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Jeb,
The reason excess reserves were zero before 2008 is that the banking system has always been fully loaned up. Banks thought they could make more money lending out rather than earning interest with excess reserves. They jumped up momentarily right before 9/11 (strange, huh?) but went back down.
The '08 financial crisis was a total meltdown of the fractional reserve banking system that never happened before as loans started defaulting left and right with the epicenter in the mortgage backed security system at Fannie Mae. There were two choices. Either let the liquidation happen and say goodbye to fractional reserve for a more honest banking system, say 100% reserve, or print money like mad and save all the bad loans.
The Fed chose the second option. This time, the banks did not touch that money, thinking it's better to leave a whole bunch at the Fed rather than lend it all out again and go bust, as happened before. When confidence starts picking up, however, that money will start coming out. When it does, inflation will necessarily skyrocket.
3% is not a scientific number, but if you do the research on past money supply stats, you'll see that it constitutes a sort-of tipping point beyond which money supply growth usually goes negative. It's not an iron rule though.
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On the periphery, yes. But insignificantly so. The standard wrong view is that lowering interest rates takes money out of bonds and into risk assets.
The correct view is that the new money that went to buying the bonds goes into the hands of big banks who then take it and put it into the stock market. Small-time investors then follow the trend to add to it a little, but the direct cause is the new money itself, not the Fed encouraging already existing money to go long.
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I came to similar investment conclusions from a different angle. The yen is about to be destroyed. The dollar will follow. QE won't end until the dollar drowns.
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Daily ups and downs due to news I cannot predict. I only know that if money supply grows, so does the market, same with shrinking. These are trends, not intraday moves.
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John -
That is the absolute M2 number graph, not the rate of growth. I'm tracking the annualized quarterly rate of growth over the 13-week average, which clears out the bumps. Sort of like the derivative in calculus terms. You're looking at the position. I'm looking at the velocity.
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QE won't end until the dollar is destroyed. Then the cuts will come from everywhere.
The Fed does not understand the implications of its own actions. They do not understand that money supply growth means stock market growth. They think it all has to do with interest rates and encouraging high risk from money that is already there.
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"Losing faith" is not a cause. It is an effect. The cause is money supply growth and shrinkage. This happens with paper money, which causes booms and busts. You've got the cart before the horse.
Athersys Has Some Promise, But Controversy And Doubt Remain [View article]
With regard to the first point, peer reviewed journals and a strong relationship mean little if MultiStem can't get past the FDA. In the end, it's all about money, not good relationships.
With regard to the second point, agreed, the controversy I see as less relevant as I do not believe Pfizer would be so careless. I did mention in the article that the author rebutting the controversy claim did have worthy arguments defending Multistem, and linked to his work accordingly.
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I agree that small positions should be taken in stem cell stocks, nothing more than 2 to 3%. Athersys is not necessarily a bad choice, but there are other ones that are more promising.
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@holbornnine -
If you're doing options I'd stick to LEAPS. If your timing is off you're in trouble. The Jan 2015 13 Call looks good. Don't do anything shorter term than that, but 2015 is far enough out to ensure you're good.
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April 25 means the data that were released on April 25. Not the data for April 25. There is a 10-day lag. See here:
http://1.usa.gov/t3km2w
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The reason excess reserves were zero before 2008 is that the banking system has always been fully loaned up. Banks thought they could make more money lending out rather than earning interest with excess reserves. They jumped up momentarily right before 9/11 (strange, huh?) but went back down.
The '08 financial crisis was a total meltdown of the fractional reserve banking system that never happened before as loans started defaulting left and right with the epicenter in the mortgage backed security system at Fannie Mae. There were two choices. Either let the liquidation happen and say goodbye to fractional reserve for a more honest banking system, say 100% reserve, or print money like mad and save all the bad loans.
The Fed chose the second option. This time, the banks did not touch that money, thinking it's better to leave a whole bunch at the Fed rather than lend it all out again and go bust, as happened before. When confidence starts picking up, however, that money will start coming out. When it does, inflation will necessarily skyrocket.
3% is not a scientific number, but if you do the research on past money supply stats, you'll see that it constitutes a sort-of tipping point beyond which money supply growth usually goes negative. It's not an iron rule though.
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((13-week avg NSA latest / 13-week avg NSA earliest) -1) *4
It's a 12-week spread from latest to earliest, so multiplying by four is 48 weeks, roughly annual.
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The correct view is that the new money that went to buying the bonds goes into the hands of big banks who then take it and put it into the stock market. Small-time investors then follow the trend to add to it a little, but the direct cause is the new money itself, not the Fed encouraging already existing money to go long.
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I think you'd enjoy this approach:
http://seekingalpha.co...
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That is the absolute M2 number graph, not the rate of growth. I'm tracking the annualized quarterly rate of growth over the 13-week average, which clears out the bumps. Sort of like the derivative in calculus terms. You're looking at the position. I'm looking at the velocity.
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You're welcome. Go here:
http://1.usa.gov/Hh0NmH
scroll down to the H.6 numbers under money supply. They come out every friday.
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The Fed does not understand the implications of its own actions. They do not understand that money supply growth means stock market growth. They think it all has to do with interest rates and encouraging high risk from money that is already there.
The emperor has no clothes.
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http://1.usa.gov/Hh0NmH
scroll to the H.6 sheet under money supply, and do the math. It comes out once a week on fridays.
Athersys Has Some Promise, But Controversy And Doubt Remain [View article]
With regard to the second point, agreed, the controversy I see as less relevant as I do not believe Pfizer would be so careless. I did mention in the article that the author rebutting the controversy claim did have worthy arguments defending Multistem, and linked to his work accordingly.
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The Bottom Is In For Gold And Mining Stocks [View article]
If you're doing options I'd stick to LEAPS. If your timing is off you're in trouble. The Jan 2015 13 Call looks good. Don't do anything shorter term than that, but 2015 is far enough out to ensure you're good.