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TSP Charts: Quick look
After creating $17 trillion dollars and pumping most of it into the financial markets, the central banks collectively tried to pull back in early 2018. It did not work out so well as evidence in the chart below. So the… Read More ›
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TSP & Faux Capitalism
You had better start trying to understand what is going on because you are about to live with the fallout in one way or another. It will not only affect your TSP investments, it will affect the future of our country. It is hard to get people to listen at the top especially when the naysayers have been “wrong” for so long and reality is so illusive.
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TSP: the Bitcoin effect
No one will notice. No one will consider this effect on the markets at large. It does not fit their models. So this month the exchanges are starting to wind down Futures trading of Bitcoin due to lack of trading… Read More ›
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TSP: I’m Sure It’s Nothing
Think of these charts as cliff notes from around the web on the markets, economy and monetary policy. This is merely a fun exercise in what we find every month on the web during our meta research. I add other… Read More ›
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Doug Noland: Doing Harm with Uber-Dovish
T his week’s FOMC meeting will be debated for years – perhaps even decades. The Fed essentially pre-committed to no rate hike in 2019. The committee downgraded both its growth and inflation forecasts. Having all at once turned of little… Read More ›
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Doug Noland’s Uncharted Territory
The world is in completely uncharted territory. What unfolded was a complete breakdown in discipline – in central banking, in Washington borrowing and spending, and throughout highly speculative markets. And I do believe the new Fed Chairman had hopes of normalizing Fed policymaking, letting the markets begin stand on their own, and commencing the long-delayed process of system normalization. Pressure – markets and otherwise – became too much to bear. Fed U-Turn, January 4, 2019 – immediately transmitted globally.
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TSP in the Age of Wealth Extraction
Don’t get extracted!
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TSP Charts: Quicklook 13 March 2019
Is the market’s bounce prior to working off over-bought conditions related to OpsEx week?
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TSP un-millionaires
My guess is many TSP millionaires will continue to do what they did to become millionaires – buy & hold. And at some point, they will never be TSP millionaires again. Why do I think this? Many reasons, but let’s… Read More ›
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Doug Noland: Dudley on Debt and MMT
December’s market instability and resulting Fed capitulation to the marketplace continue to reverberate. At this point, markets basically assume the Fed is well into the process of terminating policy normalization. Only a couple of months since completing its almost $3.0… Read More ›