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    Why’s There So Much Dissension Inside the Fed?

    By Gary Gately, Associate Editor, Money Morning - July 10, 2013

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Article Index

  • Why’s There So Much Dissension Inside the Fed?
  • Bill Gross: Why QE Will End Before the Fed Wants It To
  • Do We Really Need the Federal Reserve System?
  • Why Ben Bernanke's Market Manipulation is So Brilliant
  • 7 Reasons Not to Trust the Bernanke Testimony to Congress
  • What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 8)
  • What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 7)
  • The New Crisis Warning Just Issued to the Federal Reserve
  • What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 6)
  • 5 Things the Federal Reserve Hopes You'll Never Find Out
  • Why Crime Pays for "Too-Big-To-Fail" Banks
  • Why We Can't Avoid Ben Bernanke's "Monetary Cliff"
  • What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 5)
  • Do We Really Need the Federal Reserve?
  • What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 4)
  • The Fed Delivers Unmistakable Message After Two-Day Meeting

Why’s There So Much Dissension Inside the Fed?

By Gary Gately, Associate Editor, Money Morning - July 10, 2013

There's considerable dissension within the ranks at the Federal Reserve, with many of Chairman Ben Bernanke's colleagues saying the Fed's monthly purchase of $85 billion in bonds should end by late this year.

"About half" of 19 Fed members "indicated that it likely would be appropriate to end asset purchases later this year," according to minutes of the June Fed policy-making committee meeting, released Wednesday.

Ending QE3 could have enormous implications for the stock market - whose four-plus-year bull market has been buoyed by the central bank's stimulus - and for the economy as a whole.

But while there's growing sentiment inside the Fed to end QE, a majority of the 12 voting members of the policy-making Federal Open Market Committee hope to extend the bond-buying into next year.

Still, the Fed's June 18-19 meeting could prove to be a turning point, given the amount of discord at the meeting.

The minutes add some context to Bernanke's comments at a press conference immediately after the meeting in which he said the Fed could begin scaling back QE3 this year and end it altogether by mid-2014.

The markets dipped immediately after Bernanke's comments but then recovered some.

"They're Making It Up As They Go Along"

"To me, the real news is that you've got dissension inside the Fed now," said Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald. "My initial read is there's a lot more dissension than usual.

"And," Fitz-Gerald said, showing his longtime disdain for the Fed, "the level of dissension reinforces the notion that they don't know what they're doing and they're making it up as they go along."

Money Morning Capital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani, meanwhile, said the June FOMC showed legitimate concerns among members.

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Bill Gross: Why QE Will End Before the Fed Wants It To

By , Money Morning - June 12, 2013

Legendary bond guru Bill Gross doesn't think too highly of the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke's monetary policies.

"There comes a point when no matter how much blood is being pumped through the system as it is now, with zero-based policy rates and global quantitative easing programs, that the blood itself may become anemic, oxygen-starved, or even leukemic, with white blood cells destroying more productive red cell counterparts," Gross writes in his June investment outlook titled Wounded Heart.

Gross believes that QE, which he describes akin to a bad dose of chemotherapy, will end later this year but not because of a suddenly strengthening economy.

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Do We Really Need the Federal Reserve System?

By , Money Morning - May 28, 2013

Abolishing the Federal Reserve System might seem like a drastic idea, but not when you get the full story...

You see, Congress created the U.S. Federal Reserve System to restore public confidence, provide the banking system a source of liquidity that would prevent its collapse and protect the public against inflation.

A century later, the banking system is so big its risks dwarf the Fed's liquidity capacity, and what cost a buck back then now will set you back $21.

That's why we asked Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald to explain how the Federal Reserve System actually helps a country's economy.

Most importantly, we wanted to know if the United States - or any country - even needs the Fed anymore.

Just listen to Fitz-Gerald's answer in the following interview.

Why Ben Bernanke's Market Manipulation is So Brilliant

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - May 24, 2013

Nothing lasts forever. On Wednesday, Ben Bernanke threatened to take away the punch bowl. Shah Gilani explains the real story behind the move. Read more...

7 Reasons Not to Trust the Bernanke Testimony to Congress

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - May 22, 2013

As usual, the markets were hanging on every word of the Bernanke testimony to Congress today (Wednesday).

By now, everyone should know better.

In the years that U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been a member of the Fed - both as a member of the Board of Governors from 2002 to 2005, and in his two terms as chairman beginning in 2006 - he has been stupendously wrong time and time again.

Bernanke gave the markets what they wanted by hinting that his monetary easing policies won't change any time soon, pushing both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index up more than 0.5% in midday trading.

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What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 8)

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - May 16, 2013

Shah Gilani explains how the "extend and pretend" game became an institutionalized national treasure... Read more...

What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 7)

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - May 10, 2013

By the start of the 1960s, banking in America was in a state of flux. And as Shah Gilani explains it got ugly fast. Read more...

The New Crisis Warning Just Issued to the Federal Reserve

By , Money Morning - May 9, 2013

Before the housing market crash, economists warned that record low-interest and mortgage rates were fueling a housing bubble.

Unfortunately, those fears were both overlooked and underestimated.

Now, an advisory council to the U.S. Federal Reserve is warning the Fed that its record $85 billon-a-month stimulus and ultra-low interest rates are fueling new bubbles in student loans and farmland.

"Recent growth in student-loan debt, to nearly $1 trillion, now exceeds credit-card outstandings and has parallels to the housing crisis," according to minutes of the council's Feb. 8 meeting.
In addition, "agricultural land prices are veering further from what makes sense," the council said. "Members believe the run-up in agriculture land prices is a bubble resulting from persistently low interest rates."

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What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 6)

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - May 9, 2013

How did stodgy traditional banking morph into “casino banking” on a global scale? Shah Gilani explains the crooked path to where we are today… Read more...

5 Things the Federal Reserve Hopes You'll Never Find Out

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - May 8, 2013

Most Americans assume the U.S. Federal Reserve is a powerful government institution that seeks only to safeguard the dollar, boost the economy and drive employment higher.

That's what the Fed wants you to think.

The illusion of the Fed as a stabilizing, positive government entity has more or less existed since its creation under dubious circumstances in 1913.

"It not only avoided the word bank, it cleverly implied federal, or government, control over the establishment of a pool of reserves that would backstop the new banking 'system,'" said Money Morning Capital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani.

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Why Crime Pays for "Too-Big-To-Fail" Banks

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - April 2, 2013

U.S. banks will pay more than $100 billion in fines due to acts that caused the financial crisis. Think that bothers them? Shah Gilani explains why it's just business as usual…

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Why We Can't Avoid Ben Bernanke's "Monetary Cliff"

By , Money Morning - March 28, 2013

When it comes to the Federal Reserve, an accurate “reading of the tea leaves” means paying attention to all of the fine print. And while the markets cheered last week's FOMC meeting with yet another rally, a deeper look at Ben Bernanke's press conference left me with a slightly different taste in my mouth.
If you sift through the "Fedspeak," it becomes obvious that the Fed is now lining up a “monetary cliff" that’s bigger than the fiscal one we spent the last half of 2012 worrying about.
Here’s what the Fed has in store for us now...

What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 5)

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - March 27, 2013

Ever wonder where the Federal Reserve came from? Shah Gilani explains the little-known history behind the “The Creature from Jekyll Island." Take a look.

Do We Really Need the Federal Reserve?

By Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Map Report - March 26, 2013

Last week I spent two days speaking to senior government officials and business leaders in Bermuda, which is one of the world’s leading international insurance and reinsurance hubs. The men and women in the room are responsible for hundreds of millions in assets worldwide.
As I was finishing up, I received one of the most provocative questions I’ve gotten in a long time:
"Does any nation really need a 'Fed'?"
Here is my unequivocal answer...

What You Absolutely Need to Know About Money (Part 4)

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - March 15, 2013

Ever wonder why they call the Federal Reserve “The Creature From Jekyll Island?" Shah Gilani explains…

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