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| La plupart des places asiatiques reprenaient des couleurs mercredi, malgré la publication de chiffresternes en provenance du Japon. La production industrielle nipponne a accusé un recul inattendu en août, ce qui ravive les craintes d'un ralentissement et renforce les arguments en faveur d'un accroissement de la stimulation monétaire. D'après les estimations préliminaires, elle s'est contractée de... |
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| Le premier lot de données américaines est ressorti plus ou moins en ligne avec les attentes du marché. Les traders devront donc attendre les NFP (créations d'emplois non agricoles) pour avoir plus de clarté sur le timing du premier relèvement des taux de la Réserve fédérale. Les revenus personnels (c.v.s.) ont légèrement reculé à 0.3%m/m en août, contre des projections médianes de 0.4% et 0.5% en... |
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| Après une semaine calme due à un calendrier économique relativement peu chargé, nous attaquons une semaine capitalesur le plan des statistiques économiques. Le marché a eu largement le temps de digérer la décision de la Réserve fédérale de maintenir les taux inchangés et a pris en compte les commentaires hawkish de différents membres de la banque centrale américaine. Au cours de la semaine... |
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You’re saying there’s an accident waiting to happen? JG: The central banks lifted off the stock market so that aggregate demand is going to rise. But they forgot to consider that aggregate supply is likely also to rise: Oil drillers will have it easier to find financing with which to drill the marginal well and to produce the marginal barrel of oil. This will weight on the market causing lower oil prices which will lead the central bankers in return to print still more money to save us from what they call «the risk of deflation». So it’s seemingly a never ending, circular process of so called stimulus leading to still more stimulus and unconventional ideas leading to radical ideas. I dare to say that we have not yet seen the most radical brainwaves of the mandarins running our central banks. What do you think this will look like? JG: They don’t keep those things as a secret. They talk quite openly about «direct monetary funding» which is what Milton Friedman had in mind when he coined the phrase “helicopter money”. So the next idea is just bypassing the banking system altogether and mailing out checks to the citizens. Would something like that even work? JG: All this monetary stimulus does two things in a reciprocal way: It pushes failure into the future and brings consumption into the present. Providing marginal businesses with very cheap credit is inviting companies that have passed their useful days of their commercial lives to pretending some kind of an afterlife thanks to the subsidies from the central banks. But capitalism is inherently a dynamic system based on entrepreneurship and to new inventions. It’s a little bit like the forest for the trees: You need life but you also need death. Without death there is no room for a new generation and what you get is Japan: Standing timbers of ancient age, none of them too healthy. Quantitative easing and artificially low interest rates reduce the dynamics, the growth and the vibrancy of economic life. |
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After the president of the United States, the most powerful person on the planet is the chairman of the Federal Reserve.View the Casey Research Guide to Crisis Investing on InformedTrades
Ask almost anyone on the street for the name of the U.S. president, and youll get a quick answer.
But if you ask the same person what the Federal Reserve is, youll likely get a blank stare.
They dont know - partly due to the institutions deliberately obscure name - that the Fed is really the third iteration of the countrys central bank. Or that the Fed manipulates the nations economic destiny by controlling the money supply.
And thats just how the Fed likes it. Theyd prefer Boobus americanus not understand the king-like power they wield.
By simply choosing to utter the right words, the chairman of the Fed can create or extinguish trillions of dollars of wealth both in and outside of the U.S. He holds the economic fate of billions of people in his hands.
So its no shocker that investors carefully parse everything he says. They have to, if they want to be successful. Some even go as far as to analyze the almighty chairmans body language. Of course, the mainstream financial media revere the Fed.
You may recall the unhealthy spectacle that occurred in 1996. Thats when Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman at the time, spoke the now famous phrase irrational exuberance in what should have otherwise been a dull and forgettable speech.
Investors heard Greenspans phrase to mean that the Fed would soon raise interest rates to slow the global economy.
Its worth mentioning that Greenspan didnt actually say the Fed would raise rates. Nor did he intend to signal that.
Nonetheless, the reaction was swift and panicky. U.S. markets were closed at the time, but stocks in Japan and Hong Kong dropped 3%. The German stock market fell 4%. When trading started in the U.S. market the next day, the market opened down 2%.
Billions of dollars of wealth vanished in a period of 16 hours.
Thats the absurd power over the global economy that the Federal Reserve gives to one human being.
The words of the chairman can make or break the fortunes of anyone with a brokerage account.
The Feds Alice in Wonderland Economy
I almost fell out of my chair when I heard it
A journalist recently asked Janet Yellen, the current chair of the Federal Reserve, if the central bank would keep interest rates at 0% forever.
Her response: I cant completely rule it out.
I was stunned.
The deferential financial media hurried to ignore the significance of that statement. Instead, it acted the way big city police might act after making a messy arrest on a busy sidewalk. Move along folks, nothing to see here!
Clearly, there was something to see. Something very important.
Yellens words came amidst one of the most anticipated economic pronouncements in a generation whether the Fed would finally raise interest rates for the first time in nine years. Short-term rates have been at zero since the 2008 financial crisis.
Interest rates are simply the price of borrowing money. Setting them at an artificial level is nothing other than price fixing. Not surprisingly, it has led to enormous amounts of malinvestment and other distortions in the economy.
Malinvestment is the result of faulty decision-making. Any investor or business can make a mistake, but central bank manipulation of interest rates subsidizes bad, wasteful decisions.
Cheap borrowing costs trick companies. It causes them to plow money into plants, equipment, and other assets that appear profitable because borrowing costs are low. Only later, when the profits dont show up, do they discover that the capital was wasted.
Seven years of quantitative easing (QE) and Fed-engineered zero interest rates have drawn the U.S. and much of the world into an unsustainable "Alice in Wonderland" bubble economy riddled with malinvestment.
The pundits had expected that, at this recent meeting, the Fed would move to raise rates just a little and give the global economy a tiny taste of sobriety.
Not even that nudge materialized.
Instead, the Fed sat on its hands. It kept interest rates at zero.
And Janet Yellen couldnt even rule out that rates would stay at zero forever.
If she cant even do that, how is she going to start a sustained series of rate hikes, as many of those same pundits now expect her to do a few months down the road?
The truth is, seven years of 0% yields and successive rounds of money printing has so distorted the U.S. economy that it cant handle even the tiniest increase in interest rates. It would be the pin that pricks the biggest stock and bond market bubble in all of human history. The Fed cannot let that happen.
What Happens Next
Its clear that the Fed cant raise interest rates in any meaningful way. It would trigger a financial meltdown that would quickly force them to reverse course.
The Fed might be able to get away with a token increase, but thats all.
In other words, the Fed has trapped itself.
Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke admitted as much recently when he said he didnt expect rates to normalize in his lifetime.
And then, we have the current chair Janet Yellen saying that rates might stay at zero forever!
Yellens belief that she has the power to suppress interest rates until the end of time is a frightening sign.
As powerful as the Fed is, it isnt stronger than the markets. A crisis in the markets could force rates higher even if the Fed doesnt want them to go there. And the longer the Fed tries to sustain abnormalities like QE and 0% interest rates, the more likely it is that the whole business will end with the markets crushing the Fed.
And thats not even considering a collapse of the petrodollar system or China pushing the establishment of a New Silk Road in Eurasia two catalysts that would likely force interest rates higher.
So Ill go ahead and disagree with Yellen and rule out the possibility that rates might stay at zero forever. They wont, because they cant.
At the next sign of a market swoon or of a weakening economy, or with the next episode of deflationary jitters, the Fed will again ramp up the easy money. It could be another round of QE. Or the Fed could push interest rates into negative territory. If that fails, the Fed could go for the nuclear option and drop freshly printed money out of helicopters as Bernanke once infamously suggested or, more likely, into everyones bank account. Theyll do whatever it takes, no matter what the eventual damage to the dollars value.
Whatever the details, one thing should be clear. This politburo of unaccountable central planners is the greatest risk to your financial wellbeing today.
What You Can Do About It
Its a terrifying thought that the actions of a few people at the Fed so endanger your financial security.
But the facts are worse than that. Theres more to worry about than just the financial effects. The social and political implications of the Feds actions are even more dangerous.
An economic depression and currency inflation (perhaps hyperinflation) are very much in the cards. These things rarely lead to anything but bigger government, less freedom, and shrinking prosperity. Sometimes they lead to much worse.
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The article was originally published at internationalman.com.