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Over the past five years the Fed has printed $4 trillion to buy near worthless mortgage backed securities from otherwise bankrupt banks and to fund 90% of the U.S. government’s deficit spending with the stated purpose of boosting real estate and stock prices. The Fed now appears to be realizing t...
05/28/2014

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The United States is able to incur massive deficits funded in part by foreign purchases of U.S. debt and more recently and increasingly through the Federal Reserve’s (the Fed) purchases of T Bonds as part of their multi-year/multi trillion dollar quantitative easing (QE) program whereby they prin...
05/25/2014

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http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2014/05/16/housing-starts-up-sharply-permits-highest-since-2008/ New home sales are way off their peak of 6-8 years ago and are still at levels last seen in the 1960' and 70's when the population was far less numerous. The Law of Small Numbers: http://sma...
05/16/2014

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The Obama Administration and federal regulators are concerned that the housing “recovery” is in jeopardy. As we noted last month the housing recovery that never was, is over. Existing home sales are falling as are mortgage applications, home ownership rates and new home construction.  Five long y...
05/14/2014

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The 1st Quarter 2014 GDP Number 15:27-18:20 The first quarter GDP was up just 0.1% in the first quarter and the weather was blamed for the poor economic performance. Cold weather can't derail an entire economy. Recent tornados in the south may also be blamed for a lack of 2nd quarter GDP growth, ...
05/03/2014

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Who Will Buy The U.S. Treasuries That The Fed Stops Buying? With the Fed seemingly determined to end its multi year/multi trillion dollar money printing quantitative easing (QE) program, many have pondered who will buy the U.S. Treasuries at the current prices in order to maintain low interest ra...
05/02/2014
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