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The Fed's Revised Economic Projections
If there is one thing to be said about the just revised economic projections from the Fed (2013 GDP slightly lower on the upper range, the same as the unemployment rate which the Fed now sees dropping to as little as 6.7% in 2014), is that the economy will do everything but what the Fed has forecast, at least if history is any indication.
When it comes to tightening, the Fed agrees: not for a long, long time:
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Unemployment at 6.4% in 2014? All that says is they expect millions more to exit the labor force over the next 12 months. Plebeians giving up hope = BULLISH!!
lol @ the spread of them that think rates are going up in 2015.
Yeah, given that raising rates to even 0.5% would obliterate the value of the Fed balance sheet, I don't see where they could possibly ever raise rates.
Who exactly guarantees the under E100,000 accounts in Europe? Is it the ECB? If Cyprus banks simply go under, then the bondholders lose, stockholders lose and everyone with more than E100,000 loses, but all the small depositors have to be paid under the guarantee, right?
Glad you asked!
Deposit Protection Scheme
http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=8158&lang=en
Where do they get their funding from and how much money is in that fund?
DO NOT ASK THOSE QUESTIONS!!!!
Dipshit protection system
Best thing to do is to climb into a rocket and get the hell away from these motherfuckers as fast as possible.
Pump it up Bernanke, you stupid motherfucker!!!!!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr22b_elvis-costello-pump-it-up_music#....
YES! Do it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7fmdlj9fNg You idiot!
there you have it. 2015 at the earliest. by 2014 it will be 2017 at the earliest. by 2017 no one will even remember the days when they earned interest on their money.
simple. effective.
Earning interest on money is an abomination anyway. Usury.
By 2017 nobody will remember banks.
Nonsense. We'll have plenty of banks, just no depositors.
If you have been a patient, there are times when you realize your doctor is the impediment to you recovering.
In a few years it will make sense for me not to pay down the principle on my mortgage with interest rates like that. The bank will be paying me! At least as long as they're solvent.
I gave you an up arrow, but what you say is exactly the reason why the FED will not let rates rise. All the banks would go bankrupt.
I want to know where I can buy what they are smoking ?.
They are more fucked up than I used to get in Afghanistan back in the 70's.
Sweet! With QE going through 2014, I've got almost 2 more years of inflating my portfolio. Hopefully by then it will exceed the remaining balance on my mortgage so I can eliminate my last remaining debt.
Good job, Ben.
This is my principal consideration asuming the wheels don't fall off the wagon, but I'm betting on PMs to gain more than stocks. I dream of the day I can walk into the bank and pay off my mortgage with a 100oz bar of silver. Then I will have my twenty acres of ground, the whole of which I will cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor will keep off from us three great evils:idleness, vice, and want.
It's hopium, pure and injected...
repeat:
If no one has a job, the "unemployement rate" (# of people receiving unemployment bene's) will eventually hit zero.
In spite of his attempt at calmness, Bernanke knows we're in deep shit. That is why they continue this stuff. If they stopped and Congress eliminated the deficit in a signficant fashion, there'd be rioting in the streets.
What a bunch of bullshit.
MR. Subprime is contained, inflation is low, and 2nd half recovery Bernanke can FUCK OFF.
You will find this interesting:
Here I have overlaid global public debt from 1999-Q3 2012 from this site (it was at about 50 trillion USD in Q3 2012) :
Global public debt World Bank database
Over the price of gold for the same period.
http://saposjoint.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3214&p=41391#p41391
But global public debt= net world wide savings in fiat currencies ( all). One can see from the chart that initially, the raise in Japanese public debt did not cause movement in the gold prices, but when the USA debt started to grow due to Iraq war in the end of 2003 and decisively exceeded that of Japan by Q3 2005, gold price started to catch up.
Also, its possible to see that gold price reaction to QE2 was fictitious, as QE2 did not increase global public debt, and gold prices returned to debt line, and now they probably have undershot below ( there are no data yet available for global public debt for Q4 2012 and Q1 2013). Gold prices can over and undershoot pretty much (+30%/-22%) , as I have explained before, and as visible from
There is also no reaction to QE3, as QE3 does not increase USG debt relative to what it would have been without QE3; QE3 only suppresses interest rates.
Question remains is USG debt=net savings in USD driving the gold prices in USD, or is it the global debt=net savings in all fiat that impacts price of gold in USD. Correlation in 2001-2007 is better with USG debt, while after 2007 total fiat savings=global public debt - fits very well and explains the pullback after QE2.
No offense, Ivars, but didn't you also repeatedly claim (with detailed graphs) on Turd Ferguson's blog in late 2011 and early last year how silver would be well over $70 an ounce by now?
I like how he keeps throwing "recovery" around. He must mean the seniors going back to work part-time.
Damn double post
Exactly. Always wrong, and their methods are so manipulated it is all meaningless.
when did we go from 2014 to 2016....? what is the point is they just repeatedly shift it further and further out....?!
what a fucking joke...why bother with any of this shit...?
Not a snowball's chance in hell rates will move up to 4%. Uncle Sam would be bankrupt in a year for this would add nearly $500B to the ANNUAL deficit considering they already have to borrow to cover the current interest charges. Checkmate. Hence why the FOMC press conference and talk of ending purchases is all Kabuki theatre for the gullible and stupid.
Notwithstanding that for the foreseeable future rates have no choice but to stay close to zero (even though "it's not Japan"), the prediction that in the 'long run' interest rates are going to be no higher than 4.50% seems to suggest some very short memories.
Assuming 'the long run' is 'a very long time', then I'd be keen to buy some open ended 5% calls. And presumably the FOMC will give them to be for nothing?
That's a mistake to label it 2013, 2014, 2015 in the second chart.
Just put in "Now", "x + 1 year", "x + 2 years", and you will be able to re-use that chart until the Fed stops existing!
i wonder what font they used in their report.
"US Gov BS - serif" ... something like that.