By Nico Isaac
1/12/2012 4:45:00 PM
On the financial playground, long-term bonds are generally the last picked for the winning team -- well behind equities, commodities, high-yield (junk) bonds, even the barely established emerging markets. The reason being: the amount of time it takes to actually reap the fruits of your return. BUT, as a January 5, 2012 CNBC articlereveals, the asset that supposedly nobody loves has outperformed them all.
Filed Under: conquer the crash, credit crisis, debt, debt crisis, deflation, Elliott wave, emerging markets, hyperinflation, inflation, Interest Rates, liquidity, prechter, QE2, quantitative easing, social mood, Treasury bonds, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), U.S. Treasuries
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
12/23/2011 4:45:00 PM
Many people say that the Federal Reserve will just keep "printing money." But to say that the government will just keep "stimulating" is to ignore the simple truth that institutions consist of people. Even people in authority come under the influence of prevailing psychology -- which today is one of increasing...
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, debt crisis, deflation, Elliott Wave Theorist, great depression, monetary policy, monetization, QE2, quantitative easing, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
11/16/2011 4:45:00 PM
Is this the point where Bernanke can no longer use Fed policy to "inflate at will"? Well, Robert Prechter says something "momentous" happened on September 21, 2011...
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, central banks, deflation, inflation, monetary policy, QE2, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter, stimulus package, Treasury bonds, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
8/5/2011 5:00:00 PM
External resistance to the Fed's policies is one thing. But the machinations of America's central bank are also encountering resistance from within the Fed itself, albeit "behind closed doors"...
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, Robert Prechter, central banks, Elliott Wave Theorist, Greenspan, QE2, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
7/29/2011 5:00:00 PM
The Fed's easy money campaign has defined the front line of that "war on credit." The problem is that it just hasn't worked...
Filed Under: Robert Prechter, Elliott Wave Theorist, housing prices, monetary policy, QE2, quantitative easing, stimulus package, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
7/22/2011 2:45:00 PM
Some in the financial media argue that QE2 worked because the Fed has prevented a Japanese-like deflation. But is inflation alive and well? Keep the above chart in mind as you read...
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, central banks, deflation, monetary policy, QE2, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter, stimulus package, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
Living in the Post-QE World
Today's chart punctures the popular notion that stocks must fall if bond yields were to rise, post-QE2
By Nico Isaac
6/29/2011 11:30:00 AM
The countdown to a post-QE financial world is over in t-minus 10, 9, 8... Today, June 30 marks the end of the U.S. Federal Reserve's massive "quantitative easing" program. So the question is: Withe end-of-QE days be a world in which only stock-roaches and Twinkies survive? All jokes aside, many mainstream experts say life after the Fed's historic stimulus campaign will be markedly different for the stock and bond markets.
Filed Under: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Elliott wave, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), market forecasts, Nasdaq Composite, QE2, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter, S&P 500, safe haven, stock indexes, Treasury bills (T-bills), U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), U.S. Treasuries
Category: Stocks
What Will Happen to the Stock Market When QE2 Ends?
Club EWI's free "Independent Investor eBook, 2011 Edition" offers you an unorthodox view of the Fed's quantitative easing program
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
6/27/2011 12:00:00 PM
Club EWI's free "Independent Investor eBook, 2011 Edition" offers you an unorthodox view of quantitative easing and its "effects" on stocks and the economy...
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, Elliott wave, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), liquidity, market manipulation, monetary policy, monetization, Robert Prechter, QE2, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter, stimulus package, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: Stocks
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
6/24/2011 5:15:00 PM
On Wednesday, June 22, the Federal Reserve Bank released its latest interest rates policy statement (no change). Afterward the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke held a press conference, followed by a Q&A period. The financial media paid lots of attention to what Bernanke said. Our own Steve Hochberg -- editor of the Monday-Wednesday-Friday Short Term Update -- had this to say about Bernanke's press conference...
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, economic depression, Elliott wave, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), gross domestic product (GDP), monetary policy, QE2, quantitative easing, recession, stimulus package, stock indexes, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: Stocks
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
6/9/2011 3:15:00 PM
Before you join the crowd in thinking that shrinking trade gap is bullish for stocks, read this excerpt from the 2011 edition of our popular free Club EWI resource, The Independent Investor eBook.
Filed Under: bull market, buy and hold, Club EWI, deficit, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), economic depression, Nasdaq Composite, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), QE2, S&P 500
Category: Stocks
By Nico Isaac
6/6/2011 10:45:00 AM
True or False: The U.S. Federal Reserves quantitative easing (QE) policy has been to bond yields what a plastic lid is to a trick snake can. Once you open the lid, it's -- "POP!" -- and the toy snakes spring up and out? According to many mainstream financial experts, the answer to that question is a clear and definitive true.
Filed Under: bailouts, QE2, quantitative easing, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), U.S. Treasuries
Category: U.S. Economy