Janet Yellen
Caught On Tape: Dramatic Video Of Trip Through California Wildfire
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/27/2015 12:50 -0500Firefighters have reportedly “gained the upperhand” in the battle to contain a California blaze that started at around 11 p.m. local time on Friday near Ventura. The following dramatic video depicts one family’s terrifying trip through the inferno.
During the Next Crisis, Central Banking Itself Will Fail
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 12/24/2015 15:17 -0500The situation is clear: the 2008 Crisis was the warm up. The next Crisis will be THE REAL Crisis. The Crisis in which Central Banking itself will fail.
Do We Need The Fed? (Spoiler Alert: No!)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/22/2015 11:21 -0500The only way to restore economic stability and avoid a major economic crisis is to end the Fed, or at least allow Americans to use alterative currencies. Some economists and policy makers claim that the way to stop the Federal Reserve from causing economic chaos is not to end the Fed but to force the Fed to adopt a “rules-based” monetary policy. Adopting rules-based monetary policy may seem like an improvement, but, because it still allows a secretive central bank to manipulate the money supply, it will still result in Fed-created booms and busts.
Janet Yellen Fights the Tide of Falling Interest
Submitted by Gold Standard Institute on 12/22/2015 01:41 -0500On Dec 16, Federal Chair Janet Yellen announced the Fed was raising the federal funds rate by 25 basis points. She will have to take it back.
We Are Now Entering The "Discovery" Phase Of Financial Collapse
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/21/2015 12:19 -0500We now enter the “discovery” phase of financial collapse, where things labeled “capital” and “credit” turn out to be mere holograms. It’s not just the Federal Reserve; everything around us is backed into a corner as the rude discovery that capital is not what it has appeared to be is now underway, with the power to derail political systems and societies.
The Great Disconnect Is Palpable
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2015 20:25 -0500Taken together with the rather steep drop in US industrial production, the risks of a full-blown and perhaps severe recession have undoubtedly grown. Unlike what the FOMC is trying to project via the federal funds rate, a rate that isn’t being fully complemented, either, at this point, visible economic risk is not just rising it is exploding.
2015 Year In Review - Scenic Vistas From Mount Stupid
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/19/2015 20:35 -0500- Alan Greenspan
- Albert Edwards
- Ally Bank
- Apple
- Baltic Dry
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bank of England
- Bank of International Settlements
- Bank of Japan
- Barry Ritholtz
- Bear Market
- Ben Bernanke
- Ben Bernanke
- Bill Gross
- Black Friday
- Black Swan
- Bob Janjuah
- Bond
- Book Value
- Brazil
- Bridgewater
- Capital Expenditures
- Carlyle
- Cato Institute
- Central Banks
- Chicago PMI
- China
- Chris Martenson
- Chrysler
- Citadel
- Cliff Asness
- Counterparties
- CRAP
- Credit Conditions
- Creditors
- Crude
- David Einhorn
- David Rosenberg
- default
- Demographics
- Department of Justice
- Deutsche Bank
- Dumb Money
- Equity Markets
- ETC
- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- Federal Reserve
- FINRA
- fixed
- France
- Futures market
- GE Capital
- Germany
- Glencore
- Global Economy
- Global Warming
- Gluskin Sheff
- Greece
- Gundlach
- Hayman Capital
- Holiday Cheer
- Hyperinflation
- Illinois
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Janet Yellen
- Japan
- Jeff Gundlach
- Jeremy Grantham
- Jim Cramer
- Jim Reid
- Jim Rickards
- Joe Saluzzi
- John Hussman
- John Maynard Keynes
- Kazakhstan
- Ken Griffin
- KIM
- KKR
- Kyle Bass
- Kyle Bass
- Larry Summers
- LBO
- Lehman
- Mark Spitznagel
- Market Manipulation
- Maynard Keynes
- McKinsey
- Mervyn King
- Mexico
- MF Global
- Michigan
- Middle East
- Milton Friedman
- Monetary Policy
- Money Velocity
- Morgan Stanley
- Natural Gas
- New York Fed
- New York Stock Exchange
- Nikkei
- None
- Norway
- Paul McCulley
- Paul Tudor Jones
- Paul Volcker
- Precious Metals
- Quantitative Easing
- Rahm Emanuel
- Random Walk
- Ray Dalio
- Real estate
- Recession
- recovery
- Rick Santelli
- Robert Shiller
- Rosenberg
- Sovereign Debt
- Sovereigns
- St Louis Fed
- St. Louis Fed
- State Street
- Stephen Roach
- SWIFT
- Swiss National Bank
- Switzerland
- Themis Trading
- Transparency
- Treasury Department
- Unemployment
- University of California
- University Of Michigan
- Value Investing
- Wall Street Journal
- Warren Buffett
- Wholesale Inventories
- Willem Buiter
- Yield Curve
“To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious, but the stupid have an answer for everything.” ~Edward Abbey
5 Key Charts Show Rising Interest Rates Good For Gold Bullion
Submitted by GoldCore on 12/19/2015 11:57 -0500In the short term, increases in interest rates can be negative for gold. But, in the medium to long term rising interest rates are positive for gold as they were in the 1970s and the 2003 to 2006 period.
The Fed Rate Hike: the Torpedo is Launched
Submitted by Sprott Money on 12/19/2015 05:59 -0500One would think that the Criminals, themselves, would not have the audacity to use the same Script (with just minor plot variations) every eight years. But here we go, again.
The Market’s Gamblers Are Pumping Air
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 17:30 -0500The Fed pricked the financial bubblethis week as expected. Janet Yellen’s press conference couldn’t have been more perfect as it confirmed that the money printers have come to a stark dead end. The fact is, the global economy is deflating rapidly and the U.S. is sliding into recession. But our Fed chairman is clueless about what’s happening. She and her posse of money printers are going to get bushwhacked by reality in the year ahead.
Weekend Reading: All About Janet
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 16:30 -0500"In a worst case scenario, the real economy effects of the oil sector and the earnings slowdown hit the frothy commercial real estate and REIT sector, which in turn begin the widening of the contagion begun by energy high yield. Combine this with the sudden stop to lower quality energy credits I believe is inevitable and you likely have stall speed – or even recession. And that’s where subprime auto ABS, student loan securitization and US munis come into the picture for the US domestic economy. Those markets get hit in recession."
The Regressive Fed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 14:00 -0500In a move that defines the word 'irony' better than the dictionary does, the Federal Reserve raised rates just five hours after their own Industrial Production series was released showing an almost certain entry into a US recession. The Federal Reserve's hidden role as banking lobbyist won out over their populist role as counter-cyclical policy provider and they raised rates for the wrong reasons, putting them in the US-1936 and Japan-2000 policy mistake club.
David Stockman Warns "Dread The Fed!" - Sell The Bonds, Sell The Stocks, Sell The House
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/18/2015 11:50 -0500Yellen and her cohort have no clue, however, that all of their massive money printing never really left the canyons of Wall Street, but instead inflated the mother of all financial bubbles. So they are fixing to blow-up the joint for the third time this century. That was plain as day when our Keynesian school marm insisted that the Third Avenue credit fund failure this past week was a one-off event - a lone rotten apple in the barrel. Now that is the ultimate in cluelessness.
3 Things: Tick-Tocks, Stocks, & Shocks
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/17/2015 16:30 -0500Please meet the “worst economic forecasters” ever. And while the mainstream media quickly laps up the optimistic outlook of the Fed, you might want to consider their own record of forecasts when making long-term investment bets. Based on statistical history combined with the current underpinnings in the market, the outlook really isn’t as bright as Ms. Yellen suggests.
Presenting Saxo Bank's 10 "Outrageous Predictions" For 2016
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/16/2015 17:40 -0500- Australia
- B+
- Black Swan
- Bond
- Brazil
- Bridgewater
- Capital Markets
- China
- Consumer Confidence
- Copper
- Corporate Leverage
- Crude
- Crude Oil
- Donald Trump
- European Central Bank
- Federal Reserve
- Futures market
- Glencore
- High Yield
- India
- Investment Grade
- Iran
- Janet Yellen
- Lehman
- Meltdown
- Monetary Policy
- Nomination
- OPEC
- Ray Dalio
- Reality
- Recession
- recovery
- Risk Premium
- Saxo Bank
- Ukraine
- Unemployment
- Volatility
"The irony in this year’s batch of outrageous predictions is that some of them are “outrageous” merely because they run counter to overwhelming market consensus. In fact, many would not look particularly outrageous at all in more “normal” times – if there even is such a thing!"






