Other > The Money Blogger

Who Bails Out The Fed?

Nicholas Collard | Wed, 09/17/2008 - 6:35am | AIG, American International Group, F, Fed, Fed bailout, MER, Treasury Secretary Paulson | Add a comment

I woke up this morning, and the sunrise came up a deep shade of red. In their latest bid to save the market from certain ruin, the Federal Reserve has committed $85 billion dollars over a 2-year period to bail out the crumbling insurance titan , American International Group (AIG). In return f ... Read more

Trading > Mises Daily

Origins of the Federal Reserve

Mises | Fri, 11/13/2009 - 1:45pm | Fed, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve origins, History of the Fed, inflation cartel, Monetary policy | 2 comments

The financial elites were responsible for putting through the Fed as a governmentally created and sanctioned cartel device to enable the nation's banks to inflate the money supply in a coordinated fashion. ... Read the full post ... Read more

Stock Investing > Organizations and Markets

Federal Reserve “Independence”

| Thu, 07/23/2009 - 3:32pm | Ben Bernanke, Fed, Federal Reserve | 1 comment

| Peter Klein | I was encouraged by friends to sign the Open Letter in support of Fed independence but, like Jerry O’Driscoll, Bob Higgs , and Larry White , I don’t support the cause. Follow the links above for detailed arguments. For my part: The Open Letter focuses exclus ... Read the fu ... Read more

Stock Investing > Mishs Global Economic Trend Analysis

Obama's Blueprint for Reform Concentrates Still More Power in Hands of the Fed

Mike Shedlock | Wed, 06/17/2009 - 3:32pm | centralized power, Fed, White House economics | Add a comment

The Washington Post has released a "near final" draft of Obama's financial reform proposals . As expected, the paper whitewashes the role of the Fed and Fractional Reserve Lending as well as the role of unfunded Congressional spending in creating the mess. Instead, Obama's plan gives more ... Read more

Stock Investing > The Prudent Investor

Monetizing the Debt: Fed Will Buy Everything That's Not Nailed Down

The Prudent Investor | Thu, 03/19/2009 - 9:45am | buying everything but the sink, Fed, Federal Open Markets Committee, Federal Reserve, FOMC, government bailouts | 1 comment

Word has probably spread around by now that the Federal Reserve is going to buy everything in America that's not nailed down, throwing another $1,150,000,000,000 lifeline at markets. (Read the full text to see what a trillion looks like.) The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) yesterday informed t ... Read more

Real Estate > Piggington's Econo-Almanac

The Fed Has Gone Nuclear

Rich Toscano | Fri, 12/19/2008 - 4:41pm | Ben Bernanke, Fed, Federal Reserve | Add a comment

On Tuesday, Fed Chairman Bernanke announced that the Fed was for the first time in history cutting its target funds rate to 0 percent (a range of 0 to .25 percent, to be exact, but it's close enough). Additionally, the Fed will shunt "large quantities" of money directly into the mortgage ... Read more

Stock Investing > Finance Professor

Fed and treasury officials on why they did what they did

Mahar | Tue, 12/02/2008 - 8:20am | Fed, Treasury | Add a comment

I am a "glass is half full" person who on top of that thinks that we will probably find more water before even that is gone. But I do get a tad concerned when smart people who have informational advanatges get worried. We had two examples of this today. FromTreasury Secretary Henry Paulson as quote ... Read more

Trading > The Bear Pulpit

As The FOMC Looms

John Kinard | Mon, 01/14/2008 - 12:54pm | corn, crude, Currencies, Dow, ENER, energy, EUR, euro, F, Fed, FOMC, gas, Grain, grains, heating, NASDAQ, Oil, Pound, rate cut, rates, S&P | Add a comment

Happy Monday, everyone! A quick round-up of the markets surely demonstrates we've got some decisions to make as the FOMC looms ahead of us. E-Mini futures for the S&P at 1421 (negligibly up), the Dow at 12804 (up) and the NASDAQ at 1957 (negligibly down) are all in a bearish ... Read more

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