Shares have risen sharply in Europe, too, but they look less overvalued and there are fewer other signs of financial excess.
In an economy already displaying signs of financial excess, a tax cut delivered by an independent tax agency might have been safer than looser money.
In fact, many of the cardinal sins of financial excess seem to be part-and-parcel of the ETF business these days: extreme leverage, market manipulation and tax bills that can blindside unsuspecting investors, to name a few.
With its March 25th move, combined with Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's icy proclamations about excess in the financial markets, the Fed appears for now to have sided with the hawks.
Traders said they have excess stock and face financial losses following the cancellation of other events.
In a properly functioning global financial system there can be no excess savings.
The city of nearly 300, 000 has become emblematic of both government excess and of the financial calamity that resulted when the nation's housing bubble burst.
In summary, I believe that these recent price increases are more attributable to the excess liquidity in the financial system than a sudden positive shift in global economic fundamentals.
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As stockmarkets rally on a belief that the central bank has acted pre-emptively and quashed any prospect of inflation, looser financial conditions could fuel the very excess demand that the Fed is trying to reign in.
The Fed felt so sure of the sustainability of the recovery that it decided to halt its year long program of buying mortgage-backed securities, and signaled that it would probably begin draining excess reserves from the financial system sometime very soon.
The government is under pressure to clean up Wall Street after an era of excess that imploded into the financial crisis.
"Financial institutions already have huge amounts of excess reserves which they have no way to utilise, " said Izuru Kato, chief market economist at Totan Research in Tokyo.
But I think the fundamental argument, which is perfectly sound and perfectly in keeping with both the white paper and the House bill, that we want to try to get banks back to the core function of relating to clients and not taking excess risky activities in the financial system.
In the process, it would provide the financial markets with needed Treasuries, while returning excess reserves to the nothingness from which they came.
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Mead Smoothing out the cycles Thanks to excess capacity and Asia's financial collapse, the price for pulp has fallen to about half its 1995 level.
On Monday, the Banking Committee of the United States Senate will debate a proposal to address the abuse and excess that led to the worst financial crisis in generations.
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Some of the largest plans make little financial sense and encourage cheating, not to mention excess pollution.
They then take those excess earnings and use them to buy financial assets.
That's why we're going to rein in the excess and abuse that nearly brought down our financial system.
"To the extent that booms may engender excess leverage in systemically sensitive parts of our financial system, we need to ensure that regulations and institutional structures are designed to enhance market discipline in ways that keep risk-taking under control, " the official said.
If the Fed truly wants to tighten, there's an easy, time-tested way to do it: sell bonds from its portfolio to mop up the excess money it's mistakenly spilled onto the financial markets for the past 18 months.
By ridding the nation of Taxation and instituting borrowing to fund public expenditures, the nation will shed all those costs of Taxation in deterrence and government excess for the negligible fee of borrowing in the financial markets and the administration of public debt.
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The Fed's excess money creation is still roiling and distorting economies and financial markets around the world.
Further strides would be welcome: the financial crisis is proof that America cannot usefully recycle the world's excess savings.
Since the financial crisis of 2009, the Fed has pumped trillions of dollars of excess reserves into the banking system in an effort to create employment growth.
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Mr. HALL: What it misses is the fact that many people who are in these difficult financial situations have more mortgage payments and other expenses that are way in excess of the rebate.
So in September, when U.S. car sales slowed and Chrysler's inventory began piling up on dealer lots, rather than keeping the factories humming and then boosting discounts to move the excess vehicles--a strategy that drove Chrysler into deep financial trouble in 2006 and at other times in its history--Nardelli decided to shut down six factories until the glut disappeared.
The industrial and financial base in China needs to continue to expand in order to absorb the excess commercial properties.
On the bright side for First Solar, its strong financial position could help it outlast competitors in a downturn which would result in excess capacity being taken out of the sector.
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Second, as we have described in numerous articles, the financial benefits these firms derive from their status as gatekeepers to funds are well in excess of annual fees paid by funds.
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