The govt continues to spend about a trillion more a yr to the debt while raking in record tax revenue .
Interesting that the stock and bond markets both dropped. It occurred to me that the Fed is trying offload Treasuries, so that will result in an increase in bond rates all by itself if there are not enough buyers.
Usually I would buy the shit out of this. Statistically it is a good buy right here. But something doesn't "feel" right. This doesn't feel panicky enough. Wouldn't be surprised to see SPY sell off. Will probably miss the rally but gut says prices go lower. VIX is down on a down day. which is really weird Me thinks people a little too conditioned for a bounce.
I agree. I haven't seen any of the usual evidence of the PPT stepping in yesterday or today. Gold and silver shooting up even!
This could get interesting if the markets keep dropping with an election coming up. My guess is the Fed will try to wait until after the election before they go to their playbook to avoid appearing biased.
Fed Playbook:
1. Make comments about slowing rate hikes.
2. Make comments about freezing hikes for an extended period.
3. Make comments about lowering rates.
4. Lower rates.
5. QE4.
I think you are probably right. I think they'll time the real crash for about 2 years from now. At least I suspect that's the plan, things don't always go the way even the Fed wants them to.
I don't think they're trying to time or plan anything. I think they're just trying to keep everything from falling apart. Of course they're the ones that created the problem when they launched QE and ZIRP back in 2008.
Most of that "money" was imaginary accounting book entries that never went anywhere except the banking circles, and ended up in the form of giant price bubbles in stock, bond and real estate. It was all imaginary. The fact that the S&P500 bottom was '666' told the tale. It was all bs from that point on...'666' was a reference to imagination and creating a story that wasn't real. The fruit of the (kabbalah) tree.
Oh and Dow futures are $#@!ting this morning. -270 at 4:10am et.
I don't see how the QE money is any more imaginary than any other FRNs. The banks traded (way overpriced) assets like mortgage back securities for currency that can be spent like any other currency, as far as I can tell. If they can't spend it what good is it to them?
The Dow Has Now Plunged 2,368 Points From The Peak Of The Market
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/...unged-2368-points-from-the-peak-of-the-market
Read if youre interested... and youre NOT Zippy...
Dow is up about 500 points right now for today.
Much of the stock market numbers are from this kind of money, mere accounting entries. They can be zero'ed back out just as easily as they were created.
I've heard this before, that the Fed can just "erase" the money it created. There's one big problem with that. Somebody owns that money. Whoever owns it is not going to sit quietly and let the Fed "erase" it. That's like saying the money in your bank account is merely an electronic entry and the bank can "erase" it. That's true but they run the risk of getting shot by their customers.
The only way the Fed can reduce it's balance sheet is by selling its assets and then "burning" the money it collects. The problem is that the Fed's assets are worth much less than the Fed paid for them. So even if they sold all those crappy mortgage backed securities, they'd still have a few trillion left on their balance sheet.