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Nov 268 min read

Fed Fiddles as Liquidity Risk Looms

Our bet is that the Bessent "3-3-3" plan likewise will be a failure and that the Fed will be forced to restart QE sooner rather than later

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Mar 14, 20238 min read

QE & the Yellen Banking Crisis

By any reasonable standard, Janet Yellen should have already resigned, but not in the strange world of Washington.

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Mar 11, 20236 min read

Who Killed Silicon Valley Bank?; The IRA Bank Book Q1 2023

Last week not a single member of the Big Media managed to ask Fed Chairman Jerome Powell about the state of the US banking system

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Jan 21, 20225 min read

Powell, Yellen, Bernanke and Post-QE Deflation

The Powell FOMC has lost all credibility when it comes to financial markets or managing inflation and independence from the US Treasury

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Apr 27, 20215 min read

Chairman Powell: Fine Tuning and Price Stability

Each burst of liquidity provided by the FOMC in response to a major externality creates the conditions for the next financial crisis

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Apr 8, 20216 min read

As the Economy Surges, Progressive Agenda Fades

The mere fact of vaccination, effective or no, is probably worth several points of GDP simply by improving the national mood.

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Mar 4, 20214 min read

Twisting the Night Away Towards a Debt Crisis

Think of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a giant sump pump, sucking the available duration out of the bond market...

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