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

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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

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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

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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

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