“Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are lowering mortgage standards.”
Source: Deja vu: Fannie and Freddie Lower Lending Standards | Mises Wire
Archive for the ‘Interest rates’ Category
Bear market in 2017?
23
Sep
“Money and credit growth in the U.S. has now become inflationary and is encouraging another bubble in stock markets, according to an economist.”
Source: The Fed’s ‘costly failure’ is leading to a 2017 bear market, economist says
Taking Janet Yellen to task
19
Sep
“Playing Politics In honest capitalism, you do what you can to get other people to voluntarily give you money. This usually involves providing goods or services they think are worth the price. You…”
Source: Janet Yellen’s Shame
Worse Than 1929?
18
Sep
“Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Economic expert and best-selling author David Stockman offers a dire view of the deep financial trouble America faces in his new book titled “Trumped!” Stockman war…”
Source: USA Watchdog Interview: Current Stock And Bond Bubbles Much Worse Than 1929
Dollars from the sky?
12
Sep
“The US Federal Reserve (Fed) is considering raising rates.”
Source: Central Banks May Choose Helicopter Money Over Negative Rates
Clueless central bankers
02
Sep
“As The World Economy Is Burning Central Bankers Are Clueless By Egon von Greyerz The more things change, the more they stay the same. The financial world loves focusing on some future event that the…”
Source: As The World Economy Is Burning Central Bankers Are Clueless | GoldSwitzerland
The coming collapse of paper money?
01
Sep
“Alt-Market.com – supporting local economies, barter networks, farmers initiatives, and alternative currencies backed by tangible commodities.”
Source: The Central Banks Are Now Ready To Launch Their ‘Brave New World’
The Fed’s massive manipulation
31
Aug
“The Federal Reserve, with its bargain-basement interest rates, is also hurting capitalism, bond king Bill Gross says.”
Source: Bill Gross: The Fed has mastered market manipulation
Why are central bankers annihilating savers with their interest rate policies?
31
Aug
The greatest monetary experiment in history will blow up.
“Well, clearly there are different responses to negative rates. If you’re a saver, they’re very difficult to deal with and to accept, although typically they go along with quite decent equity prices. But we consider all that and we have to make trade-offs in economics all the time and the idea is the lower the interest rate the better it is for investors.”
Source: Stanley Fischer’s Bizarre Justification For Negative Rates
Preview of things to come?
29
Aug
“I’ve never seen anything like this before” says longtime Aspen broker Bob Ritchie. “Aspen has never experienced such a sudden and precipitous drop in real estate sales.” Meanwhile, sales in the Hamptons and Miami’s luxury condo markets, are in freefall, as the bid for luxury real estate across the US has slammed shut.”
Massive US Treasury Dump
18
Aug
The end of the dollar standard?
“When looking at the selling by foreign central banks over the past 12 months, reveals something unexpected: a not so stealthy, make that gargantuan $335 billion in Treasury liquidations in the period July 2015- Jun 2015, something which as the attached chart shows, is truly unprecedented.”
Source: In Surprising Twist, Global Central Banks Dump A Record $335 Billion In US Debt In Past Year
Calling Bernie, read this book
25
Jul
“Last month, Philipp Bagus and Andreas Marquart released their new book…”
Source: Our Monetary System Favors the Rich and Hurts the Poor | Mises Wire
America Needs a Dose of Strong, but Necessary Medicine
25
Jul
The Fed’s easy money policies always ends in a bust…the sooner the better.
Source: America Needs an Old-Fashioned Depression