Federal Reserve To Crash Markets Before Launching QE3? Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Desperate to print Wiemar-style to fight off the most viscous Kondratiev Winter on record, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke may not satisfy ‘inflation trade’…
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This is a good start, but we need more articles like this in the Mainland press, not just HK: West has no reason to be smug. Graeme Maxton says Western leaders who lecture the rest of…
In the 132 years between 1797 and 1929, there was no effective regulation of U.S. economy. No federal agencies existed to control corruption, fraud and exploitation on the part of the business class. Even during…
Determining whether a phenomenon or movement is right or wrong is not my focal and primary unit of analysis. Instead of focusing on whether the 1% or 99% of the population benefits or suffers from…
Introduction World events and media portrayal of Islam over the last few decades has projected negative images, which are based on a total misunderstanding of Islam and the principles it encompasses[1]. Predominantly, Islam through many…
In spite of being discredited by the economic recession of 2008, market fundamentalism has once again assumed primacy as a dominant force for producing unprecedented inequalities in wealth and income, runaway environmental devastation, egregious amounts…
Market pressure drove researchers to abandon biotech pig ‘contending’ to be first approved GM meat on consumer plates. In a victory against biotech, Canada’s Ontario Pork has announced its decision to cut funding and stop…
One of the reason why Australia was able to stay out of the economic crisis is due to China’s interest in Australia’s resources. Regardless of past criticisms, the trade and business between the two countries…
It is easy for the few to influence and create an illusion for the many. With the economic crisis, many governments are eager to project a sense of recovery- a fake confidence. Bob Chapman examines…
Seven months after the official announcement on 9/21/11 of “Operation Twist” not much progress has been made at the long end of the market to reduce yields.The yield on the 10-year T-note has gone from 1.88% to 2.3% and the 30-year bond went from 3.03% to 3.41%. The episode has been marred by hedge fund and sovereign selling, which has left the short end a little higher, but the long end much higher. The question now is how much did this cost the Fed for such disappointing results? Or in fact was this really their objective? We may never know, because the Fed hides what they do not want anyone to know. These results might not seem important but US Treasury instruments are the foundation of the global monetary system.