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Fed policies helped corporate earnings, which then yield rising stocks. Also, with lower bank yields, banks are more profitable and with lower alternatives, stock look attractive. It's not a sinister conspiracy. The same thing happens in reverse when the Fed tightens money.
Fed policies helped corporate earnings, which then yield rising stocks. Also, with lower bank yields, banks are more profitable and with lower alternatives, stock look attractive. It's not a sinister conspiracy. The same thing happens in reverse when the Fed tightens money.
That's a bad thing according to our Libertarian Heroes of the Night.
Seems like it. Gold is on an overall downward trend as well. That's not a sign that the market is failing, at least not for the short to medium term.
Good points. It's odd how conservatives claim to know so much about the market and business, yet the signs that markets and businesses are sending run counter to their claims.
So you admit that the Fed's policies are helping the market?
Those in the market are the only ones whom the Fed's policy is helping.
Normally the market is the leading indicator that shows how economic society in general is doing. This is not the case now.
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Good points. It's odd how conservatives claim to know so much about the market and business, yet the signs that markets and businesses are sending run counter to their claims.
We are not in a normal business cycle right now. It is not normal for the Fed to be pumping in record amounts of cash into the economy. The government is definitely controlling things right now. So yeah - expect people who normally understand how the business cycle works to be thrown off course right now.
So you admit that the Fed's policies are helping the market?
if you define "the market" as publicly traded equities
..then yes. the fed's policies are helping "the market."
although the fed will come straight out and tell you, the labor market is what it pays the most attention to.
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Good points. It's odd how conservatives claim to know so much about the market and business, yet the signs that markets and businesses are sending run counter to their claims.
a lot of conservatives these days are austrians, and they're just now grappling with the fact that their ideology does not accurately describe the workings of the modern economy. the big catastrophic failure on their part is the inability to differentiate between the various different types of inflation, or how they're caused.
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