Federal Reserve Created Bitcoin and Other Percolating Bubbles – Michael Carino, Greenwich Endeavors
by Greenwich Endeavors
ZeroHedge.com
Dec 7, 2017
The Federal Reserve’s tools for achieving its dual mandate
of low inflation and full employment manipulate interest rates and therefore
markets. This manipulation of rates reverberates
globally. Their manipulation historically had been more light handed and
invisible to most of the public. However, over the last decade, their impact on
interest rates and yield levels have been the most dramatic in the history of
the Federal Reserve.
Whenever you have policies that are extreme, it is best to
stay at extremes for the shortest time possible. Newly employed policies always have unknown
and unexplored side effects that can prove to be harmful and detrimental. For instance, pharmaceutical companies have a
long testing period before new products can be offered to the public. But monetary policy works with impunity towards
negative consequences. No accountability
and the subterfuge of finding other scape goats encourage testing these extremes.
During economic downturns, the Federal Reserve experiences
pressure from politicians and the public to act in whatever manner necessary. Pressure to adequately address what are normal
and healthy corrections in long business cycles is smothering and the Federal
Reserve members oblige. But obliging
over the past decade without reverting policy back to normal has created unprecedented
low levels of interest rates and trillions in bonds on the Fed’s balance sheet,
flooding the banking system with an unhealthy amount of funds.
The Federal Reserve has arguably achieved its dual mandate years
ago. The employment situation has been
healthy and healed for years and now is considered historically as tight as
this country has ever experienced. This
will lead to scarcity of labor in certain sectors going forward. Businesses will be confronted with higher
labor costs competing for limited resources or relocating to areas with more
abundant labor.
But what about inflation? The Fed’s preferred gauge of inflation seems
to be running at or slightly below their targeted level of 2%. Sounds like they have hit their target even
though they have pursued the most aggressive monetary policy in the worlds
history. Shouldn’t we have runaway
inflation with such easy central bank policies?
Unfortunately, we do.
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