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Banks – Interest Rates – Mortgages
COMMENT: Martin, as an avid follower, I took your advice to heart to try to fix our interest rate for the loan we have on our house. This was the answer I got from [...]
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Can Central Banks Ever Control Long-Term Rates?
QUESTION: Marty, you said that central banks can only control short-term rates not long-term. Do you see a scenario where they could control the long-term rates? [...]
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Repo Crisis for Year-End
The Repo Crisis for year-end has had the Fed pumping in a staggering amount of about $234 billion into the repo markets. They are exchanging high-quality [...]
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Why the Fed Is Not Lowering Rates
COMMENT: Thanks so much for your explanation of the Repo Crisis which is now self-evident that the Fed has reversed course and did not cut rates. You are [...]
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QE v Managing Benchmark Rates
QUESTION: The Fed buying $60 billion in T-Bills each month is obviously not long-term QE. They are expanding their balance sheet, but this is clearly not the QE as [...]
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The Repo Crisis
QUESTION: Marty; The goldbugs are back and claiming the Repo Crisis is MMT and this is again just printing money endlessly to cover up a major banking crisis in the [...]
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Fed Cuts Rates 25 basis Points
The Federal Reserve, as expected, cut rates a quarter-point. The Fed also warned that further moves to ease interest rate policy may be coming to an end. The rate [...]
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Central Banks Pre & Post-1971
QUESTION: You commented that the central banks had a difficult position when they were on the gold standard compared to post-1971. Could you explain that [...]
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Trump on Interest Rates -OMG!
I have said this many times, when it comes to understanding interest rates Trump is speaking the standard mantra that people apply when it comes to interest rates. [...]
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Stocks Rise with Rising Interest Rates & Fall with Lower Rates
QUESTION: I mentioned that you said the stock market rallies with rising rates and declines with lower rates to an analyst. He said you were wrong and everyone [...]
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