{"id":415190,"date":"2017-10-26T10:49:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=415190"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:49:54","slug":"cant-fight-any-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=415190","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t fight any Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>It is all about the ECB meeting today.\u00a0\u00a0 The market was hoping for more details last month, but Draghi pointed to today.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0The broad issue is well known.\u00a0 While growth has been strong, price pressures are still not, according to the ECB, on a durable path toward its \u201cclose but lower than 2%\u201d target.\u00a0 The ECB judges that\u00a0substantial additional\u00a0stimulus\u00a0is needed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>It is currently buying 60 bln euros a month in assets, that consist of mostly sovereign bonds, but includes\u00a0supras, corporates, and\u00a0asset-backed\u00a0securities.<\/b>\u00a0At the same time, investors seem to accept that under the current self-imposed rules, which the ECB has modified in the past, there\u00a0are\u00a0about 300 bln euros in eligible securities that can be bought by the Eurosystem next year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Can&#8217;t fight the fed. ! Here too they prop up the market with buying asset backed securities. What happens when they quit buying the sov. bonds? Nobody else will, keep printing away. They don&#8217;t even have to print it, just click.\u00a0 I listened to a good video where the Feds&#8217; game of lowering rates thru out the years has made house prices more affordable thereby making people think they are richer and then going out getting Helocs. ( lines of credit). Spend it, need some more, no problem rates just went down and we can refinance again.&#8221; Why even save for a car when interest rates are zero, that&#8217;s why we bought a new car.!&#8221; Hear this one all of the time . Many retirees mortgage the house in the golden years and let the pension cheque cover the payments, good idea until the cheque bounces. It is still money out of the pocket\u00a0every month . Such a relaxed\u00a0, complacent culture we have turned into.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dollar up= oil up ????\u00a0 higher mining costs????<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is all about the ECB meeting today.\u00a0\u00a0 The market was hoping for more details last month, but Draghi pointed to today.\u00a0\u00a0The broad issue is well known.\u00a0 While growth has been strong, price pressures are still not, according to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=415190\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}