Afterward the committee that had booked us fed us a fine dinner, and by then our resentment had melted away.
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Markets in Europe are rallying strongly this morning, reportedly also on a bet that the US Fed will move quickly, probably at its FOMC meeting tomorrow, to provide another round of quantitative easing.
Usually, she made us tea and fed us.
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Short-term thinking tells us that Fed is being "stimulative" through its low-rate policies, but price controls are just that, and it is the Fed's efforts to enforce non-market rates of interest that are presently making credit hard to find.
Scott, thanks for joining us, and tell us - the Fed working on a Sunday.
Which brings us to the Fed's enormous new powers, not to mention its current ones.
This is not simply a "line" being fed us by agribusiness but is supported by scholars of sustainable agriculture.
Combine that with the fact that they often like to take us higher into Fed and sell-off, and we are cautious today.
She also fed us more bad chop suey regarding the U.S. dollar.
That work was led, perhaps coincidentally, by imaginative, far sighted Germans who fed us all a sense that this was a real mission driven by practical ingenuity.
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Well, a little birdie just fed us a few more details to flesh out this tale, including our first pics of an actual device and not just some press renders.
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This is also where many institutional investors have focused their attention, because the emerging market sovereign bonds are closer substitutes for investment grade bonds here in the US. As the Fed has crowded people out of the US investment grade space, they have moved to emerging market sovereign bonds as an easy substitute.
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They will decline in value, which will quickly make the Fed insolvent, and a further liability to the people of the US. So either the Fed sells the bonds and reduces bank reserves, further tightening an already tightening lending market, or it really weakens its balance sheet.
Unlike most fantasy in any medium, in Dark Souls the world is fed to us with little hints.
The FED and US Government already know that Iran will self destruct as Iraq becomes an economic power house!
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The internet blackout was hugely effective in spreading the word about SOPA. But what happens if the whole thing is fed to us piecemeal, in unrecognizable bits and pieces?
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Often the books we read, music we listen to, products we buy and even relationships we enter into are fed to us from the cloud, based on our habits and preferences.
He apparently sees no reason to agree with me (or Americans who earn fixed incomes from their savings accounts) that consumer spending is being constrained by the Fed giving us zero return on our money.
The Fed just told us they're not anxious to raise money market rates.
"US liquidity concerns following the Fed minutes looks like the pin which will burst the recent bubble in equities, " said Mike McCudden, head of derivatives at Interactive Investor.
The Fed has given us QE, QE2 and QE3 as strategies to suppress interest rates, stimulate the economy and as a by-product, up shift the housing market recovery.
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While the Fed believes the US economy will "probably" return to more rapid growth, Mr Greenspan said it was still possible that war uncertainties were masking "persisting strains and imbalances".
Also supporting USD outright to yen is the hope that a US recovery may compel the Fed to not wholly commit to extending QE purchases, which would forego a looser monetary policy.
Now, when interest rates do rise with a recovering economy, what will happen to the value of all those US Treasuries purchased by the Fed at their maximum value in this period of low interest rates?
Now God forbid the Fed should tell us this is what is going on, it will only be perceived as another bank bailout (which it is.) Better to keep us guessing to slow down the market reactions and to avoid those unintended consequences.
So while many are complaining about how the Fed is destroying the US economy with bailouts.
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