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Started Jun 14, 2011

Inflation Fears: Fed is Underestimating the Escalating Threat

By Martin Hutchinson, Contributing Editor, Money MorningPretty much everyone but U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke sees that inflation is returning: After all, even Bernanke's favorite…Continue

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Started Apr 6, 2011

Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon expects inflation

U.S. consumers face "serious" inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart's U.S. operations warned Wednesday. The world's largest retailer is working…Continue

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Started Mar 31, 2011

Gross Dumping Treasuries Leads Managers Calling Three-Decade Rally's End
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Bill Gross has dumped all Treasuries from the world’s biggest mutual fund, Warren Buffett is shifting to shorter-term debt, and Swiss Reinsurance Co. is boosting equities and corporate bonds.Some of…Continue

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Ad Orientem is a 40 something male living in the central valley of California. His interests are eclectic and include politics (he is a monarchist with strong libertarian sympathies), philosophy, theology (he’s an Orthodox Christian), economics (he’s an Austrian), history (European & Byzantine), and baseball (GO METS!). He enjoys reading on a wide range of topics and also enjoys the occasional historical fiction novel (Patrick O’Brien rules).

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Why Jim Grant is Wrong: We need gold but not the Gold Standard

With gold having broken $1400 oz. it is once again in the news. A number of people outside of the usual suspects (so called gold bugs) are starting to whisper or even openly talk about something not seriously discussed since the 1970's, namely reverting to some system where money would be tied to gold, i.e. a gold standard. (See Jim Grant's recent Op-Ed.) It might surprise readers to learn this, but I am… Continue

Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:00pm

The markets respond...

...to last night's decision by the Bank of Japan to cut their lending rates effectively to zero. As of the time of this post gold has shattered another nominal record rising by more than $25 and is trading at $1341.70 oz. Silver is up by more than 4% and is trading at $22.85 oz, a new 30 year high. (Anyone know where the Hunt brothers are these days?)

The currency war continues as the world's central banks race to see who can incinerate the value of their paper money the fastest.… Continue

Posted on October 5, 2010 at 4:20pm

Fed’s Hoenig: Rates Need to Rise

The U.S. economy is recovering and the Federal Reserve needs to raise interest rates, lest it leave in place a policy that will only fuel future financial imbalances, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said Friday.

“We need to get off of the emergency rate of zero, move rates up slowly and deliberately,” which will bring policy in better alignment “with the economy’s slow, deliberate recovery,” the official said. While the markets may like the current stance of… Continue

Posted on August 13, 2010 at 8:04pm

Why I believe the FED is Not Out of Bullets & the Bond Market is Becoming High Risk

For the record I strongly disagree that the FED is "out of bullets." This FED chairman has spent much of his life studying the Great Depression and has long made it clear he regards deflation as the number one threat to a healthy economy. The FED absolutely has the means (though perhaps not yet the will) to break a deflationary spiral. If banks are not lending the FED can bypass them. Another round of QE is I believe inevitable and it will probably be far more dramatic than the last one. The… Continue

Posted on August 12, 2010 at 3:00am — 1 Comment

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At 11:48am on October 13, 2010, Maulik Mody said…: I am wondering why JPM and Intel stocks are falling when they have strong earnings.