Most of the world who bothers to keep up with monetary matters, as we at The Mint are tasked with doing, have now digested and “evacuated” (to use the medical terminology) the jest of the FED’s last communication to the world. Amongst other things, the FED’s public image, Ben Bernanke, indicated
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Bernanke’s Put will leave a painful mark on household budgets
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1. The FED will keep the FED funds rate target zero bound through 2015. Since the FED funds rate has been zero bound for over three years now, the FED has taken to increasing the year at the end of this statement, in this case 2015, since they are reluctant to target a negative interest rate. Think of the year as just another decimal point in this absurd equation.
2. They will take Quantitative Easing (QE) to a whole new level. Starting with $40 Billion in free funds to holders of mortgage notes and other rehypothecated asset backed (the astute will note the oxymoron) trash each month, for the rest of their existence.
This is not a drill.
The FED has tipped their hand so far that even most bankers (save Morgan Stanley) and government officials now understand what is going on. We are witnessing what will come to be known as the Bernanke Put, or Ka-Put, as we now refer to it.
As Ira Epstein eloquently put it in his most recent Gold Report: “Basically, the Fed threw the kitchen sink at the market.”
The Bernanke Ka-Put, taken together with the recent comments by Mario Draghi of the ECB and the ruling of the German High Court, which further sealed the Euro currency’s inflationary demise, leave no room for doubt as to what the MO of the world’s Central Banks is.
What does it mean? The FED will print money to prop up the system no matter what happens. Rampant price inflation and intermittent panics (due to the malinvestment which is occurring as a result of the FED’s money printing) must now be assumed in any financial model and household budget.
Additionally, contingency planning, with the assumptions of the disruption of services and supply lines, must now take place. Malinvestment means that things will begin to “not work” (an understatement, to be sure) in the real world as a result of the financial engineering being practiced by the FED and every other Central Bank and banking cartel on the planet.
Again, This is not a drill.
Stay tuned and Trust Jesus.
Stay Fresh!
David Mint
Email: davidminteconomics@gmail.com
Key Indicators for September 19, 2012
Copper Price per Lb: $3.77
Oil Price per Barrel: $94.57
Corn Price per Bushel: $7.40
10 Yr US Treasury Bond: 1.77%
FED Target Rate: 0.16% ON AUTOPILOT, THE FED IS DEAD!
Gold Price Per Ounce: $1,771 PERMANENT UNCERTAINTY
MINT Perceived Target Rate*: 0.25%
Unemployment Rate: 8.1%
Inflation Rate (CPI): 0.6%
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 13,609
M1 Monetary Base: $2,470,800,000,000
M2 Monetary Base: $10,103,400,000,000
