Monthly Archives: March 2014

Canadian banks leading race to financial pain

The contest to entice every last warm body to reach for the most over-valued real estate in the world has reached a new fevered pitch in Canada. Here is a direct video link. A little appreciation of math goes a … Continue reading

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The painful boom and bust of the Fed’s financial repression

I was invited to a luncheon this week where the ‘Bernak’ is to be the keynote speaker. I declined on the grounds that seeing the master of disaster on his ‘250K a gig’ speaking tour would only upset my stomach. … Continue reading

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Bullard: QE done in 2014 and rates normal by 2016

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard has an ambitious plan about the expected timing of the Fed’s tapering and the trajectory of the U.S. recovery. Bullard sees rate hikes beginning in Q1 2015 and returning to normal … Continue reading

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