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Poll Suggests Rich Families Are Pulling Cash Out of the Market

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Tweet The world economy is in a fragile state. The Federal Reserve’s planned unwinding of its quantitative easing program has essentially been postponed indefinitely and may, in fact, be impossible to pull off. Experts worry that, if quantitative easing goes … Continue reading

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The Fed Has Purchased 1.43 Million Homes Worth of Mortgages

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Tweet Though Silver Circle was written prior to the launch of the Federal Reserve’s risky and untested quantitative easing scheme, through which the central bank has been buying billions worth of mortgage-backed securities each month, the film’s plot ultimately predicted … Continue reading

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What Will Happen If Interest Rates Rise from Record Lows?

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Tweet The Federal Reserve has held interest rates at zero (or arguably below) through its aggressive, risky, and untested quantitative easing program, which has been in place now for years. Home prices have also been held at unsustainable levels, as … Continue reading

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Bernanke Plans to Quit Before the Fed’s House of Cards Falls

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Tweet For years now, the Federal Reserve has been juicing the economy with quantitative easing, and Bernanke and his cohorts are now toying with the idea of ending the program if a set of arbitrary economic indicators are met, a … Continue reading

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Federal Reserve May Not Sell Mortgage-Backed Securities After QE

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Tweet The Federal Reserve has been attempting in vain to prop up the housing market ever since it crashed in 2007. Ben Bernanke and his cronies have engaged in some of the most radical experiments ever conducted on the world’s … Continue reading

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Investors Fear That More Jobs Will Mean Higher Interest Rates

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Tweet In September of 2012, the Federal Reserve launched an unprecedented, ongoing, and escalated version of its quantitative easing scheme in which the bank began making monthly purchases of billions worth of toxic mortgage-backed securities, which had become fiscally poisonous … Continue reading

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‘Silver Circle’ Plot Predicted Real-Life Federal Reserve Policy

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Tweet In Silver Circle, a Federal Reserve associated bureaucratic agency called the Department of Housing Stability (or HOUSTAB) creates conflict with the film’s protagonists by seizing homes in an effort to stabilize property values. A bank called the Strategic Housing … Continue reading

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Fearing Losses, Bernanke Considers Canceling QE Exit Strategy

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Tweet In a previous post, we called attention to reports that demonstrate the fact that, due to the heavy load of toxic assets recently purchased by the Federal Reserve, any effort it takes to raise interest rates will cause the … Continue reading

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Quantitative Easing Is a Stealth Bailout for European Banks

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Tweet Over recent years, the Federal Reserve, led by “Helicopter” Ben Bernanke, has relentlessly pursued an experimental new inflationary technique called “quantitative easing.” This technique was tried a decade ago in Japan, with dismal results. Bernanke’s plan was sold as … Continue reading

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Fed Chair Bernanke Pours More Fuel on Fiscal Inferno with QE3

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Tweet Earlier this week, we reported that the Federal Reserve was considering unleashing a new round of quantitative easing (QE), an esoteric, unproven central banking technique where money is created to buy existing assets from commercial banking institutions. Japan’s first … Continue reading

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