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Case Against The Fed. Fed BalanceSheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed BalanceSheet vs. Stock Market. The risk premiums of risky securities have become unsustainably compressed in the process, and the Feds balancesheet has metastasized to $3.5 Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition.
Case Against The Fed. Reader Question: Does the Fed BalanceSheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balancesheet doesnt reflect it. The balancesheet was up $720 billion from Aug 1, 2012 to Aug 1, 2013 ($309B in treasuries and $393B in MBS) but that is only $60B per month. Home Builders.
Case Against The Fed. Bernanke says the US economy is solid enough that the Fed can begin tapering its balancesheet purchases later this year. Given the stock and bond market bubbles the Fed has created, the Fed of course should taper (not that it should ever have expanded its balancesheet in the first place).
Case Against The Fed. An alleged "worst case scenario" shows the FHA could lose as much as $115 Billion. Since these worst case scenarios are always famously optimistic, the best course of action would be to shut the agency down. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31. June 2008 (97).
Case Against The Fed. And the recent cash crunch in the interbank market is likely to slow expansion of off-balancesheet lending, further exacerbating funding conditions for SMEs. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31. This Week in Money Interview. December 2008 (85).
Case Against The Fed. It can increase buying appetite on the upside (limited information gives us greater scope to assume best-case scenarios) and it hurts prices on the way down (uncertainty rises dramatically and worst-case scenarios become plausible). Perhaps last week was a case in point. This Week in Money Interview.
Case Against The Fed. Contrary to 1979/1980, the current gold bull market will unlikely end due to a sudden strong rise in interest rates, as the balancesheets of governments, households and corporations are tainted by huge debt. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31. May 2008 (73).
Case Against The Fed. Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balancesheet. 2011-04-23: Syndicated Interview on Canadian Radio - My Segment Starts 29:31. This Week in Money Interview. 2011-03-29 - Sound Money Interview. December 2008 (85).
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