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Now that the prospect of helicopter money by the ECB has so infuriated Germany, the ECB had to reach out to Schauble to "mollify" the Germans who are dreading the second coming of monetary paradrops in one century, it was only a matter of time before Citadel's most prominent employer opined. In a blog post earlier today, Brookings' blogger and the central banker who together with Alan Greenspan has been most responsible for the world's unprecedented debt pile and sad economic state, Ben Bernanke, took the podium to share his views on "helicopter money" head on.

While the market is still enjoying the post-NFP weekly data lull, economic data starts to pick up again in the coming days, alongside the start of the reporting season. Below are this week's key events.

From DB, a brief recap of all upcoming global events:

With a particularly quiet start to the week today and no notable releases due out, we’re jumping straight ahead to tomorrow where the early data is out of Germany with the confirmation of the final March CPI data.

 

One of the more significant, if largely underreported events from last Friday, was the Fed's surprising announcement that it would conduct a closed meeting tomorrow, April 11, at 11:30am "under expedited procedures" during which the Board of Governors will review and determine advance and discount rates charged by the Fed banks.

This is notable because the last time such a meeting took place was on November 21, less then a month before the Fed's historic first rate hike in years.

Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds

Japan Desperately Needs A Stronger Dollar, China Desperately Wants A Weaker Dollar: The Fed Can't Please Both

The FX market is about to blow up in the Fed's face, and there's nothing they can do about it.

Foreign exchange (FX) is a zero-sum game: if one currency weakens, another must strengthen. Since the value of a currency is relative to other currencies, all currencies can't weaken together: at least one currency must strengthen as others weaken.

Someone seems to have hit the emergency button at the Fed, as even though the central bank said that everything was just fine with the American economy just a few weeks and months ago, the situation has currently escalated into a full-blown panic mode.