After QE3's announcement in mid September there was some concern that the effect of QE on the market had eroded because the S&P 500 ...

Ray Dalio made some news this week when he acknowledged that interest rates had probably gone about as low as they could possibly go and tha...

After yesterday's post forecasting that we could see a 40% y/y increase in the monetary base in 2013 , I thought it might be good to loo...

As part of today's statement, the Fed acknowledged that it would be maintaining the current QE rate until unemployment hits 6.5% or infl...

Over the last several years, many analysts have argued that QE isn't inflationary because the money that the Fed has printed has been lo...

Although QE3 was announced almost 2.5 months ago, the mortgages that the Fed has been purchasing have only just started to hit the Fed's...

There are reports this morning that Ben Bernanke wont stand for re-appointment as chairman of the Fed even if Obama wins re-election.  Consi...

This post wasn't spurred by anything in particular, but I thought it was interesting to think about the fact that the 12 Federal Reserv...

US Federal debt is broken down into two different categories: publicly traded and non-publicly traded.  The non publicly traded debt is typi...

Before the Fed eased last week, I wrote that the ECB's actions could force the Fed to ease in order to maintain the value of the dollar ...

Along with announcing more QE today, the Fed reiterated that Operation Twist will continue through the end of the year.  Interestingly, the ...

Pretty much as expected, the Fed announced that it will be conducting outright QE at the pace of $40B per month without any clear end date. ...

Given that Mario Draghi announced unlimited asset purchases last week , equity markets have been rallying along side the Euro; however, if D...

This week's issue of Businessweek has an interview with Alan Greenspan, in which there was an interesting exchange on his ability to fo...

The Fed is set to speak again today and chatter of new stimulus has been picking up in recent weeks.  While it's been over a year since ...

One indicator that we pay close attention to is the monetary base, the sum of currency and reserve balances at the Fed.  Over the last two w...