongon project in the Cte dIvoire and has also initiated the development of the second underground mine at its Loulo complex in Mali in line with its growth plan designed to boost attributable production to 1.2 million ounces in 2014.
Ben Bernanke Awaits Key Senate Vote On Fed Reappointment By: Archie Mathys | - Ben Bernanke, the famous Federal Reserve chief, is expected to overcome Senate apprehension and win a second term as head of the nation's foremost bank.
The Senate has scheduled a key vote Thursday that will determine whether the Fed chief has at least a nominal 60 senators on his side to beat a blocking of his reappointment. Senate leaders from both parties expressed hopes that he would prevail.
- Bernanke will likely secure another term as Fed chairman, though many will bemoan a narrow victory could politicize the Fed head.
- In reality, the Fed head is already a political creature. However, policy decisions made by the Fed arent the be-all, end-all for the world economythis is why individual nations can make policy mistakes, but the effects can get muted globally.
- There are undoubtedly much more qualified candidates than Bernanke o ... Tags:Politics, Bernanke
Marketminder.com: The Devil You Know By: mm99 | - Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is on Capitol Hill today facing the Senate Banking Committee for his confirmation hearing. There"??s plenty of criticism for Bernanke and the Fed as his first term was punctuated by the worst financial crisis in decades. Despite the political show of questioning, delaying, and debating, confirmation of Bernanke"??s reappointment is practically assured. Looking back on his first term, there were failures along with successes.
At the onset of the financial cr ... Tags:
Obama's Stimulus Package Is Working: Keynesian Economics Works By: marciano guerrero | - In October 1929 the stock market crashed, making obvious the problems that caused the Great Depression. This market crash of 1929 may be the worst economic crisis in American history.
In September 2008 The worst liquidity crisis unfolded over a weekend: Lehman Brothers heads for bankruptcy, AIG begs for survival, Bank of America swallows Merrill Lynch, and all hell breaks loose.
The Bankers Manifesto Of 1892 By: Jeff Nielson | - The actions of the banker-servants in the U.S. government must seem utterly incomprehensible to most people. Since "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke and "Bazooka" Paulson began handing out blank-cheques to the U.S. financial crime syndicate, they have already spent or pledged more than $10 TRILLION. With the balance-sheets of Wall Street banksters leveraged by an average of 30:1, this has amounted to paying off 'bad bets' at 30:1 odds - with most of those bets based on the (declining) housing prices of ... Tags:Bullion, Bulls, Canada, Investing, Gold, Silver, portfolio, stock, market, investing, canadian,
At a town hall meeting in Kansas City, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted that the Fed erred in not recognizing early on the potential problems in subprime lending that led to the foreclosed housing problem.
He admitted that the Fed was late in recognizing the risks arising from the subprime lending boom that later caused the avalanche of foreclosed homes across the nation.
The Perpetual Motion Scam By: Adam Lass | - By Adam Lass, Senior Editor, WaveStrength Options Weekly
Prcis: The Feds Trillion-Dollar Bomb is guaranteed to push up this asset 95% over the next few months.
Does this whole Federal Reserve/Treasury note debacle have you a tad confused? Dont feel too bad about it. Because youve got some 10 million fellow investors banging their heads on their desks right along with you.
Hyperinflation And The Housing Market By: Lawrence Roberts | - The Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke began aggressively lowering interest rates at the end of 2007 in response to the severe economic downturn caused by the collapse of house prices and the related difficulties falling house prices had on the banks and other institutions that made loans using houses as collateral. Many are concerned that these policies will ignite a period of hyperinflation in the United States.
Subprime Mortgage Panic Not Seeing Any Improvement By: Jennifer Stromsteen | - The worlds financial system is as weak now as it has been in many decades. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has one gigantic problem on his hands: a very wide-ranging credit freeze up. This is a problem that mere cuts in interest rates cannot cure.
The exceptionally low interest rates of the early and mid-2000s and the continual bailing out by Alan Greenspan of any Wall Street player that got into trouble created enormous temptations to speculate with borrowed funds an ... Tags:business, economy, recession, mortgage crisis, finance
Proposed Federal Regulations By: Curtis Reddehase | - The real estate crunch has had a ripple effect throughout the nation. Many banking and investing firms are now feeling the pinch of foreclosure and lack of investor confidence. With the recent Bear Stearns collapse, which was due in much part to real estate investors pulling out of the investment bank, many on Wall Street are just now realizing how deep the real estate fallout cut into our nations economy. Unfortunately, there are still many problems looming in regard to the fallout from the ... Tags:sub prime loan, Bear Stearns, mortgage, real estate, economy, Federal Reserve, advisor, Ben Bernanke
Recession Answers By: Burk Pendergrass | - Are you concerned about inflation, a recession, or even a depression in the early 21st Century? If you are concerned about either one or the real possibility of all the economic woes that potentially face the United States you are surely not alone as more and more people find they are having real trouble paying their mortgages and putting food on the table as money dries up, home values plummet, grocery prices escalate and petroleum prices sky rocket.
Mortgage Interest Cut Drives The Market Towards A Bull Market. By: Armand Glans | - Fed and Ben Bernanke did cut interest with 50 points which helping the US economy to stay out of a recession. Though critics is not impressed by the FED:s decision to move interest as much as 50 points. The slowdown of the US economy is according to critics not as steep that an interest cut is necessary, but Fed seems to be terrified that the US consumer should stop spending money cause the problems in the housing sector.
Food Prices May Give Bernanke, Central Bankers Heartburn By: DYLAN SUN | - Rising prices for food, from yogurt in the U.S. to steak in South Africa, are causing heartburn at the world's most powerful central banks. The fastest increase in food-commodity prices in at least a decade has already led monetary authorities in England, Mexico, Chile and South Africa to lift borrowing costs. It is also sowing doubts of prices about the U.S. Federal Reserve's focus on core inflation, which excludes food and energy, and about China's gradual approach to tightening credit. Centra ... Tags:Price
What Is A Recession? By: Patricia L Johnson | - Recession definitions (and fears) are running amuck.
Encarta World English Dictionary [North American Edition] 2007 Microsoft Corporation.
1. decline in economic activity: a period, shorter than a depression, during which there is a decline in economic trade and prosperity
Imagine this scene: you find your son playing with matches in your house. "Son, that's a mighty dangerous game you're playing - you could burn the house down. Oh, I see you're almost out of matches, here use these ones I've borrowed and of course I'm happy to take the blame on your behalf should anything go wrong".
Would you say and do that? Not likely! The chances of your house burning to the ground would jump drastically.
Stock Market Rallies - Press Depressed! By: Ed Lathrop | - The stock market rallied on Friday and boy was the press upset. When I turned on my car radio I caught the market report near the end and I didn't hear the news about the stock market rally. All I heard was very depressed journalists reporting. They sounded so sad and upset. I said to myself, "oh no, what terrible thing is happening now! More miners trapped? Are more bridges falling down? No! Please don't tell me anything like that!"
How Will Fed Interest Policy Effect Interest On Mortgage Loans By: Armand Glans | - FED and Ben Bernanke have the last couple of weeks put an end to the speculations that a cut in interest was on the agenda in near future. The slowing growth in the US lead to expectations that FED would cut interest as soon as the inflation stays within the range for the FED inflation goal, this is not anything that anymore is expected to happen in near future
The market is waiting to get some further guiding what move FED will do the next couple of meetings when it comes to int ... Tags:mortgage, real, estate, stock, market, interest, program
How Does The Federal Reserve Affect Interest Rates? By: Ed Jeffry | - I would argue that the most powerful man in the world is not the President of the United States but rather the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke. He is the modern day EF Hutton...when he speaks, everyone listens - even the President.
The Federal Reserve was founded by Congress in 1913 as the central bank of the U.S. The function of the Fed is to conduct the nation's monetary policy and regulate our banking institutions. Within the Fed is the Federal Open Market Committe ... Tags:Ed Jeffry, Luke Currier, Experts, Mortgage, Walnut Creek, Loan, Interest, Rate,
First: make sure you are working with an experienced, professional loan officer. The largest financial transaction of your life is far too important to place into the hands of someone who is not capable of advising you properly and troubleshooting the issues that may arise along the way. But how can you tell?
Fedspeak: Polyglot Perspicacity By: A Raymond Randall | - "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe." Reading silently or aloud creates rhythmic nonsense, you might think. Humpty Dumpty explains, defines, and clarifies for Alice. Soon Alice sees meaning. As she does, the upside downs become the right side ups.
Trading In Black And White Forex Trading Newsletter "€" 5/11/06 By: Eddie Yakubovich | - Tonight is the first night in a long while that we will look to go short on cable. We believe Mr. Bernanke said what most people wanted to here and that his statement will satisfy most traders.
There are several reasons apparent on the charts indicating that we may have already seen a swing high at 1.8729. The most obvious is the 4-hour chart MACD.
A Look Back At Forex Trading - 4/28/06 By: Eddie Yakubovich | - Once again following our rules saved us from taking an ugly loss. I hope most of you headed our warnings and got out of any position prior to the 10:00 AM news. Mr. Bernanke will testify before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on the U.S. economic outlook, in Washington, and Cable went wild.
Hey that might be a great name for a new web site, Cable gone wild a never mind. So anyway its safe to say we have broken out of the range we were stuck in all week. ... Tags:forex trading course, forex trading education, forex seminar
Federal Reserve's Balancing Act Creates Unique Situattion By: Sydney Jackson | - Tampa, Florida, February 21, 2006 - The Federal Reserve's consistent increasing of rates since June 2004, and recent statements by new Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, have created a unique opportunity for consumers. During a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday, Bernanke refused to say how high interest rates would need to climb in order to balance the economy, but economists predicted at least one more increase at the end of March, when he has his first meeting as Fed chief.
