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Federal Reserve "Shouldn't Be Intervening All The Time" In Markets, Fed President Admits
Moments ago, St. Louis Fed president James Bullard gave one of his signature yellow-backgrounded presentations to the Tennessee Bankers Association Annual Meeting taking place at the favorited by 1%-ers everywhere Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. The bulk of his presentation is the usual trite platitudes, but he did have some chose comments, such as:
- BULLARD: FED SHOULDN'T BE `INTERVENING' ALL THE TIME IN MARKETS
So just intervene from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm in the US equity market? But what will those who have been screaming about rigged, manipulated, broken US equity markets rail about if the Fed isn't intervening all the time in "markets", and if some semblance of normalcy, even if highly crashy, returns?
Rhetorical questions aside, next we got this:
- BULLARD: DOLLAR LOOKING GOOD AS RESERVE CURRENCY NEAR TERM
- BULLARD: YUAN MAY EVENTUALLY POSE CHALLENGE AS RESERVE CURRENCY
Or, if you are a Russian company, "eventually" took place about 1 month ago.
In short, the Fed: always one step ahead of the curve.
Continuing, here is how the Fed measures, as in actually measures, the distance from the proverbial goal posts:

This formula, while idiotic, is notable because as Bullard shows, the Fed has now overshot in its rush to the Fed's "goals":

And shorter:
And as Bullard explains:
- Another way to look at this data is to ask: How often has the FOMC been as far from its objectives as it is today?
- The answer is about 75 percent of the time.
- That is, if we do this calculation for every month of data since 1960, 75 percent of the time the FOMC was in a worse position with respect to its goals than it is today
In short, fun with greek letters and stuff.
His full presentation:
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BTFD. NOW!!! Markets just had a downtick. GOD HELP US.
This is just lip-service. I saw that down- tick!! We need more QE! Print MOAR! BTFATH!
Wait. Could what he said mean that the FED might bump up rates in june? Remember they said they can raise rates before stopping QE.
A perfect example of how they do it in plain sight!
“Federal Reserve "Shouldn't Be Intervening All The Time" In Markets, Fed President Admits”The Fed President admits, the fact that the Federal Reserve manipulates the market!
With a “mater of fact” statement like this, gives the illusion of normalcy when it is not!
A short while ago they would have made us wear a tin foil hat if we made a statement like this!
It’s so bad, it can’t be hidden anymore, so it’s meant to sound like business as usual.
Don’t believe for a second that gold and silver is worth what they set the price for!!!
We are entering the phase of last chance to stack!
I think the FOMC members need to see psychologists.... really... "SHOULDN'T" what the fuck does that word mean? I SHOULDN'T RAPE PEOPLE. I SHOULDN'T KILL, MURDER AND STEAL. SANTA CLAUS SHOULDN'T BE A FAIRY TALE.
THe ponzi depends on the constant inflow of 401k money and padding the pension funds. They know that when the confidence tips and that seed money leaves, the game is over.
THis will end in misery. Guaranteed.
Just before the soon-to-be commanded MYRAs are plunged into equities, I do hope the Economic Commander-in-Chief quotes some Shakespeare: 'Once more into the breach, dear friends. . . '
I want my MyRA to go into weapons-manufacturing company stocks.
Soylent Green, FTMFW!
"Tuesday is Soylent Green day"
Now I know what they meant by that.
Yeah, but remember what happened when they ran out of Green. "The scoops are on the way....The scoops are on the way!" I look forward to the day the Green runs out. It's the only way things will change.
LOL...I was referring to the green they dump on wall street every tuesday.
How do you keep wheelbarrows full of cash from being seen in the streets and igniting panic? You change them to 1's and zero's and dump them in the stock and bond markets. Win win, except for that inflation that keeps cropping up, you know, the kind that rigged statistics can no longer hide.
"Shouldn't Be Intervening All The Time"We have to do it.....someone might get hurt if we don't.
"Shouldn't Be Intervening All The Time"
but we are sociopaths, so we CAN'T stop. It's in our DNA. We are actually worse than a junkie.
-fixed it.
Too late, It will take years to unwind FED BALANCE SHEET, decades to unwind the "off balance sheet". But assigning time frames is futile as this would assume desire and honesty to do it.
agree 100%. I remember when all of the pundits were saying that the FED intervention was minimal.
Bullard actually comes clean and says ... YUAN MAY EVENTUALLY POSE CHALLENGE AS RESERVE CURRENCY.
Next thing you'll know he'll come out and say that's part of the Federal Reserve's mandate.
Just when does intervention actually become the market?
That would be now.
About 5 years and 9 months ago
HE'S A LIAR !look at his votes- AND HE WAITS TIL MARKET UP 150% !
Tell that to your insane Keynesian bunch like Yellen, Dudley and Evans. Their fixated on getting the economy to recover at all costs. They will not let the system cleanse itself of the toxic debt.
Just print and destroy the purchasing power of the US dollar. Take down many to save a few.
Just like a drug dealer "shouldn't" keep supplying heroin to his addicts.
Hard habit to quit when all the people in on it are making money hand over fist.
Let the Fed destroy itself. Point the mobs to the Federal Reserve banksters when their Ponzi comes apart.
What part of their charter says that they have the right to intervene at all?
intervention=manipulation
Quick Quiz - When was the last time the Fed did NOT intervene in the markets? ......
1909?
In other words, get the hell out of the dolar while you can?
Sometimes Islam attacks.
"Prepare for Mongolian horde."
The fed shouldn't be intervening AT ALL with supply/demand/fundamental price discovery mechanisms in free markets. They are supposed to be free markets, not manipulated or intervened with markets. Our global markets are in this mess because of central banks constant micro meddling and now it's become obvious continuous meddling will be needed in order to perpetuate the mess for the sake of expediency. They really screwed the pooch on this one.
"So just intervene from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm in the US equity market?"
What is the evidence that the Federal Reserve does this and what authorizes it?
Per the Federal Reserve Act, Section 14, they have only usurped the power of intervening in the Gold and Credit markets:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/section14.htm
What evidence is there they are following their charter? Their charter has been expanded to include unemployment as well as buying US treasuries directly.
I see, but what evidence is there that they are directly involved in equities? Is the machination that they purchase US Treasuries, then the recipient of the counterfeit, a member bank or fund maintained by a bank, does the Federal Reserve's bidding for them?
Tennessee banksters living it up in Palm Beach FL having one of their FED lackey's assure them the fix is still in - with some B.S. thrown in for the little people.
The shouldn't be intervening all the time because then everyone would have the same shot. They just need to do it sporadically so only the insiders have the real opportunity to win every fucking time. The markets are corrupt and the Fed is at the top of the list of "corruptors".
The Fed hit the debt reset over a year ago.
We've had a wicked shot of inflation over the winter.
Now it's war with Russia "on the cheap."
What's the Fed got to do with anything at this point?
"What's the Fed got to do with anything at this point?"
The Fed maintains and facilitates the ongoing theft from everyone who produces anything to those who produce nothing.
"all the time"...
I'm not half as clever as those guys at the Fed, but I've always thought the inflation character they've used is the symbol for Pi, not inflation... what do I know...?
DavidC
Macroeconomists appropriated pi and use it to represent profit or inflation in equations. Specialist cliques often corrupt the meaning of common symbols of a language in order to easily identify outsiders/laymen. In this case it also serves to borrow the credibility of the underlying symbol, e.g. the ratio's absolutely measurable quality, and apply it to those things most important to their profession which are a best nebulous and unrigorous concepts.
The Fed is continuing to print to buy US treasuries. With rising prices it's squeezing houshold margins.
That is the inflation of counterfeit. Don't forget that prices also rise from the deflation of productive work. So, when 90 million drop out of the labor force, and the presumption here is that they therefore are not producing products, then this increases prices too. So much for what the Tyranny of Modern Economics falsely calls stagflation...
This is true: my wife got a letter from sears, saying they are adding balance transfer to her sears master card, at get this 25.24% apr...wtf I get .01% on savings, sears wants 25%.. plus a 5% transfer fee...tylers it's time for the revolution.....
Objective value: (10%-2%)2 + (15%-5.4%)2 = 156.16
Square root = 12.49.
Funny, his chart never goes above 10 (?).
Of course, fudged inputs give fudged outputs.
Well said, that will fuck up Steve Lieman next market segment comedy role.
Thanks.
And the hilarious thing is that currently Pollard calculates we are at a "1".
Which would be something like this: (.7)2 +(.7)2 = 1 (rounded up from .98).
Using 2% desired inflation and 5.4% historic unemployment, he is saying that inflation is 2.7%, and unemployment 6.1%.
ROFLMAO! Fine batch of fudge there Chef!
Pollard needs to be pollarded.
All the time? How about never?
That Bullard fellow should stop beating his wife all the time.
The Fed has been "intervening" in the Markets for over a 100 yrs.....
Did this dickhead just get the memo?????
Bullard is really Captain Obvious in disguise.
Old men men shouldn't be sleeping with young girls either, but shouldn't be is different than won't.
He should drive up to Daytona after lunch and do a victory lap for creating a huge asset price bubble in the stock and bond markets again.
This just reminded me of an old saying....FACINATE THEM WITH FACTS OR BAFFLE THEM WITH BULL SHIT.
The number one goal of the Federal Reserve is to protect the wealthy who own the banks in the Federal Reserve system, regardless of what they tell the public. If that means they will constantly manipulate every market, so be it. These people will lie to cover up what they do, no different from any NSA or CIA official. They've sworn an oath to the oligarchs which takes precedence over the constitution. Understand this is not a recent development either.
Bullard acts to counter the mania.
The Federal Reserve is one huge dog and pony show.
it's their version of bad-cop crazy-cop routine.
looks like the algos have their mind set on pushing rut to new all time high ...
The FED could put this to rest by leaving the markets to fend for itself and telling Belgium to do the same. Naive, I know.
Hubble, BUBBLE, toil, and trouble...
if Harry Dent is correct - it is far too late to stop "intervening" in the markets.
if the markets were allowed to trade normally, asset prices would fall 90% and there would be rampant civil unrest as bankers foreclose on the assets of a populalation no longer able to afford to pay taxes and debt service.
the Fed has no choice but to keep buying assets and intervening in the markets at an increasing and accelerating rate -
tough toenails -
Harry Dent is a smart guy. But from my perspective his calculations are gradually becoming less and less relevant as they don't seem to reflect the influences of certain demographics like the quickly diminishing role and perceived value of the US and the FRN in international trade, and apparently completely ignores the massive juggling act required to keep the 10's of trillions of worthless FRN derivitive bagholder creditors from heading for the exit.
Still Harry has been a good read if not a very accurate forecaster.
I hear the magician they hired for the luncheon entertainment is really pissed he had to follow Bullard’s act.
The Fed and Government took the worst parts of our economy, the worst most corrupt failing industries.
And made them a permanent component to the economy with bailouts.
The world would of crashed, and been rebuilt in a beautiful shining new form of greatness.
Instead we have "this shit".