Fed announces taper

[madfranks]

From $85 billion in counterfeit money per month to $75 billion per month. Will there be blood in the markets?

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/18/news/economy/federal-reserve-taper/


Federal Reserve officials decided Wednesday to start gradually reducing their massive economic stimulus program.

Beginning in January, the Fed will buy $75 billion in bonds each month, down from the $85 billion it had been buying since September 2012.

More at link.

[Neuro]

Hoooray, we will get $500 gold and $7 silver now. So they stop feeding the tapeworm now, once they see it starting feeding on the body, they will increase the taper portion again, probably to $100 Billion or more per month...

[ximmy]

Everything is fine, the future bright. Dollar is super strong, just look at PM prices... (insert rolley eyes here)

The newly printed money is for paying federal employees, welfare, etc. anything where dollars are needed because they spend more than they take in.

Cut veteran benefits or any other number of things, and they can reduce it by 10 billion.

Then ...type a couple more 0's into a computer and you appear to have all the money you need. :)sal

[Ponce]

They will shake the tree one more time........so......whatever you do, if you have PM DON'T SELL........what you sell they will buy and after the bloodshed is over PM will be taking a trip into outer space.

V

[Sparky]

They will shake the tree one more time........so......whatever you do, if you have PM DON'T SELL........what you sell they will buy and after the bloodshed is over PM will be taking a trip into outer space.

V

This seems about right. I don't think there are many people here who are considering selling during these shakedowns. But the whole thing is a psychological game. This has been a relentless beat down for two years. This next upleg should be a doozy.

[osoab]

The last time they had the taper talk, the market tanked. Looks like today was rally to baseline highs.

The below is perfectly normal. Well, that's CNBC would say.

http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=YM&cot=124601,124603&p=m5



http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=ES&cot=138741,13874A&p=m5

http://www.finviz.com/fut_chart.ashx?t=NQ&cot=209741,209742&p=m5

[Ares]

Fed Taper policy:

http://www.smellypoop.com/v2images/photos/usersubmitted/4243.jpg

See how the ends are tapered?

[osoab]

So the FED is a floater?

[Ares]

So the FED is a floater?

A 100 year floating piece of shit parasite... Yeah that about sums it up.

[mick silver]

before there done they will cut the tree down to the ground . they need everyone to be broke . When We Will Celebrate the End of QE, and Why

By Staff Report - December 19, 2013

Farewell QE, you have been a magnificent success ... As the US Federal Reserve starts to drain dollar liquidity from the global system at long last, let us celebrate success. Quantitative easing has worked marvellously well. Monetary policy has been vindicated. – UK Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: Hurray for central banking. It works!
Free-Market Analysis: The promotional propaganda is well underway. We are told that central banks are starting to print less money, especially the Federal Reserve.
But to run a central bank is to run a printing press. And no one – no one at all – can ever say with certainty how much money is too much and how much is too little.
And thus the Fed's slowing of quantitative easing is merely guesswork. A handful of men in a room cannot with any accuracy predict the volume and price of money. Nor can they insist on these indices without bringing ruin to much of the economy over time.
Here's more from the article:
The US, UK and Japan are all recovering, moving closer to "escape velocity". The Swiss National Bank - that bastion of orthodoxy - has kept its economy on an even keel by quietly amassing a bond portfolio equal to 85pc of GDP ...



This may surprise those who think it necessary to generate a surplus in order to cut debt ratios. That is the Schwabian housewife syndrome, which confuses an economy with a family budget ... In reality, nominal GDP merely has to grow faster than the debt stock. Magic does the rest.
... You hear a refrain in Berlin and Brussels that the recovery of the QE bloc is somehow feckless, phony and illegitimate, that the money printers are just building up more debt, putting off their day of reckoning while Europe takes its punishment early.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Such thinking is a tangle of fallacies, reflecting the zero-sum mindset of the Puritans, almost Malthusian in character. It confuses debt levels (irrelevant) with debt ratios (crucial). It focuses narrowly on public debt, ignoring the displacement from austerity overkill onto private debt burdens.
... Those who feel angry over what has happened should remember that creditors lose everything if economies are so bady mismanaged in a crisis that mass default ensues, as in Greece, or Cyprus, or the US in the early 1930s, or if the political system disintegrates altogether.
Remember too that governments bailed out the banks after the Lehman crisis, and therefore bailed out savers, too. The moral contours of QE depend on your angle of vision. But would you rather be surrounded by mass unemployment? So let us waive a fond farewell to the printing press. It has served us well.
This is Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/2708/) at his craven worst. Often far more perceptive than other journos when it comes to monetary theory, Evans-Pritchard accepts (as he must) the ruling class's narrative of monetary science.
In fact, no one can wave farewell to the "printing press." For the most part central banking (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/2958/) numbers are notoriously unreliable. We shall probably never know how much money was really injected into the economy in the past five years. Nor shall we know how much is "tapered" now.
(http://www.thedailybell.com/books-by-anthony-wile/)
One thing is certain: Central banks will continue to print money. It's what they are set up to do. By printing money they create tremendous booms and busts.
Now they may have created another unbalanced boom, as without doubt the parts of Western economies that are going up are those that reflect banking preoccupations: houses, commodities and securities markets.
Central bank money is disseminated through the banking system. And the banking system over years funnels it into investable facilities like the stock market. It is a criminal system, predicated on rigorous control of money stock.
If bankers really wanted to benefit the middle class, they'd pump it directly into bank accounts. But they won't, for that would reveal the essential phoniness of the system and it would also generate vast price inflation.
But price inflation they will have nonetheless. By the time bubbles are visible, as they are, it is way too late for the economy to contain the damage.
And thus they pretend to cut. Or trim the advance. But markets, especially stock markets, will continue to rise. It is possible markets shall go up a little bit less quickly now. But central banks and the economies they have distorted are fully dependent on monetary stimulation.
That won't change.
As for the article's point that we are better off with this system than with a general collapse, we beg to differ.
This is a terrible, ruinous system, designed evidently and obviously to ruin as many among the middle class as possible, while consolidating control and wealth at the very topmost levels of the economy.
Ultimately, this system will fail, sooner or later. The distortions are very far-gone now. Unemployment, poverty and a generalized lack of opportunity are the inevitable outgrowths of central banking and its handmaiden, the regulatory state.
Evans-Pritchard celebrates the "recovery" that he is instructed to fete. But we do not. There is no recovery, not for hundreds of millions. And there is no real trimming of monetary policy. Central banks print money. That's what they do.
One day, when it is unsupportable, this terrible system will die a well-deserved death. People will finally be exposed to a marketplace bereft of price fixing and money rigging. There will be monetary competition and gold and silver (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/804/) shall circulate freely.
Gradually, people's lives and families shall recover. Darkness shall lift.


Conclusion

Then we shall celebrate.

- See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34849/When-We-Will-Celebrate-the-End-of-QE-and-Why/#sthash.PalkwEp6.dpuf