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The most powerful civil servant!
… Learn the unique economic and financial role of the FED and Chair in the U.S. FED activity and words of the Chair influences economic, financial, and central bank policy and actions taken around the world. Links at the end of this lesson will guide you to related lessons to learn more.
FAQ investors ask …
Former FED Chair, Ben Bernanke knows booming & busting
… grips the market, buyers vanish, credit freezes, and financial activity halts. Short-selling can worsen situations where there are already looming depressive or inflationary pressures.
Although governments, central banks, and organizations like the International Monetary Fund can stabilize markets, a financial crisis can suddenly or gradually escalate.
What is the business cycle?
The business cycle …
FED billions bounced depression
… public policy response ended the crisis. Following are questions investors asked and the needed answers.
What is Quantitative Easing?
Quantitative Easing (QE) is a unique and powerful central bank monetary tool to stimulate economic growth. The usual stimulation, purchasing short-term Treasuries, becomes ineffective when interest rates are near-zero. Then, central banks can turn …
Contents and Layout
… time commitment of investors
Blog – all posts listed in reverse chronological order
Bonds – debt obligations
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Central Banks – monetary policy and currency base for government and commercial banks
Bank of Canada – pending
Bank of England – pending
Bank of Japan – pending
Federal Reserve Bank- America calls the banking tune
European Central Bank – pending
Conference Calls – hot …
Trillions that stimulate the Japanese economy show our economic future!
… liquidity injections, fundamental government policy changes and clever debt management may combine into as a new economic model.
This lesson 6 of the Investors, The FED and Central Banks Banks course 145 gives detailed answers to the questions, what caused Japan’s economic crisis and how did Japan get past the lost decade? Links at …
4 Market direction drivers
… the U.S. FED fund rate is key. All other central banks and economies are directly and substantially affected by it. So no matter where you live this one is the one key rate. All other national and regional rates will be directly affected if not actually determined by it. That will hold true …
Read MoreInvention builds banking power
… or Bank of Canada, Bank of England, and so on, the specific mandate of each vary.
However, overall reserve banking serves as the base of all their mandates. That reserve structure or central bank serves as the bank for the banks. At least in theory, the central banks hold the reserves of the banks …
Informed investors hear FED market direction signals
… activities can happen, which attracts law enforcement action.
How did the FED make credit work during the financial crisis?
During the 2008 financial crisis, the FED demonstrated central bank power by creating more credit and dropping interest rates to zero. They also forced funds into banks to add liquidity and supported credit markets by buying …
FED begins Quantitative Tightening grinding out a tapering decade
After a decade of Quantitative Easing (QE), the next FED act must be grinding out a tapering decade, as the FED begins Quantitative Tightening (QT). The QT program unwinds the effects of the previous decade of QE. QE poured an ocean of stimulus funding into the economy following the 2008 financial crisis. As a result …
Read MoreBitcoin trust, fraud and psychology
… examples of both cases have occurred.
Confiscation protection
Crypto removes the ability of government to confiscate or inflate away value. Cryptocurrency disciples trot out the examples of central bank of Cyprus sought access to the uninsured deposits in their banks. The situation was complex and complicated but the point relevant to crypto fans was there …