Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell rarely gives media interviews. Most of his interaction with journalists takes place in the carefully controlled – and credentialed – environment of post-meeting press conferences. One notable exception was last May when the Fed’s head guy visiting with 60 Minutes so that he could, pardon the expression, lie his ass off. Today, March 25, 2021, [...]
59.0 The Best Podcast Intros of Making Sense, Season 1———Episode 59 Intro———March 23, 2020 is a day that no financial market participant will forget. It was the day that America's S&P 500 put in its low and stock prices began their climb to "what looks like a permanently high plateau." More importantly, it was the day that Making Sense debuted. [...]
In theory, it goes like this: QE or any sort of large-scale asset purchase (LSAP) undertaken by a central bank is needed during times of trouble in order to reduce interest rates in general. Buying bonds seems like it would lower yields, and lower yields mean more accommodative credit, therefore a boost to the real economy.So simple, straightforward, and intuitive, [...]
58.3 Izabella Kaminska on Green Bitcoin, Privacy & NFTs ———Part 3 Summary——— Izabella Kaminska, editor of Alphaville - the Financial Times blog, talks: bitcoin free-market green energy, non-fungible tokens, cryptocurrency's role in the monetary order, intraday interbank liquidity, central bank command-economy green agendas and more! ———Episode 58 Intro——— Welcome to Making Sense. Jeff Snider and I are joined by a [...]
There is a bit of a benefit from all this SLR “cliff” business, though tangential in nature. It is another test of the “too many” Treasury hypothesis, the idea that a lot of the problems in funding markets like repo had been caused by the government’s fiscal profligacy (especially following December 2017’s TCJA “tax reform”). With foreigners selling UST’s, and [...]
58.2 Izabella Kaminska on UBI, MMT, ESG and -isms———Part 2 Summary———Izabella Kaminska, editor of Alphaville - the Financial Times blog, talks political-economy: work furlough as proto Universal Basic Income, a labor force under Modern Monetary Theory, naïve accedence of Environmental-Social Governance, socialism, communism, corporate-capitalism and more! ———Episode 58 Intro——— Welcome to Making Sense. Jeff Snider and I are joined by [...]
58.1 Izabella Kaminska on Media, Criticism and Trust———Part 1 Summary——— Izabella Kaminska, editor of Alphaville - the Financial Times blog, talks: financial journalism, the necessity of skepticism, public distrust of media, press reticence to cover underclass concerns, reportage to clarify versus to convince, technology's impact on news, and more! ———Episode 58 Intro——— Welcome to Making Sense. Jeff Snider and I [...]
The SLR exemption is ending! The SLR exemption is ending! Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it? There has been rampant speculation the last few weeks about the fate of the exemption the Fed provided banks a year ago with regard to the Supplemental Leverage Ratio that allowed them to ignore Treasuries and reserves. The banks themselves warned that [...]
The Federal Reserve has allowed itself an image of a marshmallow when it comes to the banking system it is (one-third) charged with regulating. First and foremost, along with the two other (redundant) triplets, the OCC and FDIC, the US central bank is not a central bank at all; it is near exclusively a domestic bank regulator. And while “macroprudential” [...]
57.0 Jeff Snider Reacts Live to Paul Krugman Column———Intro———Will Stagnation Follow the Biden Boom? So asks New York Times columnist (and Nobel Memorial Prize winner) Paul Krugman. Jeff Snider listens and reacts to Krugman's lament that though the relief bill is done, recovery may be harder. ———SEE IT——— AlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3roy Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffSnider_AIPTwitter: https://twitter.com/EmilKalinowskiArt: https://davidparkins.com/ ———HEAR IT——— Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39Xjr ———Ep 57.0 Topics——— 00:05 Paul Krugman, NYTimes [...]
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