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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. The risk premiums of risky securities have become unsustainably compressed in the process, and the Feds balance sheet has metastasized to $3.5 Minsky noted that ‘euphoria’ might develop at this stage.

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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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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

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Since they have maintained artificial exchange rates – coupled with capital controls, price controls and other coercive and self-defeating economic policies – people have of course felt it necessary to get their money out any way they can. US Dollar Since mid-2008 the Lira collapsed from 1.03 to the US dollar, a collapse of 58%.

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FOMC Minutes and Economic Projections: Dissent in Both Directions

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At the conclusion of its discussion, the Committee decided to continue adding policy accommodation by purchasing additional MBS at a pace of $40 billion per month and longer-term Treasury securities at a pace of $45 billion per month and to maintain its existing reinvestment policies. Highlighting is mine.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Ritholtz on Gold and on.

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Barring some new developments — like all the gold in Fort Knox becoming irradiated — I do not expect to see a resumption of the 2001-11 uptrend. Never before have such enormous monetary policy experiments taken place on a global basis. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108).

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Google Chrome Approaching World Domination?

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Google took over in 2008, introducing its Chrome browser, which caught up with Firefox by 2012. This year the company announced plans to drop support for all but the latest version of Internet Explorer, a policy that would bring it into parity with most of its rivals. The trouble is, that policy doesn''t take effect until January 2016.

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940 Chinese Firms Halt Trading; China Allows Houses as Margin, Bans Use of Term "Equity Disaster"; Two Rules, Two Questions

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Two Rules Every bubble eventually bursts The bigger the bubble the bigger the bust Central banks globally have blown the biggest bubble ever in the wake of the 2008 crash. China's Market and Policy Timeline Bloomberg has an interesting graph of China's Market and Policy Timeline. Two Questions How fast? Where Next?