Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIt’s Not Bad News Until The Fed Says It’s Bad – Ep. 191
* On Friday we got the Non-Farm Payroll report and, of course, this jobs report is the most important ever
* Because it was going to determine whether the Federal Reserve would raise interest r…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
It’s Not Bad News Until The Fed Says It’s Bad – Ep. 191
* On Friday we got the Non-Farm Payroll report and, of course, this jobs report is the most important ever
* Because it was going to determine whether the Federal Reserve would raise interest r…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
The Fed Up Fix Is In – Ep. 190
* The price of gold continues to retreat
* Gold was down about $12 today; it closed around $1310
* The dollar index up again as more and more people begin to contemplate the possibility of a r…
Published on 9 years, 3 months ago
Yellen Basically Admits The U.S. Is A Banana Republic – Ep.189
* Earlier today Janet Yellen delivered her much-anticipated and way over-hyped speech at the annual Jackson Hole Symposium
* It wasn't as irrelevant as I thought it was going to be, but the actu…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
When Janet Yellen Talks, Why Do People Still Listen? – Ep. 188
* The price of gold fell about $12/oz today; silver prices were down another .28
* Both metals have been falling since recent new yearly highs
* Gold, though is not very much below the highs
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Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
Fed Advocates Higher Inflation And Larger Deficits! – Ep. 187
* The dollar was broadly weaker today with the dollar index closing down .85 to 94.78
* At that time gold was up about $18; sliver up about .25
* Then all of a sudden New York Fed Chairman Wil…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
Kill The Estate Tax To Save Jobs – Ep. 186
* Today we got the official numbers for Q2 Non-Farm Productivity and the consensus was that it would increase for the first time in 3 quarters; the prior 2 quarters we saw a decline in productivit…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
“Strong” Jobs Report More Politics Than Economics – Ep. 185
* What a difference a week makes, or maybe and economic report
* The two big reports that everybody seems to focus on are the GDP numbers and the jobs numbers
* It seems that the weaker the ec…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
Will The Fed Sacrifice The Recovery Myth To Save The Markets? – Ep.184
* The carnage in global stock and bond markets continues; it really got started last night in Japan
* The JGB (Japanese Government Bonds) dropped for the 3rd consecutive day
* The biggest 3-da…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
FOMC Upstaged By DNC – Ep. 183
* Today the Federal Reserve concluded its 2-day FOMC meeting and it announced - surprise, surprise - that interest rates are not going up
* But of course the statement was much more important t…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago