Tag Archives: quantitative tightening
Dollar Debasement as Permanent Policy
Fed Chair Jerome Powell recently stated quantitative tightening is about to end. What’s more, this will happen well before the Fed’s balance sheet ever gets close to $4 trillion, which is where it was prior to the coronavirus money printing festival. Continue reading
The Fed’s Harrowing Search for Ample Reserves
Inserted between the push and pull of consumer price inflation and interest rates is the direct market intervention of central planners. Decisions made one day can have lasting penalties upon the next. Yesterday’s monetary policy blunders by the Federal Reserve bring forth adverse conditions today. Continue reading
Fed’s QT Taper Talks Are Already Behind The Eight Ball
The monitory policy order has changed dramatically over the last five years. For example, March marks the end of the Fed’s Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP). This, coupled with the rapid draining of reserves, suggests the Fed’s plans for tapering QT are already behind the eight ball. Continue reading
Is the Bank Crisis Already Over?
Taking the path of least resistance eventually leads to disastrous places. Like the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles, circa 1990s, these are places that are best to be avoided. Still, some people, after consistently choosing the easier and softer way, ended up there, going mad, in their SRO unit. Continue reading
