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HomeQuantitative Easing: To Infinity and Beyond?
Posted by Larry Doyle on January 29th, 2012 12:02 PM |
What does the Federal Reserve know that we don’t?
I mean, why would the Federal Reserve commit to keeping prevailing interest rates at next to zero through the end of 2014 if they were not aware of just how weak our underlying economy truly is?
Bernanke and team know our domestic economy and the global economy at large remain in need of significant and steady oxygen support.
Over and above committing to this interest rate policy, one does not have to read the tea leaves too hard to see that Chairman Bernanke is poised to unleash another round —if not many rounds—of quantitative easing. How much QE should we expect?
If we were to listen to Pimco’s Bill Gross, we should start to think of additional QE in terms of “to infinity and beyond”. Really? Read the rest »
In the process of navigating our economic landscape, we are perpetually encountering risks. These risks not only present themselves from the standpoint of the market and the economy but also on a much larger scale from a social, political, and personal perspective as well.
Have you had just about enough? What’s that, you say? You’ve had more than enough. You feel alone and disenfranchised while doing the best to navigate the economic landscape. You now finally appreciate that nobody is there to protect you.
I will readily admit that I find President Obama to often be disingenuous in much of what he is delivering in his State of the Union.
Remember Allen Stanford?
How does one measure the real health of an economy that continues to adjust to massive structural changes and has become dependent on various lines of cheap funding provided by Uncle Sam?
As much as Wall Street is the center of the financial services industry, it is really a simple business that revolves around people and information.
