The US cannot avoid a soft default even if a hard default is avoided: Debt ceiling already breached and US Treasury operating in emergency mode while US is paying $415 billion in annual interest expenses.
All the talk has shifted from the government shutdown to the US actually defaulting on outstanding debts. The markets were in deep fear but the last couple of days rumors that the debt ceiling would be raised put the rocket boosters on the stock market. Of course, the majority of Americans have little money in […]
To taper, or not to taper. Not the question if you are the Fed: Austerity intact while Fed balance sheet continues to expand.
The Federal Reserve has hinted at slowing down its Quantitative Easing machinery but that might face some challenges as the stock market experienced one of its worst months in over a year. This is not to say that the Fed should respond to the stock market when it sneezes but it makes it more unlikely […]
The uneasiness of Quantitative Easing: How QE is ineffective with helping the broader economy in favor of boosting support for too big to fail banks.
Quantitative Easing outside of economic and financial circles is a mystery to most of the public. In fact, start talking about the Federal Reserve and eyes will glaze over as if you were speaking in tongues. The financial sector counts on the public being ignorant of such things. That is why the failure of QE […]
The debt reckoning has arrived: Total debt owed now approaches $60 trillion while Fed wrestles with interest rate confidence game.
Some people may be oblivious to the recent historical interest rate moves being experienced in the bond markets. Many on Wall Street probably assumed that the Fed had an unlimited ability to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public. Yet the reaction with interest rates concludes an interesting chapter in American central […]