US Federal Reserve

As we explain in our book Splitting Pennies - the world is not as we think!  Every day, our money is worth less and less, and markets become more cumbersome, regulated, and overall disfunctional (except for an elite group of billionaires that can front run orders due to advanced computer-aided execution because of 'order types').  We explained in an article about America's Big Red Forex Button, now we need to elaborate on the 'nuclear option' - considering that leading generals are saying more and more that war with Russia is 'plausible' if not 'likely'.

Authored by SaxoBank's Michael McKenna via Tradingfloor.com,

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

Destroying our ability to discover the real cost of assets, credit and risk has not just crippled the markets--it's crippled the entire economy.

Is anyone else fed up with the Federal Reserve? To paraphrase Irving Fisher's famous quote about the stock market just before it crashed in 1929, we've reached a permanently high plateau of Fed mismanagement, Fed worship and Fed failure.

Something has changed according to Jeff Gundlach.  After claiming that a rate hike is "inconceivable" as recently as a month ago, a stance which he softened somewhat in recent days, Gundlach said that the Fed has changed the conditions required for a potential interest-rate hike this year.

Cited by Bloomberg, Gundlach believes that the Fed's thinking has shifted from, 'if the data pattern improves we will have the green light to hike,' to 'unless the data pattern weakens we have the green light to hike.'"

Following yesterday's surprisingly hawkish minutes, the market held on to hope that either vice Chair Fischer, or former Goldmanite Bill "edible ipads" Dudley would provide at least some dovish counter to a Fed that suddenly has taken out all the wind from the market's sails. That did not happen earlier when Fischer refused to comment on monetary policy, while moments ago Bill Dudley deliver "Opening Remarks at the Economic Press Briefing on the U.S.