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Rate Hike Cycles, Gold, and the “Rule of Total Morons”

MishTalk

In response to Janet Yellen’s everything is OK speech following today’s balance sheet reduction notice by the FOMC committee, I received an interesting set of comments from Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man Blog regarding rate hike cycles, gold, and stock market peaks.

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Rate Hike Cycles, Gold, and the “Rule of Total Morons”

MishTalk

In response to Janet Yellen’s everything is OK speech following today’s balance sheet reduction notice by the FOMC committee, I received an interesting set of comments from Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man Blog regarding rate hike cycles, gold, and stock market peaks.

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FOMC Minutes and Economic Projections: Dissent in Both Directions

MishTalk

Acting Man Austrian Blog. Boom Bust Blog. Money Blogs. You Walk Away Blog. percent for 2015. All participants saw the appropriate target for the federal funds rate at the end of 2015 as still well below their assessments of its expected longer-run value. Ludwig von Mises Institute. Pension Tsunami.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) Next, they use the financial press and blogs to spread their message to the institutional investors. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago.