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Doug Noland: Rejoicing Central Banker Capitulation
A crisis-period experiment in QE came with profound repercussions. The Fed’s 2011 “exit strategy” was supplanted the following year by Draghi’s “whatever it takes” – and there’s been no turning back. The prospect of Whatever and Whenever It Takes QE as essential to the global central banker toolkit has Changed Everything.
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TSP Funds: Time to Get Defensive
It is hard to get people to listen when the SP500 is near an all-time high and the US economy appears strong, so I wrote “Why I Am Defensive and You Should Be Too”. Take a look please.
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Rant: Privacy & Email
For 15 months I have been hitting the “I’ll Do This Later” button on Yahoo’s Privacy Policy every time I open my Yahoo email accounts.
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TSP Charts: Crazy Time
So tell us Fed Chairman, with the financial markets on the verge of full melt-up based on the Fed’s money printing past and not the real economy, what are you going to do?
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Doug Noland: The Market’s Bet
Commentary from Doug Noland’s Q1 2019 Z.1 “Flow of Funds” The market now prices in a 21% probability of a rate cut at next week’s FOMC meeting, with an 86% probability for a cut by the July 31st meeting. I… Read More ›
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Doug Noland: Hoard of Jumbo Bazookas
The Fed has not only abandoned “normalization,” it has deserted its primary responsibility for safeguarding financial stability.
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TSP charts: 7 June
If bad economic news sending the stock market soaring does NOT make sense to you, then you are trying to think rationally. It makes perfect sense when you consider how distorted our monetary and fiscal policies are.
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TSP F fund in 2019
I’ve received some good questions about the TSP F fund from members. I decided to provide a current overview of the fund and what to expect.
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TSP Charts: Special Report
We look into key market factors to determine whether we will see 1) another continuation of the bull market, 2) a sideways pattern or 3) the start of a bear market. It’s becoming clear.
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TSP & the Unstoppable Bull Market?
Why is it unstoppable? Because this Bull has NOT been driven by the economy or profits. When the driver ends, the bull market ends. In the meantime it continues to frustrate those using historical tools that worked so well in prior bull markets. Invest safe, invest smart starting today.