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Fufill its role

pwswartz wrote 7 months ago: The Federal Reserve came out with a press release today at 4pm.  The long version is linked here.  T … more →

Tags: banking system, banking capital, system capital, new monetary policy tool

Cash is Risky

pwswartz wrote 8 months ago: You can’t get away from risk unless you are dead, which is fairly high price to pay for elimin … more →

Tags: Portfolio Thoughts/Trade Strats, Inflation, cash

Debt Bubble II or Not?1 comment

pwswartz wrote 8 months ago: One chart that is commonly use to explain the challenges we are having is the amount of Debt to GDP. … more →

Tags: banking system

Inflation is Your Friend!?

pwswartz wrote 8 months ago: Inflation is a dirty word which – if you wish to increase your credibility – you will on … more →

Tags: Politics, Policy, Inflation, Political Cover

Revisit Monetary Policy Tools

pwswartz wrote 9 months ago: I recently had a conversation about the problem of zero interest rates and it made we want to revisi … more →

Tags: banking system, money supply, Credit Easing, quantiative easing

Independant Central Bank

pwswartz wrote 11 months ago: Creating rules of the game such that the game ends up playing out the way that you want is something … more →

Tags: banking system, federal reserve, Central Bank, Independence

Printing Money or PRINTING MONEY. 1 comment

pwswartz wrote 12 months ago: People throw around that phrase that the Federal Reserve is printing money and many people are impli … more →

Tags: Printing Money, Monetary Policy, federal reserve, sterilized intervention

Ten Years of Uncertainty2 comments

pwswartz wrote 1 year ago: Today’s FOMC releasediscussed the Fed’s decision to continue the quantitative and qualit … more →

Tags: Soft Topics & Uncertainty, Nominal Bonds - Long Rates, Portfolio Thoughts/Trade Strats, Monetary Policy, Zero Interest Rates

Federal Reserve Challenge: When normal just doesn’t cut it.

pwswartz wrote 1 year ago: When the economy slows, the first responder is the Federal Reserve. It eases monetary policy by lowe … more →

Tags: Soft Topics & Uncertainty, Nominal Bonds - Long Rates, Portfolio Thoughts/Trade Strats, Finance, Implied Expectations, Monetary Policy, Zero Interest Rates

Free Money: Not What Hamilton Had in Mind1 comment

pwswartz wrote 1 year ago: Alexander Hamilton, the United States’ first and even now most influential Treasury Secretary, … more →

Tags: Economic History, hamilton, negative interest rates

Ben's Helicopter: Look up for Falling Money1 comment

pwswartz wrote 1 year ago: Economists would love to perform studies in the same way that physicists do but when studying human … more →

Tags: cycles, banking system, financial crisis, Quantitative Easing, Printing Money, Monetary Policy

We're retaining flexibility. But it's on fire?

pwswartz wrote 1 year ago: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson let it be known that he would be leaving the remaining ammo in the … more →

Tags: Real Estate, Equities, Policy, banking system, Finance, recapitalization


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