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• Bank Of England Preparing To Blow Bubble Of Unprecedented Proportions

  
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  In the latest attempt to prove that nobody ever learns anything from history, the Bank Of England is practically betting the Devonshire farm that by putting the UKs economy on nitrous, it will recapture all the lost output during the recession, and that it will be able to time the stimulus exit perfectly, thus ...
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• Over $1 Trillion In Excess Reserves? Not A Problem According To Goldman Sachs

  
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  As we pointed out recently , excess reserves at banking institutions have hit yet another all time record over $1 trillion, courtesy not just of the Feds burgeoning reliquification efforts via direct asset purchases, but also due to its strategy to wind down the SFP program , and keep the Federal debt level under ...
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• Under Attack, Fed Chairman Studies Politics

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  As the Federal Reserve has come under scrutiny, Ben S. Bernanke, its chairman, is nurturing political ties as never before.
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• Dodd Finance Regs Would Gut the Fed’s Powers

  
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  Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is set today to unveil legislation overhauling the way the banking industry is regulated. On certain points, the Dodd bill mirrors the wish list outlined by the Obama administration over the summer, including the creation of a new federal agency designed to protect consumers from the ...
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• The Worlds Most Important Trading Desk Is Not At Goldman, But Is On The 9th Floor Of 33 Liberty Street

  
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  Even though our good Samaritan friends at One New York Plaza may take offense to this designation, the trading desk that controls the formerly free world is not located anywhere on the premises of Goldman Sachs, but is instead situated on the 9th floor of 33 Liberty Street, also known as the home New York Fed. From a ...
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• U.S. economy 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who Crashed the World ; Reuters special coverage Wall Street pay Bank Lending Down Despite Massive Bailouts And Increasing Regulations While financial institutions including Citigroup Inc. and ...
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• Intraday Charting

  
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  The DXY minibounce from the 75 support level is being tracked by 10 Year Treasurys tick for tick. The only outlier is the equity market where to say there is no volume participation would be an overstatement. The VIX is meandering somewhere in between the SPY and the USTs. All in all, the FX and the bond markets are ...
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• Blodget says Ben Bernanke has a secret plan

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 661
  Filed under: Federal Reserve Dont count me among Henry Blodgets admirers, but he makes an interesting argument in a recent video posted on BusinessInsider.com (see below). Blodget argues that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a "secret plan" to keep interest rates too low for too long on purpose. Why? To ...
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• A Summary Of The Feds Various Open Market Intervention Techniques

  
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  For all who have written asking for a clear and succinct summary of all of the Feds various market intervention mechanisms, we provide the following overview report written by the Fed itself . Topics covered include Monetization, Excess and Borrowed Reserves, Open Market Operations (Outright and Temporary), Repo ...
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• Russia Joins Dollar Interventionists, Shifts Position Diametrically As It Now Plans To Buy Gold

  
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  As Zero Hedge speculated recently, the latest participant on the gold bandwagon is now officially Russia, which last month was said to be considering a sale of up to 25 tons of gold. That posturing did not last too long. Not only that, but Russia is now also actively participating in the dollar intervention market, ...
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• Too Big to Fail: Sanders Says "Break These Babies Up"

  
  POPULAR PROGRESSIVE — Authority: 120
  Sen. Bernie Sanders makes some very good points. Whether you agree with his assessment that the "to big to fail" companies need to be broken up, the point that these companies are costing us all is irrefutable. More than a year has gone by since Congress passed the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. The Federal ...
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• The Feds Nemesis: Exters $2 Quadrillion Of "Liquidity"

  
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  Another representation of what will likely become a prevalent topic in upcoming days: the Exter pyramid. When the system works, the various layers are in equilibrium. When the system is broken, like it is now, the Fed and all Central Banks try to refill the pyramid from the bottom-up with every single dollar they ...
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• Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency (Usurpership) Of Barack H Obama

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 498
  Granted it is a pretty lengthy playlist consisting of 14 videos but Patriots it certainly worth it. -David Crockett Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be ...
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• If only they had been in Charge instead of Geithner/Bernanke and Paulson

  
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• Reverse Repo Failure Confirmation, Primary Dealers Want Exemption From Tier One Capital Requirements To Do Reverse Repos

  
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  A few weeks ago we speculated that the Federal Reserves attempt to conduct a reverse repo test as part of a liquidity drainage failed. In a stunning piece of news, Zero Hedge friend Jim Bianco sent us the following. Little commentary is necessary: the banks are about to unleash the massive leverage ploy all over ...
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• September Consumer Credit Lower By $14.8 Billion, Worse Than ($10) Billion Estimate; Consumers Refuse To Borrow

  
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  Total consumer credit has dropped for the 8th straight month as consumers refuse to buy stocks while maxing out their credit cards, contrary to what GE, Bernstein and Bernanke want them to do. 4 more months and the US consumer will have given the administration the reflation finger for one straight year. Excess ...
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• Dollar retreats despite fears from job market – weekly roundup

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 433
  The dollar finishes the week lower against most currencies this week. The fear that ruled last week wasn’t fueled by the terrible American job market, and the blurry rate decision by the Fed. The horizon isn’t clear with this jobless recovery. Here’s an overview of this week in forex trading.The US Dollar Index ...
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• When the Dollar Rallies, the Market will Crash By Mike Whitney

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 148
  When the financial system blows up and credit is sucked down a capital-hole, the economy goes into a downward spiral. Businesses slash inventory and lay off workers, workers have to cut back on spending and credit. That creates less demand for products, which leads to more lay offs. This is the vicious circle ...
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• Ben Bernanke Makes 3rd Major Mistake: Its Solvency, Not Liquidity

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 129
    John M. Mason- The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank are all keeping interest rates exceedingly low and are continuing to engage in “quantitative easing.” The central banks have claimed that they are caught in a “liquidity trap” and cannot force interest ...
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• How Ben Bernanke Is Literally Herding Investors Into Stocks

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ben-bernanke-is-literally-herding-investors-into-stocks-2009-11 “Bubbly Ben has engineered one of the most incredible liquidity driven rallies in the history of the stock market. The reflation trade, made famous by John Paulson, has been a huge winner for investors ...
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