Tags: quantitative easing

Dark Clouds on the Horizon

April 23rd, 2013
in Op Ed, syndication

by Dirk Ehnts, Econoblog101p> The Wile E. Coyote moment is when you realized that there is nothing below you and that a free fall seems inevitable. I think that many investors are slowly realizing that this is what happens. At the New York Times, qua… more »

Statistical Fog Is Hiding the Truth

March 21st, 2013
in Op Ed

by LEAP/Europe 2020, Leap2020.eu In the Up & Down trends published in the GEAB January issue, our team wrote the following in the Down section “Economic indicators”: « Between short-term economic indicators which describe only what occurred in the… more »

How the Fed Could Fix the Economy—and Why It Hasn’t

March 5th, 2013
in Op Ed

by Ellen Brown, Web of Debt p> Quantitative easing (QE) is supposed to stimulate the economy by adding money to the money supply, increasing demand. But so far, it hasn’t been working. Why not? Because as practiced for the last two decades, QE does… more »

Time to Unplug the World's Sick Man, the U.S.A.?

February 3rd, 2013
in Op Ed

by LEAP/Europe 2020, Leap2020.eu Until now the course of the crisis has been accurately described according to the five phases identified by our team from May 2006 (GEAB n°5) and completed in February 2009 (GEAB n°32): release, acceleration, impact… more »

Bogus GDP: Another Excuse for the Fed

January 30th, 2013
in Op Ed

Back in the good old days, 2003 to 2007, about $600 million in Fed balance sheet expansion would buy a 1 point increase in the S&P 500. Since 2010 the cost of one SPX point has been about $1.75 billion.SOMA and Stock Prices – Click to enlarge… more »

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