With dollar tumbling, Bernanke has to pretend that gold isn't better money

 

 

Gene Arensberg: Big traders positioning for silver strength 

 

 

Mining stocks soon to fly, Embry tells King World News

 

 

IEA Joins Fed In Making Failure Into Policy: Says Additional SPR Releases Possible 

If there is one thing in the past year that has received more ridicule than the Fed's horrendous monetary policy it is the IEA unprecedented decision to release 60 million in crude from the global strategic petroleum reserve. One needs to take a simple look at the price of crude just today to see what really is driving the prices in the energy complex. But that does not prevent the IEA from pursuing an obstinate insistence that its decision was justified, and defending the fact that it was nothing more than a puppet in the administration's political plot. From Dow Jones: "The International Energy Agency Wednesday rebutted criticism of its decision to release 60 million barrels of emergency oil stocks, saying the move is having the intended effect.  The IEA, which represents major energy consuming countries, hit back at some analysts' "blinkered focus" on the price of oil, which has rebounded above its level prior to the stock release. More important is that the market is now more flexible and the price of light sweet crude, relative to heavier grades, has fallen after increasing sharply following the outbreak of the Libyan civil war, it said." Although the confirmation that not only the Fed redefines Einstein's definition of insanity is this: "The agency also suggested an additional supply release was possible." Great: we are confident JPM just can't wait to lock in another 10% risk free arb by buying up Light Sweet at $107 at the next SPR auction and selling it, with a 3-6 month delay of course, in the open market at $120+.

Fed's Fisher Tells The Truth 

Some brutal truth from the Dallas Fed's Fisher

• FISHER SAYS THERE IS `PRICE' FOR `TINKERING' MORE WITH POLICY (about $1MM per FOMC Member)
• FISHER SAYS THINGS WILL BE WORSE IF FED JUST PRINTS MORE MONEY (there is no money printing... the Chairsatan said so)
• FED'S FISHER SAYS `MONETARY POLICY HAS EXHAUSTED ITSELF (but the Chairsatan just said the Fed is prepared to confirm its madness by doing for the third time what failed twice already)

Ignore the second bullet point: according to the Fed Chairman and chartalists it is all just an asset swap. "There is no money printing" is what one hears all day long after all. Or wait, maybe someone else is confused, and perhaps Fisher is actually telling the truth. Oh well, semantics. Either way, Fisher's pink slip is in the mail.

Fed Releases Latest QE Lite POMO Schedule: Brian Sack To Monetize A Paltry $14 Billion In Next 30 Days 

The latest QE Lite (not QE2.5, not QE3) POMO schedule has been released. The New York Fed will purchase a measly $14 billion (so much for stealth monetization: this is about one-eighth the regular amount of monthly QE2 POMO) over 7 operations between July 15 and August 8. The biggest POMOs will occur on July 27 and August 3 when up to $3.50 billion in 10 and 7 year bonds will be monetized. The reason for the dramatic slowdown in QE Lite activity? The collapse in MBS prepayments, as we have cautioned for months. So much for stealth QE2 as others have claimed. $14 billion in flow (and remember according to the fed only Stock matters, another matter on which it is dead wrong) per month is a total joke - it is barely enough to keep Netflix at 1 million fwd P/E, and is just another reason why QE3 is coming.

 

 

Guest Post: Poverty In America, Part I 

As of August 2011, it will be three years since the global financial meltdown. In three years, the Savior State has borrowed and blown $6 trillion maintaining the Status Quo, and the Federal Reserve has printed almost $3 trillion and shoveled that vast sum into "risk assets" to keep housing on life support and the stock market rising. The Fed has also devalued and debased the dollar, stealing wealth from the citizenry and holders of U.S.-denominated debt in the process, to serve two goals: 1) spark inflation and thus avoid deflationary deleveraging of the nation's fast-growing mountain of debt, and 2) to enable servicing that debt with cheaper dollars. None of these grandiose manipulations has healed the economy or fixed the structural problems which made the meltdown inevitable. 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Month Bill: -0.005%... Again 

When we observed the 1 month Bill auction yesterday which priced at a 6 week high of 0.002% we speculated, incorrectly, that the market may be starting to get concerned about the whole debt ceiling thing (which has 8 days until the legislative D-Day of July 22), especially following the John Boehner quote just carried by AP that "there is no guarantee of a debt limit raise if no deal by August 2." And yes, the deadline by which Congress has to pass this law is 10 days prior. But anyway: as of minutes ago, this 4 week bill which saw some "weakness" yesterday is back to where it was a week ago: -0.005%. Translation: Uncle Sam will gladly take your money to take your money.