US Federal Reserve

On May 18, 2015, the ECB's Benoit Coeure held a closed-door speech under "Chatham House" rules in which he leaked to an audience of hedge funds in London that "the central bank would moderately front-load its purchases in its quantitative easing program because of the seasonal lack of market liquidity in the summer." The reaction was an instant 50 pips drop in EURUSD as one or more funds decided to ignore the "rules", and promptly traded on the material, market moving leak.

The fate of oil companies and nations hangs in the balance of oil prices. Russia could go broke. Some think that’s by US design. Saudi Arabia could experience its Arab Spring if oil prices remain too low too long. And OPEC is dead. That’s the biggest news in this new century for oil.

For years the Fed has been lying about inflation.

There are many methods of doing this, but the simplest was to use a “measure” of inflation that did not actually measure inflation at all.

This is the famous Consumer Price Index of CPI. It is meant to measure inflation, but ignores obvious costs of living items like food and energy usage.

Why lie about inflation?

Two main reasons:

1)   Doing so allows the Fed and others to overstate economic growth in the US.

In what is now a weekly tradition for the new bond king, overnight DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach spoke to Reuters' Jenn Ablan following his periodic investor conference call, to discuss such things as the Fed's rate hike, on which he remains understandably skeptical and said the Fed will be "challenged" to raise interest rates this year.  Specifically he said that there appears to be "some (hawkish) rebellion showing up at the Fed." This came following the latest statement by Kansas City Fed President and noted hawk, Esther George, who  said on Thursday that the Fed is keeping interest rates t

Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via First Rebuttal.com,

If one steps back and simply looks at the accuracy of the world’s prominent PhD economists and market pros’ predictions over the past 7 years one can’t help but shake one’s head. And I believe investors have become wise to their ignorance.  We’ve seen a record 15 consecutive weeks of net selling of equities despite these expert pundits continuing on in their attempt to deceive investors into believing we are just one or two quarters away from that (now) proverbial recovery.