Quantitative Easing
Personally, I would love to see the inflation rate stay between 1 and 2% or better yet between 0% and 1%. Why? In the long run low inflation rates benefit everyone, as people can accurately judge their future costs and make sound business (or family management) decisions. In addition to making planning easier it also promotes [...]
By Douglas French Laissez Faire Club Only in government speak can more = less We thought for sure the shrill cries of Sequestration hell, fire and brimstone were going to get Congress to hit the panic button and reach a deal. As such, they didn’t. And while sequestration takes effect, we’ll leave you with this one [...]
Quantitative Easing Effects- You have probably heard that the massive inflation of the money supply through Quantitative Easing is going to result in hyperinflation or at least massive inflation. But so far that hasn’t happened. As a matter of fact since the end of QE2 in June of 2011 inflation rates have fallen from 3.63% [...]
The Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve is essentially the Central Bank of the United States, and plays a vital role in the lives of every American. It makes decisions about monetary policy and interest rates that have a direct impact on the market. In fact, they use inflation targets to determine how much they want [...]
Quantitative Easing aka. Money Printing Quantitative Easing aka. money printing is a government sleight of hand that results in an increase in the money supply. According to Wikipedia quantitative easing is different from the typical method whereby governments buy or sell government bonds on the open market to keep market interest rates at a specified target value. [...]
By Bud Conrad, Casey Research The Federal Reserve recently announced important policy changes after its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Here are the three most important takeaways, in its own words: The Committee decided today to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and currently anticipates that [...]
March 25, 2011 When the FED began quantitative easing to halt the deflationary crash of 2008, almost everyone was convinced that it would result in massive inflation. The lone voice proclaiming that it wouldn’t stop the deflationary express train wreck was Robert Prechter. In the following article Prechter explains why inflation never materialized. It is an excerpt from Prechter’s, [...]
Money, Credit and the Federal Reserve Banking System Conquer the Crash, Chapter 10 By Robert Prechter How the Federal Reserve Has Encouraged the Growth of Credit Congress authorized the Fed not only to create money for the government but also to “smooth out” the economy by manipulating credit (which also happens to be a re-election [...]
This is Part II of our three-part series “Robert Prechter Explains The Fed.” In part 1 we saw how Central Banks came into being and money went from something tangible and of value like Gold or Silver to paper backed by Gold to paper backed by nothing. You can read Part I in “What is [...]
