Rants and Observations

They Did WHAT?!?

WOW. Again. I had written up a long follow-up post on this Federal Reserve intervention that I had planned to post yesterday, but I got hung up in meetings and couldn’t get to it. I wrote long (and eloquently, I might add) about how there was NO possible way that after their dump-and-run “liquidity injection” they could even THINK about lowering interest rates for AT LEAST the next two to three months. About how the…

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Rants and Observations

The Sins of the Past

Wow. I never thought that I’d see it happen. The Federal Reserve, that mysterious, secretive, “quasi-governmental” entity that has made a regular habit of thumbing it’s nose at the general pubic and the day to day performance of the market, has succumbed. They have fallen. They have gone over to the dark side and made a wholly populist decision. And unfortunately it’s not just the Fed – it’s a number of other central banks around…

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