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In its death note to narrow banks (link to Federal Register where you can post comments; previous post ), the Fed claimed charmingly that retail deposit rates are fully competitive, so we don't need a narrow bank option to help spread the interest on reserves to deposit rates. In the Fed'...

In my forty-four years on Wall Street, I have learned a few lessons. One of the most important ones is that the avoidance of "Risk," of places that are dangerous to go, allows you to greatly increase the safety, and return, of your portfolios. "Staying out of trouble" is a key component to any...

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled “Bonds Setting Up To Skyrocket,” and boy did I get a lot of pushback in the comments section. And, when I see so many who are still very bearish of bonds, it tells me that I am likely on the right track with my expectations for higher ...

Life is full of facts we don't know or have simply forgotten. In a comment, a writer recently encouraged the curious to search "hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic." Some of what I discovered was surprising. Germany had come out of the first World War with most of its industrial power in...

The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee meets on Wednesday and the feeling is that there will be no change in the central bank’s policy rate of interest. Fed watchers, however, will be looking for changes in the “feel and tone” of what Federal Reserve officials wr...

Last week, Jeff Desjardins of Visual Capitalist wrote in a post: "While it's true that putting your money on the line is never easy the historical record of the stock market is virtually irrefutable: U.S. markets have consistently performed over long holding periods, even going back to the ...

Thus will end the central banks' bombastic hubris and the public's faith in central banks' godlike powers. Having fixed the liquidity crisis of 2008-09 and kept a perversely unequal "recovery" staggering forward for a decade, central banks now believe there is no crisis they can't defeat:...

What's Really Causing the Gigantic US Trade Deficit? Ultimately, the issue is not China, Germany, Japan or Mexico. The issue is much closer to home. And where are the efforts to tame it headed? (12 minutes): Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking ...

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them: to die, to sleep no more; and by a sleep, to say we end the heart-ache, and the thousand natur...

By David Q. Tang, Senior Quantitative Analyst - Investment Grade, Yanbo Li, Senior Quantitative Analyst - Investment Grade and Apoorv Tandon, Quantitative Analyst - Investment Grade What is the “term premium”, why is it so low, why might it rise - and what does it mean for...