By Bob Stokes
10/28/2011 4:30:00 PM
Stories of her frugality are legendary: she traveled in an old carriage, bought broken cookies in bulk because they were less expensive, and reportedly spent half a night looking for a lost two cent stamp. But the most extreme example of her pathological stinginess relates to...
Filed Under: Ben Bernanke, Robert Prechter, central banks, deflation, history, monetary policy, stimulus package, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), Wall Street
Category: U.S. Economy
Understanding the Fed
EWI's free eBook explains the common and misleading myths about the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
By Vadim Pokhlebkin
4/12/2011 6:00:00 PM
What exactly is the function of the Fed? If it's to help the U.S. economy grow steadily, then how come in 2007-2009 we had the biggest stock market crash in decades followed by "the Great Recession" and a worldwide financial crisis? For answers, let's turn to someone who has spent a considerable amount of time studying the Fed and its functions: EWI's president Robert Prechter. This is an excerpt from a free Club EWI eBook...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, bailouts, Ben Bernanke, Robert Prechter, Campaign for Independent Thinking, Elliott wave, Greenspan, hyperinflation, inflation, market crash, market manipulation, monetary policy, monetization, Robert Prechter, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter, social mood, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
12/30/2010 4:30:00 PM
Does the FDIC have the wherewithal to "make whole" all depositors if scores of banks go under at the same time? Here at Elliott Wave International, we do not recommend that you count on the FDIC. Here's why...
Filed Under: bailouts, conquer the crash, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Category: U.S. Economy
Pennies on the Dollar
In 2009, the U.S. will post a current account deficit of more the $1 trillion. Is that a sustainable capital structure?
By Bill Fox, Senior Bonds Analyst
2/10/2009 4:00:00 PM
Ten billion dollars per day. A staggering figure, but what could it possibly be? The amount of money spent between the TARP, TALF and other alphabet soup of bailout programs? No. The amount needed to spend the proposed stimulus package? No. The amount of asset value lost everyday in the stock market in 2008? Still cold, so I’ll tell you...
Filed Under: Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), stimulus package, U.S. dollar, deflation, economic depression
Category: U.S. Economy
By Robert Folsom
2/6/2009 5:15:00 PM
Given that Henry Paulson had been the CEO of Goldman Sachs, one would suppose that he knows something about how to price financial assets. Even so, the Oversight Panel decided to check Paulson's math anyway: they hired a top international evaluations "to perform the evaluation"...
Filed Under: bailouts, deflation, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bill Fox, Senior Bonds Analyst
2/3/2009 4:45:00 PM
The common assumption these days is that if only we can support deflating values of housing and other assets – even if artificially, for a time – then we can stop the broader deflation. Yet, despite trillions of dollars going into bailouts and stimuli, banks remain undercapitalized, and the depth of systemic risk remains underestimated and misunderstood. What should the U.S. Treasury focus on instead? Here is one answer...
Filed Under: Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), deflation, U.S. dollar
Category: U.S. Economy