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Bernanke Policy Tool Reaches All-Time High
Presented with little comment as the Russell 2000 reaches up to its all-time (nominal) record highs...
Biggest 2-day jump in 13 months.
Charts: Bloomberg
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IT WILL CRASH THAT MUCH HARDER
Can you give me a timeline on that crash? I have been waiting five years.
anywhere from one millisecond to a few decades.
You can keep a prison economy going forever.
Russell the love muscle!
The Grapes of Wrath
Prices are ratios and the dollar is going down hard. I wouldn't count on any price in dollars to crash.
Great answer. So then why is everyone here? Just passing time?
fight club. tylers have been getting their faces ripped off of late for attempting to predict Ponzi Planet. i'm bloodied and beaten too. but we fight on.
i've been reading zh on/off 2 years-never have i seen so many so proud of so many bad calls. gold/silver lock shorts-world knows governmtent deficits forever and pm barely moves-gold should be up at least $100 today if it was restart uptrend-what doesnt go up will--go down---big! zh sheeple!! and the banks-bac going to 0 etc etc
Timing is tough to impossible it seems to me. There are a lot of variables in play.
I remember seeing a panel of experts at a forum sponsored by the Economist talking about the crash of the housing bubble. The editor at one point asked the rhetorical question about how far in advance could one have predicted the housing bubble without losing credibility. She noted that there were many economists warning about it for a few years before it happened, but the longer it took to come about the less credibility those predicting it had.
Remember folks publicly mocking Peter Schiff for his predictions which in retrospect were spot on?
Bernanke was wrong while Peter Schiff was right
Fed to People: It's Not Our Fault
(an excerpt below)
As proof that the Fed caused the housing bubble, I offer a commentary that I wrote in May of 2004 and which was published as an opinion piece in the Orange County Register.
You can read the entire commentary here.
However, let me reproduce some key quotes:
Now if I could have seen that coming as early as May 2004, why couldn't the Fed? Even with the full benefit of hindsight, Bernanke still cannot recognize the Fed's mistakes.
And let the jokes about "Benanke's policy tool" commence!
too easy
You mean I can't guess Tiny Tim Geithner?
Soon we'll all be billionaires - Zimbabwe style...
Exactly! Zimbabwe economic policy on auto pilot.
The Zimbabwe stock market shot up. It's Bernanke and the Fed's plan.
Deal is those devalued dollars are still the world's reserve currency and will buy plenty of Colombian tail.
Benny Bernanke and the Federal Reserve banksters are happy.
More and more monetizing of debt. Remove the debt ceiling, infinite spending, debt and printing is their weapon that's working so far.
LOL, not one mention from a credit rating agency, who's your daddy?
Gold up ten bucks. Funny. They should make it go negative just for shits and giggles.
Post cliff, we have entered nirvana.
Relax and float downstream...
I'm sick to death of all this crap. Perhaps I should just make a web-scraper that pops up a message when the markets are down for more than five days, totaling more than 8% cumulative decline.
Watching these gyrations really wear me down.
Go go go, go Potter its your birthday we gone party like its your birthday...
The gov wants the Fed to increase stocks prices but reduce oil and gold prices.
Anybody knows that's impossible and it has never been possible.
Check oil price.
You have MS sellingto C selling to BAC and BAC completing the circle sellingto MS the same exact thing inside DARK POOLS.
Again, oil price is the check on DOW.
My forecast: 48 hrs.
Not alive in 1999?
What happened in 1999? Teach me
oil $10/bbl, gold $300/toz, SPX ~1500
Oh I see.
That's why the west did not collapse after the dot com crash, CHEAP OIL.
Newly printed money to recover from the crash went to oil and housing.
That was a lot of freaking money printed.
That's exactly my point. If oil were $10 today nobody would have cared and DOW could have really been 40000
Oil price, it's all about oil price.
In other words: Low oil price is compatible with high stocks price.
High oil price is NOT compatible with high stocks price, for a real economy.
I will grant you that oil price is significant in that it affects corporate margins and hits people driving dumb vehicles right in the pocketbook, but you seem to be confusing Main St (affected by pump prices) and Wall St (living in their own cone of reality denial). Exxon makes even more money when the price of oil goes up and the pump price stays up even after oil goes back down.
High oil price is not compatible with real economic growth, but that has fuck-all to do with "the market".
Do not disagree at all, except for I'd like to add something to the last sentence:
High oil price is not compatible with real economic growth,but that has fuck-all to do with "the market".............UNTIL IT DOES.
Wall St will be bailed continuously like a sump pump, as necessary.
No doubt. After each crash there will be a bailout.
It's been like this and it will be like this.
But in order to bail out, somebody's got to crash, otherwise the economy stalls as it has already stalled due to extremely high oil prices.
Thx for the info by the way. I'll use this for future comments. Very precious.
Just 1 pump'n'dump to the next.
Ferbus, Edo, and Sigma are pleased.
Yeah, they love that chicken-flavored dog food.
Tastes like human.
Funny, if business was really going as well as the market suggests, my company should be seeing orders pour in. Same with my suppliers, POP manufacturers, printers, etc.
All of them are begging for orders. Retail shelves are packed with the lowest amount of January inventory I have ever seen.
So either the stock market has it right, or real business does.
Both obviously. And neither.
Yea, the formatter.
Geeeeeeeeeeeee?
Your business must not be a greedy blood-sucking multinational corporation that chooses to horde cash and not pay employees a living wage. That's real business..(sarc)
The Back Order Log never lies.
2013 the year the fix is priced in. It's a wave, ride it.
Wile E Coyote is not going away...
Recurring short squeezes propelling markets higher just ensures the Wile E. Coyote drop will be brutal ~ we are witnessing a mega crash in the making.
Whether it’s caused by fiscal cliff, debt ceiling, Europe or flesh-eating zombies invading Wall St, it doesn’t matter because another crash is guaranteed.
It’s a no brainer.
Charts don’t lie.
http://trader618.com
@grandsupercycle
Yep, I'm thinking the same thing. TZA is at all time lows and when she rolls over, there will be all sorts of exciting times. These markets are setting up for a turn around that will be legend.
sunny
And as Walter Sickn, er, Kronkeit would have said, "And you are there".
What are left of the "Little Goy, ah guys", will be toast when the Banksters suddenly pull out.
NEVER underestimate the replacement power of equities within an inflationary spiral. Barbecued shorts everywhere! OUCH!
Reflationary markets do not "crash" - Purchasing power of debased currencies crash and that means non-cash assets remain "bid".
Wiley Coyote has a money-printing helium balloon levitating him until the policy-makers pop it!
"Charts don't lie?"
In the hold of every sunken ship you will always find a chart.
BUY BUY BUY
An overlay of small business confidence would be most interesting
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The market manipulation has been going on for years now. A toy for the CPs to abuse at their whim. The generation coming of age now has never experienced a free market.
Looking a few years down the road, I can see "Free Markets" as a theoretical concept of the past. And probably roundly condemned in the new history books as a flawed theory that was overcome and corrected with the advent of of the omniscient centrally planned economies.
Well, 401k basically assured it would be manipulated. They have to keep the INFLOW of money. The way to do that is to keep it going up. People love to 'win'. But they hate to 'miss out' on 'winnings' even more. You have ignorant masses just shoveling it in and blindly assuming it will their ticket to riches.
What better recipe could the banksters come up with? Seriously, it's a 360 alley opp dunk, Griffin style, for them.
Biggest jump in 13 months? lunch hour will see the little guy taking out Bernak's money...lets see what Mr. Market ends the day with. On second thought, the Bernak first said he'd put 40 mil in per diem, then sain 80 mil, and then said he didn't have to tell us what he was putting in (or taking out when the time comes).
Ferbus' acumen in all things economic aside, the most amusing thing to me is that Bernanke proudly trumpets the performance of the Russell 2000 as he did on one of his '60 Minutes' interviews because, as we all know, 'small business' creates most of the jobs in the US. But somewhere it was lost on The Bernank, and I haven't seen anyone call him on this, that the small-capitalization index known as the Russell 2000 is not in any meaningful way representative of small business. In fact, virtually none of that index's constituents can be called small businesses, at least as defined by our government's own Small Business Administration . . . small-cap publicly traded corporations do NOT equal small business. BigBen's ignorance, with his head buried deep in the textbook, is incredibly disappointing . . . or enlightening depending on one's perspective I suppose...
http://www.sba.gov/content/what-sbas-definition-small-business-concern
ClampCo.
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