Entries Tagged as 'bank of england'

‘All Powers’ Jibber Jabber

August 30th, 2010 137 Comments

Stacy Summary: Lots of central bankers this week promising all sorts of cartoon super powers; this morning it is the Bank of England.

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A Lehman style tsunami of bad debt and suspending QE

February 5th, 2010 233 Comments

Stacy Summary:  More on that next leg down. Fears of ‘Lehman-style’ debt tsunami as crisis spreads to Spain & Portugal BoE may suspend quantitative easing

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BoE will remain open to Ponzi scheme operators

October 23rd, 2009 33 Comments

Stacy Summary: What do you think about Tucker’s argument that he prefers not to target asset bubbles but to ‘strengthen resilience’ of the banking system during credit booms?  By giving them more taxpayer money?  If so then those taxpayers who will have to bailout the scheme when it busts would be chumps not to play [...]

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Floods, deficits and corporate marketing

August 20th, 2009 50 Comments

Stacy Summary:    Thanks to @maxkeiser for the Pilger link.  The other headlines are just as awful for what they hold for the near future of our economies . . . especially for those in the age group here.  Anyway, looks like a lot of ‘good’ headlines out there today, so post what you find and [...]

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Output gaps, 21st century jobs and new lending [UPDATED]

July 9th, 2009 26 Comments

Stacy Summary: First, here is a link and commentary to our last episode of On the Edge from Mish Shedlock, who is a great source of information especially on the inflation / deflation debate.  You can go join that discussion there if you would like.  In the meantime, here are the headlines I am looking [...]

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Fox News on the ‘strange’ buying of S&P futures contracts in last 10 minutes of every trading day

May 19th, 2009 111 Comments

Stacy Summary:   This is really too funny and sad at the same time.  Let the market decide.  It’s all seeing and all knowing.  It’s the Wizard of Oz!  What do you think?  Will people finally realize that there is no free market in the US?  And would they even know how to do anything about [...]

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Max Keiser Blog – The Old Lady keeping the poor poor, the rich rich

April 16th, 2009 17 Comments

In the US, the rhetoric damning the Federal Reserve Bank in Washington D.C. is well known to anyone who listens to Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff and the rest of the ‘hard money’ crowd that are enlisted by Bloomberg TV to point out the blindingly obvious to the deaf and dumb masses. But where is the [...]

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