Blog/Central Banks
ECB Will Lend to Banks Long-Term in Hopes They Will in Turn Lend Again
Come September, Draghi at the ECB will make loans to Eurozone banks on a long-term basis at rates less than the short-term lending window. The objective is to [...]
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World of Central Banks
QUESTION: Hello, you said central bankers attend your conference and it means they know what’s coming. I guess they talk to governments and I wonder if [...]
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Can the US Government Really Force the Dollar Lower?
QUESTION: Hi Martin, What tools do the US have to TRY and manipulate their dollar lower (other than cutting interest rates) and in your opinion would they be [...]
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Can the Fed really Control the Economy?
QUESTION: This whirligig talk of whether the Fed cuts rates by 25 or 50 basis points is carnival-level absurdity. Does the Fed have the “pretense of [...]
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Did the Fed Begin Secret Bailouts in 2007 Before Anyone Knew of the Pending Crisis?
When the GAO report came out on the Quantitative Easing by the Federal Reserve, it uncovered a secret $16 trillion feeding tube from the Fed structured as [...]
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Central Bankers on Their Knees Pleading with Politicians
Our confidential sources are reporting that the Fed, ECB, and BoJ have agreed to lobby politicians in an attempt to warn them that they cannot continue propping up [...]
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Rise in the Euro – Interesting Times Ahead
QUESTION: Was not this move you have been talking about to happen right after the EP elections? What has changed? “While everyone will focus on interest rates, at [...]
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The Central Banks are Trapped – the End of Economics as we have Known it
Draghi has come out and said that is inflation will not pick up, he will do even more Quantitative Easing. I warned that the central banks, particularly the ECB, [...]
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The Drastic Alteration of QE that is About to be Unleashed
QUESTION #1: Sir, You stated in your blog that Fed may fix 2 and 10 year bond rates. Doesn’t this negate the yield curve concept/ credit theory? Won’t this [...]
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QE & Its Failure
QUESTION: Dear Martin, During WEC in Rome I came to understand that the issue with QE is that it did not create any inflation in the USA. On the other hand, as you [...]
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