quantitative easing

By Annaly Capital Management. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Annaly Salvos, and we thought we would take advantage of this milestone to revisit the graph at the heart of our very first post. It is a snapshot of the…

The U.S. long bond yield is edging lower with each and every passing day, and now stands below 3.90%. At the same time, we cannot help but notice the huge gap that still exists between 10s and 30s — nearly 100 basis points. There is…

The following is a letter to clients from RBS’ Chief Market Strategist Bob Janjuah that is making the rounds (hat tip Scott). Dear All I am deeply troubled by the world and markets. THIS IS AN UBER BEAR EARLY WARNING ALERT:...I know its…

Randy Wray says: The Federal Reserve on Monday proposed allowing banks to park their reserves at the central bank, a move aimed at weaning the economy off extraordinary infusions of cash and curbing inflation. The Fed would create the…

This comes via the FT: Latvia’s prime minister has warned Swedish banks they risk choking off recovery in the Baltic state’s crisis-hit economy unless they resume lending. Banks such as Swedbank and SEB, which dominate the Latvian…

Note: this post originally was posted without correct attribution to Bill Mitchell, who writes a blog called Billy Blog where he had posted the thoughts now attributed to him below. Bill is a well-regarded Professor of Economics at the…

When asked about monetary policy by Sen. David Vitter earlier this month, Ben Bernanke gave the following response. The public’s understanding of the Federal Reserve’s commitment to price stability helps to anchor inflation expectations…

There has been quite a lot of hub-bub today about President Obama’s fat cat remarks and his meeting with bankers exhorting them to lend. Let me tie these events in with a few other themes into a comprehensive picture of what is happening in…

A friend Scott caught this article on Bloomberg about the latest economic figures out of Japan: Japan’s economy expanded less than a third of the pace initially reported in the three months to September as companies slashed spending.…

This is an important question which Brad DeLong asks (Hat tip Mark Thoma). Here’s the logic: Right now, if you ask the decisive members of congress—by which I mean the Blue Dog Democrats in the House, or the most conservative Democrats…