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Tag Archives: Treasuries
How Will Ending Quantitative Easing Effect the Markets?
Written by Steven Hansen The Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting minutes were released earlier this week indicating many (few, majority, most, all?) members were leaning towards terminating some aspects of the current quantitative easing (QE) purchases sooner rather than later. ….A … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly Economic Summary, aa syndication
Tagged correction, Economy, equities, GDP, markets, printing money., QE, quantitative easing, recovery, Steven Hansen, Treasuries, unemployment, weekly review
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Bloomberg: Misleading on Banks Buying Treasuries
by Lee Adler, The Wall Street Examiner Bloomberg had this headline yesterday: Banks Use $1.77 Trillion To Double Treasury Purchases They led with this: The gap between U.S. bank deposits and loans is growing at the fastest pace in two … Continue reading
Posted in Banking News
Tagged banking, banks, banks buy treasuries, Bloomberg, Lee Adler, MBS, mortgage backed securities, Treasuries, wall street examiner
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What Happens If Foreign Capital Goes Home?
Won’t reduced PBoC purchases be hugely disruptive to the US economy and to the US Treasury markets?
No, they won’t. There is so much nonsense still being said about this, even by economists who should know better Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Trade Data
Tagged bonds, China, current account, Europe, Mexico, michael pettis, trade, trade balance, trade deficit, Treasuries
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Will There be Life after QE2?
QE2 will be over before the end of June 2011. In simple words, QE (aka quantitative easing) is in effect the same as government buying its own debt. Continue reading
The Future of the Dollar: What International Transactions Tell Us
Foreign direct investment in the U.S. has been offsetting some of the net goods and services trade deficit in 2010. Can that continue? Continue reading
