Fisher
"We Frontloaded A Tremendous Market Rally" Former Fed President Admits, Warns "No Ammo Left"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/05/2016 13:26 -0500It's not China, stupid... It's The Fed. "What The Fed did, and I was part of it, was front-loaded an enormous rally market rally in order to create a wealth effect... and an uncomfortable digestive period is likely now." Simply put Fisher concludes, there can't be much more accomodation, "The Fed is a giant weapon that has no ammunition left."
Fed Vice Chair Explains Why The Fed Is Still Obsessing With Negative Interest Rates
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/03/2016 14:52 -0500Another possible step would be to reduce short-term interest rates below zero if needed to provide additional accommodation... Could negative interest rates be a policy response that the Federal Reserve could choose to employ in a future crisis? ... these are transitional problems, but they might be sufficient to make a move to negative rates difficult to implement on short notice.
Star Wars Smashes Opening Weekend Box Office Record, But Will It Be Enough?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 19:46 -0500This weekend the force was strong with thirty (and forty, and fifty) year-olds, wishing to awaken memories of their youthful days with an admirable redo of the first Star Wars movie, first released nearly 40 years ago. But the force has never been stronger with Disney which is expected to rake in a record-breaking $238 million in opening weekend box office sales in the US and Canada, and a near-record $279 million overseas, a grand total of well over half a billion around the globe.
Russian Missile Destroyer "Fires Warning Shots" To Avoid Collision With Turkish Vessel
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/13/2015 12:40 -0500Another day, another military escalation between Russia and Turkey, this time not in the air, but on the water in the northern part of the Aegean sea, where the crew of the Russian "Smetlivy" destroyer was forced to use firearms on Sunday to prevent a collision with a Turkish seiner vessel according to a statement by Russia's Ministry of Defense.
Higher Interest Rates and Debt Reduction in 2016? Maybe...
Submitted by rcwhalen on 12/10/2015 07:18 -0500The Fed & ECB are spawning the next crisis....
Weekend Reading: Market Forecasting
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/04/2015 16:30 -0500The mainstream media is increasingly suggesting that we have once again entered into a 'Goldilocks Economy.' The problem is that in the rush to come up with a 'bullish thesis' as to why stocks should continue to elevate in the future, they have forgotten the last time the U.S. entered into such a state of 'economic bliss.' You might remember this: "The Fed's official forecast, an average of forecasts by Fed governors and the Fed's district banks, essentially portrays a 'Goldilocks' economy that is neither too hot, with inflation, nor too cold, with rising unemployment." - WSJ Feb 15, 2007. Of course, it was just 10-months later that the U.S. entered into a recession followed by the worst financial crisis since the 'Great Depression.'
Recession Looms As Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts 11th Month In A Row
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/30/2015 10:40 -0500Following Milwaukee Fed weakness, Dallas Fed Manufacturing printed -4.9 (better than expectations of -10 and up from October's -12.7). This is the 11th monthly contraction (sub-50) in the index, something not seen outside of a recession. Prices paid and received tumbled, wages dropped and new orders contracted once again but number of employees and average workweek both jumped? Despite all the promises from former Dallas Fed Fisher, it appears the economy is not so diversified after all.
Active Shooter Barricaded At Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, Multiple People Shot
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/27/2015 14:18 -0500Moments ago the Colorado Springs police responded to a call of an active shooter in the parking lot of a Planned Parenthood clinic, adding that the area has not been secured, the department said.
Texan Turmoil - Visualizing The Growing (& Shrinking) Local Economies Across America
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/18/2015 21:30 -0500
Rethinking Money As The Greater Depression Deepens
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/14/2015 20:30 -0500The low interest rates and relatively low inflation rates we’ve had recently aren’t going to last. They will soon be replaced by wildly fluctuating markets and rapidly depreciating currencies. We could have a catastrophic deflation, where trillions of currency units are wiped out; or a hyperinflation, as governments create trillions more of them; or both phenomena in sequence. But, as bad as they are, those are just financial phenomena; what will be much, much more serious are things looming on the political, economic, social, and military fronts of the Greater Depression. The bottom line is that you want to get out of the dollar before everyone else does.
Why Hank Paulson Is Laughing: 4 Of 5 Regional Fed Voters In 2017 Will Be Ex-Goldman
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2015 15:41 -0500
US Taxpayer Set To Bank-Roll Biggest Billionaire Builders
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/06/2015 20:40 -0500Just days after the potential for more capital injections for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (GSEs) are admitted to, we discover another 'scheme' to enrich the 'have-yachts' on the backs of the 'have-nots'.
Unit Labor Costs Miss For 3rd Quarter In A Row (For The First Time In 12 Years)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/05/2015 08:45 -0500A modest 1.4% rise in unit labor costs in Q3 was dramatically below the expected (and hope-strewn) 2.5% growth and means unit labor costs have missed expectations for the 3rd quarter in a row for the first time since 2003. Perhaps just as bad, historical (weak) data was revised notably lower but of course, as Yellen and Fisher have made clear - none of this matters for the data-un-dependent Fed's December decision.
The Dire Societal Consequences Of Stability-Obsessed Keynesians
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/31/2015 09:45 -0500We will be the first to admit that yield curve inversion is not the only factor causing recessions, but through the credit channel it can be an important contributor. Depending on the importance of the credit channel, the Federal Reserve, by pegging the short term rate at zero, have essentially removed one recessionary market mechanism that used to efficiently clear excesses within the financial system. While stability obsessed Keynesians on a quest to the permanent boom regard this as a positive development, the rest of us obviously understand that false stability breeds instability.
Another Recession Alarm After Dallas Fed Outlook Deteriorates For 10th Consecutive Month
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/26/2015 09:38 -0500
For the 10th month in a row, Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Outlook printed a deteriorating negative signal. At -12.7 (against expectations of a modest rise from September's -9.5 to -6.5) it appears ex-Dallas Fed head Fisher was dead wrong as recession warnings loom large. Below the already ugly headline, the components were a disaster. While production and employment rose (somehow), New orders plunged, Prices Received continued to fall, and Average employee workweek fell for the 9thg time in the last 10 months. Perhaps worst was the drop in hope amid falling workweek and wage growth expectations.



