Commodity Prices Falling Despite QE
Traditional wisdom tells us that when the money supply expands the price of commodities rises. Today Robert Prechter takes a look at what has actually happened to commodity prices since 2008 during a...
View ArticleWhy Quantitative Easing Has NOT Brought Back Inflation
Back in 2008, when the FED jumped in with quantitative easing QE1 in an effort to stop the deflationary crash, the consensus seemed to be that this massive monetizing of junk mortgages would result in...
View ArticleFed To ‘Hold Off’ On QE 3
Although anything can happen it is always worth monitoring the Wall Street Journal prior to Fed meetings because it seems the Fed uses the WSJ as a low key method to manage market expectations prior to...
View ArticleWhat is Quantitative Easing?
Many people think of Quantitative Easing as "money printing" or just another way for the Federal Reserve to inflate the money supply. But QE1 was different than the typical money creation. Typically...
View ArticleThe Effects of Quantitative Easing
At the time QE began, most people believed that Quantitative Easing would cause massive inflation, although at the risk of being lynched by my friends in the "hard money" crowd I said, " that QE1 might...
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