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January 26, 2012
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Charts of the Week Topics Covered This Week Include: Detailing The Disappointing Earnings Season Living In A QE World Living In A QE World – 2 Living In A QE World – 3 Another Way To Look At The Central Balance Sheets Does The Federal Reserve Print Money? Where Have All The Traders Gone? A… Continue reading Charts of the Week
Comment In a recent conference call we highlighted the degree to which central banks around the world are printing money. A calculation error on our part led us to overstate the size of both the BoE and the BoJ’s balance sheets. While the intended message remains the same, below are a series of corrected, and… Continue reading Living In A QE World
Comment Jim Bianco was on Yahoo Finance yesterday discussing today’s Federal Reserve meeting. To view the interview click on the image above. To view any of our recent interviews click here. Yahoo Finance – Ahead of the Fed: What to Expect From Bernanke The Federal Reserve will release its latest policy statement tomorrow afternoon, shortly… Continue reading The Federal Reserve Meets Today
Yahoo Finance – No, the Fed Does NOT ‘Print Money’: Just Explain It You probably have a sense the Fed is super important and powerful, but here’s something you probably don’t know: The Fed doesn’t print money. Yes, that’s right. Despite all the chatter on the campaign trail (hello, Ron Paul) and on cable TV,… Continue reading Does The Federal Reserve “Print Money?”
The Wall Street Journal – Shadow Over Growth No matter how far government leaders, senior bankers, academics and corporate executives gathering at this Alpine resort have traveled to get here this week, the future of most of them will be touched by something over which they have no control: how the euro zone’s sovereign-debt crisis… Continue reading Europe
Bloomberg.com – Obama Says High-Earners Should Pay at Least 30% of Income as Tax President Barack Obama called on Congress to require the highest U.S. earners to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes, building on his election-year push for what he terms economic fairness. The president’s proposal in his State of… Continue reading Tax Reform
<Click on chart for larger image> MarketWatch.com – Can Gold Regain Its Glitter? Gold prices have been on the rise, lately, but can gold regain its glitter? The SPDR Gold Trust ETF GLD, the second-largest ETF, now stands above both its 50- and 200-Day moving averages, a “buy” signal for the precious metal. Furthermore, MACD… Continue reading Gold
<Click on chart for larger image> CNN Money – The end of mutual funds is coming Pimco is launching an ETF to track the biggest mutual fund, its Total Return Fund. Will this portend the end for mutual funds? We looked into the future to find out, and this 2022 story tells it all. Ten… Continue reading Mutual Fund Flows
The Daily Mail – ‘There will be riots on streets of America’: George Soros predicts class war in U.S. as euro triggers collapse of global economy * Billionaire New York investor warns of impending economic meltdown * Backs euro and buys Italian bonds from Jon Corzine’s failed MF Global * Warns it’s ‘difficult to know… Continue reading Soros Is Looking For Riots In The U.S.
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MarketBeat (WSJ Blog) – The Stock Market Loves Obama It’ll be tough for the Obama haters to argue against this juicy little nugget. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has surged 60% since Barack Obama was inaugurated as president three years ago, according to research firm Bespoke Investment Group. This means President Obama is one of… Continue reading Confusing Cause And Effect?