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Bernanke Leaks, Spoils the Punch
Bernanke Leaks, Spills the Punch
Jon Hilsenrath, at the WSJ, must have had a phone call with Ben Bernanke on Saturday. Accordingly, Jon put an article out just in time to influence the market on Monday morning. The headline says it all:
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No doubt, Bernanke is watching the price of crude and the tape is telling him his inflation forecast is no good. The leak this evening is just Ben’s way of hinting to the market that he understands where we are on inflation, and he is not going to stir the pot anymore than he has.
The WSJ article indicates that the Fed is on hold for at least three months, till June. Moreover, Bernanke can’t do anything big on the monetary front within five months before a national election. Therefore, the next legitimate time for another LSAP/QE is in December of 2012.
Bernanke’s leak to Hilsenrath is not really new news. I have been saying that Ben is "done" for some time. This confirms it.
I don’t expect this development to significantly move markets. I see it as being mildly dollar supportive (other bigger factors are at play). It should put a floor under bond yields, but I don’t see this as a reason to sell bonds. It might very well take some froth out of the stock markets. I don’t see it affecting the price of crude one way or the other (again, bigger factors will drive crude).
Ben and Jon aren’t taking away the punch bowl just yet. We have a very long road ahead of ZIRP, and already bloated Fed balance sheets. I think the Fed is keeping the punch bowl full, but not putting any alcohol in it. Bernanke’s new punch might quench your thirst, but it won't get you high.
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Said it before, I'll say it again. I’m disgusted that Bernanke uses Hilsenrath and the WSJ as his go-to place to leak monetary policy. Bernanke made a big deal about improving transparency at the Fed recently. He just blew any credibility that he might have gained. Nothing has changed. Ben B. is a leaker.
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Well, anybody that would give Benron any credibility based upon his recent words just blew any credibility that they might have gained.
Besides, it's good to know which mouthpiece speaks with whose voice, IMO.
from the archives December 3, 2008,
Ford Foundation Links Parents of Obama and Treasury Secretary Nomineehttp://philanthropy.com/blogs/government-and-politics/ford-foundation-li...
In times of crisis the Fed will do whatever it thinks it can, election or no election.
Komrade LIESman is in Russia now meeting with his masters, Benny had nowhere else to go
"Moreover, Bernanke can’t do anything big on the monetary front within five months before a national election."
Why ?
If conditions warrant, does not the nation come before salvaging Barry's re-election hopes ? If not, then this serves to reinforce the prevailing opinion that this man Bernanke is unfit for his appointed postion as Chairman of the "independent" Federal Reserve.
Such a decadent, grasping nation we live in, governed by distasteful, self-aggrandizing individuals who are little more than paid mercenaries ( indirect, of course, via campaign "contributions" ) of Wall Street and its kith and kin appendage, the K Street lobbyist corps.
I'm sick of this zirp shit, it is literally fucking my family to tears. Literally. I hate these motherfuckers.
That was the purpose. Phase one was to steal from peoples future earnings. Phase two was to steal past earnings from those too smart and conservative to fall for phase one.
I'll second that. Common sense 101, there is a very real cost for creating capital, especially if that capital does not lead to the creation of real value-added technology that makes life better for the working class. QE (ZIRP by any other name), has been tried by Japan, why the rest of the fucking world thought it would work for them is beyond me.
Possession is rapidly becoming the law the world over. Trade wars getting worse, got physical?
I see the spineless Ph.D. graduate students in eCONomics are serial junking again. Fucking useless cowards.
Those are not spineless Ph.D. graduate students, those are Ben and Jon fluffers at the Federal Reserve.
Those Mayans were good prognosticators, that's for sure.
Anybody spot this under reported news ...
Geithner Detained & questioned in NY...http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q12012/noose-tightens-on-wall-stre...nice little artcle, hope it is accurate
"Therefore, the next legitimate time for another LSAP/QE is in December of 2012."
Jim Rogers says QE3 is already occurring:
We already have QE 3. Get out the Federal Reserve‘s balance sheet. You’ll see that they’ve been pumping up – you can see unadjusted M2 is going through the roof. Look at their balance sheet.
All sorts of assets are suddenly appearing on their balance sheet. Where did they come from? They didn’t come from the Tooth Fairy; they came because they’re in there buying in the market as fast as they can. There Is QE 3 already. They don’t call it that but it’s there.
http://jimrogers-investments.blogspot.com/2012/02/qe-3-is-already-taking-place-look-at.html
Precisely, ZIRP is QE. Since most of this capital is being mal-invested or simply being used to cover debt costs, it will increase exponentially (see compounding interest) until faith is paper is lost. the very definition of a liquidity trap.
Good times indeed, got physical?
If only we had listened to Olivia!
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/7/olivia-newton-john-lets-get-physical-824423
So his Phd thesis on money printing in a deflationary depression gets a "F". Excess $ makes the inevitable crash more severe, will be the endnote. There's too m_ch bad debt in the system, which most here recognize. Welcome to the real world Mr Bernank.
When he leaves a leak. isn't he really taking a leak by pissing all over the middle class and savers, and playing the confisence game mirage for banker's benefit. Nine months gestation period for what?
"Nine months gestation period for what?"
Son of ChairSatan?
The gestation period is actually on the order of 24-36 hours, before sonny...emerges.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/Wurst_Prez_Ever/alien.jpg
"Sound money sells itself." When you're Chasing Windmills doesn't hurt to have a Patsy tho either...
Bruce where do you imagine $3.7 BILLION per day (!) is going to come from to finance the US deficit? The two biggest real banks financing the US are not loaning us anymore money as ZH has shown quite a few times. Russia is pulling back. China is pulling back. If you don't see Chairsatan counterfeiting it, where is the deficit financing going to come from? The figure is so large, it is not easy to hide. Liquidity swaps and Twist won't do it. MZM Money Stock growth proves they are doing something but not even ZH seems to be able to figure it out.
Keep 'managing' them long-term inflation expectations, Benny Boy.
Jesus Christ - if we get another Pavlovian response and see indiscriminate selling of mining stocks, I'm going to back up the fucking truck.
Let the March Madness begin, boys and girls...
For those who have forgotten the pre-story to the story...
On The New York Fed's Editorial Influence Over The WSJ
Great post.
I wanted to chime in to mildly defend ARS's Too Big To Fail. (Mentioned within the post, with a jab trhown for good measure.)
TBTF was my introduction into Finance.
I realize it sounds ridiculous. It was as if a 10 year old girl was reporting on Justin Beiber. I get that.
I also read it with the knowledge that ARS was a NYT financial Columnist, which was all I knew about him (from reading the cover) but was enough to allow me to read between the lines.
It was an entertaining read, which made finance a bit more "sexy" for the layperson (me).
It made me hungry for more, and the hunger ultimately led me here.
I guess I'm saying; Books are good. Even if they don't enlighten a single person, they can arouse curiosity.
No hate for ARS on my part. Financial "reporters" will get no (ZERO) info if they report all the facts, IMO. (hence anonymity at ZH)
It's a dirty business, as are most.
Tyler - that was an outstanding post, thanks for putting up the link. I needed to call Timmy the other day, I couldn't find his phone number and I was too lazy to time travel through the ZH archives.
Rockford //OUT
I'm on it Jim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8EUrtEhfM&feature=player_detailpage
we'll get to the bottom of this one way or another....
Jon Hilsenrath is a prostitute
Jon Hilsenrath is a prostitute
No, just a whore. Protitutes at least get paid and put their "wages" back into the economy.
Presstitute.
that's his job. and he will take his clothes off for you if you ask...
Ding!! Ding!! Ding!! DING!
Did Ben just ring the bell at the top???
ben qes before november; what you don't know bruce is the real state of the economy
BK - ......Ben B. is a leaker.
Ha Ha ha. Made my day visualising the stain on his pants!
Well...Ben ahs leaked that he will not overtly announce QE3, however...watch the currency swaps w/ ECB. That is effectively QE3 as the ECB monetizes the swapped USD into the their (and the banks) balance sheet.
Without these recent and future currency swaps EUR/USD would be parity, and ES woukld be 10% lower.
Ben will not go down without a major fight. "They" told him not to.
Maybe we'll reach Dow 13,000 this week.
How many times/cross-overs?
Hey Bruce, I've heard CPI as a measure of inflation is shit, and I believe that conclusion based on the prices I see in the grocery store. Do we have any idea what actual inflation is at currently?
about 9.6 percent according to shadowstats
Shadowstats is really good, but here's my fave http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/
Note the positive divergence between CPI and reality.
Is there a chart like this strictly for food, gasoline, rent and healthcare. Those are the only items that I can think of that I use within a decade that have any impact on my expenditures. That is probably the case for most of the people in the US.
I guess anymore that may not matter because wealth distribution is so unequal that if 80% of the 70% of the us population, that goes into the consumer price index, were not even counted it would not effect consumer spending figures.
And, as far as the stock market, when you have central banks that can print their own money to put into it well there aren't really any statistics that can counter that type of market impact.
I guess what I'm saying is that statistics just aren't relavent when it comes to judging how well the economy is doing or isn't doing these days. You really have to keep an ear open to hear from those that know.
That is why even if the Bernank has lost credibility because he has been caught lying, if he says the economy is such and such, then for market purposes, that is the way it is. It is a fact because that is how we know - from Ben Bernanke.
So what I'm asking for is the reality based statistics that pertain to living life. Do those exist somewhere?
There aren't that many comments here so I'll mention why I ask.
If there are accurate statistics for what it costs for most people to live in the US, then we can determine the rate of change of their specific inflation and estimate the impact of Fed Balance Sheet Expansion on that inflation.
A date can thereby be determined which will, more or less, allow one to use as minimum date to be out of the country by.
I like your commentary Q99x2. Real time sample can be collected using the Internet. Because of cost, it would be better to partner with an existing business that has fairly wide distribution to gather the sample than a new start-up. Alan Greenspan created a couple of basic methodologies and utilized telephone sampling. It would be ironic and I believe profitable for Zero Hedge to do the same thing.
A couple of bright guys at Econ Intersect named John Lounsbury and Steven Hansen would be worth talking to as they were working on a couple of basic methodologies.
It means risk-off 'til September.
Whatever it is, sell it!
:D
That is what Bernanke wants you to think! His job is to confuse the rational consumer!
He replied "yes" when Paul asked him if he shopped for his own groceries......
Now THAT is a picture we need to see; The Bernank in a Kroger deciding on purchasing a dozen eggs; extra large or free range....
The closest thing to shopping that guy does is to look at a menu.
I didn't know Neiman Marcus sells groceries.
IMO that whole tet-a-tet btw those two reallly stunk. I mean wtf did Paul thinks the Beard would say? "No, James the butler does the groceries." Paul sure ain't no crossexaminer. And after the long spiel from Paul, the Beard says, " And a good day to you too govenor!" successfully playing to the peanut gallery and undermining Paul's argument. You'd think Paul would have figured out this Ashkenazi schtik by now and tried another tack. It seems Paul lacks the ability to cut and thrust with these sleezebags. He has to learn to play to the camera. Whatever.
barnike leaked and spoiled the punch lol
under doctors orders barnike was told not to eat peas for five years
yesterday the doctors said this time frame was up.. Barnike announced that now would be his first pee in 5 years .. thus spoiling the punch
Ben B. is a leaker.
Prostate problem??