Showing posts with label signaling channel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signaling channel. Show all posts
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Why Bernanke’s Taper Talk is another Poker Bluff

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Since 2010 , I have been saying that FED “exit strategies” or the du jour “taper talk” represents no more than “poker bluffs”.  Each time t...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Cognitive Dissonance and the US Stock Markets

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Media, politicians and the US stock market operates in a cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the confusion arising from the state...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Gold as a foreign policy tool: US Government Bans Gold Sales to Iran

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The US government overtly intervenes in the gold markets when it uses gold as a foreign policy tool. From the Economic Times : WASH...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

More Poker Bluffs: FED will Cut QE by Yearend

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Since 2010, each time the US economy showed some signs of strength, Fed officials talk about “exit” strategies or the communications strate...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

I Told You So: Gold Slump Used as Justification for MORE QE

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I earlier mentioned that the deflation bogeyman from the recent gold-commodity panic will be used to justify more inflationism Expect t...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Is the US Federal Reserve Indirectly Putting Down Gold Prices?

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Have US Federal Reserve officials been indirectly trying to take down gold prices? In barely 2 weeks of 2013, gold prices attempted...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

FED Converts Operation Twist to QE 4.0

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As expected , the US Federal Reserve via the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has converted the expiring Operation Twist into a monthly...
Monday, September 03, 2012

Asian Stocks: Bad News is Good News Redux

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Here we are again, Asian stocks supposedly have risen due to bad news being interpreted as good news. (Below is a run down on Asian stocks a...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Contagion Risk: Japan’s Industrial and Consumer Prices Falls

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Yesterday, I noted that despite the interventions by the Bank of Japan, retail sales have fallen markedly . Apparently, like China, Japan’s ...