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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

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Monetary policy is testing its outer limits. The normalisation of the policy stance has hardly started. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. Accommodative monetary policy has had an ambiguous impact on the adjustment to lower debt ratios.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

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Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. His socialist policies have left France and Greece as the only major eurozone economies where manufacturing is still in contraction. Here we are. The broad U.S.