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Printing Press fired up and churning out cash
On the contrary, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the monetary base (the raw material for the money supply) has risen at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 86% over the past year. Bad enough, but over the past three months this has skyrocketed to an annual rate of almost 1,000%!
Adjusted reserves have ballooned from $100 billion to $700 billion since mid-September, while the Fed’s balance sheet has more than doubled over this period of time, from about $900 billion to a thumping $2.2 trillion.
These funds are beginning to show up in the Fed’s two…
23Dec2008 | The Real Deal | 0 comments | ContinuedU.S. Consumers Destined for a Future with Fewer Choices, Much-Higher Costs
Recent high-profile bankruptcies of mainstay American retailers, such as Sharper Image Corp. (SHRPQ) and Linens Holding Co.’s Linens ‘n Things, as well as the proposed mergers between Blockbuster Inc. (BBI)/Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC) and Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL)/Northwest Airlines Corp. (NWA), and the admissions from the nation’s leading student lenders that their business models are no longer viable, mark the beginning of a long overdue overhaul of the American economy. In short, the economy will be getting smaller and more expensive.
The success of all of these seemingly disparate sectors depends, to a large extent, on the ability of…
23Apr2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | Continued
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