This Is How A Fed Dove Crushes Any Hawkish Opposition To The Fed’s True Religion
The relatively new Minneapolis Fed president Narayana Kocherlakota is not known for any insightful, original ideas. Before he took over the MinnFed, he was a research economist at the bank in the late...
View ArticleFeds raid Denver-area marijuana dispensaries and grow operations
Federal authorities Thursday morning were executing search and seizure warrants at multiple Denver-area medical marijuana facilities, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. BlackListedNews.com
View ArticleHoliday Sales Expected To Be Less Than Half Fed’s “Wealth Effect” Hope
Based on the Fed’s wealth effect creating surge in stock prices, Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd believes retail sales should be up 5.8% in Q4 2013. However, as we noted before, expectations are for a dismal...
View ArticleProducer Of Physical “Casascius” Bitcoins Is Being Targeted By The Feds
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Meet Mike Caldwell. He is the maker of what seems to be the most popular physical bitcoins on the market, the Casascius coin. All Mr. Caldwell...
View ArticleFed’s Economic Projections – Myth Vs. Reality (Dec 2013)
Submitted by Lance Roberts of STA Wealth Management, Each quarter the Fed releases their assessment of the economy along with their forward looking projections for three years into the future. (See Fed...
View ArticleAfter the Taper: The Fed’s Non-Plan Is Unchanged
Submitted by Frank Hollenbeck via the Ludwig von Mises Institute, As an economist, it is getting more difficult to understand the logic underlying current monetary policy in the U.S. There are two main...
View ArticleFeds Agree To Release Redacted Interpretation Of PATRIOT Act That A Month Ago...
A month ago, we wrote about how the DOJ had told the FISA Court (FISC) that even though the court had said that its own rulings, which secretly interpreted the PATRIOT Act to allow for the bulk...
View ArticleIt’s the Fed’s 100th Birthday: Is There Anything To Celebrate?
Today the U.S. Federal Reserve has 100 candles to blow out on its birthday cake. Founded to prevent boom and bust economics, in its first century it’s faced many challenges – from double-digit...
View ArticleFeds spend $224K for ‘custom-fit’ condoms study
The federal government is stretching your tax dollars — in search of the perfect condom. BlackListedNews.com
View ArticleFed’s Fisher Says “Investors Have Beer Goggles From Liquidity”, Joins Goldman...
"Continuing large-scale asset purchases risks placing us in an untenable position, both from the standpoint of unreasonably inflating the stock, bond and other tradable asset markets and from the...
View ArticleThe Fed’s Solution To Income Stagnation: Make Everyone A Speculator
The elimination of low-risk interest income in favor of risky speculative credit/asset bubbles has led to a monumental misallocation of capital and the institutionalization of perverse and highly...
View ArticlePaul Singer’s “Vision” Of The Coming “Riot Point” And The Fed’s “Formula For...
We sympathize with traditional stock and bond investors, who are faced with extremely poor choices today. QE has distorted the prices of all traditional asset classes to such an extent that none...
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