Topic: U.S. Federal Reserve

The Treasury, Mosquitoes, and Unintended Consequences

The moves of our Federal Reserve and Treasury in the last few weeks are gigantic in scope. Decades from now students will study 2008 when the financial markets changed, when the relationship between the government and the private ...READ»

Dealing with Reality

The Fed stated in documents released from it closed-door meeting held earlier this month that in its efforts to fuel the recovery it is holding to its bank lending rate at basically zero. It acknowledged that there is the possibility, ...READ»

Hennion and Walsh Article: 'Salivating Opportunities' Seen in Tanked Market

"The more the markets are allowed to work things out the better," said Kevin Mahn, Chief Investment Officer at Hennion and Walsh Asset Management Inc., a Parsippany, N.J.-based firm with $300 million under management.READ»

Thanksgiving Week Roundup: Markets and The Economy

Friday, November 28, 2008 In a shortened week that received absolutely dismal economic news, Washington awoke from its most recent policy slumber and made real progress in the War on Scarcity. President-elect Obama must be ...READ»

The New Color of Money

RIP "The Greenback" (1905-2003) The Federal Reserve announced today a firm date for the newly designed twenty-dollar bill to enter circulation, October 9th. The new twenty, which the Fed says is its most secure note ever, still ...READ»

The Great E-pression?

Author Michael Bordo argues that parallels drawn between the 1930s and today are unfounded and should not trigger market panic. Do you agree?READ»

Dow 10,000! Sellout or Dig in? Is the Market poised for a fall?

Shawn Baldwin from CMG discusses the market opportunities at Dow 10,000 and Goldman SachsREAD»

You can change the rules but that won’t change the outcome.

Why do we think more legislation will change the way executives behave?READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 49

How big a problem is the telecom meltdown?READ»

The Next Shoe to Drop: Commercial Real Estate

15 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com We’re all aware of the calamitous mortgage crisis with consumers loosing their homes, bank foreclosures, the lending freeze and the rapid unraveling of the economy in ...READ»

How to Repair a Broken Financial World

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN Continued from "The End of the Financial World As We Know It" Mr. Paulson must have had some reason for doing what he did. No doubt he still believes that without all this frantic activity ...READ»

Bonds slip as economy shrinks less than forecast

"Consumer spending is about 70 percent of the GDP and this looks like the lowest it has been in two decades, which goes to show that in the fourth quarter we are going into the recession, said Bill Walsh, president of Hennion & Walsh in Parsippany, New Jersey."READ»

Another Stimulus Package? Give Me a Break

Democrats, now backed by Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, are calling for a second stimulus package which could cost as much as $300 billion. To clarify, that’s $300 billion on top of the $168 billion stimulus passed last ...READ»

The Six Best (and Worst) Things on the Web This Week

You were busy listening to President Obama talk about health care, or watching the economy defy even the most pessimistic doomsayers. But all the while, the Web was churning with news of backroom dealings, car tech, Harvard's secret ...READ»

The Federal Open Market Committee

Do you know who to blame for those crazy-low CD returns? The 10 men and women of the FOMC -- five regional Fed presidents and five Fed governors -- will gather October 28 -- 29 in Washington, D.C., to set monetary policy and consider interest rates. READ»

• Now October 2008
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The Global Trade

Discussion of Global Capital Markets and Emerging Market opportunities as a result of the G20 summitREAD»

Greenspan: Longevity, Defined

Eighteen years after a far less furrowed Ayn Rand acolyte named Alan Greenspan took over the Federal Reserve, the inscrutable chairman marked his final appearance before Congress today. This amazing longevity -- consider that he held ...READ»

The 4 Horsemen of Recovery: Investor, Lender, Consumer and Multiplier

Monday, December 8, 2008 Motion vs. Movement In a Mid-October Insight we offered the following prediction: I believe we have now entered purgatory. Valuations are low enough, but we have too much uncertainty to expect an immediate ...READ»

The Check-Clearing Quagmire

Soon, it won't take a week to clear a check.READ»

How Do We Boost Those Much Needed R&D Dollars?

I just read a blog on WashingtonPost.com that essentially says that a business is doomed to failure if it cannot be on the cutting edge of innovation. And there is no bigger source of innovation than the ideas, products, and designs ...READ»

Class Acts

Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation. Here's our Class of 2005.READ»

A Wall to Push Off...

To intervene or not to intervene. That is the raging debate on our satellites. That is the raging debate around our water coolers. ‘Let them fail!’ or “They are too big to fail.’ But it is far deeper and more subtle than ...READ»

Seven Big Names to Watch This Week

Stephen Colbert Goes Iraqi Late night faux-newsman Stephen Colbert will be broadcasting four shows from Baghdad, Iraq next week in a USO tour entitled, "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando." Colbert is ...READ»

PULLING THE TRIGGER(S)

Shawn Baldwin from CMG in ChicagoREAD»

Replace Ben Bernanke with Paul Volcker

At first blush, this idea may seem radical, but these are not ordinary times. What are the benefits if President Obama figuratively walks out to the pitcher’s mound, take the ball from Bernanke, and say, “Ben, you threw one hell of a game for eight innings. We can take it from here; the economy is heating up.” Then, Obama turn towards the bullpen forms his hand into the shape of a clam, opens, and closes it twice, to signal for his major league inflation closer – Paul Volcker.READ»