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I was online with some of my team members last Wednesday while the Fed was announcing a 25-basis-point cut to the Fed funds target rate.
As usual, the conversation was lighthearted, but I got thought-provoking questions: What did I think about the fact that central banks all around the world were pumping stimulus into their economies at essentially the same time? Are we getting set up for a global smackdown as some of the market preppers are suggesting?
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Negative interest rates are already in effect in at least eleven countries.
What's more, the total value of negative yielding bonds is expected to keep rising as central banks keep pushing rates lower.
Meanwhile, odds are growing rapidly that America will be the next major economy to institute a negative interest rate policy.
Ultimately, hundreds of millions of investors will be victimized by this dubious practice.
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Stocks are sitting at or near record highs, so, naturally, Jerome Powell's Federal Reserve is expected to do its part with another 25-basis-point rate cut this afternoon at 2 p.m.
After all, the stock market is up – the Fed's unofficial, unsanctioned signal to open the cheap-money taps a little wider.
If the Fed moves as markets are "expecting" (read: demanding), this'll be the third reduction in the Fed funds target rate since July, totaling 75 basis points in all, just as it did in 1995 and 1998.
The Fed would be cutting against a backdrop of sky-high stock valuations, decelerating economic growth and job gains, a deepening manufacturing recession, and a political situation that threatens to boil over into full-blown constitutional crisis at any minute.
So this is a really dicey time for investors, but there are some opportunities for savvy folks who understand how to play the Fed against Wall Street – and Wall Street against economic reality.
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The printing presses have barely cooled from the Federal Reserve's post-crisis $4.5 trillion quantitative easing binge. 2014 seems like a long time ago, but $4.5 trillion is still a lot of money, and that debt is still actively wreaking havoc down in the bedrock of the economy.
Unbelievably, they're firing up the printing presses yet again down in the bowels of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building.
This time, they're engaging in a $60 billion monthly bailout of the Treasury market, specifically in the short-duration (six months or less) T-bill space.
That's $60 billion a month, folks. Annualized, this money-printing adds up to another $720 billion in fiat money creation and nosebleed-level deficit financing.
This reeks of pure desperation – panic mode at the Fed. But for savvy investors, there are three unique, easy ways to cash in on the chaos.
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Let's face it. This is not your father's fixed-income market.
Despite a recent rise, yields have been down for the most part, and those in control of such things want to keep them that way for as long as possible.
The economies of the world are still trying to gain traction, and while the United States is doing better than much of the world, it isn't exactly shooting the lights out.
There are also signs that global weakness and the ongoing trade disputes could slow things down even further.
That's not an environment that'll inspire interest rate hikes.
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Back in July, President Trump tweeted his intentions to nominate Judy Shelton to be on the board of the Federal Reserve.
And while she hasn't been formally nominated yet, her mixed-up ideas on how the Fed should operate under government control are both alarming and dangerous.
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Predicting what the Federal Reserve will do at any of its regular meetings has turned into a cottage industry.
But honestly, no one can. Money Morning Quantitative Specialist Chris Johnson can't.
But that hasn't stopped him from devising a strategy to profit from the Fed's mixed signals.
The central bank's latest move came Wednesday, with an interest rate cut of 25 basis points.
And even with President Trump breathing down their necks, the tone is hesitant with regard to future cuts.
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As investors anxiously await tomorrow’s speech from the Federal Reserve Chair, the Fed rate cut threatens a recession.
Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald answers investors’ questions on the current stock market climate, and giving two stock picks that are trading at fantastic prices…
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Everyone was waiting with bated breath to see how China would retaliate to the White House’s latest tariffs threat.
Well, we got it – the Chinese are making moves to devalue the yuan to its lowest level in a decade, sending stock prices, bond yields, oil prices, and overall optimism crashing through the floor.
But here’s one thing to note: Investors aren’t scared of the right things right now.
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