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Headlines chum in HFT infested waters

Today the US Fed starts yet another round of deluded meetings to much media circus. Deluded because they have exhausted their experimental arsenal of monetary policy long ago, and yet they still talk as if they are command control on … Continue reading →

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Ex-BLS head: “I see speculative bubbles like 2007”

William R. White, the former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements, warns of grave adverse effects of the ultra loose monetary policy. The former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements is highly skeptical of the ultra … Continue reading →

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Growth falling, stocks way up: what could possibly go wrong?

Here’s a point for pause:  not one of 72 economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics thinks that the US economy will contract this year.  Five years after the last big recession and wipe-out for risk assets (when … Continue reading →

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